Sites like Yahoo and GeoCities have become giants on Internet because of their "stickiness."

What makes a site sticky? There are many features you can add to your website to make it sticky. Below I have listed several of proven ones.

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When deciding how to make your visitors return again and again, think of what would make you want to return to a site like yours. You may come up with something that's very new and unique.

To create a Crawler Page in Internet Explorer: 1. Choose Favourites > Organise Favourite A dialog box appears. 2. CLICK on Create Folder and give your folder a name e.g. "Site Crawler Page" 3. CLOSE dialog box. 4. Go to pages on your site that you want to be sure site engine finds. 5. Choose Favourites > Add to Favourites A dialog box appears. 6. Click on Create in<< and choose your crawler folder e.g. "Site Crawler Page". 7. Click OK. 8. When you have finished adding all pages you want, choose File >Import and Export. 9. An Import/Export Wizard will appear. Use it to create an HTML file of your crawler page favourites folder. 10. Upload page to your server and submit it to search engines you want to be listed on.

You might want to register your site with a search engine that specialises in your particular topic. Yahoo has a very complete list of specific category search engines. Wordtracker is a powerful free service that can help you find out which keywords will skyrocket your traffic and boost your ranking in search engines. Visit http://www.wordtracker.com/ for more information on Wordtracker.

METHOD 3: Place Links in Related Web Sites

Persuading other related sites in your industry to link to YOU is another effective way of directing highly targeted traffic to your web site. Many marketing gurus will agree that it is carries same effect as a personal recommendation. A link from another highly respected source creates your credibility even BEFORE visitor reaches your web site, hence increasing their potential to become your customer!

Make sure you do your RESEARCH and when you have found web sites that deal directly with your target market, don't forget to record down contact information for web site owners. When you contact them, show them how your web site will benefit THEM and THEIR visitors. Don't talk about how you will benefit and how fantastic your web site is. Explain WHAT'S IN IT FOR THEM!

So there you go! 3 simple ways to get that targeted traffic to your web site! You already have killer web site and product/ service that people want AND you can get targeted TRAFFIC to your web site and covert your visitors to paying customers!

Now you can start growing your own opt-in email list and advance to affiliate programs!