Top 10 Tips to Drive of Traffic to Your Site

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Google Docs Starting to Look A Lot Like Microsoft Word

Google has good news for all the bloggers, publishers, and authors out there. Finally, Google Docs has made it easy to track changes made to documents. Google has just announced a new revision history interface with a series of changes all making Google Docs much more user friendly. Users have .... More »

Blogging News & Updates Nov 15th - Succeeding With an E-Commerce Blog

Everyone thinks of blogging as publishing post after post on a given topic or niche. Take a minute to read of the post below titled: "Succeeding With an E-Commerce Blog" It's good to think outside the box and blogging as part of an e-commerce site is something very few people talk about. .... More »

Google Updated their Google News

Today Google has recently released a newly redesigned version of their Google News section for U.S. users. The main focus of this update is that they are trying present news stories occurring all around the world and they want to provide a user customizable for individual users. They have a "News fo.... More »

New Way to Measure Social Media Effectiveness

Social media, which includes sites such as Facebook and Twitter, is a very effective way of building an online business. ShareThis has social media share buttons all over the web and located in many different kinds of content. Every month, 400 million people are reached through the ShareThis buttons.... More »

Social Media News Dec 6th - Google Shuts Down Several Services in December 2011

It's been a while since I've done a collection of news for the Social Media Space so today I thought I would do a Round Up of all things Social! Make sure you check out the topic: "Google Shuts Down Several Services in December 2011" There are a number of services that are impacted and if you.... More »

Bringing people to your websites and blogs has become a lot more time consuming than first time websites were first introduced over 10 years ago. The good news is that while driving traffic to your site may take some time, but once it’s done it is well worth the effort.

Build a solid site providing important information such as an About Us page, How to Contact page, and any additional information needed. Even with a blog this is appropriate as it shows a level of professionalism and seriousness about the content you’re providing on your blog.
Continuously be consistent with your brand such as your company logo, motto, the same colors of your brand all over your website so that it will become familiar to the visitors of your site.
Generate policies for your company that will build a sense of trust, code of ethics, policies for your newsletters, motto, customer service and more.
Name the pages on your website using keywords that are related to your website or blog. These keywords will help to bring in more continuous traffic to your site.
Add on a “bookmark this site, recommend this site or favorites” badge to your site so that visitors will be able share your site with others. The “recommend this site” badge will allow for visitors to email others your page’s link to another person.
Include a blog on your website or a section with an update providing information about upcoming news. Adding in a “What’s New Page” or even setting up a sitemap for your visitors to browse through and select from.
Submit your site into the search engines such as Google, Bing, Yahoo, Dogpile, etc. Submitting your website directly will allow it to be indexed even quicker. Submitting in your pages individually is another way of getting your entire website pages indexed however it can take some time to complete if you have a lot of pages to submit to the search engine. If you have a blog then submit your blog to free blog directories such as: Blogcatalog, Bloglines, boingboing.net, AddYourBlog, BlogRanking, Blogarama, Bloghub, etc.
Check out free services to submit your website however it’s recommended to create a new free email address so that if any spam comes your way it will go directly to your free email address.
Search for secure ways to accept payment from your customers. A SSL shopping cart should allow the customers to pay with checks and credit cards.
Write articles and post them on your website or best yet post them on article directories. The top article directories ranked by Alexa and Pankrank: EzineArticles, GoArticles, ArticleDashboard, SearchWarp, ArticleBase, iSnare, SelfGrowth, Buzzle, ArticleCity.com, and more.