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The first step that you must take, is defining the main goal of your site, because without goals, your site will be unable to have success. You must define first what you expect from your site.

If stimulate some kind of action is what you want from your site, whether it is filling of forms by visitors so they can access to a service that you provide on your site, or the purchase of a product, there is a process that you must follow to ensure your site will be working at its highest performance. Finding the number of guests on a period of time will give you a clear idea of how well your site is doing. You can choose for make this measurement, a month in which you haven’t been doing anything new to promote the site.
Nonetheless, even that you may have a lot of visitors in your site, it does not necessary means your site is already successful, because maybe, as usual, you are expecting some action from this visitors on your site. For instance, if you are selling a product, is very important to check the number of people who has passed for site and made a purchase. This is a figure known as a conversion rate, which essential for the effectiveness of your site.

If you want to find this rate, take the monthly percentage of visitors that actually performed the action that the site is meant for, from the total number of visitors. For instance, of a total of 2000 visits to your site, if only 30 of them made a purchase, then your site will have a rate of 1.5%. To obtain this result, you take the number of actually buyers of your site, multiply it by 100, and then divide the result by the total number of visitors.

You must understand the fact that the number of visitors, who had filled a form on your site, won’t give you the rate of actually buyers on your site, because not all of the people who fill a form on your site will become a costumer. Nonetheless, the rate will give you an indicator of the success of your site whenever you make changes on it.

You may have the need of implementing some additional strategies of marketing, if the traffic to your site is very low. You will find many effective techniques to improve the traffic flow to your site, particularly if you engage on search engine optimization for your site. This is a technique targeted at improving your site position in search engine results so it can be found more easily and quickly by visitors, by optimizing the content of your site.

No matter which are the means you use for this purpose, after you have improved your position on the search engine results, you must make a regular monitoring and adjusting of your efforts, so you can keep the highest positions.

Another factor that you must consider, is the usability of your site, it means if your site is easy to use and understandable for the visitor. For instance, if the goal of your site is have a form filled, you must check if this form is easily understandable, or if the user has to go through numerous levels to get to it, because, if filling this form becomes too difficult, the user will just move to another site, and remember, the goal is keep this visitor interested on your site. The right decisions and actions will make your site successful.