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Website traffic

Jan 5, 2015 12:55PM PST

How to effectively design a website to get more traffic?

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Some confuse SEO with traffic.
Jan 5, 2015 1:35PM PST

The old discussions still apply to your question. Not to upset you but has anything changed in the past 10 years of website traffic and your question?
Bob

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Website traffic
Jan 6, 2015 7:09PM PST

Follow the strategy to increase your website traffic

- social media advertising
- promote your content
- long-form content as well as video, info graphics for more impact.
- most comprehensive blog post
- Optimizing your content for search engines
- Target Long tail Keywords
- Guest Blogging
- posting content to LinkedIn
- Implement Schema Microdata for SEO
- Make Sure Your website is Responsive
- Make sure that your pages are as technically optimized as possible
- building a community into your site

Find more ideas on search engines
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jaysondemers/2014/05/13/39-actionable-ideas-for-driving-traffic-to-your-website/
http://www.webhosting.uk.com/blog/most-promising-ways-of-making-your-website-accessible/

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...and...
Jan 28, 2015 6:19PM PST

I could add linkbuild to the list...

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Designing and SEO
Jan 18, 2015 2:39PM PST

You can design your site responsive to make it user friendly and keep track of off page as well as on page SEO like:
- Blog Commenting
- Content Submission
- Guest Post
- Long tail keywords targeting
- Blog Posting

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More traffic
Jan 25, 2015 1:59PM PST

You can design it by Wordpress.

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responsive design content + links
Jan 29, 2015 11:33AM PST

make ur website responsive by designing it in html5 and css3
have quality content (lots of it)
have as many links as possible

plus you can do some social media marketing as your organic rankings come up. use facebook & google adwords

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Website traffic
Feb 6, 2015 5:32PM PST

Thanks for sharing this topic...

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website traffic
Feb 8, 2015 7:37PM PST

The most important thing that you should keep in mind is the uniqueness of the content. After that you can apply the SEO techniques on it to get more traffic.

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To Get Website traffic
Aug 11, 2015 11:39PM PDT

You need to regularly update your website with blog for good SEO and indexing your web site in search engine. Keep your metas related to your keyword.