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After you’ve chosen a business and set up your website for operation, you’re ready to “go live” and start marketing your business. This is the phase where you start drawing visitors to your website and converting those visitors to paying customers.
It takes time to build a successful website, so you shouldn’t expect an explosion of traffic and sales overnight. However, you can steadily increase your online presence and create a marketing campaign that will seem like an overnight success when your efforts pay off.
You should plan to spend as much time marketing your business as you do in developing it. The best marketing plans are built around your efforts and networking, rather than the amount of money you spend on advertising. Most advertising programs that promise instant results for a fee are not worth the expense—only time and effort will build your Internet presence.
The key to getting website traffic lies in the amount of exposure you have. The more often your website appears on search engines and other websites, the more people will see it. Internet consumers generally must “see” your marketing message three to ten times before they’ll visit your website.
If they come across links to your business on several websites they’re familiar with, or find it in the top search engine rankings, they will trust that your business is reputable and worthwhile.
How do you spread your URL across cyberspace and get visitors to click on it? This chapter will discuss proven strategies to gaining website traffic you can use to launch a successful online business.
Search Engines Strategies
Search engines are still the biggest and best way to get traffic to a website. There have been many strategies developed by webmasters to boost search engine rankings and get their websites seen. Some of these strategies worked when the Internet first became popular, but as online technology evolved, many of the search engine techniques no longer achieved results.
In order to optimize your website for search engine rankings, you should have a basic understanding of how search engines work. Programs called web trawlers, also referred to as “spiders,” are constantly searching the Internet to capture and index material for search engines.
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