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How to increase traffic to my website

You want to know how to increase traffic or visitors to your website but you are a busy person so let's try and keep this short and to the point.

Here are 8 tips to increase traffic to your website:

1. List your website on free online directories
   There are many online directories where you can list your business for free... (read more)
2. Put your web address on all promotional materials and correspondence
   People won't visit your website if they don't know it exists, so put your web address on all your printed materials. You could even put it on your car or truck so people can read it while they are stuck in traffic with you.
3. Ask other companies to put your link on their website
   The more links to your website the better you will rank on search engines, so why not get an allied company to put up a link to your website. To sweeten the deal always offer to put a link to their website on yours as well...(read more)
4. Update your website regularly
   Search engines rank websites higher if they have been updated recently.
5. Include links and articles that would be relevant to your customers
   Wouldn't it be nice if your customers could find a collection of relevant information on your website. The more information on your website, the more chances you have of a potential customer stumbling upon it in a search.
6. Put information on your websites that your customers would be looking for
   What are your customers searching on the web? The likelihood is that they are not searching for your business by name, so let's be creative and include information on our website that our customers might actually be looking for...(read more)
7. Ensure you use simple English that anyone could understand
   Sometimes it can be tempting when writing to use a more advanced vocabulary to seem well-educated and professional, but the true meaning of what you are saying can then be lost on some of your potential customers. Using plain, simple English excludes no one and people with a larger vocabulary will be no worse off for it.
8. Use language your customers would use
   Using the words your customer would use is just as important as including relevant information. Think about the type of words used by your customers in the past...(read more)

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