Big Red Tin » irony http://bigredtin.com Thoughts about the web and business from the large pantry Wed, 08 Feb 2012 06:55:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 10 Ways to Draw Traffic to Your Site http://bigredtin.com/2009/10-ways-to-draw-traffic-to-your-site/ http://bigredtin.com/2009/10-ways-to-draw-traffic-to-your-site/#comments Fri, 04 Dec 2009 00:23:00 +0000 Peter Wilson http://soupgiant.com/?p=298 Once you’ve started your site, your blog, or real time web app, there’s no point publishing and just hoping people will come. With that in mind, let me present ten ways to increase your visitor numbers.

1. Top Ten Lists

Create spurious top ten lists for an immediate spike in traffic. 24 hours later, you can go into Google Analytics and get a warm fuzzy feeling as your visitor numbers increase. It’s best to ignore bounce rate, and average time on site.

While your first time visitor numbers have increased, it’s unlikely that many of them will convert to regular visitors or subscribe to your RSS feed; but that was never the goal. The goal was to increase your visitor numbers: always handy for boardroom presentations.

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