How to draw traffic to your website- More steps

Web site traffic refers to the number of times your site is viewed by the users. It is the most important point to be made for the success of your online business.

STEPS TO INCREASE THE SITE TRAFFIC:
STEP 1: Submit Your Site to Search Engines:

Major Search Engines:
Yahoo ,Google , AOL Search, AltaVista, Ask Jeeves, Direct Hit, Excite, FAST Search, HotBot, Inktomi, LookSmart, Lycos, MSN Search, Netscape Search

Manually Submission:
If you want to submit by hand, be aware that each Search Engine has it’s own set of rules for determining relevancy and ranking.

Paid Submission:
Where you pay to be listed.

Good Submission Sites:

· CoffeeCup- http://submitfire.coffeecup.com/
· Actnowdomains- http://www.actnowdomains.com/
· Submitexpress- http://www.submitexpress.com/
· Submitnet- https://www.submitnet.net/login/default/
· Submit-it- http://www.submit-it.com/
· Submitshop- http://www.submitshop.com/

STEP 2: Update Information:

Put fresh content and update the existing content of your website.

STEP 3: Pay for clicks:

Receive targeted pay per click traffic from all major search engines. People will see your site in the sponsored links section of the search results when they search for keyword phrases related to your products or services.

Major pay- per- click search engines:

· Overture from yahoo- http://www.content.overture.com/d/
· AdWords from google- https://adwords.google.com/select/Login3
· Search 123- http://www.search123.com
· FindWhat- http://findwhat.com
· Enhance Interactive (formerly ah-ha.com)- http://www.enhance.com
· Kanoodle- http://kanoodle.com/

STEP 4: Get published:

Write articles for publication on other websites. The author profile will link to your site.

· http://www.articlecity.com/
· http://www.site-reference.com/
· http://ezinearticles.com/
· http://www.goarticles.com/
· http://searchwarp.com/

STEP 5: Publish yourself:

Write articles for your own site regularly.

STEP 6: Get links to your site: (link exchange)

Get people with other sites to link to yours. Links lead to clicks onto your website and help to improve your search engine rankings.

STEP 7: Classified Ads:

These are generally simple text line ads, advertising a product or service. All your classified ad needs to do is to get a visitor to your web site. Your web site becomes your sales letter!
The Grandfather Of All Links FREE Advertising Directory which has over 10,000 + places to advertise for free. Contact them at:
http://www.ecki.com/links

STEP 8: More steps:

· Buy links to your site: Buy text links on other websites.
· Buy banner ads: Buy banner ads on other websites.
· Participate in a banner exchange program: It won't cost you anything, and will lead to a few extra visitors.
· Set up an affiliate marketing program: With affiliate marketing, you can either pay per click or pay per customer acquired.
· Use off-line marketing: Do anything and everything to spread the word about your website around your city.
· Give away free stuff: Offer free information or/and free downloads and update them regularly.
· Auctions: Sell your product online using one or more of these auctions:
http://www.ebay.com
http://www.ubid.com

Enjoy!


Written by:
Faraj Balousha
Civil Engineer, Architect, Webmaster
Sketch-Plus Inc.,
http://www.sketch-plus.com/
http://www.SiteFB.com

How to build your own website- More steps

To build a website, there are four methods to choose from:

FIRST METHOD:
Get a professional designer to build the site for you:

It is expensive in creation process, site maintenance and development.

SECOND METHOD:

Designing the site with free website hosting:

In this case, just sign in the website that offers this service, and start building your own website.

Free Hosting Sites:

http://geocities.yahoo.com/
http://www.angelfire.lycos.com
http://www.tripod.lycos.com/
http://www.freeservers.com

Disadvantages of this method (Free Web Hosting):

· Small size-Limited web page space
· Can't create interactive features (message boards, online ordering, etc.)
· Advertisements-May have banners and/or pop ads on your homepage
· Long and hard to remember web address (instead of yourdomain.com)
· No branded email addresses (you@yourdomain.com)
· Weak technical support-Poor help and support options
· May not be free forever
· No seriousness to the site

So it is better to choose a cheap Hosting sites with reasonable prices, you will get a better quality and a higher credibility.

THIRD METHOD:

Professional Web Hosting:

Design the site by a web page designer program (computer software) and use one of the hosting sites.

Web Page designer programs:
There is a lot of computer software available to help you build and manage your website, you may use one or more of them:

Microsoft FrontPage
Macromedia Dreamweaver/Fireworks Studio
Adobe GoLive/Adobe ImageStyler
Flash & Swish

FrontPage program is the famous and most important one.

Sites to learn Front Page:

· http://www.fgcu.edu/support/office2000/frontpage/
· http://www.bhsu.edu/university_comm/web_services/FP_tutorials.html
· http://www.electricteacher.com/tutorial2.htm


Sites for Domain Name:

Yahoo - http://www.yahoo.com/
Godaddy - http://www.godaddy.com/gdshop/default.asp
EV1Servers - http://ev1servers.net/
Stargate - http://stargate.com/
Actnowdomains - http://actnowdomains.com/

Sites For Web Hosting:

Yahoo - http://www.yahoo.com/
Powweb - http://powweb.com/
Ev1servers - http://ev1servers.net/
Stargate - http://stargate.com/
UCVHost - http://ucvhost.com/
Servermatrix - http://servermatrix.com/
Infinology- http://infinology.com/

Because this method needs to learn a new program with the knowledge of HTML, so it is not our recommended method.

FOUTRH METHOD: (recommended method)

Build the site with SiteBuilder and choose the Hosting package:

This method is the easiest and fastest way to create a website without any previous knowledge of web site building and without any HTML experience.
You can start right now and build your website immediately.

If you can point and click with a mouse, then you can build your own website right now!

Web Hosting with Site Builder:

Yahoo! SiteBuilder - http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/index.php

The Yahoo! SiteBuilder (as an example) opens with a Welcome Screen that provides links to built-in tutorials titled “Getting Started with Yahoo! SiteBuilder”

The Getting Started Tutorial covers subjects like:

How to Start a New Page
How to Add Text
How to create tables
How to Place Images
How to add links
How to use templates
How to publish and upload web pages
and much more!

More Site Builders:

Actnowdomains- http://www.actnowdomains.com
Site Build It - http://buildit.sitesell.com/main/home.html
EasyHost - http://www.easyhost.com/
Fasthosts -http://www.fasthosts.co.uk/
Interland - http://www.interland.com/
BlueVoda - http://www.bluevoda.com/
SiteRightNow - www.SiteRightNow.com
ipowerweb - http://www.ipowerweb.com/
CoffeeCup- http://www.coffeecup.com/bigcup/


Enjoy!

Written by:
Faraj Balousha
Civil Engineer, Architect, Webmaster
Sketch-Plus Inc.,
http://www.sketch-plus.com/
http://www.SiteFB.com