How to Get Hits to Your Blog or Website

Learning how to get hits these days means thinking out-of-the-box. The Internet has opened up so many opportunities for the budding online entrepreneur that it’s no longer difficult to get hits. Instead what you need to be thinking about is the ‘quality’ of those hits, but where do you start?

Getting good quality hits should always start with fresh and informative content on your blog or website. This may sound obvious to some but you’d be surprised just how many people post re-hashed or spun articles on their blogs believing it’ll get hits. Content should also be ‘unique’ containing targeted keywords of no more than 3-4% of overall content per keyword. This may be just one element of your ‘on-site’ SEO, but it is without doubt the most important. However, just having content and letting it grow old will not do the trick. You have to add new and informative content regularly if you are serious about learning how to get hits. Add new and evergreen content on a weekly basis and just watch over time how your sites PR (Page Rank) and organic search engine rankings will improve. Remember as well this isn't a sprint, it's a marathon where good results take time.

Discovering how to get hits in this day and age means working with social networking platforms, such as Facebook and LinkedIn. Like many people, you may be wondering how to get hits using a social networking site? A great example is to start a fan page on Facebook for your blog or website, thus giving it some all-important initial exposure. This is an excellent way to get hits. In fact online marketing legend Chris Farrell talks openly about how this is now his number one source of traffic generating tens of thousands of hits per month!

Micro-blogging has also taken the Internet by storm in the form of Twitter. Yet knowing how to get hits using this method bewilders most people. To do so is easy, just set up a Twitter account and begin tweeting regular new developments related to your online business. Use hash tags after your tweets to attract people who would be interested in your online business. If you’re not familiar with hashtags, just check out the brief guide below.

Using Hashtags

• If you Tweet with a hash tag on a public account, anyone who does a search for that hash tag may find your Tweet.
• Don't #spam #with #hashtags. Don't over-tag a single Tweet. (Twitter best practices recommend using no more than 3 hashtags per Tweet.)
• Use hashtags only on Tweets relevant to the topic.

Submitting quality articles is still very effective for both link building and traffic generation however try to avoid article spinning unless using a professional tool such as the Unique Article Wizard, only this has recently become less effective with each Google algorithm update. If understanding how to get hits using an article directory is your next question, it’s simple. Just include your site's URL in the writer's bio, so that readers can access it using the hyperlink. This not only generates traffic, it also allows you to create back links to your domain.

Set up an affiliate program for visitors to your website, so that they can earn money by driving traffic to your domain. The affiliates do all the hard work and you get the hits. Affiliates then get paid based on the monthly traffic they send. This is certainly one of the best and smartest ‘how to get hits’ tips.

Finally try joining forums such as the Warrior Forum for example which are related to your online business. Submit meaningful posts and add a hyperlink to your website in your signature. This will certainly get traffic to your domain. However refrain from spamming (unless you want to get thrown off!) and always follow the forum rules. If your posts are interesting and informative, you will get hits. Remember, forums are for connecting with like-minded people and not for increasing your search engine rankings. So, if you are really interested in knowing how to get hits, this is one tip that you should use regularly.

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Paul Graham

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