Ideas to increase traffic to your green site?

Question

I wanted to start this thread to get a discussion started on how to increase traffis to your website....

http://www.greenlineindex.com

Answer 1

Hi. I am a web developer and your question has been troubling me also for ages.

First, read my article here: http://stefangabos.blogspot.com/2008/06/...

If you don't want to read it I'll make a short version of it here: "there is no way you can quickly attract traffic to your website unless you know some website owners whose websites have huge amounts of traffic and they write about you and/or put a link back to your site on the home page or on any other very visible area of their website."

You can search the Internet as much as you want and spend countless days looking for the answer. All you will find is about how to make your website more SEO friendly and techniques to get better rankings in pages - subscribe your website to directories, spam on blogs/forums, use viral emailing, link exchange (i listed only some of the techniques that don't necessary require you to pay money).

But I know that you meant more like "How can I attract traffic now?" not "How can people find me in Google if they search for [your keyword] in two years time".

I built a website trying to help people like you and me. It's called 2famous and it's hosted at http://2famo.us . Create your account and become the one in charge with the Internet marketing and your website promotion and increase your web site traffic now. 2famo.us offers a free and unique Internet marketing service: booking websites on the home page of 2famo.us. Over and over and over again. And of course, everything is cost-free and even ad-free. It's not the kind of "subscribe and forget" service. But rather it encourages you to actively promote your website on a daily basis by booking it on the home page of 2famo.us.

The website is newly launched (it launched on June 16th, 2008) but it aims to be the one solution to people like you and me who don't know the people in the staff of digg and we don't hang out with the guys from techcrunch...

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Answer 2

I am very nearly sure you mean something different, but I have such a global perception of the world...My new home has a patio and will have a garden, and I will entice friends to come into my kitchen for cookies and hugs, or a quiet, fragrant place to reflect and bask in silence.

Therefore, I would suggest you reflect on the type of person you wish to attract and what they would find of interest:  you must look at subject, presentation, and process.  All are central to success.  For process, I suggest viewing Christopher of FinancialAidPodcast on YouTube, as he is quite effective - he is both creative and able to engineer the idea into an effective creation.  You have a very general subject.  I would suspect presentation to be a key element for you to be effective.  (Contrast a beautiful plate of food on a table with one piled with a thick stew.  For some, only taste would matter, but many would never consider touching the 2nd plate.  In my case, the current food seems like the runway models of the 1950's, just ridiculous in how long they draw out the presentation.  (I "get" the Japanese Tea Ceremony, but why bother with many, many teensy, teensy portions on mid-size plates?  Presentation...needs to be appropriate.  I'd rather go to a potluck than be served "new"  (333 calories a meal?) cuisine.

There really isn't enough detail in your question to see where you need to focus planning.  DO consider the current shift in conventions to web 2.0 and whether you need to be in one place or another with conventions.  I quit using one site when it remade itself into the shoppingcart style, because ease of use went out the window.  (Perhaps they do it better now - I use shoppiing carts on some sites without trouble.  You need to decide if you're going to go window-window-window for paths or use some site index features to allow side-by-side comparisons.

Good luck.  And go window shop the most effective sites, perhaps a few of the truly awful, to get some general ideas of where you want to go.

Answer 3

Hi, I started a small bowling site last year, www.newballz.com . I had the same problem, how do I get traffic. Getting traffic is the hardest thing to achieve with a website. Your site is going to be a very popular subject especially with the gas prices and all the top companies going green.I asked around and my cousin gave me a site to try out. http://www.notroubletraffic.com/?rid=66 is the site he gave me. They do all the work for you and it boosted my hits quite a bit. If you have any more questions about it, e-mail me and we can talk more about it.