Getting Free Traffic To Your Website
If you want to make money online, there’s no way around it: You need to get as much traffic to your website as possible.
Paying for traffic via online advertising is a good idea, but some people just can’t afford to shell out the money to do so.
In this case, you need to focus on getting free traffic by helping your site listed in the search engines and ranked for important keywords and terms.
Only by getting your site indexed and ranked will you be able to receive the free traffic you want.
The problem with free traffic, however, is that its not fast. Indeed, it can take a good amount of time for search engines to list your content within the first ten results.
Here are some tips you can use to help you get listed in the search engines for the free traffic you want…
Tip #1: Get Your Site Indexed
Getting you website indexed is relatively simple. You can go to Google, yahoo, and MSN directly and submit your site to their search engines, and eventually, their “spiders” will come, crawl your website, and list it in their search results. You probably won’t be ranked very high for any keyword terms just yet, but at least you’ll be in there.
Another way is to bookmark your website on a social bookmarking service, such as Del.icio.us or Digg. The easiest way to do this is create an account for yourself on one of these services and bookmark your own website.
These websites help rank online news stories and web pages based on user votes, which the search engines place a lot of importance on, so the sites listed in these services get crawled very rapidly. If you bookmark your own website, it can be indexed in all three major search engines in three days time.
Tip #2: Create A Sitemap
Creating a webpage that lists all the pages on your site in a way that’s easy for the search engines to see everything you have to offer is a great way to get your pages ranked. These pages are called Sitemaps.
Google has their own standard for sitemaps, so if you can create a google-compliant sitemap, you can be sure to optimize your chances that every single page on your site winds up being listed in the Google Search Engine.
Tip #3: Optimize Your Pages For Specific Keywords
The more you can gear specific webpages on your site towards certain keyword terms, the more likely you’ll be able to get them to rank for those terms.
To do this, you must make your page title, meta description, meta keywords list, and body content geared towards the keyword you want to be ranked for.
The key here is not to load each one of these factors with the keyword you’re targeting, rather, to use related keywords and themes so as to prove to the search engines that your page is relevant to someone who’s searching for the keyword you are targeting.
Tip #4: Submit Your Website To Directories
There are a great number of internet directories which try and catalouge websites out there, and submitting your website to be listed in as many of them as you can will be beneficial to getting free traffic.
Not all of these directories will send you traffic directly, but they will add weight and authority through backlinks to your website, which Google and Yahoo will definitely notice.
Tip #5: Get Backlinks To Your Website
Search engines place a heavy importance on links directed at your website from other websites. The more websites you can get linking back to you, the more important the search engines assume your website is.
If you can get other websites linking back to you using specific keywords in the link text, the search engines will assume your site is relevant for those keyword terms and rank you higher in their results listings for those terms.
You can do this by offering to exchange links with other website owners, submitting your site to link directories, participating in blog and forum discussions, and submitting articles to related websites.
Just remember that free traffic is all about being ranked in the search engine results listings. The more pages you can get listed in the top 10 results, the more free traffic you’ll get.
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I think by far the best backlinking technique is to build link wheels, by hand, and string them together yourself, all these automated software programs leave too many footprints, my two cents anyways
Lately I have been doing a lot of directory submissions to build up my backlinks. I write an article and then submit it to the following sites for approval: 1. Ezinearticles.com (constanly crawled by google) 2. Goarticles.com (huge site, lots of traffic) 3. Rysite.com (tweets articles + quick indexing) 4. Articlealley.com (easy to submit to) 5. buzzle.com (has a high PR and is very popular) By submitting articles to those sites, i have recieved a lot of traffic. Especially from rysite.com because i get traffic not only from my article, but they tweet it to a following based on your keyword and as a result I get traffic from twitter as well. Hope that helps!