The Internet is one huge market place, with monster-sized online stores like Amazon and Ebay. Everyone who has wireless internet is starting a blog to try and draw in traffic to buy their products. Some of them succeed and turn into mini monsters, maybe even making their living online.
Surviving as a seller on the Internet can be extremely difficult; imagine how many billions of others you are competing with. What is the trick to keeping your little web page in the upper ranks?
There are several ways to increase your traffic. You could hang up fliers and hand out business cards in person — but that really isn’t the market you’re trying to snag. The “world wide web” is meant to sell to the whole world.
To succeed, you need other websites to find and link to your site. That will happen if you go to related blogs and social websites and makes posts on them. What you say isn’t as important as having a link at the bottom of your comment that leads back to your web page, but never post gibberish or random words because that will label you as a spammer.
Next, go to Facebook and Twitter and start your website accounts. Include information about your business, your products and your mission in your Facebook account and Tweet weekly when you post new content.
Social networking is probably the single most important thing you can do for your website, but it takes time. You have to find new blogs to post on and post new interesting content. If the content is even slightly interesting, your traffic will increase.
The type of content you provide is important. You can provide good interesting content and still include keywords that people commonly search for. If they type in the keyword, your page will be tagged. Once it grows, it will go up the page rank one page at a time. Be persistent and keep up the good work.