Every website owner no matter how big or small the website is has one main goal, to get traffic, it is absurd if the intention is any different. While anyone can get a website designed, not everyone can traffic to their website and let’s face it, a website without traffic really has no use, just to milk hosting fee from your pocket.
But how can one direct traffic to a website without paying those costly advertising fees that websites like yahoo and google slap their advertisers with? Here are three free ways to drive traffic to your website.
More to social websites than socializing
Websites like Hi5.com and Myspace.com offers visitors to create and customize profiles personal which ever way they choose with little restrictions for free. This is one of the best ways to drive that much sought after traffic to your website. By creating a profile for your business website on Mysace.com you can ‘pimp your profile’ to look like you website and add ‘friends’ with similar pages who will inadvertently, through curiosity click a link you would have placed on your profile to your website. Myspace.com has billions of registered users so the more friends you have the more viewers you will get.
Get listed on DMOZ.org
Though this might not be an easy task it is imperative that one tries to get listed on this directory. This task is difficult though, when you submit your website here, it first has to be approved by one of the many editors they have and thousands of websites are submitted per week.
Submit articles
There are quite a few of websites out there that accept article submission. You can send articles to sites like: Article City, GoArticles, Submit Your Articles and Ezine Articles which is an incredible way to drive traffic to your website. By putting your website url in the by-line of the article, well-written, relevant articles can get quite a bit of activity to your web site.
Though these steps are being introduced, please allow some time for the increase in your website traffic.
So i was browsing the internet recently and came upon a website that I found to be very useful for everyone who owns a website. How much does our websites really worth? Ok, so we spend money to get it designed, hosted and to register the domain name but does that equal the value of the website? The answer to that question is, maybe, maybe not.
The website www.dnscoop.com uses certain features to determine the estimated value of your website. Some of these factors include, the date of the domain name, the number of links to your website, the Alexa traffic rank and more. Just by typing your url and click search can reveal the valuable statistics which is vital for website owners.
”An organisation that involves employees in the decision-making process can become much more successful”
– I’m sure some1 famous said this..so I won’t take the credit.
I got a chance to see a long lost friend this morning. I’ve known Andrew for many years and the last I heard of him, was that he got promoted as the IT manager at a large company in the financial sector. My curiosity aroused, so I congratulated him and asked how he felt about his new job. After some prodding, Andrew told me that he was loosing interest in his work, although he was satisfied with his colleagues, salary and working conditions, if he could find an excuse, he would avoid going.
When asked why, he revealed that he felt like a robot, his company was launching a new website and despite his new position the Board ignores his inputs. The board was simply passing orders down the line, no questions asked. Andrew added he sometimes had to ask his collegues “Are you plugged-in?”
Andrew’s situation gravely concerns me…. Is it that rank-and-file technical staff are hired only to do techy stuff but have no say in business decisions? Or do we have a say but need to be more assertive?
Business execs, sales staff and marketers tend by nature to be more assertive and strong negotiators. But I think where execs have no technical background it calls for the technically savvy to be similarly assertive and convincing when vocalizing their suggestions, ideas and/or solutions. However, assertion doesn’t mean being loudmouth and obnoxious, no matter how strongly we believe our position is, all we can do is advise them of our best estimates and solutions and then do exactly what they tell us to do. After all we’re not trying to loose our job!
Open Source is defined as a software source code that is available to the general public and does not have licensing restrictions that limit use, modification, or redistribution.
So if the open source technology allows for the free use of softwares to install, update or alter without being liable for any copyright infringement. Why is a certain island’s companies so hesitant to make the transition to open source software?
One of the most trusted open source software is the operating system, Linux, which is the main rival to the Windows operating system. Apart from the obvious cost savings,Linux is said to be stable and generally immune to all forms of viruses and does not crash.
Ok, let me give you a scenario… You own a small office and your running Windows XP Professional on decently powerful machines. The question you face is, with a minimal budget for an upgrade what do you do. Do you put on Vista or a Linux that comes with business support like SLED 10 (SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop) ?
Applications are, of course, another matter. In recent years, open-source alternatives to proprietary softwares have matured to the point where switching to these license-free alternatives have become more viable. With OpenOffice.org 2.0 right out of the box, it can handle basic Microsoft Office documents and spreadsheets without any fuss or muss. Similarly for years, Microsoft Internet Explorer has enjoyed near dominance of the Web browser space–but not any more. Since the release of Firefox an Open Source web browse created by Mozilla, Internet Explorer’s claim of superiority has been steadily eroding. Firefox has several advantages over IE which includes anti-spyware & mal-ware security, pop-up blocking, useful extensions & plugins, 100% CSS compliant (rejoice!! web designers rejoice!!) and it’s Free!
So what are your views? Do you think there are more takers for open source technology…Is the loyalty which this island’s companies seem to unconsciously have with Microsoft, diminishing?
