How To Get Your First Website Visitors

Have a website and still cant get any visitors? It’s not your fault, everyone starts out the same way. So before you go buying courses and instant traffic ebooks, DO the following four steps.

Step 1: Get Stats

Simply, if you don’t know how much traffic you are getting now, how will you know you have improved? Go sign up with Google Analytics, its absolutely free. If you already use Google Analytics you are ahead of the game! Take a look at what your stats are for the last week and print them out.

Some of you already have some sort of statistics package offered with your hosting provider. If you do take a look at your stats and print out copy so you have a reminder of where you started.

Step 2: Offer something of value, to someone other than yourself!

Bottom line is we are all guilty of this one, we think that everything we do has great value. It’s human nature, everyone is flawed in the same way. The good news we can change it!

Put yourself in someone elses shoes for a moment and think about how your product, service or blog solves someone elses pain and provides relief or value.

Your product may have the greatest features, your services may be beyond belief or your blog may share instant insights into your mind. But how are you engaging someone? How are you solving your visitors problem? What value will they receive by learning about your products, services or blog?

Give something of value to your visitors that they can take away with them and use. You have to give before you can receive.

Step 3: Spread the word, to those that WANT to listen

So you have tried Digg and other Social Media and your stories never get more than one vote. No surge of traffic because you didn’t make the elusive front page. You want to know why? Because nobody there WANTS to listen!

It’s not just you, my blog posts along with several hundred a day never get more than one vote. It doesn’t mean that you are not offering value, it just means that no one there wants it. So go where people want to listen! Here are a few examples:

Twitter: Start your own following and provide value on your subject topic. Share stories you are reading about your industry as well as about your product, service or blog. Find others on Twitter who are in your industry and build awareness along with a strong network of people who want to listen.

Podcasting: Start broadcasting tips and strategies, industry news or anything of value about your industry. Leverage the strong user base of Apple products to spread awareness of your product, services and blog.

YouTube: Broadcast to millions around the world. Tell everyone your tips and strategies, industry knowledge and value of your products and services. Don’t forget to put your website address in the video and in the video description!

Forums: Join an established forum and help people in your industry. If you are knowledgeable than go provide value to someone. In most forums you are allowed to use a forum signature to link back to your product, service or blog.

Step 4: GO DO IT!

You are either going to read the above and come up with some excuse as to why it wont work for you OR you will go and make it work for you. Its that simple.

If you get stuck or have questions always feel free to post them in the comment section below!

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