Incomming!!!
I just noticed that I now own 12 domain names. The domains I’ve had a couple of weeks are really starting to get some visitors, not hundereds a day, but still… An article site that has been started as a personal collection of articles while doing research for a hobby has had over 150 unique visitors so far this month. A good share of the visitors are returning and reading several pages on the site. Some have even signed up for the sites newsletter so they won’t miss site updates.
So how do all these people find my site? Most find the site thru search-engines, I have noticed that the site shows up quite high in the result pages for the search terms I was aiming for! To get the high ranking you have to get links to your websites. One way links are the best, the more the better. I’ve submitted the site to a lot of directories, the good thing about them is that they are mostly categorized meaning that your incomming link will be comming from a page with more text (from other people) on the same subject as your own website. A lot of the big directories require you to pay to get listed or let you wait in the queue for months. Like webhosts and blogs, new directories are also started by a lot of people every day. To get listed in a lot of directories, look for the new ones they will have you added mostly within a day after submission and without a charge!
Having links from pages with matching subjects works very well, once the search-engines have indexed them you can even show up in the result pages for searches on terms that are not even on your website (but on the ones linking to it)
Another good way to get links (or so ‘they’ say…) is getting articles published on article sites. People use article sites to get content for their own website or ezine. The deal with the articles is this: you can use the article on your website, but you must leave in the authors info and link. Now if you write a good article and submit that to a good number of article sites, chances are that your article (which is ofcourse elegantly filled with the search terms you want to be found by) will be copied onto new sites, which will make the number of oneway incomming links to your site even bigger.
I will try the article submission out soon and keep you posted on the results!