Website Traffic - Free Website Traffic - Pleasing Your Visitors - Building Loyalty

The first thing you need to understand about being a webmaster is this. Your customers/visitors will make or break your Internet business. Please them well and they'll stay. Give them your best, and they'll return.

The way to traffic isn't just getting people to come to your website, it's getting them to stay and creating a need for them to come back. 

Building Traffic:
In order for them to stay your site must provide continued benefits. The best way to do this is by maintaining a quality newsletter. This allows you to provide updates and new information on a regular basis, giving them reasons to return continually as you update the information on your website as well.

Pleasing Your Visitors: 
Things that please your visitors are things that relate to their needs and not yours. You need to make money. However, that's not your first concern. Your first concern is creating an environment that pleases your targeted market, your visitors. In doing this, you'll get to your needs. Happy customers will help your website profit.

Building Loyalty:
This is the hardest thing to do and yet, it can be the easiest thing to accomplish. 

Be honest - Always give your honest reviews and observations; never allow greed to cloud your judgment.

Work hard - Providing quality takes a lot of work. Research will help you keep up to date with the latest trends and needs of your visitors. Don't be satisfied with simply copying what other people say or do. Learn what you need to know by digging for it. If you quote other webmasters, how do you know that their viewpoint, statistics and so forth are the right ones? People tend to trust others in authority. Do not abuse their trust by telling them things you personally have not research or experienced.

If I say, Yahoo! only covers 16% of the www in an article, I can tell you that I read it first in an article produced inside the Yahoo! magazine. If you quote someone, make sure you know their information has been researched and is reliable. 

I'm not saying you can't quote other webmasters. If I provide a statistic and I don't say where I snagged it from, ask me. I'll be happy to tell you. The same goes for any webmaster. Many of them provide wonderful information on the latest news and trends. If you'd like to know a bit more about what they say, ask. If they don't respond or tell you, they're either too fat headed and think they don't need to answer, or they're extremely busy or on vacation and you'll probably get an answer in a few days or so. A little patience will go along way.

Work hard, be honest, provide the best quality you can and you'll build traffic, return visits and customer loyalty.