Hello

I have started a site for online computer courses about 7 months ago.

Since then I have done everything I could to attract trafic to my site. I have written 2 ebooks that brought all of my trafic. Submitted to 500 sites manually and 3000 sites with addweb.

Finally I get 4-10 hits from search engines and 10 from download sites for my ebooks.

I am really tired with this 20-30 visitors per day.

Would anyone tell me whats the problem and how can I achieve trafic without paying.

Regards,
Mac
www.learnem.com

:bawling:

Do you have a listing on Yahoo!?

For a site like yours, I can see a lot of potential. One thing I'd suggest is to add a few more web-related courses (your HTML design course is a good one, but I'd also suggest adding "Programming in PHP", "Programming in ASP", "Marketting your Web Site", and others), and the partner with hosting companies to send you traffic.

When a customer comes to me and says "where can I learn such-and-such", I usually direct them to Amazon.com to search for books on the subject, or to SitePoint.com if it's a webmaster-related topic, and so on. But I don't get any revenue from doing this. If I had someone who was doing good-quality, economical courses (and of course I'd want to look at your courses before I decided - you should definitely give a free copy of all the course work to your web hosting partners), and would pay me a small amount for that referral, I'd be recommending them left and right.

Just a suggestion, but it might work out really well for everyone involved.

Of course, I'd have to evaluate the quality of your courses to make sure they're really suitable for recommendation, but if they were and you had a few more webmaster-focussed courses, I'd be interested in a partnership. I have no doubt there are other hosts on this board who would be as well.

Good luck,

Jason

Search engines is definately the key to huge and constant traffic. You could have submitted your website to search engines but have you target a keyword for it?

Not many people would goto altavista.com and search for "Free and Fee Based Online Courses" which your website scores top ranking.. get focus on a keyword and theme an entire webpage to optimise it for search engines ranking. A good and common keyword is something people will type it on the search box. not a long winded one "tell me the online course that's good and cheap bla bla bla..".. optimise each single page for a keyword (example; linux programming, linux programming course, etc..) and start sending them all to search engines.. I've notice most of your webpage have very long title, shrink it to maybe a few keywords, try "Free eBooks Download" instead of "Free ebooks for you and redistribution in your site".. also keep your meta description with the optimise keyword within, but atttractive enough for someone to click on it from search engine.

There's just too much to talk about, try reading some related articles, it definately worth your time, also the best advise i could give, Good Luck!

My site doesn't bring in mega traffic, but does get a decent amount.

If you want to write some small articals promoting your courses or ebooks, I'd be happy to put them on the site. Always looking for good content =]

email me =]

Hello again

I wanted to thank everyone. Advices were very useful.

I think I must increase quality of lessons and then I will contact people here again.

Regards,
Mac

If you know you have good products, then I think you should invest some money in your business.
Search on the sitepontforum or this forum and see if you can find any good designers and let them make an attractive site for you (it doesn`t cost you much), and also try to find someone who knows the searchengine deal and hire them to manipulate your site and they will probably guarantee a top 20 position in some keywords (some of them are on sitepoint.com).

I would also be interested in a referral deal when my biz is up again, but that is if you hire a designer to make you a good looking site.