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brainbomb
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Hi, What are you doing to get more visitors for your website? Lets talk about this may be I have a good option for you.
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Cavalier0754
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For my main website at the moment traffic is increased by referrals so I'm going to keep pushing that. Word of Mouth is a powerful tool
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brainbomb
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Yeah true but very time consuming though.
Often, there isn’t much wrong with the site itself — it’s professionally designed, and the portfolio is full of gorgeous work. But it just sits there, in an obscure corner of the Internet, being quietly ignored.Taking a website from zero to a few hundred or even a few thousand visitors a month is not easy, but it’s eminently doable — as long as you recognize a harsh truth about the Internet:
The online world is an attention economy. Attention is finite, and therefore scarce. So if you want people to pay attention to you, you need to earn it.
You can’t expect your work to speak for itself. Most of the time, it won’t. You need to accept that marketing is part of your job, just as much as making.
But the game changes when you start applying your creativity to your marketing — it becomes more fun as well as more effective. Here are four ways to use your creativity to attract the right kind of visitors to your website.
1. Create an amazing blog.
Note the word ‘amazing’. I’m not talking about a blog you only update when you’ve got a new client or exhibition, or something new to sell. I’m not talking about a personal diary where you to post your musings on art, life, and the universe. I mean the kind of blog that grabs people’s attention by delivering outstandingly valuable, useful, or entertaining material — consistently.
Instead of writing, ‘here’s my latest work’, write about:
2. Give (some of) your best work away for free.
Just so we’re clear: I’m not one of those internet hippies who tells you “information wants to be free”, so you should give away all your best work and forget about being paid. (Have you noticed those guys tend to have a comfortable salary or professorship?)
But as Tim O’Reilly has pointed out, for most creatives obscurity is a greater threat than piracy. If no one’s ever heard of you, they won’t even bother to rip you off, let alone pay for your work.
So take advantage of the spreadability of digital content by giving away something valuable and encouraging people to share it with their contacts:
3. Borrow someone else’s audience.
Why build an audience from scratch when you can borrow one that someone else has spent months or years assembling? No, it’s not unethical — in fact, the ‘someone’ in question will love you for it.
Writing high-quality guest posts for popular blogs in your niche is one of the most effective ways to get yourself on the radar of the people you want to reach. Your ‘payment’ is a link back to your site — make a great offer and you could land hundreds of new subscribers with every guest post you write.
And make sure it’s your best work. This is your chance to make a big impression — don’t blow it by sending out second-rate articles and keeping the best stuff for your own site.
4. Get your content into circulation.
Have you noticed that of the three tips so far, only one of them is centered around your site? (No. 2 may start on your site, but the real magic happens when people start sharing it with their friends.) If you really want more visitors, you have to go out and find them.
Social networking sites are not just for networking — they are ideal places to get your content (blog posts, videos, free reports, etc) in front of other people. Use Twitter, Facebook, or Google+ to share links to your content. Make use of portfolio sites like Behance to showcase your work in places where people go to look for it.
And be generous — share more of other people’s content than your own. That way, you not only help others (good digital karma!) you also position yourself as a go-to authority, a source of cool stuff who people want to follow.
Via 99u.com
The online world is an attention economy. Attention is finite, and therefore scarce. So if you want people to pay attention to you, you need to earn it.
You can’t expect your work to speak for itself. Most of the time, it won’t. You need to accept that marketing is part of your job, just as much as making.
But the game changes when you start applying your creativity to your marketing — it becomes more fun as well as more effective. Here are four ways to use your creativity to attract the right kind of visitors to your website.
1. Create an amazing blog.
Note the word ‘amazing’. I’m not talking about a blog you only update when you’ve got a new client or exhibition, or something new to sell. I’m not talking about a personal diary where you to post your musings on art, life, and the universe. I mean the kind of blog that grabs people’s attention by delivering outstandingly valuable, useful, or entertaining material — consistently.
Instead of writing, ‘here’s my latest work’, write about:
- “Here’s how I made it” – with pictures and/or video. Like this or this or this.
