How to bring in more traffic to my website?

I have started a new website...It contains mainly free recipes and are available to print. I am trying to drive more traffic to my website so that I can make my rank higher?? Any suggestions??

You have to pay someone to optimize your site or sign up for something like PayForClicks, or put ads in magazines dealing with cooking, etc. Good luck.

You could film a cooking show style youtube video for one of your best recipies and include a link in the description to start you off.

For website traffic you do the social netowrking is the best way for traffic
social media optimzation is best.

Since you are running a business website, you have to pay a lot of attention to whether information is organized in your website in an interesting and accessible manner and whether the sufficient homework has been done which would ensure a large number of visitors and a good number of buyers.

1. The first step is to have great content! Your goal is to build traffic. Why would anyone even want to come to your website if there's nothing interesting there to see?

2. Your pages need to be built around specific keyword phrases that people use to find sites like yours. How do you know what keyword phrases people use to search? You have to use a tool like Word Tracker's free keyword tool, or Google's external keyword tool. What you really need is something like Word Tracker's paid keyword tool, but you're new to internet marketing, that can come later.

3. Another great "free" way to create traffic is to write articles (like the one you're reading) and put them on article directories. Readers see the articles and click through your links to your site. This is a great way to get qualified traffic!

You can do some link building process to get more traffic.

1. Forums and communities.
2. Links with other sites.
3. Social networking sites.
4. Submit articles.
5. Blog commenting
6. Directory Submissions.

Try this process you will get a good visitors to your website.

Here's a couple of quick ideas to help you drive more traffic to your site:


Start an email campaign or use twitter, RSS, facebook to promote recipe of the day/week

StumbleUpon.com - favorite your site or pay for clicks

Google AdWords ? pay for warm leads

Contests ? gift card or discount for random email signup, comments, etc

Write articles and pitch your site - EzineArticles.com, or attach a blog to your site

Exchange links with other similar sites to increase Google ranking

Ask questions - answers.yahoo.com, LinkedIn Answers, twitter

Print flyers with tear off links and put them up at local grocery stores

Link your site on all social networking profiles you own

Submit URL to search engines so it shows up in search