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    Hi,

    I want to make an early effort in the New Year to drive some meaningful traffic to my site. What would you do to achieve this? Is there any easy wins out there for me? What should I do in terms of a longer term strategy?

    I have a great site but poor traffic figures in comparison.

    Please help

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    streetslocal

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    To be fair the site is a very nice site and congrats on the design.

    However the most basic seo elements are missing and without an SEO overhaul i would say you will struggle to gain any major increases in traffic long term.
    Short term you could consider adwords but long term you need to change things in regards to the seo of the site.
     
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    self-sale said:
    Is there any easy wins out there for me?
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    It depends on what you mean by "easy wins".

    Paid marketing tends to find it's level - i.e. it reaches the point where the "average" advertiser breaks even, but skilled advertisers can make a decent, or even substantial, profit.

    Is that easy? Depends on your skill level.

    PR might work well for your business, but that's a skill activity, too.

    SEO works in any industry... as long as your good enough to SEO the site for relevant keywords in your industry. If you are, then that's probably "easy, but time consuming".

    To sum up: there's no such thing as a free lunch. Marketing almost always requires some combination of time, money and skill.

    Steve
     
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    Good Looking site Self Sale..

    What keywords are you targeting ?
    Proper Keyword research is the first step before you do anything for long term seo.

    I am hoping to write a few articles in the forum about SEO and ways of generating Traffic and clients for your website, that might be of some use to you.
     
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    At the moment you have a site that is worth zero,if it has no traffic.

    I would suggest you go for a PPC campaign with someone like Steve Gibson.

    The road to mass traffic in your particular area by SEO is a hard one as the competition is fierce.

    If you do invest in SEO I would suggest you keep your campaign Geographical untill the site has some clout.

    Earl
     
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    Well, sorry, I'm not impressed. You have to register before you can use any of the tools, (even to have a go to see if they are any good). Any site that needs pre registration is putting a hurdle in the way of punters.
    Navigation is not impressive. There are lots of pretty little blue buttons which look like you should be able to click them. Nope. Not all functional. Not good. How Much Do I Save is what interests me most. Does that button click through? No. For me in FF, Opera and IE the little hand appears but there is no click through. Same with the Register button. Nada. Not good. A delightful south facing façade but no bleedin' house behind it.... A pretty website but where is the content? By this stage I'm wondering if the estate agent is any good at his job.
    The average web user has low tolerance levels and not being able to see what's going on, compounded by the frustration of trying to click and nothing happening means I'm outa here.
    Sorry.
     
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    Dawg said:
    Well, sorry, I'm not impressed. You have to register before you can use any of the tools, (even to have a go to see if they are any good). Any site that needs pre registration is putting a hurdle in the way of punters.
    Navigation is not impressive. There are lots of pretty little blue buttons which look like you should be able to click them. Nope. Not all functional. Not good. How Much Do I Save is what interests me most. Does that button click through? No. For me in FF, Opera and IE the little hand appears but there is no click through. Same with the Register button. Nada. Not good. A delightful south facing façade but no bleedin' house behind it.... A pretty website but where is the content? By this stage I'm wondering if the estate agent is any good at his job.
    The average web user has low tolerance levels and not being able to see what's going on, compounded by the frustration of trying to click and nothing happening means I'm outa here.
    Sorry.
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    Hi,

    Thanks for taking the time out to review. Just to answer a few points:

    1. You need to register to use the member tools not all tools. The site allows buyers to book viewing, submit offers, store favorite properties etc etc. Registration allows us to get necessary information for these functions to take place.We can't allow a viewing to take place if we haven't got the necessary personal details etc. You can still do property searches,view site tutorials without registration.
    2. Don't know why your having problems with the how much can you save. Works on all of my browsers- is anyone else having problems?
    3.You said that there are' pretty little blue buttons that need to click through but don't. Which ones are you talking about as all buttons work for me.
    4.Navigation is not impressive- can you be more specific.
    5. 'a pretty website but where is the content' what content is missing? what do you think we need?

    A good way of seeing some more of the functionality of the site is to click into and watch some of the tutorials.

    Thanks
     
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    The only button on the landing page that worked for me was the tutorial one. I was surprised so tested in IE7 and Opera 9, just to check my FF3 wasn't playing up. I'm not having any trouble that I can see with any other sites.
    The Navigation comment referred to the buttons not working, as did the content comment: I didn't get to see much content..
    Still if it's a browser glitch that's sortable.
     
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    self-sale said:
    I want to make an early effort in the New Year to drive some meaningful traffic to my site.
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    Should be aiming to get more conversions not more visitors.

    And I agree with Dawg, doesn't for me either in FF. That's 25%+ of your visitors who can't use the site.
     
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    fisicx said:
    Should be aiming to get more conversions not more visitors.

    And I agree with Dawg, doesn't for me either in FF. That's 25%+ of your visitors who can't use the site.
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    Hi,

    Thanks for taking the time out. On each of the action buttons there is an arrow. If the cursor goes over this you can see that you can then click through. Does this work for you? Perhaps it may be better activate the whole button?
     
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    self-sale said:
    Thanks for taking the time out. On each of the action buttons there is an arrow. If the cursor goes over this you can see that you can then click through. Does this work for you? Perhaps it may be better activate the whole button?
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    Make the whole thing the link. For example on the right you have 'register now' but the actual link in the image below. The whole site suffers from the same problem which means increasing your visitor numbers isn't going to help. You need to concentrate on conversions and a quick survey of your registration page reveals at least 8 problems that could turn potential customers away. The main one being that I can't actually read the captions on the form fields.
     
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    The Site is a nice design,

    You Want More Quality Traffic?

    There are a number of things you can do.

    1) Keyword Research, Target longtail to start with ie estate agents in {city} this applies to Adwords as well as seo.

    2)Your site has over 2000 links and only a pr2 so it would suggest the majority of your links are low quality ie forum signitures and crappy directories. I would start writing quality articles based on the longtail keywords you come up with in step 1 and post them to article directories like ezinearticles and goarticles are just two.

    3) I would either have a article or blog section on your site giving users news about property market or tips on how to present there property for maximum selling price. This will give users quality content and if done correctly should get some longer tail rankings in google and draw in the traffic.

    You should definately check your code and make sure you have the most important keywords in title tags, h1, h2 tags.

    You have a good looking website so i would suggest writing quality and informative content if done correctly you will become a resource and build a great brand image.

    Just my 2 pence:)
     
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    I heard a good way to get traffic is to get posting on Yahoo Answers.

    I've never tried it personally mainly because we're too busy but quite a few people eschew the virtues of it. It's directed traffic which is great. I would recommend looking into it (and, of course, putting a link back to your resource - your site - in the answer).
     
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    F1SEO said:
    I heard a good way to get traffic is to get posting on Yahoo Answers.

    I've never tried it personally mainly because we're too busy but quite a few people eschew the virtues of it. It's directed traffic which is great. I would recommend looking into it (and, of course, putting a link back to your resource - your site - in the answer).
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    Sounds interesting, I'll take a look.
     
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    fisicx said:
    Make the whole thing the link. For example on the right you have 'register now' but the actual link in the image below. The whole site suffers from the same problem which means increasing your visitor numbers isn't going to help. You need to concentrate on conversions and a quick survey of your registration page reveals at least 8 problems that could turn potential customers away. The main one being that I can't actually read the captions on the form fields.
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    Excellent feedback- thanks
     
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