As much important traffic is to your website or blog, it is equally important for you to track that traffic that is coming to your website.

How long your traffic stays on your website is an indication of how good and interesting you have made your website or your blog.

It is always good to check the number of visitors coming to your site and how long they have stayed. How do you check this? You will check this by your log files. Most webhost do provide web statistic log in a form of either webalizer or awstats. I like and prefer to use awstats – just my personal preference.

This is done by your c-panel or a similar place depending on what your host has set up for you. Here you can view the different stats about your website.

They will show you:

* Monthly stats-how many visitors came to your site during one month. These will be divided into unique and general (repeat visitors).

* Weekly stats- how many visitors came in 1 week, again they will be divided into unique and general

* Daily stats

* Hourly stats 9 (I don’t care much about hourly stats)

* Number of minutes your visitors stay at your site

* Where the traffic is coming from or referred from

* Which search engine is sending you the most number of traffic

* What search term or keyword your visitors used to find your website or blog (Very Useful)

Most visited pages: These let you know how many visitors have come to certain pages during 1 month. This is where it gets interesting, as you will be able to tell which pages are attracting the most visitors.

The amount of time visitors have spent on your website: This is a good estimate of the quality of your site. Obviously the longer your visitors stay the more chances there are of them buying.

Once you know which pages are attracting visitors you can then work on getting all your pages sticky and compel surfers to visit them.

Google also tracks how long visitors are spending at your site. Again it is a quality check as far as they are concerned. When Googlebots bring information back to the Database about a website being visited and people are staying longer, they can naturally assume the standard of that website is high.

High standard and quality means Google customers (your visitors) are being serviced well and that makes Google happy. This will earn you a higher Page Rank (What most people overlooked when trying to get a higher pagerank)

So we can naturally assume that the longer your visitors stay the better it is. Now how to encourage them to stay? Have you ever read a book that you just could not put down? Well you website must have that same effect on your visitors. They will not want to leave until they have devoured every word of your pre selling content. They should be in the mood to either sign up to be in your opt-in list and become your leads or go on to your sales page and buy your products or services.

Making them stay: Make your site an irresistible, sticky website that draws your visitor in and compels them to stay. Here are some things that I can think of:

* Interesting informative content or even videos.

* Stories and breaking news about your industry. Be the first or among the first to write a ground breaking news in your industry.

* Quizzes relating to your industry-the answers will be found on one of your important pages

* Good user friendly navigation

* Humorous jokes, quotes and stories related to your industry-these are often shared among friends and associates (viral marketing).

* Free tips and tricks always work well in getting your visitors to stay longer.

Use all the resources you have and write that good informative content to pre sell your visitors. Provide them good products and services and see your visitors convert to your loyal customers because you have made your website irresistible to them.

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After blogging for awhile, I found there are several things users can do to help generate quality traffic to their blogs from other websites and search engines. One of the most important things you can do is to create incoming links to your blogs through various Web 2.0 sites.

This is what I usually do. Organize all the various web 2.0 sites that you have signed up into a folder in your browser. As soon as I have a new post in my blog, I just need to make my way down to the list in the folder and create links to my post from each of the sites.

Below are the sites I often use in getting traffic to my blog.

1. Facebook.com – This is one of the best ways to get traffic to your blog. After creating an account, search for groups on your topic and join that group. You can join as many group and you can often add your link to the group page. The key is to not spam the group! Make sure you post quality, relevant comments that add to the group. Remember that both your name and your blog are at stake. You don’t want to get chastised for posting spam comments with links to your blog. This will really look bad for your blog and is a BIG NO-NO.

2. MySpace.com – MySpace is another popular way to gain traffic and links. Post a link to your blogs in your intro or any of the other About Me modules. Start a blog through MySpace and leave reviews of your blogs as you create them. Again, the key here is to add quality content and only then other viewers will take action by visiting your blog.

3. YouTube.com – It is so easy to make a video and post it on YouTube. Sign up, add your video, and insert several keywords and keyword phrases to attract viewers from search engines and YouTube searches. Add a link to your blogs and give a call to action in the video’s description. YouTube is well loved by the search engines and a great way to pick up traffic.

4. Del.icio.us – Del.icio.us is a popular bookmarking service. WordPress makes using this site easy – there’s a Del.icio.us button on every blogs! Just put the relevant tags and submit it. Just in case you don’t have this buttons on your blog, you can download the plugin and install it. Download here. You can see example of it in my blog under all my post. It makes it so easy to add your links after you write a new post.

