Traffic & SEO
You have this great site, full of relevant ads but no one except you knows it's there. This is where the work in work at home comes in. Everything you've done up to this point has simply been up front setup work. Yes, you will have to maintain the ads and the content of your site, but the biggest ongoing task you will have is getting traffic to your site. There are basically two types of traffic, organic and purchased.
Organic traffic simply put is traffic that arrives at your site naturally. This can be due to a variety of reasons, but is most often because of search engine ranking. This is where your site ranks in the list of results that come back from a search term relative to your site. The higher your position the more people will come to your site. Since this is so important to the profitability of your site, you want to make sure it is Search Engine Optimized (SEO).
SEO is actually a very large topic and a little beyond the scope of our discussion here. That said though, I can give you the basics. Free versus pay comes into play here again. There are quite a few things you can do on your own, or that have been done for you. If you are using some of the popular blog software for example it will automatically optimize your site for you. Either way though you should at least submit your site to the major search engines. It will take some time for them to recognize your site so be patient.
There are also some pay SEO options. Please be careful when choosing a company to do your SEO. There are many and some are scams. SEO may or may not yield the results you are looking for and be advised that there are no guarantees. Here's the best SEO plan we've found. There are multiple choices depending on your budget, all very economical. In general never spend more than $100 per year on SEO.
Traffic you purchase has one big difference compared to organic traffic, other than the price. Purchased traffic has immediate results. With organic traffic you have to wait for your site to be indexed by the major search engines. Purchased traffic has a noticeable result almost immediately. You can purchase traffic from a variety of places and from various sources. You can even limit it to a category that will match your site. We recommend AcceleratedTraffic.com for any purchased traffic as their rates are reasonable and their traffic is of an excellent quality. As a rule never spend more than $4 per 1000 hits for US categorized traffic.
There's another important topi to touch on here and that's incoming links. This really deserves a page by itself, but let me just say the morelinks you havecoming into your site the better. Also, the better the site linking to you the higher the impact it has. There's a great company, , that provides link services. Be sure to check them out.
Referenced Links
Search Engine Optimization SEO Service
AcceleratedTraffic.com - Website Traffic Service
