10 Techniques for Increasing Traffic to Your Website

We’ve already briefly talked about some ways to get your website noticed on the internet. In this post we’d like to get a little deeper into the matter.

1.First of all, no matter how well your website is designed and up to current standards, if you don’t have the content to attract visitors then your website will fall back into the pile. You need to make sure to keep up with other blogs and websites that might be related to your business or area of interest. Keep information flowing because it gets old on the internet very fast.

2.You can involve yourself more with your visitors by creating contact forms, comment forms, live chats and forums on your website. If you know what your audience and clients want then it will be much easier for you to improve your website and your business in general.

3. Don’t be just an observer.  Take part of the community by leaving comments on other people’s blogs. Many times you can leave your contact info and website information.

4. Create Newsletters and let your customers know when exciting features come up.

5. Personalize your mail by inputting your contact and website information on the bottom of each e-mail you write.

6. SEO – Search Engine Optimization. Very important. Good web design, great content, well implemented interactivity and SEO will get you up the ranks anywhere. Can’t stress that enough.

7. Advertising on the net is everywhere. If you have the budget you should definitely look into creating web ads that can be posted on high traffic portals.

8. Create a Blog, and write on it! The more you write the more traffic you will get. Simple as that. Users can sign up to your RSS feed and automatically receive information every time you post new articles.

9. Create Press Releases to inform people of your presence on the net. This technique will reach people on a local and a national level.

10. Finally, involve yourself in social media and post widgets on your website! Social media: Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc….
Widgets? They are simply links on your website to your social media profiles. Facebook has 200 million users, imagine that!

In further posts we’ll get more detailed on how to do some of the things mentioned above. In the meantime, keep informed and become popular!

Browser Compatibility

Lets face it, one of the biggest problems that web developers face is trying to make their product visible in the same way on each major browser out there. Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Opera and Chrome are the ones most mentioned but the biggest trouble-maker is IE, short for Internet Explorer.

Yes, it’s true that about 80% of web surfers use it but that is not based on IE’s ‘magnificent’ performance. The truth is that until the recent Windows Vista, Microsoft was including IE in each operating system by default and most of the time it wasn’t removable. Clever technique that works! Except the European Union commission noticed and sued Microsoft for breaking anti-trust laws for millions of dollars.

That is why the new operating system from Microsoft, Windows 7, will not have Internet Explorer embedded anymore. Internet Explorer has been around for a long time but it’s full of CSS bugs.

It is our recommendation for those of you who have websites with regular traffic to view it with at least two different browsers for the sake of compatibility and versatility, and for the sake of knowing if your website is accessible by everybody.

Google Local Business Results

I am amazed by how different the Local Business Results SEO is than the organic SEO. For organic SEO, link building is all about anchor text.  You put your keywords into the anchor text of your link and it’ll do magic for your organic search rank. On the other hand, Local Business Results SEO needs to build up “citation” so Google can identify your business through other websites that have information containing the business name, address or phone number.

We are proud to announce that our client “Fraser Piano” is on the top 10 for “Vancouver pianos”.

Local Business Results SEO is becoming more important and for small business owners doing local business only, this can really increase your sales.