- “Here’s what inspired it” – if you like it, chances are your audience will like it too. Like this or this.
- “Here’s how you can make one like it.” Like this or this.
- “Here’s a gadget that makes my work better (and could help you too).” Like this.
- Devote an entire blog post to nailing ONE idea.
- Start with a compelling headline.
- Ask yourself ‘So what? Why should anyone care?’ — and make that the start of the post.
- Give concrete examples.
- Invite comments by ending with a question.
- For example: I’m a designer. Use me better.
2. Give (some of) your best work away for free.
Just so we’re clear: I’m not one of those internet hippies who tells you “information wants to be free”, so you should give away all your best work and forget about being paid. (Have you noticed those guys tend to have a comfortable salary or professorship?)
But as Tim O’Reilly has pointed out, for most creatives obscurity is a greater threat than piracy. If no one’s ever heard of you, they won’t even bother to rip you off, let alone pay for your work.
So take advantage of the spreadability of digital content by giving away something valuable and encouraging people to share it with their contacts:
- the first chapter of your novel (or even an entire novella)
- a free report or e-book, full of insanely useful information
- one of the best tracks from your album
- a design template
- high-resolution images
- a series of tutorials
- videos that anyone can embed in their site
3. Borrow someone else’s audience.
Why build an audience from scratch when you can borrow one that someone else has spent months or years assembling? No, it’s not unethical — in fact, the ‘someone’ in question will love you for it.
Writing high-quality guest posts for popular blogs in your niche is one of the most effective ways to get yourself on the radar of the people you want to reach. Your ‘payment’ is a link back to your site — make a great offer and you could land hundreds of new subscribers with every guest post you write.
And make sure it’s your best work. This is your chance to make a big impression — don’t blow it by sending out second-rate articles and keeping the best stuff for your own site.
4. Get your content into circulation.
Have you noticed that of the three tips so far, only one of them is centered around your site? (No. 2 may start on your site, but the real magic happens when people start sharing it with their friends.) If you really want more visitors, you have to go out and find them.
Social networking sites are not just for networking — they are ideal places to get your content (blog posts, videos, free reports, etc) in front of other people. Use Twitter, Facebook, or Google+ to share links to your content. Make use of portfolio sites like Behance to showcase your work in places where people go to look for it.
And be generous — share more of other people’s content than your own. That way, you not only help others (good digital karma!) you also position yourself as a go-to authority, a source of cool stuff who people want to follow.
Via 99u.com
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Cavalier0754
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Getting other bloggers to write blogs about my site currently
i am just creating backlinks and content publish.
Actually, there is more than one way to increase traffic and along with SEO and SMO. In order to do the same placing links to numerous website for getting backlinks either by Bookmarking or Directory Submission, Blog commenting etc., is like the first and foremost thing to do. Then come Blog Posting and Article submission on different websites with links in the content or in author's bio is the most affirmative way of increasing organic traffic because this kind of traffic are organic in nature and tends to stay more on websites and thus minimizing the bounce rate of the website. Second thing using social media as a platform to promote website is again a kind of process which tends to drive traffic as in present time social media plays a vital role in creating buzz and spreading information instantly. Third you can update your website regularly and at the same time do complete web analysis so that you can know the status and also know from where traffic is coming from and why traffic returns back also. In this way you can plan your promotional strategies in advance. Hope you got the answer you are looking for. Thanks.
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Recithe
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It is not as easy as one might imagine, at least for me. Lots of hard work goes behind the scenes. My website is in some sense an extension of, some sort of digital reflection.
To improve my skills, I'm learning internet marketing, SEO, and yes, mass psychology!
To improve my skills, I'm learning internet marketing, SEO, and yes, mass psychology!
If you want to get more visitors to the website you can do with social media sites through that you can increase more traffic and visitors to the website.
designpluz
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Working on web 2.0 sites for content marketing
In the above comment, there is a huge details which is very helpful to use and also the promotion of our website, through the social media with our related post of URL linking towards it.
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