How Would You Bring 500 Daily Visitors To This Website?

[adpablo]

Hello everyone, I have a Forex website (link in my signature) and I've been mantaining it for a while now. My problem is that I can't make it fly with the amount of traffic I wish.

I need an ideas rain.

In short, I need 500 daily visitors to this site.

What or how would you do it?


Thanks

[annihilator]

How much traffic do you get at the moment?

[adpablo]

I get an average of 20 daily visitors currently....

[Loren Woirhaye]

That's a big jump. Focus on doubling your current traffic.

Just promote more.

[gvncerri]

Starting a thread like this, for instance

[JonathanBoettcher]

do you do anything with all the content on there?

- podcasts
- videos
- articles

It can all be re-purposed and re-packaged and used...

[AlbertF]

Join groups who will become loyal readers and not just visitors who come and go. Those are the most important to obtain and it takes time and effort to slowly obtain.

[Marty S]

Copied from a post I made to another webmaster in your spot:

You are probably way ahead of many new marketers in terms of actually getting something done, and agreed above that you do have a good start - BUT ... you are still likely to get NO sales (or very few) as is.

Of all the marketing tactics (guru products) available these days, I do find there is somewhat of an overload on websites just like yours. Its just not going to happen (big) unless there is something "special" about your website.

Firstly, you need to build a list with your website but in doing so, you also need to give visitors a REAL reason to join. This can most easily be achieved by giving something of REAL VALUE away.

You need a report, white paper - or my favorite tactic - a Video(s) that solves an immediate problem that your visitor is likely to have. If your offer is good enough, and you actually deliver something of value, you have the makings of a website that will build it's own "life".

From there, you can add more content, send out related offers, have spin-off websites and basically build yourself into a realistic authority on the subject. When you get to this point, your own subscribers will be recommending you to others, and with some hard work, investment and dedication it can turn into your full time business.

Its one thing to set up a website, its quite another to really, I mean really get in there and find out what your visitors are thinking and feeling - what is their problem? You can always look at tactics as noted in these other responses and they are all viable, but the most profitable, long term strategy is the be the GO-TO website/man in your niche and have the ANSWERS.

[linkman11]

For starters optimize your site.

You don't have permalinks setup, so all your pages and posts are in ID# format, that's costing you traffic.

Add the All In One SEO pack plugin and start using titles and meta tags, add the Google XML Sitemap plugin.

Start writing more compelling headlines..

10 Best Forex Trading Tips
How to Easily Spot Forex Trading Patterns
Best Places to Learn Forex Fast

Just making those changes should triple you traffic pretty quickly.

[Heimir Finnson]

If you are thinking of going from 20 to 500 a day in a short time, PPC is the quickest way.
Where is your current traffic coming from?

[adpablo]

Thank you all for the good recomendations..I'm getting good thinking material for new strategies...currently I'm getting most traffic from articles I've written and ditributed in places like Ezinearticles.com, goarticles, etc...also I've seen some traffic from Twitter recently...I'm close to 2000 followers there..

[rapidscc]

ONE WORD...

YOUTUBE

Won't add anything else..Hope this helps

oMar

[ChrisDeals]

Since submitting articles to directories has been your main source of traffic, write and submit even more articles. Also since you many want to build some back links to the current articles you have at Ezines, it will help improve the article overall position in Google, and hence get you some more traffic.

[SarahMcHarry]

1. You need to do some in-depth keyword research to find some low-hanging fruit keywords - say three keywords or phrases with decent traffic but low competition;
2. Use these keywords as anchor text in a protracted link-building exercise. Aim to build 3 - 5 inbound links every day;
3. Optimize your blog - use these anchor text keywords as post and widget headers. Use permalinks and categories to make your posts SE friendly. Get a good ping list;
4. Simplify the design of your blog. It's a bit of a mess with links all over the place If you did get 500 visitors they would be confused as to what you were selling;
5. Keep on posting high quality, useful, original content - stuff that no-one else is saying but that forex traders would find fascinating.

Good luck!

Sarah

[Rachel Rofe]

PPC is the fastest traffic out there, I think, if you don't have a list/Twitter account established...

And it's awesome to test out ideas.

I like articles for long-term traffic, because they're both awesome to add to your site for content (higher search engine rankings - I never get penalized for having duplicate content), but they give you the articles for the directories...

And buying targeted traffic is generally pretty awesome (banners from other sites, etc.)

I also got these great ideas from Justin Michie:

50 Tips On Getting More Traffic To Your Website |

[MisterMunch]

If you make any money from your website, you should re-invest every penny into new articles, seo-services, etc. Do not stop doing this untill you are past your 500 visitors a day goal.

[Jackbgd]

Create more/better content

[Ron Douglas]

Originally Posted by badass01

PPC with a 3 to 5k daily budget should drive that amount of traffic.

