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12 August 2009

Do You Still Get Free Website Traffic These Days?

World Class Traffic JamImage by joiseyshowaa via Flickr

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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10 May 2009

How To Locate People On The Internet

borange, facebook, and google walk into a well...Image by wellohorld via Flickr

by Dana Goldberg

Ever wondered what happened to that old crush you had in high school? Trying to locate that guy who still owes you $10 in lunch money? Looking to hook up with the people who used to mean something in your life, or you've lost touch with? Here's a few methods describing how to find people for free, just a little effort on your part.

These days one of the best places to find people online for free is by searching one of the big social networking sites such as Myspace, Facebook or Friendster. In case you are trying to find a former co-worker have a look at Linkedin.

How should you start searching on the big social networking sites? You will find a search box on every site. So all you need to do is enter the person's name and click search. You will get results within some seconds. Please keep in mind that if you are looking for a woman,she might be married and changed her last name. You could also try searching only using the firstname. However, if you are looking only for "Susan", then this might take months to find the Susan you are looking for.

The second method that works great on huge social networking site is creating an acount yourself. It's free, so you can join as many social networking sites as you wish. Put your whole name up there and add as much information as you can: where you went to school, where you lived, where you worked. It is a good idea to upload a photo.

If the social networking sites did not give you any results you might want to try a straight Google search. Go to Google, type the name of the person you are searching for into the searhc box and wait for the results. In case your lost friend or relative has a very common name, it is advised to include hometown or high school name in your search. Very often this will bring up class reunion results. Class reunion results are a great way to find old school mates.

The last method is checking phone listing sites, like whitepages.com. This can be best if you know first and last name as well as the city they're located in, but there will be little detail to go on to verify that you've got the right person. But it could give you clues to help you track the person down.

What is the reason why you should stay away from dating sites? There are three reasons: first of all there are thousands of dating sites out there. So chances that you will find your friend are low. Second: most dating sites charge a fee if you want to view profiles or contact someone. And third: most people use pseudonyms. This is why it will be hard to find someone.

In case the methods described in this article to find people online for free did not give you results, I highly recommend joining a People Search service. These services cost around $20, however, you will get comprehensive results with some mouse clicks. Reports will include phone, address, previous addresses, marital status, criminal history and a lot more.

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On my site you will get access to a list of the best free and paid people search engines. Go to Free People Search Engines


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