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How To Quickly Get Free Traffic To Your Website

September 10th, 2009 Brian Armstrong No comments

Getting traffic to your website is a major key to getting sales and making money. You can either pay for traffic with time or you pay with money and many times it is both. Even with pay-per-click, you will usually spend a significant amount of time in addition to a cost for each click to get targeted traffic to your website. The following are a few ways that you can get free traffic. Some of these are going to produce more targeted traffic than others, but each of these methods can get traffic to your website.

Now, blogging can be like any other website that alone isn’t going to get any traffic. However, depending on which blogging platform you use, you’ll have an instant leveraged website or web platform you can use to get traffic assuming you use the right keywords in the right places on those blog posts. For instance, Blogger.com and Wordpress.com tend to rank relatively well with the search engines, especially with Google.

There are several social bookmarking sites, such as Digg.com and Del.icio.us and other sites like this. You can “bookmark” your own blog posts and other pages to help them get ranked in the search engines. Often times these social bookmarking “tag” pages will get ranked as well. Although this isn’t a direct link, these pages can serve as bridge pages with links back to your site and these pages rank also rank very well with the search engines.

Some other sites that can help you get traffic and rank well on their own are sites like Hubpages.com and Squidoo.com. If you have done your keyword research and know what keywords are getting searched for, you’ll have an easy time finding keywords that are getting searched, but have very little competition. Using these keywords in the title of your Squidoo “Lens” or your Hubpages “Hub”. Using the keywords in both your title and again throughout the page you create then doing some additional social bookmarking links back to your “Lens” or “Hub” and watch it get ranked in the search engines.

Articles are an excellent way to get high quality links back to your website which will generate visitors as well as search engine benefits. The search engines reward relevant links and articles represent the most relevant pages simply because you are in charge of the content of every article. So, if you’re trying to get your site ranked for a specific keyword phrase, you can create articles on these topics and use the resource box or author profile to link back to your website using keywords for which you’re trying to get ranked.

Posting on forums is another great way to generate links back to you site. Find forums within your niche and start contributing to the conversations. Make sure that you’re posting on forums that allow you to add a signature with a link. Also, whenever possible, view the source on forums and see if they add a “nofollow” attrib within the link code. If they do, that forum won’t do much for your search engine optimization, but will work for getting clicks back to your website.

There are a lot of blogs that you can add your comment to. These comments can be used for the search engine benefit by using your keyword phrase as the link back to your site. If the blog is a “popular” blog where many people add comments, the webmaster or blog owner may have a setting that prevent the search engine from giving credit for that link. In those cases, you can use the more popular blogs to link back to your site and simply get some clicks back to your site. This puts some of the pressure on to write comments that encourage the clicks.

These are some great ways to get free traffic but each of these requires an investment of time. If you’re willing to put in a consistent, dedicated amount of time each day or a few times per week. Consistency is a key part of success when it comes to getting traffic to your website.

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How To Get Online Advertising For Free

September 7th, 2009 Brian Armstrong No comments

Businesses can take advantage of the internet to get more sales and provide services. Never before has a tool like the internet been available to businesses. You can get more sales, get more customers and ultimately make more money. The following are just a few of the things you can do to get traffic to your website.

Article marketing is a great way to get traffic. I’m practicing what I’m preaching here by using articles to promote my own websites and services. There are a lot of benefits to using articles, not the least of which is that you’ll be able to brand yourself as an expert in your niche or field. This generates credibility and ultimately more sales for your products or services if you leverage this resource in the right way. I find that for every 100 people that view my article, about 7-8 of them will click through to my website that is linked at the bottom of each article.

Google has local listings as well that you can submit your business information to. The options to submit your site will include rankings for regionally specific keywords such as “Salt Lake City plumber” which will include your listing along with other plumbers in that same area. You may be surprised to find that if you’re listed as a local business elsewhere, your information may already be included. If not, you can always add it and also customize it to include a link to your website as well.

Google base is another method of generating leads and traffic to either your website or your retail store. Google base is basically like a big database of all kinds of things including products, events, and any number of other “listings”.

Craigslist and other online classified ad websites can help also with generating traffic to your business or your physical location. These classified ad websites can get some significant traffic and I’ve used them many times to both list items for sale as well as purchase services. Coupon codes work very well on these sites because people are more likely to visit a site knowing that they have some “secret” coupon code for a certain percent off, or free shipping, or a flat dollar off coupon.

If you’ve heard of Facebook or MySpace, then you’ve heard of social networking websites. As much as most of these sites are meant to keep people in touch and connected, these can also be leveraged as means of networking with other business owners or customers that may also be able to get value from your products and services.

Part of social networking is blogging and one of the central ideas around blogging is to initiate a “conversation” which is why blogs have commenting options. Individuals can comment on blogs and usually with a link back to their own website. Finding blogs related to the topics where your business can be promoted is as easy as searching for them on the search engines. In fact, Google has their own blog search engine at blogsearch.google.com

You can develop any number of different strategies for getting traffic back to your website. The most important part of any of these strategies is to be consistent.

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