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[hosting]

I have been working on my web site for a year now and it has a pagerank 6.
I optimized my site according to all the rules and I NEVER spam.
All the time I submit my web site to related resources or exchange links with other webmasters.

I only recieve visitors from google and yahoo !!!
Although I paid inktomi to get listed in MSN and im listed in Alltheweb, But I hardly recieve any visitors from MSN, Alltheweb, or other major search engines.
Honestly, I hardly get 100 targetted visitors a day.

What is it im forgeting or doing wrong ?
Is it time to start thinking about Paid Advertising (like google adwords) ?
Do I simply need to be patient and keep working on link popularity ?

Im sure that im not the only one here having this problem.
I would appreciate any hlp or advise about this.

Thanx all :tooth:

[rohgan03]

Add content and make your site truely useful and important.
Does a visitor after finding your site feel the NEED to come back to it?
Add useful content so they really do feel the need.

[Jbrookins]

I think the real questions may be:

"How much traffic are the keyterms I'm optimized for get per day?"
and
"How much traffic are my linked sites getting and where are the links to my site located?"

You may need to pay some for advertising on key sites or offer an affiliate program to encourage sites to push yours. Basically, with everything you're doing now, if it's not optimized in for where the traffic is, it's not doing you much good.

And what Rhogan said as he snuck in on me.

[Jill]

Depends on the site. Highrankings.com gets well over 1000 visitors a day without paying for ads.

I used to have a Parenting site back in the 90's that got over 1000 visitors a day without buying ads.

If you have lots of great information that people can't find elsewhere, you can certainly get that kind of traffic, but it's a whole lot of hard work. You have to live, eat and breath your site. (Or pay someone else who does!)

Jill

[SearchRank]

Like the others said, it depends on the site. If you have a good quality site that provides a useful resource, service or information related to a specific topic, it should be no problem getting plenty of traffic.

However, if you do not have a site that provides these things, even pay per click advertising may not neccessaily be the answer.

I own one site, an Arizona construction and home improvement portal, that can easily get 1000 plus visitors a day because it reaches out to so many different people. On the other hand, my web development site targeting web design services for Arizona, probably never gets over a 100 visitors a day. I don't need that many to the web design site because if just 100 people visit it a day and 1% of those turn into customers in a month's time, then that is 30 new clients which would be great for that business.

[excel30]

What topic is your site on?

I think thats the key to finding out if its possible for your particular site.

What are your search engine positions for keyword terms in google and yahoo?

If your already number 1 then maybe theres not much traffic out there for the topic of your website. If your not even top 10 then keep on working on this aspect.

Yahoo and google are the 2 main search engines, similar positions on smaller search engine MSN wont get you much traffic and they have more sponsored ads above listings so even less will come your way .

[qwerty]

Are we talking about 1000 visitors a day, or 1000 from search engines? One of my sites gets between 1000 and 1500 visitors a day, and generally under 250 of them come from the SEs. The rest are links and bookmarks.

[MakeMeTop]

The amount of traffic you get can absolutely depend on your target market. If you are selling Jumbo Jets you need only a couple of visitors a year to buy. If you are selling vacations all over the World - then you probably need quite a few sales a day to make a decent profit from commisions.

If you already getting 100 visitors a day, I would concentrate on working out why you are not getting 100 new customers a day. If you already doing that, then you should be able to work out how much profit you make from each visitor. That could allow you to work out a budget for Google Adwords or Overture PPC - if you want some instant traffic.

>MSN wont get you much traffic ...

Want to bet?

[Scottie]

I'm with Barry- why 1000 visitors? 100 purchasers would be a better metric. The site itself may need to be improved for more conversions, not more traffic.

[anthonyparsons.com]

Hosting,

definitely with the last two posts. I had a client recently who only sells their product in Sydney, ask why they did not receive hundreds of visitors a day? My response was they did not need them. Hundreds of people daily in Sydney or surrounding areas where not searching online for their product. But what I did ask was how many sales they where making. The answer to that was, "Our sales are great", thats why they wanted more visitors. They believed that because their online sales where so good, that more visitors would make more sales. As I pointed out to them, they have pretty much well exhausted everything relevant on the WWW to deliver relevant traffic for sales. They now needed to go to traditional local advertisement methods to build their business, not Online.

[Steve Sardell]

they have pretty much well exhausted everything relevant on the WWW to deliver traffic for sales. They now needed to go to traditional local advertisement methods to build their business, not Online.

Excellent point. Too many times we forget there are other ways to gain traffic. Some of the older traditional promos still work. For one site we run small newspaper ads in our audiences' markets, and they work. Each site should have a distinct promotional plan geared to its market and budget. SE traffic represents one but not all of your traffic generators.

[Randy]

I agree with all of the above. Without knowing the specifics my initial thought is that some time needs to be spent on identifying relevant keyword phrases.

Make sure you don't limit yourself to just the top few phrases. Those secondary phrases that bring less gross traffic can add up too. Plus I've found that they're normally more relevant to what searchers are looking for, so convert at a much higher ratio than more generic phrases. Not to mention that they're usually a lot easier to gain a top position for, everything else being equal.

[kohashi]

I managed to do this about 5 days ago, it only is temporary, but if you can get all the sites related to your website the post a link in a news type section you can get thousands of hits. You must do something really newsworthy though, essentially a PR stunt (whether intended or not). It is only temporary but the backlinks remain to help PR and you do get traffic from those links but it approaches zero over time.