When a site gained much quality traffic, then it truly proves that it is getting famous compared to other sites of its kind. It is significant to assesss the statistics of the online visitors so that will be able to know what are the problems with your site and how to improve it. By improving your site to truly satisfy web visitors, more people will be encouraged to view it.
It is also necesary to safeguard you website from 'dangerous' beings and elements in the world wide web. Therefore, you must take care on how to control the traffic of your site.
Apply Restrictions, Limit the AccessThere are pages of the site that should be freely viewed by the visitors. Therein, you should show to them that they are free to do their stuff. However, their freedom should not be absolute. You must restrict access to certain sections of your site and only the authorized persons can view it.
For instance, if you offer downloads of music, videos or other files, you must require the visitor to register since it will be offered only to registered member. This is for security purposes only.
And if ever there are subscribers to your site, the visitors must be assigned their individual username and password to access restricted pages of your site. By this, only subscribers can enter therein.
Increasing Web Traffic
The gain purpose of your site is to be viewed and be famous. Restrictions on your site should not discourage your visitors to view your site. So, site administrators must find a way to increase traffic despite certain restrictions.
STRATEGIES OF GAINING POPULARITY WHILE CONTROLLING TRAFFIC
1. Place the site Yahoo! or Google or any popular search engines. You may buy advertisements. You can pay these search engines to provide a link for you and pay it only when certain people click on the links to your site.
2. Try hard to make the site appear on the first page. With this, more probability of gaining popularity.
3. Offer Free stuff to your visitors. So, aside from putting your site in those search engines, you can also boost the number of your visitros by offering free
e-books or articles. This can aid in building links to your site. You can send emails to similar sites to ask permission in linking their site.
4. Write to e-zines or article sites. There are sites which will not require a membership fee so that you can input your articles, so this is a good way to promote your site.
5. Paid Advertisement. You can implement e-marketing or advertising on popular sites. It can be any of the following:
a. Advertising in Banner form or banner advertising. It is actually sold in thousand known as Cost per Impression or CPM.
b. Pay per Clicks. Your advertiser will provide you with keywords or key phrases and then the visitors can only 'click' therein to access your page. You will only pay per click.
c. Pop-up ads or squeeze pages. Some are considering this us nuisance and would usually close it. But it can be good if you know how to make it appear to your potential visitor that your site is intruiging and worth visiting.
Online Bumper to Bumper TrafficIf there are too many visitors of your site, it can slow down the access sometimes others will not be able to access your site. The cause of this is too much request of file that the server can take care of. The site administrator must be ready to solve this problem for it might lessen the number of visitors.
Aside from that, there are also programs that can result to the closure of certain sites. For example, the DOS attacks or denial of server attacks. From the name itself, the program will attack your computer system thereby lossing all your site users. Viruses are also used in major cases of DOS attacks.
Definitely, 'too much of something is bad'. Why? There are sites that have to close because of sky-rocket increase of traffic. These are the ones run by individual charter the bandwidth from an ISP or hosting site.
It is of paramount importance that the site can handle the numbers of visitors. The Site Admin must always be ready and analytical to solve certain cases to maintain income and prevent closure.