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September 24, 2006
Seth Godin on your site's traffic
Do you have a website? Seth Godin offers a good posting on how to drive more traffic to it for free:
"Rule #1: If you have a site, you want more traffic.
Rule #2: You don't have enough money to buy as much traffic as you need.
Rule #3: You've already made your site as compelling as you know how to."
He recommends 8 free things you can do to increase traffic. The 8 in summary list are:
1. Register with Technorati
2. Become a Digger
3. Build a Squidoo lens (Godin is involved in this one)
4. Get your team to spread the word - Reddit,
5. Issue a press release but only if you have something to say
6. Get a sister site for testing
7. Google Analytics
8. Don't be boring. You have no right to traffic. If you're lucky, you earn some.
The full posting is short and worth a read. Read his Book "Purple Cow" too.
I'd add register your physical addresses with Google Maps. Learn how to optimize for search engine crawlers.
Hurry.
Stephen
Posted by stephen at September 24, 2006 10:57 PM