50 Point Checklist For More Traffic And Higher Ranking

Check List of Top 50 ways to up your Google, Yahoo, MSN and Ask ways that can improve your websites traffic, help you in SEO, build your backlinks and give your site some more exposure:

1. Exchange links with other sites that are on the same subject as yours.

2. Do good Search Engine Optimization.

3. Write Press Releases and submit them to PRweb and other press release sites.

4. Create a freebie and included your sites link on it and then distribute it freely thereby doing some viral marketing.

5. Write articles about your sites topic and then add your sites link to your authors resource box and distribute to article directories.

6. Add your site to free and reciprocal web directories.

7. Make some videos and submit them to the larger video sharing sites like Youtube.

8. Take part in social bookmark sites. These can get some good quick traffic but make sure you don't spam or you will be banned quickly.

9. Take part in social networking sites. These can get some good quick traffic and again please don't spam.

10. Pay for direct advertising on sites that are on the same subject as yours.

11. Take part in PPC advertising including Google Adwords, Yahoo Search Marketing, Microsoft Ads etc..

12. Create an affiliate program for your website and let others promote your products where you will then give them a commission for their efforts. If you produce an affiliate program, then making it a two-tier program can also help you promote the affiliate program itself.

13. If you have products that you want to promote, then upload your product datafeed to Froogle as you can have your products promoted freely. Also take part in other product price comparison sites to get even more exposure and traffic for your products.

14. Do viral marketing by producing something with your sites link attached. This thing could be software, a funny video, etc. What ever it is, it must be very entertaining and something that others would want to pass on to their friends.

15. Produce some business cards with your website URL on them and get them out.

16. Don't include to many noticeable ads on your site as this can actually decrease the value of your site when it comes to keeping your visitors.

17. Use Blog Carnival http://blogcarnival.com/bc/

18. Participate in different forums that are on the same topic as your site and then include your sites link in your signature (Don't spam).

19. Include your sites link in the signature of any emails that you send to people.

20. Create a blog on the same topic as your website, keep it updated and make sure you ping it.

21. Deep link within posts to your blog

22. Mention your website to your friends and family and ask them to pass it on to others (Word of mouth advertising).

23. Try to do some interesting things on your site so that you can try and get it into the news.

24. do something so that it becomes link bait. This could just be from having some very useful tools on your site.

25. Offer a competition on your website. This will help in getting your visitors a little more excited and involved with your website. This may also help a little more in the Word of Mouth advertising of your site.

26. Get interviewed by others so they can then hopefully include the interview on their site and your sites link will then be included in it.

27. Use Link Metro http://linkmetro.com/

28. Purchase banner advertising.

29. Do email marketing without spamming.

30. Advertise in offline media.

31. Create 'feeder' sites, podbean, Squidoo and post at least weekly

32. Write product reviews for some sites and include your sites link in it.

33. Comment on edu blogs

34. Use RSS feeds so that your website users can easily keep up to date of new stuff happening on your website and use your RSS feeds in their site if possible.

35. Get your website URL listed in the telephone directories.

36. Do join ventures.

37. Take part in Yahoo Answers.

38. Take part in Yahoo and Google Groups.

39. Review sites within the same niche as yours on Alexa and see what they are doing that you can copy.

40. Leave testimonials if you have brought something and include your sites link within it.

41. Outsouce your sites promotion. The more you do the quicker your traffic will grow including your sites popularity and branding.

42. Become a sponsor and get your link listed on the site that you sponsor.

43. Release a Firefox extension that will help bring people to your website.

44. If you have images on your website and would like to get some exposure from them, then make sure they get into the image search engines as this can also get you some good traffic.

45. Get your own top-level domain so that your site looks more professional and trustworthy to your visitor / customer.

46. Always offer a good service and put your visitors / customers first. This will help in branding, loyalty and keeping your visitors on your site and ustomers coming back.

47. Make sure your site is updated regularly so that your existing visitors will keep returning to your website from time to time.

48. Monitor your websites traffic very closely.

49. Take part in banner exchanges.

50. Advertise in offline and online classifieds.