June 7, 2007
Get More Traffic to your Website
How to stay ahead of the game

1. Blog BLog BLOG! - umit articles anywhere you can. Other forums, Yahoo, your own blog (you DO have one...don't you?) and other peoples blogs.

2. Link Exchange. Find other sites from complimentary busiensses, and set up an arrangement to exhcange links. Quick and VERY effective.

3. Advertise in free places. Craigslist allows you to advertise your services for free. You can create nicely stylized HTML ads, and place them around the internet, all of which can link back to your site!!!

4. Add a "Tell A Friend" form on your website. This will allow people to easily forward information about you to others they know.

5. Submit to the search engines by hand. Each search engine allows you to add your site to thier search engine. Just visit Yahoo.com for example, and fill out a short form to have your site included. Make sure your site is well metatagged!

6. Give away a freebie. Our site id full of White Papers, information, and industry news that keeps interested parties coming back

7. Join a Social Network! Myspace, Linked in, Squidoo, etc., are all sites that allow you to join and network with people on a worldwide basis.

8. Subscribe! Set up a newsletter subscription for your customers, clients, friends, interested parties, and then USE YOUR EMAIL LIST. If you don't have an email list, then GET ONE STARTED NOW! and... don't forget to have the newsletter link back to your website!

9. Direct people! Niche directories are popping up all the time for your specific industry. Take a little time and do some rersaerch, then get your site submitted apporpriately.

10. Don't forget traditional forms of advertising media! You'd be surprised how many of our clients forget to put their domain name on their menus, bumper stickers, flyers, radio and TV ads... The general rule... If you show your phone number, show your domain name!



Jeffrey Cohen is the director of New Business Development at ImageWorks, LLC in Vernon, CT. ImageWorks has been providing state of the art web development solutions for 10 years. ImageWorks can provide web solutions for both large and small companies. Visit our portfolio on our website. If you have any web design, development, hosting or internet marketing needs including myspace.com design and marketing and blogging, we can help you.Contact Jeffrey at jeff@imagesites.com for more information.