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Use These Free Methods On How To Get Free Traffic To Your Website
Stop wasting your money on guaranteed visitors to your website. Use these free methods to get high quality targeted customers to your website.
Copyright (c) 2008 Matt Helphrey
Many people make the mistake of purchasing guaranteed visitors to their website. It’s not that the traffic does not get delivered because it usually does. The problem is that these visitors are not targeted visitors seeking the information that you have. Most, if not all the visitors were manipulated into visiting by pop ups or pop unders.
The chances of you getting any sign ups or sales are very slim with any guaranteed visitors programs. There are some ways however that you can get FREE targeted traffic to your website. Here’s a few pointers to make that happen.
The best way to get free traffic is through the search engines. This is the best type of targeted traffic you can get to your home based business. Think about it, they are searching for exactly what you are offering. You have to research your keywords and work hard at getting back links in order to receive this type of free traffic. Your website will rank higher for your keywords as you increase your back links.
The research and words you place strategically throughout your website is called SEO or search engine optimization. Do not underestimate how important this step is to making money online. Your website will rank on page one of the search engines for your particular keywords if you do this correctly.
Search for keywords that are getting searched on a regular basis and that are not too competitive to get free traffic to your website. Once you have found the words you would like to use, you’ll want to place those words in your page head/title, meta tags, and throughout the web page. You’re looking for a keyword density of 1-3% or higher.
You’ll want to start getting back links to your website once it is SEO’d properly. Do this by writing and submitting articles, posting in forums, submitting your website to directories and link exchanges, and leaving comments on blog posts.
The search engines will look at the number of back links you have and rank you accordingly. The sites that have more back links will rank higher and are considered authority sites.
So in order to increase your back links to get the high quality free traffic to your website, you need to work at it every day. Make a “to do list with chores or tasks you should accomplish on a daily basis. This will help keep yourself focused and to stay on track. To ensure your website receives free traffic rather than your competitors, you will need to work on it everyday.