Here are 26 sure-fire ways to increase web traffic and site visitors to your website. Use some or all of them, and let us know which ones worked best for you.

1. Optimize your site (SEO).

Win on the search engines when people search for keyword phrases related to your products or services.

2. Get your site listed in directories.

Submit your site to all the major web directories. This will generate traffic directly from the directories themselves and will also help to improve your link popularity. That helps you win on Google!

3. Get listed in search engines.

Submit your site to all the major search engines.

4. Get links to your site.

Get people with complimentary sites to link to yours. You offer rental kayaks on the beach. Ask the local restaurant owners to link to you, and offer to link to them. Ask the local tour guides, the real estate agents, the night clubs, and everyone else. Links lead to clicks onto your website and help to improve your search engine rankings.

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This article is designed to introduce you to website promotion, getting visitors to come to your website. It gives you the basic information, which you can then explore through dozens of links to other resources, much of it entirely free. As one of our most popular articles, this was revised most recently on June 2, 2009.

How can you get more visitors to your website? What can you do to stimulate traffic? Here’s a checklist of 37  items you need to consider. Many of these may be doing already; others you meant to do and forgot about; still others you’ve never heard of. Of course, a great deal has been written about this. You’ll find links to thousands of articles about website promotion in our Web Marketing Today Research Room (www.wilsonweb.com/research/)

While I’m not breaking any new ground here, I’ve tried to summarize some of the most important techniques.

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