how to increase traffic to website?

There are some specific ways of bringing traffic to a website. Among them Search Engine Optimization is mandatory for increasing site rank and bring traffic. Search Engine Optimization should accompany with Social Media Optimization and Email marketing.

There are a lot of factors to consider to increase traffic to website.Mentioned below are practical ways;

1.Focus on long-tail keywords

2.Start a forum on your website

3.Start a Facebook group that drives traffic to your site

4.Promote your blog posts to your email list

5.Work on your headlines

and may more.

There are many ways you can increase traffic on your website, and in today's post, we're going to look at some of them.

1. Advertise. ...

2. Get Social. ...

3. Mix It Up. ...

4. Write Irresistible Headlines. ...

5. Pay Attention to On-Page SEO. ...

6. Target Long-Tail Keywords. ...

7. Start Guest Blogging. ...

8. Invite Others to Guest Blog on Your Site.

To increase traffic to your website, you should:

1. Focus on social media optimization.

2. Perform classified submission.

3. Participate in the forums.

4. Write and submit press releases.

There are many ways you can increase traffic on your website, and in today's post, we're going to look at some of them.

Advertise. ...

Get Social. ...

Mix It Up. ...

Write Irresistible Headlines. ...

Pay Attention to On-Page SEO. ...

Target Long-Tail Keywords. ...

Start Guest Blogging. ...

Invite Others to Guest Blog on Your Site.

Search engine optimization is best to increase your website traffic.

Publicise and / or advertise at the following places:-

Largest Classifieds

Largest Video Sites

Largest Forum Sites

Largest Blogs

Largest Social Networking Sites

LINK BUILDING:

Exchange links with other bloggers

Use BlogRush

Submit to RSS directories

Submit to blog directories

Submit to general directories

Start a 2nd blog and link to yourself

Create and give away blog themes (with a link to your blog in the footer)

Create free plugins

Create link bait

Participate in blog carnivals

Comment on DoFollow blogs

WordPress Backlinks Plugin (link removed due to possible security issues)

COMMUNITY:

Join communities at MyBlogLog

Join communities at Bumpzee

Join communities at Blog Catalog

Start a community at any of these sites

Comment on other blogs in your niche

Email your friends and contacts about a new blog post that may interest them

Email your readers to say “thank you”

Email other bloggers to introduce yourself

Link out to other blogs

SOCIAL MEDIA:

Digg

del.icio.us

StumbleUpon

Reddit

Netscape

Magnolia

MySpace

Facebook

YouTube FORUMS:

AuthorityBlogger

The add URL pages will appear in new windows. Copy your URL from your home page and paste into the add URL field, press the confirm/enter button, then close the window and open the next one. The entire resubmission should take just a few minutes.

AltaVista

http://www.altavista.com/cgi-bin/query?pg=addurl

Google

http://www.google.com/addurl.html

Excite

http://www.excite.com/info/add_url_form

Go (also does infoseek). Add a slash (/) at the end of your URL.

http://www.go.com/AddUrl?pg=SubmitUrl.html&svx=CTO...

Northern Light

http://www.northernlight.com/docs/regurl_help.html

Lycos

http://www.lycos.com/addasite.html

Hotbot (possibly the best way to get noticed by inktomi, which doesn't have a submit URL page, is to submit to Hotbot).

http://hotbot.lycos.com/addurl.asp

Direct Hit (influences Hotbot and MSN)

http://www.directhit.com/util/addurl.html

All The Web (including Fast, influences Lycos)

http://www.ussc.alltheweb.com/add_url.php3

Canada.com (appears to influence Hotbot). Has two confirmation buttons in sequence.

http://www.canada.com/search/web/addurl.asp

Follow White hat SEO tactics. These are very healthy and search engine friendly to get the long time unique results.

By doing off page activities like blog posting, forum, social networking, question answer .