I met Bret about six months ago and was impressed with his drive and energy. He has been a member of my Catapult marketing group and has started his own web design company. It is a mutual fan club.
Judi Knight is a great to work with and her New Tricks team are definitely on top of their game. Judi and New Tricks are dedicated to overall customer satisfaction, but more importantly, doing things that actually work. So many times Web Development companies try to shove off some basic package on you the way ‘they’ think it should be done. Instead, New Tricks takes the time to listen to their clients and guide them in a direction that will ultimately help them reach their goals.
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is the process of improving the volume and quality of traffic to your web site from search engines. By doing the following steps you can greatly improve your website’s search results and hopefully increase the traffic to your site.
Add keywords and a description to your site. If you are using WordPress, check out plugins such as All in One SEO and HeadSpace2
Get people to link to your site through social networks and sites such as youtube, etc.
Invite subscribers and update them
Sites with at least ten subscribers tend to do much better than sites without. To get and maintain members and a
Add subscribe feature visibly on your site
Send Invitations to your e-mail list
Encourage readers to subscribe in your posts or offer something of value to potential subscribers
Use your social networks
There are always new social networking sites that pop up on the web and by now most of you probably belong to one if not several of them. These sites are a great way to promote your Webs site to friends and people with similar interests. Below are just a few suggestions on how to use these sites to generate more traffic.
I am the Co-organizer of the Atlanta WordPress User's Group Meetup. We meet once a month and try to have a little something for people at all levels. Check it out!