I need more traffic to my website. Any ideas?

[Gonad the Barbarian]

Two words: BOO BIES. And a hot deals forum.

 

[SagaLore]

Originally posted by: Gonad the Barbarian
Two words: BOO BIES. And a hot deals forum.

So instead of bass-and-ass.com, we should rename our selft to tubes-and-boobs.com.

I think I'm giong to have to show you guys the fishing while naked site, but if I happen to find it, am I allowed to link it here or will I get in trouble?

 

[Amused]

Is there a market for fish porn?

 

[eakers]

PUT PICS OF ME ON IT

EDIT: NO FISH SMELL JOKES FROM THE GALLERY.

 

[kami]

Yeah, need a member section. You wonder why people don't come back when all it is is product info?!?!

 

[SagaLore]

Originally posted by: eakers
PUT PICS OF ME ON IT

EDIT: NO FISH SMELL JOKES FROM THE GALLERY.

Yes we should have you on the front page, biting into a nice juicy red tomatoe

 

[Parrotheader]

You probably shouldn't have rushed ahead and submitted your site to the Open Directory so quickly. Too late now though I guess. I do search engine optimization as one of the major components of my job and even the seemingly simple process of submitting your site to a directory is a fine art if you want to get the most bang of it.

Read up on those links previously posted (searchenginewatch.com and searchengineforums.com) although I must warn you that there's a lot of overview info and even then it's not as easy as it first sounds. Most people just assume you slap a few meta tags on your site and submit your site and you'll be fine. That hardly ever works any more. There's SO many sites out there these days it's becoming increasingly harder for sites to be found via traditional search engine optimization. And with Google's heavy dependence upon link popularity (a factor many search engines are increasingly giving weight to in their ranking algorithms), it's harder for smaller sites to be found as they don't have the link networks established that biggers sites have. A quick glance at your site shows it has a decent amount of links pointing at it though for something on this level. The best advice for a quick fix would be to rework your title tags and beef up your content to have some depth of content that will seem attractive to search engine spiders. And if you can afford it, you might also want to look at submitting your site to Yahoo's directory (make sure you use those reference sources above though to make sure you do it right.) Yahoo is still the king in generating search traffic.

You might also want to look at pay-per-click services like Overture and Google AdWords. These services have phenomenal reach and if setup and managed effectively can offer amazing traffic potential. They offer phenomenal click rates in comparison to anything other than a top 10 ranking in a search engine.

 

[SagaLore]

Originally posted by: kami
Yeah, need a member section. You wonder why people don't come back when all it is is product info?!?!

Awhile back I posted about needing forum code for the site... I want to open up a discussion group, which will be in the member's section. So far my plans are to setup a generic front-page discussion forum. But I've used that before on another site, but it has no functionality at all... very static... you wouldn't happen to know where I can get ahold of a free forum package? Something Javascript based? We just can't afford to buy one so it's not going to be the greatest, I know...

 

[SagaLore]

Originally posted by: Parrotheader
You probably shouldn't have rushed ahead and submitted your site to the Open Directory so quickly. Too late now though I guess. I do search engine optimization as one of the major components of my job and even the seemingly simple process of submitting your site to a directory is a fine art if you want to get the most bang of it.

Read up on those links previously posted (searchenginewatch.com and searchengineforums.com) although I must warn you that there's a lot of overview info and even then it's not as easy as it first sounds. Most people just assume you slap a few meta tags on your site and submit your site and you'll be fine. That hardly ever works any more. There's SO many sites out there these days it's becoming increasingly harder for sites to be found via traditional search engine optimization. And with Google's heavy dependence upon link popularity (a factor many search engines are increasingly giving weight to in their ranking algorithms), it's harder for smaller sites to be found as they don't have the link networks established that biggers sites have. A quick glance at your site shows it has a decent amount of links pointing at it though for something on this level. The best advice for a quick fix would be to rework your title tags and beef up your content to have some depth of content that will seem attractive to search engine spiders. And if you can afford it, you might also want to look at submitting your site to Yahoo's directory (make sure you use those reference sources above though to make sure you do it right.) Yahoo is still the king in generating search traffic.

You might also want to look at pay-per-click services like Overture and Google AdWords. These services have phenomenal reach and if setup and managed effectively can offer amazing traffic potential. They offer phenomenal click rates in comparison to anything other than a top 10 ranking in a search engine.

Thanks for the advice! Before I dive into too much traffic, I want to get the member's section up and rework the content on the site so when we do see an increase in visitors, they'll have something they want to come back to. Where did you find out how many links were pointing to the site?

 

[Sophia]

Where did you find out how many links were pointing to the site?

For Google, search for: link:www.hawgbuster.com
I have read the Google only reports about half of the inbound links to a site, however the ones it does show have a PageRank 4 or higher. I can't really confirm if that's true or not.

 

[GasX]

try establishing yourself as a resident expert on a fishing forum site. ...

low cost giveaways can work too - free lures etc...