5. digg.com – On digg.com, people share what they feel is the best stuff on the Net. Again WordPress has a digg.com button on each blogs. You can download the plugin if you don’t have on your blog.You might generate a little bit of traffic through digg, but the trick to getting real long-term traffic, and links from blogs that pickup on digg, is by putting up plenty of quality links and news stories. You want to digg not only your own blogs. digg whatever you consider to be the best of what the web has to offer and others will soon follow you by digging and reading your posts.

6. Faves.com – Faves is a really easy way to pick up links, and it also offers a browser button. After publishing a blogs, just hit the Faves button and add it to my list. When you Fave your blogs, you can rate it, add tags and leave a review. Take note for WordPress users – If your blog is hosted by WordPress, for security reasons, you are not permitted to add JavaScript to your blog. This means that you cannot add the slick JavaScript version of “Fave It” to your blog. You can add the ‘fall-back’ version of “Fave It”, by hand, to each post, but you cannot pass the url and title parameters so the user experience is not good.

7. Entrecard.com – Entrecard is a must now if you want loads of traffic. It’s easy to use and it’s using a drop system where you will get credit to advertise on other blog. Open an account and start dropping.

8. Reddit.com – It is very easy to add your link, a quick review, and keywords with reddit.com. Submit a link to the mix for others to vote up or down and leave comments. This site is extremely easy to use and it only takes a moment to add a link. Remember to use good keywords when submitting your link, as this helps the right people find your blogs.

9. Stumbleupon.com – There is a Stumbleupon button on each blogs and you can also add Stumbleupon to your browser. Give a blogs a thumbs up or down, add keywords, and leave a comment. Stumbling your blogs can really bring in a decent amount of traffic if used effectively. You can get others to stumble your blog too. Do a stumble exchange in your group and you will see good flow of traffic to your blog. Again, if you don’t have the button on your blog, you can download the plugin and install it. It will be very useful and you will love it.

10. Zimbio.com – Zimbio is great! It is very easy to submit your blogs and add it to a related group. After creating an account, you have to browse for wikizine and join before you can post your articles for others to read.You can also use your RSS feed to put your blogs on autofeed – bonus!. Search engines like Zimbio, so you should be able to expect loads of traffic coming from zimbio.

There are of course other sites you can use to help build links and traffic for your blogses, but these are some of my favorites. You can use these to help your blogs to get indexed quicker, to gain traffic, and to become more search engine friendly.

Please remember that people hate spam as much as you do. So do not spam, and do not pester others. Instead, contribute with quality content. Be nice to others and leave comments and reviews of others work, as this will help to gain the trust and have others follow your work in return.

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Here are a few great ways to get repeat traffic to your blog or website.

1. Update the pages and content on your website frequently. Stagnant sites are dropped by some search engines. One way is to put a date counter on the page to show when it was last updated.

2. Allow customers to ‘opt in’ to get discounts and special offers. You can place a link on your site to invite customers to ‘opt in’ to get a monthly newsletter and updates or valuable coupons.

3. Add a ‘Book Mark or Add this site to your Favorites’ link to your primary page with a script

4. Add a link ‘Recommend this site to a Friend’ so that the visitor can email your website link, with a pre-written title, “Thought you might be interested in this”, just by clicking on it.

5. Make sure that each page on your website has appropriate titles and keywords so that your customer can find their way back to your site if they happen to lose the book mark.

Feel free to add more ways in the comment. It will be greatly appreciated.

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I have been doing some searching and analysing for awhile about all the big sites on the net, for example, myspace, youtube, facebook, and even those tops forums and article directories etc etc.

These are high traffic sites and we all know that. They receive hundreds of thousand and millions of hits everyday.

There’s some similarity in these kind of sites.

Number one, they are all web 2.0 site.

Number two  is that all the content in the site are uploaded by users. So the users are the one providing the contents for the site thus making it popular. The webmaster who owns the site can’t possibly be doing the contents all by themself. They need massive number of users uploadng contents into their site.

After realizing this pattern, this is where the big money is. It’s in making sites where users will be more than willing to upload contents into the site.

Go and find a niche where you will get users to upload content into the site. If it is popular, you can guarantee that it will generate massive traffic and the site will grow by itself.

Feel free to add to this finding about how can we make big money on the internet.

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