Advice for getting traffic to my web site

[minniebell]

I have set up my own greetings cards web page and I am looking for idea's to now to get more traffic through it, I have had 3 features in Greetings Today magazine, 1 in Progressive Greetings and one in Your Dog magazine. I am on Twitter and on Facebook, plus a few other dog forums, but I looking at other ways to generate some traffic. Any body got any idea's please.

 

[fisicx]

Advertising usually works.

But is it really traffic you want or is it customers?

Did those features generate any traffic? If yes but you didn't convert then maybe you need to fix the site before doing anymore promotions. If the converts really well then advertising may well be the best way forwards.

If you want a review of the site then join the forum as a full member and post to the website reviews forum

 

[seoswat]

What are you doing currently on Facebook?

As one of my clients promotes custom greeting cards and they have the most success via facebook. its their highest conversion rate actually.

As they get their friends to post about the cards on their wall and it pretty quickly snowballs.

 

[pickaweb]

Setting up a blog and creating content related to what you offer can help improve your natural search results and get more traffic.
Social media is great but as long as you know your social media profile and use it correctly.
The following video explains this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBT4-QFl6Uk
Hope it helps.

 

[minniebell]

What are you doing currently on Facebook?

As one of my clients promotes custom greeting cards and they have the most success via facebook. its their highest conversion rate actually.

As they get their friends to post about the cards on their wall and it pretty quickly snowballs.

Thank you for your reply and help, I am on facebook but new to it, have not worked out how promote my page to fellow facebook members and for them to know my page is on facebook. ts greetings cards.

 

[fisicx]

Do the visitors you do get convert?

I suspect not which means either your marketing is wrong or your site needs work. No point in getting more visitors if you aren't selling any cards.

 

[Ash-CBO]

I too have a friend with a similar business who has found that Social Media channels prove a huge draw for new customers and has had many good conversions form this.

A Blog for this type of business would seem a good idea also.

 

[Ash-CBO]

Would anyone know of any business investment/ business start-up forums of any sort. I know most generic business forums have sections for this but wondered whether there were any specifics?

 

[seoswat]

Would anyone know of any business investment/ business start-up forums of any sort. I know most generic business forums have sections for this but wondered whether there were any specifics?

yes there are a couple of good UK ones, however i am not 100% sure if we are allowed to list them here on the forum.

 

[helponbusiness]

You said you're on Facebook, try to join in different Facebook groups that roughly talks the same as your niche. Also you can use Google+ communities to make sure you've taken all the perfect venues to get traffic.

 

[michelle222]

Have you done SEO- on page and off page?

If not yet, I suggest you start optimizing your website then create your off-page SEO campaign.

Also I can see that you can also get a lot of direct traffic by using Pinterest and Instagram where photos/visuals are really sell to users

If you want to learn more about how to build traffic to your website, I also suggest you look into Affilorama's Free Lessons here: (www)affilorama(com)/lessons

Then of course, if it helps, you also need a good SEO tool to analyze your traffic/website. You may consider getting a free tool like Traffic Travis: (www)traffictravis(com)

I hope that helps

 

[daisyrogers]

Analise your competitors and find out what they are doing ? and which sources they are using for traffic. Which strategy they are using in their Fan Pages. Trust me it'll definitely give you results.

 

[anjali_talking]

You can use various social media sites like Facebook, LinkedIn and Stumble upon........

 

[Murray Cowell]

Traffic or customers?
The idea is you could go on social media and advertise your cards anywhere possible, I would suggest Facebook and Pinterest. And start building an e-mail list, because you'll get both traffic and customers after an e-mailing campaign. If you need any help with that, please contact me on my website, inboxincome.co.uk.

Best of luck!

 

[deadpixel]

SEO, Social and PPC to state the obvious. Then there's the not so obvious methods. By this i mean a really clever marketing stunt. Marketing stunts can be the best way to get backlinks and gain traffic naturally.
I remember a couple years ago there was a company that offered expeirence days. One experience they started to offer I think was for anyone to become the priminister of UK for a day. It cost 1/4 of a mil. They couldnt deliver but at that price they got no orders. What they did get was lots and lots of publicity which generated traffic and natural backlinks.

I wish you luck

 

[BusyVids]

You could try video marketing. It's a great way to keep traffic coming to your site. However, once there, your website will need to have the right content in order to convert your visitors into buyers. Why video? 1. Very cost-effective. 2. Gets free traffic. 3. Can get ranked in Google's search pages. 4. Videos stick around for years. 5. Youtube offers free video hosting. 6. People love videos

 

[Exemplaryhost]

I think one of the most effective ways which i tell my clients to do is to start a blog in which you would talk about relative topics to your site and then have your products displayed on the page so they come for the article but may end up buying your products and also another thing is make sure your website is hosted on a local server if you want to attract more local people as you will be more likely to come up on local searches. All my clients websites are hosted on a server in London.

I hope that helps and good luck