5 Means to Greater Traffic Equals 5 Ways to Increase Rank

5 Simple Ways to More Traffic and a Higher Ranking
and the Internet

Having a "What's New?" Webpage
Many of the websites that abound now have a "What's New?" webpage as part
of their service. The title itself attracts not only attention but traffic
as well. There are many ways of creating a "What's New?" webpage. You can
make it as simply as how this web site constructed it. You can visit this at
the 9 Pentecost Central web page under the "What's New?" category in the
navigation menu. This recent feature added by many web site owners has
indeed attracted a lot of traffic to their site. Although in the web page,
you need not have to have current news events, you can always publish whatever
new product or service you have or whatever new article you have written.
Just as the news in many news web sites attract a lot of traffic, so will
a "What's New?" web page in your web site also attract a lot of traffic.
However, to keep the traffic incoming, you need to constantly update the
web page and to add whatever new developments there are in your web site.
You can also place this "What's New?" link in your other webpages so that
every reader of the other web pages may have access to the "What's New?"
service of your web site. This is guaranteed to increase more traffic to
your web site. Generally, many are attracted to anything new.

Having an RSS Feed
Making an RSS Feed for your website also increases the visits and hits into
your web pages. An RSS Feed is usually constructed with xml coding. To get
an idea of what type of coding this is, you can check our RSS Feed button at
Catholic Internet Mission.

The purpose of an RSS Feed is to constantly provide content to subscribers
through their RSS Aggregator or feed reader with the latest information as
regards your web site. This facility surely will increases traffic because
the more subscribers you may have for your RSS Feed, the more many will visit
your web pages that are itemized in the RSS Feed. Once they read the items
in your RSS Feed, they will follow the links until they find the information
they need and want to have. To increase traffic to a great degree, many
construct a lot of RSS Feeds. However, you need not have many. Just one
RSS Feed is enough. You can just add more items to that one RSS Feed if you
want more traffic to flow through your web site's web pages. If you are
interested in making a RSS Feed for your website, you can make one in three
simple steps by reading this article, "Making a RSS Feed and Placing
Add-To-My-Yahoo Button".





Regular Blogging
Regularly posting to your blogs also increases the traffic to your website.
The traffic is directed to your web site through the permanent links that are
embedded in the web page of your blog. Aside from this regular traffic, you
can add more traffic to your webpages by mentioning the links of the articles
you have recently published in your web site when you make a post in your
blog. With regular traffic and additional traffic from the new links, you
you can capitalize on having the link of that blog in your website itself so
that traffic is both ways. As with the What's New web page and the RSS Feed,
you have to regularly post in your blog. Without any new post, there would
be nothing to read. And nothing to read will bring no traffic. So regular
posting is necessary. The more posts you make, the more traffic your will
receive. The less you post, the less traffic will flow into your web site.
So it all depends on the amount of work you put into your blog. You can make
a system for your posting so that it will be regular. As regards the system
we use, you can post in your blogs in a systematic manner, posting to the blog
that has not been posted upon for a long time. And the next blog in line
which has not been posted for a long time would be next in line. You need
not be too strict on your spelling and grammar in your blogs as this is a
kind of personal journal or informal content sharing. What is important is
that we get the meaning of what we write across to our readers as simple
and as plain as we can so that we may truly provide a service to them.

Writing Fresh Content and New Articles
This too brings a lot of traffic to our web site and all our web pages.
However, writing fresh content and new articles nvolves working hard. In
writing, serious editing must be done compared to the blogs. And the better
we edit our work, the better quality contents and articles will be produced.
And if a content or an article was written in such a way as to serve a lot
of visitors on the Internet, then certainly that article will receive a lot
of traffic. Other web site owners may refer to that quality content or
quality article that we have written for them. The service that we give as
writers and webauthors in the Internet bears fruit if we genuinely do the
work with the visitor and reader in mind. The important thing in writing
our fresh content and new articles is not so much only a writing so that
your web page places high in the search engine's results pages. It also
involves a great degree of service to the reader - one that will truly help
them for whatever they need to know.

Interlinkaging
This last method to increase your traffic and get that higher traffic rank
is what can be termed, interlinkaging. The concept is not complicated. All
you need to do is to link the information from the "What's New?" webpage,
with the RSS Feed, with your regular blogging, and with your writing of fresh
content and new articles. If the information within these four methods are
"interlinked", then traffic will be shared and even multiplied by the
interlinkaging. Every visitor will soon discover that you not only have a
"What's New?" web page, but that you also have an RSS Feed, a regular source
of information from your blogs, and even more information with the fresh
content and new articles you publish regularly. The style and method of
interlinkaging depends on how you want to direct the traffic. If you want
the traffic to be directed to your web site, then your interlinkaging needs
to have your four methods be more knitted and more closely bonded together.
This can be done. It only involves studying the structure of your web site
and web pages. If the four methods are present as links in your domain
webpage, then that is one way of interlinkaging for traffic to remain longer
in your web site. There is another method. You can do the interlinkaging
also among the four methods themselves too. This for sure will increase the
traffic to your website and increase your traffic rank at the same time.

Dennis-Emmanuel Cabrera
January 2, 2005
[revised October 13, 2005]

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