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Of ultimate import to your success online is your page's rank and the level of traffic surfing to your site. Traffic is defined as the number of people visiting your site per unit time. The key is to convert that traffic into dollars through sales. Successful business therefore cannot be without the traffic to bring the money to the site.

These are 5 traffic building tips for you:

Give your visitors a reason to return. It's always easier to retain a previous reader than to attract the attention of people who've never visited your site before. To encourage them to repeat their visits, let them add their e-mail addresses to an update or newsletter list. Incorporating RSS feeds for your websites is another method of keeping readers constantly updated.

Submit your website to DMOZ and Yahoo. The first one is a directory while the other is a search engine and directory. Regardless of the distinction, both of them feed results to other smaller directories and meta search engines. Getting indexed in DMOZ and Yahoo means getting traffic not only from their websites but also from other ones that are associated with them.

Excellent websites start with excellent content. You should post articles that are attention grabbers. The articles should be attention-getters. Readers who are interested in your content will link to your site. They will return again and again wanting to see what is new.

You can use featured listings on directories and other websites to place links to your website in a highly conspicuous area. Most of these featured listings require you to meet certain conditions so make sure you read their terms of agreement.

Another little known way to increase traffic to your website is to comment on other people's online blogs. If you leave an interesting comment and your signature includes the url of your website, people will want to visit your site to see what else you have to say.

You can get a free copy of our latest ebook by clicking here: The 7 Keys To Business Marketing Success. Sean Milea writes about Business Marketing at http://www.BizRave.com