You’ve built your website, and you’re getting no visitors. So how do you increase website traffic?

Keep reading to find out the tips and tricks of traffic.

Okay, here’s the deal; to increase traffic your website needs to be ranked high in the search engines. Which translates to, it needs to be search engine optimized (SEO). The main way to increase your site's authority is building back links.

What are "back links?" Backlinks are links that link back to your site. The higher the page ranking of the site that contains your link, the more important that link is. For websites to rank high in the search engines they need a lot of back links to their site.

There are a few ways you can establish this goal. Let’s look at the different ways to increase website traffic:

Your website should be filled with content rich keywords. Before building your website you should plan what your target key words are. What words would people put into the search engine to find your site?

Example: You have a pet store and you want to break into the online world. Your main words would be cat, dog, puppy, dog food, dog toys, fish, birds.

To find your site, a customer would go to a search engine and type one of those words. Your goal is to have your site be one of the top listings for that keyword. Okay back to back-links. When you are ready to start, go to any search engine and type'free submit url'. You will get thousands of sites that you can start submitting your URL link too.

Submitting to directories is another way to get backlinks. Make sure you pick the closest category to your website and look for directories in your niche.

Some people pay companies to do this process since it’s time-consuming, but I’m not convinced it’s effective.

The other thing you can do to increase website traffic is write articles. There are many places on the web like; articlebase, articleclick and ezine articles.

Articles are effective because the databases usually have high page rankings, and are great link backs. Plus, if your website isn't listed in the top results in the search engine, chances are the article is.

Remember the more important the site, the better the link back. Important sites, have been around for awhile, are popular, and have lots of traffic. Some examples are google, workopolis, and craiglist.