How to get traffic to my website for free? This is a question that being asked by many of us including me. I have been blogging for almost 3 years. What have I done to increase my blog traffic? Well in short, I took the slow and steady move. Being as an application developer in MNC, I blog for part time only. Therefore, I do not have time that most professional bloggers have. However, it does not stop me from blogging professionally.
JayceOoi.com traffic sources on November 2009
JayceOoi.com is the first blog (I called it website for last 2 years as I did not want to admit that it is a blog) that I have. And then PrettyGirl2u.com and spBlogger.com. All of them have traffic from search engines for free. I am not going to discuss on every single step here, just high level as most of us know to do so already.
Things that I do to get traffic to my website for free…
- Make my website a search engine optimized (SEO) website.
- Comment at others’ blog.
- Active at famous forums.
- Don’t stop learning new stuff
Search engines love SEO websites. You will get lot of traffic there. All you need to do ~ get lot of incoming links as you can. Personally, I don’t blog purposely for search engine. There are some who do so in order to make money online. And it is proven that it work. I would like to have more direct traffic. Why? This mean that your blog is informative and people are willing to visit again. And indirectly, it will bring more incoming links too. Finally, I always keep this in mind.
Write good content, do proper marketing == money money traffic traffic come. 
Feel your website loading speed is slow? Don’t feel it. Gets a free tool from Pingdom to check your website loading time. It is as easy as ABC. Just key in your website address and click ‘Test now’. You will get result like below…
There is a detail view of the result which includes images, CSS, JavaScripts, RSS, Flash and frames/iframes loading time. I also discovered some broken links with this method. It is a nice free tool indeed. Hmm… Time to upgrade my theme again…
How much loading time is your website?
Do you still need to manage your web hosting? Well, I don’t. After dump the poor support team ~ SmartTeam hosting, I switched to HostMonster. During SmartTeam hosting, I need to call their support team to tell them that my website database was down. And they did not even know. Come on, what is managed web hosting?
Using HostMonster… I can spend my time focus on writing better articles rather than spending time to call up support team. And I just noticed that my blogs’ bandwidth usage passed 100GB per month. Wow… That is lot of traffic there.
September 2009 bandwidth usage
3 of my main blogs (JayceOoi.com, spBlogger.com and PrettyGirl2u.com) hosted in 1 HostMonster account. Why I prefer HostMonster managed web hosting?
- Web Hosting Space – Unlimited
- Host UNLIMITED DOMAINS
- Gigs of Site Transfer – Unlimited
These are the top 3 priority that I need. And it is only USD 5.95 per month ~ discount now. Isn’t that great? By the way, don’t bother to find free web hosting. I don’t think that free lunch will give such features.
How do you know your website performance? Are you using any tool to keep track the traffic data? Hmm… I am using Google Analytics to monitor my websites traffic. Google Analytics is a free tool from Google. It is one of my daily visit website. I study all my websites performance based on Google Analytics.
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Google Analytics provides a lot of traffic details of your website. It has site usage which content of visits, pageviews, pages/visit, bounce rate, avg. time on site and new visit as default main page. It also consists of visitor overview, map overlay, traffic sources overview and content overview too. You can get almost all the data you need on the main page. You can also get more information by clicking on each of the module.
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