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Saturday, May 30, 2009

How to Get More Targeted Traffic for Your Website

By Ricardo d Argence

If you've got a business and have a website for it, you need targeted traffic to come to your website and stay long enough to see what you have to offer if you want to be successful. And, those visitors should also take action based upon what they see and what you want them to do.

It's a simple fact that the more time a prospective customer spends on your website, the more likely it is that he or she will take some sort of action specific to what you want to happen. A good way to ensure that this is going to happen is to encourage visitors to keep "clicking through" your website's pages. Here are four simple ways to increase page views and thus, the success of your business.

1. Your website should have well-written, unique content that's relevant to your subject matter. Don't simply "try to sell" people on your product or services. Instead, have the honest intent of delivering quality information to your prospective customers. If you give visitors what they need, they'll keep coming back and might even recommend your site to others. In addition, search engines pick up good content, which means you'll be more visible and will get more traffic as a result.

2. Keep It Simple, Silly. Most of us have heard this phrase (KISS for short), but it especially applies to writing for the Web. If you have a difficult time writing short copy, take some time to train yourself to do just that.

The information you present should be concise and easy to read. Paragraphs should be short and to the point. It's a well-known fact that Internet writing has to be shorter than print writing because people's attention spans are shorter when they surf.

Now, that doesn't mean you can't present an excellent, several thousand words-long article, but it DOES mean you probably should break it up into smaller installments that people can read in short increments. This also helps you with "click through" rates (which also helps you with search engine ranking), because having people go to the "next section" at the bottom of each short section by strategically placing a link there is only going to encourage them to stay and keep reading -- and keep clicking through, too.

3. Format and highlight -- carefully. You want tasteful headlines and phrases that pop when they need to and that stand out to hold your readers' attention.

Carefully done, this type of formatting makes text more interesting to read because it breaks it up for the eye and gives it something to "focus" on. And don't be afraid to use plenty of white space along with your text. Break your text up into small chunks separated by plenty of space, and you'll make your content easier to read.

4. Put article teasers and a site map on your main page: Another way to increase page views is to place excerpts or teasers from your other pages on your homepage. Link each teaser to the respective webpage to encourage click-throughs. It is also an excellent idea to provide a site map to make it easier for people as well as search engine spiders to navigate your site.

These are the four easy steps you need to implement to increase page views and get targeted website traffic to stay on your site long enough to get your message.

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