And that's if you're paying $10 per click. LOL

[Heimir Finnson]

Originally Posted by badass01

PPC with a 3 to 5k daily budget should drive that amount of traffic.

So are saying he should be paying around $10 per visit?
You certainly don't need a budget of $5000 to reach 500 daily visits.

[adpablo]

I wouldn't pay $10 per click...I will stick with having more articles published and I'm testing Twitter as a source of traffic...I've also used the good ideas linkman11 gave me and I have included Google sitemap plugin and SEO plugin together with permalinks...this should do some good to my site's traffic....

[Heimir Finnson]

Originally Posted by adpablo

I wouldn't pay $10 per click...I will stick with having more articles published and I'm testing Twitter as a source of traffic...I've also used the good ideas linkman11 gave me and I have included Google sitemap plugin and SEO plugin together with permalinks...this should do some good to my site's traffic....

I'm saying that you certainly don't need to pay $10 per click. You can get by with a lot less than that.

[Ilse]

You have no content it seems to me. So add a lot more.

[Norma Holt]

Personally I would redo your site. It is a bit lame, might be OK for people who know what it is all about, which I don't. The color scheme is boring and sets the tone. I think a lot of people would simply turn away rather then spend time reading it.

I would also increase the size of the font. I get turned off by small font and it doesn't cost anymore to make the words readable. If you have something to say then say it with authority. That's my 2 cents worth.

God bless

Norma

[Diver's]

Hmm..Traffic...Targeted Traffic....

1. Fast Solution :

a. Get PPC - http://adwords.com and others.

b. Market Your Site in Other people newsletter - Pay The Owner a hefty sum of money. Find a hot newsletter in your niche. Get into Your Forex circle.

c. Market in Forum - Pay The Administrator a Hefty Sum of Money/Monthly/yearly. Make your banner appear infront page, topic pages and so on. Once you are recognize, edit your signature as usual with your links.

2. Long Term Solution

a. Article Marketing - yeah, you need time writing or pay some /outsource freelancer guy getafreelancer.com . Ask them to do 10 article for 25 bucks for example. You Get Quality Backlink - Buy the packet from PJ- at WSO

b. List Build and Opt-in - yeah you need time to repackage all your info into a pdf format, give them for free, and get their email. Money is needed to subscribe for autoresponder. You pay more with your growing list. (but you'll earn more in return, don't worry)

c. Video marketing, create a few short clips and market them in video hosting site. More than 17 of them.

d. Give them (your List) More and More usefull content without thinking of getting back cash in return, The $money$ will come to you once you are trusted and found very helpful by your list. Make them Hunger for more!

e. Write more and more usefull content. If you are not good at writing, again hire a copywriter or ghostwriter - at this forum and getafreelancer -->> Custom Web Design and Programming. Freelance Programmers. Outsource Web Development Outsourcing - again involve cash, but save your time!

F. Social Bookmark Yourself and your site - Tonnes of them. Search Google for it.

G. Get Squidoo and and all the free blogs to help you build more links and targeted niche. Post comment in high traffic blog with your link, it does help. Submit your site to Dmoz, Technorati, Ask, Wiki and all the related stuff.

H. Repair your Metatag and better your site Keyword Optimization. Create your new one free. Search google for free service.

H. Focus on this site only for at least two month and you will see results.

Hope this helps..Your possible new amount of visitors is 2,300 people daily when you apply this tactics. (i usually don't give numbers..LOL)

Good Luck My Friend!

sincerely,
~ Your Friend
P.S - Oh sorry, i've just clicked an interesting link by google on your site!

[Richard Tunnah]

Robery Puddy recently posted a great reply in Andy Henry's traffic thread in relation to your question. He said that you need to know your conversion rates and the amount it brings in first. If you know you convert 1 in 10 visitors into buyers @ $100 then spending $10 a click via PPC isn't going to work for short term profit (unless you're building a front end list). If however you know that 1 in 5 buyers purchase at $100 then you can double your return on investment.
Obviously there's many other ways to market your site other than ppc but if you work backwords from your conversion rate then you know how much to invest to be profitable.

Rich

[Steve Longoria]

short answer: content/article marketing... but that is quite a big jump (20 visitors to 500 daily), try doubling it first like suggested above.

[Rully]

Also you can try "tell a friend"script which offered by Norman Freeman combined with Robert Plank's action pop up.
So when your visitor want to leave your site,the pop up will appear and offer a "Tell a Friend Reward Program" and click some link and bring them to the new page that mentioned about the program.
Say in that page a reward like
-if you tell 10 friends of your,you will get ...
-20 friends you will get....
etc

Surely, you don't have to use the scripts that I mentioned above.

Sorry so technically, but i hope you will get some idea from it