What is the best way to get traffic to your website?

[mermaid85]

What is the best way to get traffic to your website? I have an art blog and my own portfolio site.
http://www.quaymberley.com

How did you get your site popular?

[Stugotz]

submit it to all or most of the search engines. look up search engine submittal here or at the "g" place.

Do not under any circum stance buy into one of those 1,00.000 free hits to your web site, as they are a scam...

Start to trade links mwith other like minded web sites as your's.
The more links you have the higher the possiblity of getting better web site ratings from search engines.

Watch out for scam marketing poly's also because it is unfortunate, but there are alot of predatory jerks and scams out there.

Hope this helps

[techology page]

participate in forums across the web, and post comments on different blogs to leave your url linkbacks to your site

[Joseph]

Affiliate programs and advertising Advertising on industry websites. Or more properly creating a pay per conversion/pay per click affiliate program with industry blogs and websites. This involves finding mainstream affiliate programs.

Pay Per Click Advertising: Mainstream pay per click via Google, MSN, Yahoo and others is very popular. Clicks can run as cheap as .20-.30 cents to get users on your site. Also you are targeting users when they search for your exact search terms.

Search Engine Optimization: Search engine optimization and link building. This is very popular, because it doesn't require paying for traffic like pay per click methods.

Online Press Releases: Press releases are also an option. PR Newswire is expensive, but popular, if your product is unique and valuable. Some free and inexpensive methods are also available, but they will not probably have the long term value that a PR Newswire release will have.

Social networking, Join forums related to your Web site content, Seo keyword optimization, Create an account at Google webmaster tools, Google analytics (free) and review reports for key word usage, traffic stats, Google will also notify of any errors. Avoid using flash and java, search engine bots can't read, use alt tags for images. Create Rss feed at Feedburner. Submit good quality articles to Article directories. Avoid linking to low PR sites. Submit your site to Yahoo - Site Explorer (free)

The best way for instant traffic is start a Pay Per Click campaign on any of the search engines. Google will drive the most traffic by far and the quality of traffic is good if ads are optimized right. You must budget for such a strategy and once you see ROI from PPC increase your budget so you can increase traffic and sales.

For more info go to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSCmkGBfNn4

[Allister]

Hi,
complicated subject but ill give you a few suggestions.


There are traditional SEO things that should be done to your website, but here are a few tricks.


Broadcast your website with web 2 sites. The easiest way to do this is with http://www.socialmarker.com. Post your address to all of these if possible. This will bring almost instant traffic.

If you have a twitter account, make tweets about your website. you can make interesting ones like questions? What do dogs and male models have in common? (your link)

Good Luck, like your photos

[BILL]

The website shown in the source allows you to buy targeted traffic for your website. You can choose what country the visitors come from. You can also choose from over 300 categories to insure that the visitors you receive are interested in what you have to offer. You can buy anywhere from 1,000 visitors up to 100,000 visitors. You can choose how many visitors visit your website per day as well.