Same old problems that every developer face is lack of traffics. You know, some of the popular website’s developers work like crazy just to increase their traffics. Well I do, I’m very happy to those 100 more unique visitors visiting my website some time ago.  But I never satisfied, I want more. I studied most of the ways. I researched deeply inside the internet just to find the perfect ways to increase the traffic. I even spend a lot of money for this. Well it did help. Along the way I documented my research. Let me revealed to you what I found on how to increase your traffic so you won’t have to waste your time and money.

The contents is the key

This is the truth, believe me. If you want your visitor to keep coming back to your website, write very good articles in it. With good content, you can increase your subscribers. That is one good source of traffics. Maybe you got ideas but don’t know how to write, there’s a lot of freelance writer out there ready to work with you. Pay them and they will happily write those articles for you. These guys can be found in www.elance.com for instance.  Tips in writing your article: don’t go and write about everything, stick to one keyword and start writing about the things around that keyword. Then your rank in search engine will increase easily.

The SEO is also important

You got a website with great contents then you have to attract potential readers to it. The basic way is by search engine. Heard the phrase “If you have problem, ask Google”? Yes lots of web surfers did the same thing, they start asking for help through google. So every time people got problem which related to your website’s contents, that is fantastic opportunity for you to gain traffics.

I know not all people are well knowledge with website’s code and everything, so why bother wasting your time learning HTML stuff. Use wordpress, wordpress is the best CMS I used and also the easiest one. Plus it’s also SEO friendly with basic configuration. There’s also a lot of wordpress plugins for SEO. If you’re good with coding, please go here for more tips.

Tweeter is a plus

Ahh the popular web 2.0 style. Who don’t have twitter account? Register now, you never know what you missed if you don’t have one. But please, don’t spam your links here. This might downgrade the twitter. Instead share your article link here. After you registered, add some friends. The more the merrier. Then go install TweetMeme plugin for your wordpress. This is one effective way to generate traffics. It’s like a chain letter if you asked me. Your article will spread by itself, only if your article is good. Your twitter’s friends will help you share it to their twitter’s friends.

Take advantage of your RSS feed

Aha, If your website is done by wordpress, you will automatically have a rss feed. Probably www.yourdomainname.com/feed/. It will be a slightly better if you had a feedburner account. Then you will get a better RSS Feed, readable by most of your visitor. I know you must be tired because it’s hard as hell if to get even a single subscriber. I faced that situation before. Let your subscribe button visible in all your web pages, it will work someday. But for now, get up your asses and start sending your RSS Feed to these directories.

• http://www.blogdigger.com/add.jsp
• http://www.blogpulse.com/submit.html
• http://www.feedage.com
• http://www.2rss.com
• http://www.blogstreet.com/bsibin/add.cgi
• http://publisher.yahoo.com/rss_guide/submit.php
• http://www.plazoo.com/en/addrss.asp
• http://www.feedbite.com
• http://www.rssfeeds.com
• http://feedraider.com/
• http://www.feedsubmitter.com/
• http://purerss.com/addfeed.php?catid=
• http://www.unclefeed.com/rss/addfeed.html
• http://www.feedsee.com/submit.html
• http://www.feed24.com/?c=add
• http://www.feedfury.com/
• http://www.goldenfeed.com/AddFeed.aspx
• http://www.feedooyoo.com/ref.htm
• http://www.feedest.com/feedAdd.cfm
• http://www.rssmad.com
• http://www.feedbase.net/Add.php
• http://www.rssmicro.com/?m=fs#theForm
• http://www.rssmotron.com/feed_eater.php

Thanks to http://janemcgowansblog.fasttrack2business.com for these great round up.

Submit your blogs to blog directories

There’re a lot of blog directories out there, and these directories have their own readers. So by submitting your blog to them might direct those readers to your website. I found a website that have a big list of blog directories in it, and I’m thankful to the owner of the website for such a great job. Here it is http://www.3r.ie/marketing-blog/blog-directory-list-where-to-submit-blogs-to-blog-directories/. So again, don’t get lazy. Submit your website to those blog directories. Don’t forget to submit your blog to the search engine like

• http://www.google.com/addurl/
• http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/submit/
• http://www.bing.com/docs/submit.aspx

Market your articles, not your website

If you open a shop, people want to know about your products, not your shop. Of course if your shop name is nike, adidas or other popular names, it’s forgiven to market your shop. Same to website, your articles is your products. So advertise your articles, not your website. Every time you write an articles, ping it, tweet it and post it to the related websites.

• Stumbleupon
• DesignFloat
• DesignBump
• Vectortuts
• Graphic-Design-Links
• Dzone
• Reddit
• DesignM.ag
• Noupe
• ZaBox
• Digg
• CrazyLeafDesign
• PsdTuts
• SmashingApps
• Abduzeedo
• TheCreativityWall
• CSSDrive
• FuelYourCreativity
• BrushKing
• KnowTeBook
• DevSnippets
• MyInkBlog
• EliteByDesign
• CSSLeak
• Mixx
• GoMediaZine
• BoogiesBC
• NetTuts
• Propeller
• Devmarks
• PSDLearning
• Vot.eti.me * (unfortunately down for some time)
• Fbrushes
• Joyoge
• CSSGlobe
• Arbent
• ShareBrain
• DesignShard
• Kailoon
• Design-Related
• InstantShift
• Hongkiat
• Speckyboy
• Dezinerfolio
• Design-Newz
• TripWire Magazine
• Naldzgraphics
• Colorburned
• ScripyAndStyle
• HelpDeveloper
• 10Steps
• Desizn Tech
• Woork
• PSDFan

Thanks to www.1stwebdesigner.com for the big list. Submit your articles to these websites help building strong backlinks to your website.

Conclusion

There’s no easy way to generate traffic, all you need to do is put on a little effort and you are on your way to be known. I won’t surprise if you get thousands of traffics everyday if you followed my instructions.  Don’t be stingy, internet is for sharing. Start sharing stuff and knowledge and you will get more traffic out of it. Maybe you got more ideas to generate traffic, please share it with me.

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