14 simple tips to a successful web site

I need more hits to my website. How do I do that? There are many ways. Some methods will take a while to take effect. Some can be quite immediate. Depending on your site promotion methods, you can generate more hits to your web site. Here are 14 simple tips to make your website successful today!

1. Fill your site with valuable and unique content, products or services. 

2. Put primary and secondary keywords within the first 25 words in your page content and spread the keywords evenly throughout the page. 

3. Research and use the right keywords/phrases to attract your target customers. 

4. Put keywords in your title, meta tags, description and headers. 

5. Keep your site design simple and easy to navigate. In other words, keep it user friendly. 

6. Submit your web pages to directory services. If you’re lazy, you could hire someone to do it for you and ensure they perform manual submissions. Do not engage an automated submission service. 

7. Keep track of changes in search engine algorithms and processes and modify your web pages accordingly so your search engine ranking remains high. Use online tools and utilities to keep track of how your website is doing. 

8. Research and look at your competitors and the top ranked websites to see what they are doing right in terms of design, navigation, content, keywords, etc. 

9. Use reports and logs from your web hosting company to see where your traffic is coming from. Analyze your visitor’s location and their incoming sources whether via search engines or links from other sites. Also look at the keywords that they used to find your site. 

10. Make your customer visit easy and give them plenty of ways to remember you in the form of a catchy domain name, newsletters, free reports or ebooks, reduction coupons etc. 

11. Demonstrate your industry, product or service knowledge by writing and submitting articles to your website or article banks so you are perceived as an expert in your field. 

12. When selling products online, use simple payment and shipment methods to make your customer’s experience fast and easy. 

13. When not sure, hire professionals. Though it may seem costly, but it is a lot less expensive than spending your money on a website which no one visits. 

14. Don’t look at your website as a static brochure. Treat it as a dynamic, ever-changing sales tool and location, just like a real store with customers.