Traffic is one of those things needed for any website and or article to thrive and grow. Every website owner and web builder knows this. Traffic is like the lifeblood of online destinations and content. Without traffic, websites and online content get buried and forgotten. Often times not though, the biggest question is how to continuously build traffic that increases over time, like replenishing blood cells in the body, as opposed to seeing a lot of traffic and watch it falter, like a clogged passageway or artery failing and causing serious problems.

The following 3 tips that can be used to help traffic increase over time:

1. Focus on targeted traffic: This step requires you, the site owner, to understand what your customer or reader is looking for. This is obtained through the use of statistics, or Analytics, as it is often called. You then tailor your content around those words detected by Analytics that led them to you via search. There are many tools that are widely available, be it paid and or free, that help you get the correct words that are being searched.  This traffic can also be brought to your articles or products from targeted paid ads at locations such as on Facebook or Instagram as well. Your ads will tell the person seeking your items or services or just the information you are producing, and a link to that content is there for them to follow.
2. Focus on targeted content: You can have your articles about your service, or any other content for that matter, featured in social media sites, news sites, question and answer sites, and more. It does take time searching for the right fit for your content, but it is not an impossible task. Again, making sure what you put up matches to what others are looking for makes this a good way to increase traffic over time.
3. Paid Advertising links: When people think of paid advertising links, usually the first network that comes to mind is Google Adwords. Google Adwords have been around for a long time, and other alternative networks have come and gone as well. What makes these networks a positive traffic increase technique, is that you pay Google to use their own algorithm to create and or show your visitors targeted ads based on whatever you tell it to show, reducing the amount of logistics required on the website owner or builder’s end.

Many times, making money does indeed involve a risk of investing your money to get results; You may get some or you may not. A note to remember, is that there is always a margin of error. By fine tuning your traffic to what customers and readers want, you can see an increase in traffic that is continuous, and you can reduce your margin of error from slightly to considerately, and boost your profits as a result. Making sure you keep your ads geared to what your visitors want is highly advantageous as well.

Ultimately, it boils down to what you are most comfortable with. Boosting traffic is like a blood transfusion; Use the right blood type, and make sure you have a continuous but steady flow. You cannot have it too fast or too slow, otherwise the benefits are null.