Monday, April 14, 2008

Increase Website Traffic and Generate More Visitors


The interest and activity of online shopping has rapidly grown in the last few years and many business people have taken advantage of developing websites to display and offer their goods and services to the public. The ever changing thirst of consumers for specialized services and specific products has produced a frenzy of creative web design and innovative methods to increase website traffic. Unique advertising schemes and attractive but informative sites have been invented and invite potential clients to view what vendors have to offer. Competition for the attention of consumers has never been greater and website owners have to scramble to try to stay ahead of their opposition.

An important factor to attaining that goal is gaining maximum exposure to the public and this can be achieved through the many search engines used by individuals online. The number of people using search engines to track down websites that offer specific items or services they require is growing all the time so it is important for website owners to attempt to create domains that the search engines will rank high on their list for popularity and credibility. People assume that websites at the top of the list have been rated the best for valuable information, competitive pricing, and customer satisfaction. Search engines can help increase website traffic appreciably if the site can attain a ranking that keeps them higher than the competition.

Techniques and tools are available to increase the number of people who will view your website and be encouraged to consider your product or service over others. Advertising on community based sites, posting your location and products for sale on blogs, and exchanging links with other sites can all lead to an increase in visitors to your website. If promoted properly, you may be able to entice new customers to inquire about products or services they never considered before.

The opportunity to attract a new range of clientele and expand your customer base is dependent on how you go about advertising your merchandise and capturing the attention of the public. It is well known that attractive, informative, and easily navigatable sites will be visited more frequently than those that are hard to read and are too flamboyant. To increase website traffic, business owners are advised to present information in a positive and appealing manner.

The whole idea, of course, is to generate sales and develop a customer base where consumers are satisfied with your products or services and will return to you when they need additional information or a repeat order. It is very important to be able to promote your website and find ways to get the maximum exposure to interest potential clients in checking out what you have to offer compared to other vendors.

Attractive and well tuned websites that are easy to navigate and provide detailed information directly to the consumer without a bunch of hype will appeal to more people and hold their interest more than one that is too flamboyant and complicated to find the particulars they require. There are many tools and techniques available to assist website designers and owners in promoting their products and recommending ways to increase website traffic.

2 comments:

Mary Celeste Williams said...

Some good tips...I have started and sold a couple of businesses now and online traffic was always a small part of our business because the traffick just wasn't there, but then that was several years ago....anyway enough of my ramblings, wis we knew you were there before.....

ECS Dave said...

If I tried, I couldn't have said this better: Attractive and well tuned websites that are easy to navigate and provide detailed information directly to the consumer without a bunch of hype will appeal to more people and hold their interest more than one that is too flamboyant and complicated to find the particulars they require.

Did you know that occasionally "changing" your content, to add search terms used by your visitors, can help drive more traffic to your sites? What this does, is bold the added terms, in addition to the ones already there, in the results, drawing the EYES of the searchers to YOUR result.

Be Well!
ECS Dave