Websites to please your visitors

This web site, www.davidharvey.biz is about creating web sites which get visitors for you. This makes my websites different from  98 percent of the other web sites out there, which small businesses pay for and then find their sites attract no traffic at all.

Having no visitors to your site means it doesn't bring you any prospective customers (prospects), and having no prospects means you're not bringing in new business.

So I'd argue that there's no real point to having a web site up on the internet unless it can attract it's own visitors. Some people like to call this free traffic, but there really is no such thing as free traffic any more than there's such a thing as a free lunch...

You see, you have to pay for traffic one way or the other, either by working at getting traffic yourself or by buying traffic from somebody else who's done the work already.

It's easy enough to buy traffic. You can open an account with Google and pay for traffic to be sent to your website... and the first visitors can be arriving at your website in less than one hour. This is called Pay Per Click or PPC traffic. It works well if you can buy your visitors cheaply and make enough sales income to turn a profit. But you have to know what you are doing. I've done it, and it works well for certain products. I can brief you about it and help you get set up if you wish.

Getting 'free' traffic is much harder, but it's great in the long run. You get the traffic by having sufficient unique and valuable information on your website that people start to use it in order to get that information from your web pages.

This means you need a website with dozens of pages of useful text information... maybe even more. It should be original, well-written information about what you or your business does, and how you do it. This helps establish you as an expert authority.

When you have set your site up right and gotten your pages indexed in the main search engines (Google, Yahoo and MSN), then these search engines will send visitors to you.

The visitors find what they're looking for, so they are happy.

The search engines have made their visitors happy, so the search engines are pleased with you and your website.

And with enough regular traffic to your web site, you can make money. It may only be a few cents per visitor, but with enough visitors that small percentage can become a significant income.