Simple Offline Marketing Strategies To Boost Website Traffic

When you begin your Internet business many people will tell you that in order to get your website noticed, you must get your site optimized for the search engines. They stress that this is the most important thing to consider. However, as soon as you get your site optimized, Google changes its search engine and you lose your page rank.

Instead of focusing solely on optimizing your website for the search engines consider using several simple offline strategies to get your site noticed.

Some of the most successful people on the Internet use simple strategies to get people to visit their website that don’t involve strategies that solely depend on the Internet.

One study reveals to us most people go to an Internet address (URL) after having read it in a newspaper or magazine, been given it by a friend or colleague, or having heard it being mentioned by someone speaking at a meeting or on TV. In other words, it seems that significant numbers of people who get to your web site will do so having heard the URL somewhere outside the Internet.

You don’t have to be ranked high in the search engines to get people to visit your website site. Here are two simple ways that you can market your website offline.

1. Write articles for use in regular publications - newspapers, magazines and so on. Always include your URL in the article and you’ll get millions of people to notice your web site address.

2. Speak at every opportunity. Make presentations to business clubs, chambers of commerce, local societies - you name it, you should speak at it. Every time you speak, announce or your web site address.

Although these are the two principal ways of gaining offline publicity for your web site, don’t neglect your business stationery, posters, car stickers and so on. The more your web site address is visible outside the web, the more visitors you will get regardless of how kind the search engines are to you.

The most important thing to remember is that the more links that are out there, the more traffic you will get. Add these simple offline strategies to your marketing arsenal. Keep working hard and smart. God loves you.

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Quality Traffic With The Google Feedback Loop

**For this to work, you need some kind of tracking for your website/web pages that tells you which search engines send people to you for what keyword searches.

Now truly, for a website owner there is nothing more fascinating than their own stats, so if you don’t have good tracking software yet, do go out and get some.

There are many versions about, still many free ones available, and please, DO get started with tracking your pages and their performance.***

Now, let’s get started.

What Is The Google Feedback Loop?

The Google feedback loop works very simply and like this.

Let’s say you have a website and you find out that a particular phrase turns up in those search engine referrals which sends you some people reliably, week in, week out.

It doesn’t matter if it’s only a few, what DOES matter is that this is ALREADY HAPPENING.

Therein lies the key!

As an example, I noted that just because there was a phrase that related to this by accident in one of my essays, I got some 14 people sent to me because they were searching for “symbols of eternal love”. Down the list a bit further, there were another 9 who wanted “eternal love symbols”, and then the many more single queries with random variations on that phrase.

A total of fifty visitors who would otherwise have gone elsewhere, every month, on that one key phrase.

That’s nice and as it doesn’t cost us anything beyond a little time and ingenuity, and …

… and this is IMPORTANT! …

… and as I can PROVIDE MORE INFORMATION on this key phrase because that is completely within the brief of my site and what I do …

I can now begin to enter into the “Google feedback loop”.

So now, I shall expand on this idea of “symbols of eternal love”.

I’ll keep the original article and reference just the way it is, but I’m going to HYPERLINK the phrase where it appears in the text, and make another page with USEFUL AND MORE IN DEPTH information on “eternal symbols of love”, including images, references and natural language copy.

When I do this, the following happens.

Firstly, we don’t lose what traffic we are already getting by NOT CHANGING THE ORIGINAL REFERRING PAGE.

That’s important!

Secondly, we are now offering the visitors MORE AND BETTER information on what they are looking for, and this will be appreciated and can be used as a starting point for a further relationship with the visitor - they may go from there to download something, or perhaps bookmark your pages because you’re on the right vibe, perhaps buy something or tell a friend or a group they’re on, or a forum, to go check out your site - all sorts of things can and do happen from there.

Thirdly, and this is where the “feedback loop” happens, you now have MORE and MORE VARIED keywords relating to the topic to show, more content and this will BRING YOU UP HIGHER in the rankings for that search overall - which results in MORE people clicking on your site’s link, which in turn helps with your rankings.

More Key Phrases, More Visitors …

Well, perhaps I should have called this a feedback SPIRAL because what NOW happens is that not only do you get more than your original 50 people coming every month, but you also get that same effect again - there might well be SOME THING on your further page that brings in that first flow of visitors for ANOTHER specific keyphrase which can be treated in much the same way - hyperlinked to a new page with more in depth information and even better quality content.

Go on like this for a while with the FAVOURITES amongst your key phrases, and you really will:

1. Find whole new “markets” or groups of visitors you’ve never had access to before;

2. Get more people for the already existing content as your site moves up in the rankings;

3. EVOLVE your site and your web presence in a very safe and expansive way - and without risking being dropped for the original content because that doesn’t change.

Specialisation Is The Key!

A last word of advice before I go.

PLEASE stay within the context of what you’re doing.

No-one is served by having visitors who are the wrong crowd for your services or plans or desires.

If you are selling sun flowers, there is NO POINT in going after keywords relating to audio engineering or motorway maintenance.

Ok so you might get a bunch of visitors, but they WON’T stay, WON’T buy and WON’T do anything other than pass through like a breeze in the night and leave you wondering why you get hits but no sales!

If you *do* stay within the brief or context of what you are doing, and you go after the keywords and key phrases that MAKE SENSE in the context of your site, on the other hand, the “Google Feedback Loop” is an EXCELLENT way to improve quality traffic long term, and reliably.

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Silvia Hartmann - EzineArticles Expert Author

Silvia Hartmann is the author of “MindMillion” and the CEO of The StarFields Network. Find a great networking group, free ebook library and a brand new, completely FREE wealth creation course plus superb bonuses at http://www.MindMillion.com.