My traffic is terrible. What to do?

In this post I would like to write about the most powerful traffic sources. Site without traffic lost its meaning. No traffic means, no money from site. But how to improve traffic for site? This question interests a lot of webmasters. Here you can find some tips how to improve your traffic. All tips are ordered by importance from my point of view.

1. Good content

Good content is most important source of visitors. Returning visitors are the best visitors. And visitors return to your page only when they find useful info on your page.

2. SEO

Search engines are very strong source of traffic. Well optimized page on first page of Google for strong keyword is treasure. It brings on site thousands visitors a day. Disadvantage of this source is that situation can change, and your page dismiss from first pages. Competition in SEO is very tough.

3. Social network sites

Social networks are pages grouping people with similar interests. People in groups usually make friends easier. And friends with similar interests visits their friends pages. It is very good source, especially for experienced webmasters. Similar like in real life, introverts can have problems to use this source effectively.

4. Forums and signature links

Forums are places where you can find answers on your questions. Similar like social networking sites forums group people with similar interests. Advantage of some forums are signature links. Every post written with you means new back link on your page. And you can also find here friends or possible customers. Good strategy for forums is: try to help others on forums every time when it is possible and you become authority on forum. And authorities are good source for information and source for these informations could be find on your page from your signature.

5. Directory links

This is not good source directly for traffic. Traffic from directories is not very high. But links on your page improve rank for your page. And better ranked pages can have better position in search engines.

6. Social bookmarking sites

Power of social bookmarking sites for traffic is unbelievable. People who like content of our page, can bookmark your page on social bookmarking site. More people bookmark your page, means more votes for your content and that means better position on social bookmarking site. People like to see pages that like somebody else, and it can make snowball effect for traffic. Disadvantage of this source is short lifetime of this effect.

7. Article directories

Article directories lost a lot of popularity from past. By writing a good article with biography containing links on you page, can be a good source. A lot of people used on their pages articles from article directories. Now when search engines punish duplicate content on pages, is situation worse.

8. Blogs

Blogs are good source of traffic also. Search engine pages prefer sites that are changed frequently. It is a problem for sites with static content. Blog describing topics for niche of page can improve traffic from search engines. And blog is also place for discussions. And some blogs have discussion with search engine friendly links. And free links from high PR blogs are good links.

8. Templates

Nice template for WordPress blog or PHPLD directory is a gold mine. You have back link from every page, where is your template used. That means hundreds links from standard directory or blog. Disadvantage of this source is that you must be very good and experienced designer.

9. Widgets

Web 2.0 widgets are also very good source for traffic. Nice graphics widget inspires people to click on it, and after click they go on your site of course. But you must find a good service and be a good programmer to create good one.

10. PayPerClick Traffic

Advertising, with AdWords for example, is excellent source of traffic, that brings you good customers. Very good source, but unfortunately not free.