by Robert Mead

Created on: May 10, 2007   Last Updated: May 18, 2007

Top Ten FREE Ways to Generate Great Content and Bring All the Traffic You Can Handle to Your Website

Forget Everything Your Heard About Links, Ad Clicks, Etc., Bring the HUMAN Element to Your Web Site Content and You Will Succeed

So you're a fairly new website owner who is scratching his/her head wondering why you're only getting 50 to 100 web visitors per day to your site. You've tried what all the "web gurus" out there told you to do: Link up with like-minded sites! Put an ad for your site on another similar site and you will get hundreds of click-throughs every day!Somehow it's just not working. Let's say you are getting 75 visitors per day for your site, but only about 10% of those visitors come back for another visit. Having those seven or eight returning visitors finding new content that is refreshed on a regular basis with dramatic and relevant content would go a long way in making sure they bookmark your site permanently. Putting in content that returns real humanistic value to the web surfer to your site would ensure that he/she would tell all their friends about your site, thus starting a huge word-of-mouth buzz around the Internet. Let's examine ALL the ways to bring this more human element to your site.

1. Write content for your site that appeals to all web visitors, not just the ones you are targeting. Try bringing in content to your blog writings or site content that focuses on solving problems for everybody, not just people who love video games, if that's what your site is all about. Even video game lovers go outside once in a while, so why not have content that appeals to their need to find bargains on used cars, computer equipment, bedroom furniture, or anything else that people always seem to have a need for. Also, general news updates about topics such as entertainment and politics always keeps people coming back. You will see a dramatic increase in web clicks after you expand your content parameters to cover the entire "mainstream public", not just the ones you designed your site to attract.
2. Treat your visitors like they are your best friend. Everybody likes to feel special, and the people that just happen to stumble onto your site are no different. Even though they had no real interest in your site before, if you have content that caters to everybody's basic human needs, they will come back for more. As the site owner, you need to open up to your visitors and tell them about who you are and why you started the site. Give them a personal

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