Question...

[Gydian]

What are some good methods of gaining more traffic? I have 2 meetings next week regarding radio advertising, but aside from spending large sums of money on things like that, where are some good places to advertise that bring in a large enough amount of traffic that makes the money spent worth it? I've found maybe 2 or 3 decent advertising places out of the 40 or so I've used.

So yeah, what are your techniques for bringing in the most visitors for your money?

Also, How many sites have to be linked to you in order for you to obtain a damn PR? I still haven't been able to get a PR on any of my sites and it's evil. >.<

 

[geesh]

I haven't followed up on PR lately, but I have noticed that Google's PR hasn't updated for a long time. I have sites that were created in June, that have been regularly indexed by google for the last 3 months, and yet they don't have PR. They are linked to, from atleast 6 other websites, which all have PR in the ranges of PR2-PR6.

 

[Gydian]

I know the feeling...I'm linked on well over 70 sites, most of which have PR 3 or higher and I still have no freaking PR..

 

[Ethan]

I have some PR, but I know that my links have increased and my PR hasn't. It still is spidering my site though. Stupid Google.

There are many good promotional areas in your local area and on the web. If you want to go local you can use print advertising in newspaper, radion, flyers, buisness cards, free give aways, etc. Physcial things to give people to promote your site.

You can also try web advertising which works or doesn't. I suggest to find a cheap advertiser with okay traffic and a theme related to your site. If your site is about Fishing you shouldn't have it on a site about Literature. The themes don't fit. People reading about famous Literature aren't going to always be apt to go read about Fishing.

You also should define your market. Who do you want to visit your site, aimless hits aren't good. What you want are people who will come back over and over.

So try getting relevant advertising, maybe you could try AdWords.

 

[Gydian]

Yeah...I've kept most of my ad campaigns targetted to the gaming genre and although there are some visitors, I'm just not getting the returns.

As for AdWords, I've found they're pretty useless and more or less a waste of money for a site like the one I'm running. I'm trying radio advertising now though, so hopefully that works out. Maybe I'll try writing something up and tossing it in the paper, or making up a flyer and passing them around the city.

Thanks for the thoughts.

 

[Ethan]

What is your URL? I can add you to my interesting links archive. I'm trying to build it up and you may get a little traffic (i'm not a gaming site, but I have a lot of gamer columnist).

 

[Gydian]

http://www.directoryofgames.com

Thanks.

 

[Sabre]

ive been getting increased visitors to my sites but no PR????

 

[Ethan]

That's because visitors have nothing to do with PR, it is backlinks to your website.

 

[johnny6]

That's because visitors have nothing to do with PR, it is backlinks to your website.

Which is kind of silly when you get right down to it.

 

[Gydian]

I'd have to agree...it is silly. If you've got a large amount of visitors(we'll use 40,000/day) but a PR of 0-2 then something is obviously wrong. PR should be based on both, not just one.

 

[Sabre]

definately yup!!!

 

[The Equivocate]

Well you also have to figure, if you have a lot of backlinks, that's going to attribute to higher traffic. And I guess Google bases it off backlinks because thats what Google thrives on - spidering the links. If everyone got to your site via type-ins (like from a radio ad or flyer), how would Google index that? They'd rather "reward" you for helping to improve their index as much as possible by having the most extended links.