So...You've Got a New Website

So.....you've just gotten your first website and Boy, It's Really Pretty! Got your name and phone number, some blinking logos, flashing banners, loaded with lots and lots of information......yeah, really pretty!! Hey, everyone knows the internet is where you've got to be. You're going to make money and there are millions of surfers every day on line......and after all, with a site as nice as yours, you'll be raking in the dough real soon.

You wait. A week goes by. You check your site once more - 14 hits on the counter - all yours (you check in twice every day to admire what a great site you have and see if anyone has stopped by). OK, OK, it takes time for your site to be listed in the search engines.....and when that happens.....whooh, look out traffic! After all, your site's really pretty and it's packed with information and features, features, features!

Two weeks go by. Then three. No difference. Your saddened, discouraged. This internet stuff is a crock you tell yourself. Welcome to the real world! What you have done up until now is akin to putting up a billboard in the middle of the forest. Given time, a hunter will stumble by, take a look, and continue the hunt - hardly a way to make money! I've spent time looking at quite a number of sites.

Most are woefully lacking in both traffic and ways to market their products or business to surfers who do happen to stumble by. If you want to make money with your website, this has to change. A mentor of mine says that one of the definitions of insanity is to keep doing what you've always done and expect to get different results. Yet that's what many, many website owners do every day. If you're going to "play in the big leagues", you've got to learn what works. I've found that you need to be an absolute fanatic about building your traffic. Without it nothing else matters.

In 5 months, I've taken my own website from zero traffic to average 38,000 hits per month. Am I satisfied with that? Absolutely NOT! I'm only 45.6% of the way to my FIRST goal of 83,333 hits/month or 1 million hits per year! Certainly reachable. Your site needs to have more than just features. It needs to have benefits! Visitors to my Global Wealthbuilder website immediately find lots to entice them back. They can place a Free Classified Ad, submit their URL to over 400 Free Link Sites, send Unlimited Free Postcards and Fortune Cookies (each of which carry my website information further into cyberland), use our Free Reminder Service, get a Free Updater Service to add to their own website, and on and on. You get the picture. All help build traffic. All help to bring the visitor back. All help to widen the traffic base and encourage visitors to sign up to receive my daily Wealthbuilder newsletter.

Over the past month, I've sent out hundreds of copies of my Free Report on How I've Built My Traffic. The report contains lots of tips that work. Unfortunately, like lots of things in life, few people actually implement the suggestions. Why? Because some of them require a small investment and most people are still living with a "give me something for nothing" mentality. Listen, sure you can post to a few Free Ad sites and newsgroups and that will help. But if you are serious about building your traffic and making money on the 'net, using all the freebies stuff in the world won't drive the kind of traffic to your site you need to make your site really profitable.

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On the 'net, TRAFFIC = PROFIT! It's that simple. Everything you can do to draw visitors to your site will pay dividends in spades. For a copy of my FREE REPORT on tips that work to build your website traffic, mailto:webmaster@globalwealthbuilder.com with "traffic" in the subject.