SEO and Marketing a website - The Online Money Test

SEO & Marketing - Increasing website traffic

Probably the hardest part of running a website is not the design or the creation of content, but getting people to visit your content once it has been created. This site is a test of how easy it is to make money from an information website and I know that in order to do be successful, traffic is essential. To make money from a website, you need to get people to visit it.

Unfortuantely it's not always as easy as sitting back and waiting for people to visit. Most people will find a website by typing a related term in a search engine. The trouble is, with over 180 million websites out there, you have to really make your site stand out to get any visits at all. This doesn't mean to say that getting traffic to your site is impossible. The popularity and complexity of major search engines like Google has lead to the creation of a whole new science known as Search Engine Optimisation.

As well as using basic SEO techniques, there are many other ways to market your website such as the use of social networks, writing articles and running advertising programs. This section of the site aims to give advice on getting visitors to come to your site and looks at SEO techniques and many other ways of marketing a website. Use the links to the left to read more.