12 August 2009

Do You Still Get Free Website Traffic These Days?

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By Gill A Taylor

Have you heard of these superb yet economical ways to get free website traffic? When you want to get your website off the ground, try out these four simple strategies that will get free traffic to your newly constructed website. No worries about cost, because their all free, hooray! So let's cut some financial corners and look at the best four strategies.

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) robots are also popularly known as search engine spiders are creatures you want to befriend. And you know what, I know that Google loves us so don't make it hard for them to love us more. Lead these spiders to where they want to be and in return you will get free website traffic. SEO basically has 2 sides:

On site SEO: this is what the spiders see on YOUR site. Make sure you have all the right keywords and relevant keyword phrases on all the right places. I like to think of this as a pyramid, I start at the top and include EVERY brick all the way to the bottom. The page title is your highest point, then all the headings, main body text and finally the meta tags. And of course remember to include Alt tags for all your images too, search engines don't care for graphics all that much. If you feed the spiders with keywords you'll get free website traffic.

The second type is called off site SEO. It is a good thing if other people link to your site from their websites, and even better if they use your keywords in their links. It will help a lot in getting you ranked in the search engines. When you have many important sites with the same theme link to you with good anchor text lines you are on your way to get free website traffic on demand.

Social Marketing: Social marketing is a very effective way of creating followers for your website and getting people to remember you. Get people to follow or befriend you by first offering some quality info and advice. Once people know and trust you and get free website traffic by being the good guy and offering something on your website for free.

Try to give and be something unique to distinguish yourself from the crowd and be creative when you promote your own business branding. You should also update regularly. Your friends and followers want to keep updated so keep on posting new ideas and events on your Twitter, Friendster and MySpace accounts.

Forum marketing: It's a lot like social marketing, only forums are discussing exactly what you want to promote or sell. You should start off slow, become part of the community and offer some advice and ideas to people, not just spamming or blandly promoting your products, everybody hates that. Remember to get free website traffic you have to put a link in your digital signature and entice people with something valuable, entertaining or interesting to visit your site.

Article writing: I really like this one, and it works like a charm. Write high quality content articles and distribute it to the masses by submitting them to multiple article directories. You will get free website traffic from the backlinks in the article or in your resource box. Keep your articles highly targeted and get your audience to go to your site. Remember that your article will stay on the web, so do some keyword research, just like the SEO we discussed, and include it in your title and body text.

Go ahead and start to apply these four steps discussed when launching your website and see the difference in your bank account when you don't have to pay to get free website traffic! We'll talk more about certain things and discuss it in detail later. See you soon!

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