The Most Important Tip To Increase Website Traffic - Know How the Internet Works

Today there are countless tutorials, e-books, reports, subscriptions and paid memberships that claim to teach you how to acquire the most coveted commodity online, website traffic. Many promise to increase website traffic even instantly, but a huge number of them fail because information they provide are simply rehashed, recycled, and likely acquired from someone else who in turn got it from somebody else.

What might be the most important tip to increasing website traffic is actually the one thing that people are likely to overlook. That is simply, understanding how the internet works and knowing how web site visitors are finding the sites they browse through.

There are generally three sources of website traffic, and this tip to increase website traffic has something to do with one of these three, which are site referrals. Site referral traffic refers to visitors that find your site through links on other websites, hence the word referral since the visitors were referred to your site from another site.

So just how does the internet work?

The internet is a virtual library that people visit for knowledge. The web is fueled by information; driven by people providing it and people seeking it, they are the website owners and web surfers respectively. All the information that is available in this vast virtual library are found on web pages, bound together with a common domain name as a website and assigned with specific addresses so they can be located, visited, read. The very foundation of the internet are links, these portals to other web pages and websites are what allow us to go from one site to the next.

So how do you increase website traffic, now that you know what the internet is? The answer is build links!

The more links you have on other sites the better, since you are simply creating more opportunities for other people to find your site through another site. Links on similarly themed sites or web pages with related content to the link destination often deliver more traffic than web pages with your link on that do not necessarily have same content. Why? Because your link might not have been relevant to the viewers of that page.

Create links on websites and web pages that enjoy good traffic. Again, the simplest way of identifying which sites are ideal to have a link on, is that which is most overlooked. Ask yourself one thing, how are you finding what you need online? You probably start it off with a search on a search engine, and that is exactly what you need to do. Identify a keyword phrase that you are optimizing your web page for, then do a search on a search engine, these will turn out the ideal sites to have a link on.

There are many different types of links, but the most effective links are the simple text links, using anchor text or readable text that can be clicked. It would even be best to use as anchor text, the same keyword phrase you are optimizing your web page or site for, which also happens to be the same phrase that you used on a search engine to find the top ranked sites for that phrase.

These three simple guides to link building will help get you more traffic, especially from another traffic source.

The other sources of traffic are search engine traffic referring to visitors sent your website by search engines and direct traffic, who are visitors that visit your site directly by simply entering you website domain name in their browser, this is often a result of off-line site promotion and advertising.

Roy Sencio is a 16 year Marketing & Communications Consultant, Internet Marketer and CEO of SEO Service Stop, affordable SEO outsourcing based in the Philippines. Increase Website Traffic today, visit SEO Service Stop for a free website traffic check.

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