Wednesday, May 07, 2008

Traffic Building Strategies (Overview)

Today I was giving a seminar on Traffic Building Strategies. I thought I'd share my overview with a few brief notes:

Traffic Building Strategies

Organic Search Engine Optimization: Optimizing your website and the pages there to acheive top ranked listings in the search engine results pages.

Link Building: Building links to your website using link exchanges, asking for inbound links, and creating links from your website. Links have traffic value and SEO value.

Advertising: Break out your wallet, online advertising is almost a requirement to compete online these days. The days of free traffic are probably mostly over.

PPC/SEM: Pay-per-click (Google Adwords) or search engine marketing.

Word of Mouth: Still works! You can't beat the results when a bride posts a nice comment about you in an online bulletin board (like at http://www.talkaboutweddings.com/).

Blogging: Works! Easy, fast, cost-effective and provides a great return on investment. Increases your overall online visibility, helps your SEO, good stuff.

Web 2.0: YouTube, MySpace, Facebook, LinkedIn.

Offline: Integrate your offline marketing to promote your website. "Visit our website for free worksheets and additional information to help you plan your {wedding photography}."


Chris Jaeger
Book More Weddings
http://www.bookmoreweddings.com/

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