New Way To Get Website Traffic

By: Lawrence Angell
Submitted: 2007-01-17 14:34:56
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How to start an Internet business is a question asked by many, but people think it's too difficult. You really can turn your passion into money by creating a website about something you love. It's a perfect time, but it wasn't always like this. Here's what I mean:

After 10 years of hard work building niche profitable sites that always failed, I was ready to give up and stop trying to tap into the worldwide market we call the Internet.

I thought to myself, "I've failed 5 times with different websites and domains. How much more can I take?" I thought I was destined to go back to my conventional ways of making money.

I was always promised from different Web Hosting companies that I would get the traffic and have success, but it never happened.

The problem started out a few years ago with the World Wide Web. You see common people were set up to fail no matter how hard we worked on our websites. We learned how to start an Internet business, but we never learned how to get traffic to our business.

The Web or the "information super highway" was quickly becoming the "commercial super highway". Companies was buying their way into the Internet, but people's sites that had information to share for free would never surface on the Web.

Most of the search engine owners could see that if there wasn't information available, there wouldn't be any surfers. No surfers means no clicks on commercial links. Bad formula.

So they changed the way the search engines rated sites with really good information called "content". Suddenly, common people that had a lot of motivation could actually be successful and make websites that got a lot of traffic.

But most people and webmasters don't understand the real trick. The search engine programmers just want the Internet to be a place where millions of people can go to get valuable, high content, information. Websites need to be fun and exciting to gain favor of the search engines. They have to have value from rich content along with proper keyword placement or they end up in the scrap pile.

As a matter of fact, 99% of all websites end up in the dot-com graveyard because they ignore this fact. Even though they learned how to start an Internet business, they couldn't bring it to life. There are close to 60 million websites on the net. Without the proper techniques, any site built will most likely go to the bottom of that massive heap.

Many websites are already dead, the website owners just don't know it yet. I was part of the 99% of people that constantly fail until I decided to produce websites with content.

It was then that I learned how to propel my website to the top of the Internet. Proper keyword placement is important, but so is content. A lot of how the search engines rank our sites depends on the time a surfer spends on your site, if that surfer returns to your site and how many page views the surfer sees.

A search engine's main job is to recognize reality. This is easy for humans, but hard for search engines, so they have to rely on the reactions of the surfer when he or she goes to your site. This data is recorded and processed to determine what humans think of your site. It's becoming more and more important to write for humans.

Building a site is really hard work but now everybody has a chance to succeed. Failure is now only a matter of choice

I worked very hard on my website and will continue to do so. It has an Alexa rating of 363,000 and it's only 3 and a half months old.

Within 2 months my site was in the top 1% which is rare for any site. I was already making money after just 2 months of being online. My traffic is quite good and increasing steadily every day.

Now, I can finally get my information out and into the hands of those that appreciate it. Traffic is the lifeblood of the internet. Without it, you're dead.

After 10 years of struggling, I have finally found something that works. I'm enjoying the benefits of doing things right for a change.

Larry Angell

Larry Angell is the author of the book Sweat Equity and the Webmaster of http://www.make-my-own-house.com He is also involved in helping many underprivileged people learn computer skills and to reach the global Internet market through high content website creation. He offers free local tutoring and has a multi-station computer network center set up at his workplace.

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