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How To Get More Website Traffic
Here I will explain how to get traffic to your website using free advertising sites and search engine optimization or "S.E.O." which just means the art of designing and promoting a website in a way that results in higher placement in the s.e.r.p.s. (Search engine results pages).
Read on and I will explain what I have learned so far, which will be updated as I discover more.
Free Advertising Sites
Free ways to get started
The old standard for free advertising site is the traffic exchange. Just a simple "you view my site and I view yours" it has long been criticized for the fact that you are advertising to other advertisers. But other advertisers are also like minded opportunity seekers and it is very possible to get results this way. However it is true that the vast majority of these free advertising sites are not very effective. This is mostly because there are not enough members in the site and there are several other factors. There are however a few great sites that have been online for a long time and are known for being very good sites. I have used them all for years and I can tell you that you will not find a better traffic exchange than EasyHits4U.
Screenshot on left taken on Saturday May 17th 2008
Screenshot on right taken on August 7th 2009.
Screenshot on left taken on Saturday May 17th 2008
Screenshot on right taken on August 7th 2009.
To join EH4U for free click here.
The Best Safelist
Safelists are just groups of people who enter into an agreement to receive email advertisements from each other with no fear of spam complaints.
I have used all of the major Safelists and by far the top two that get me the best results have been BusinessWorldList, and Hurculist. They are not the only good ones but I have had the best luck using them. You should use a Gmail account to set this up, and avoid using a Yahoo email or Hotmail because users report problems receiving emails from them.
I have used all of the major Safelists and by far the top two that get me the best results have been BusinessWorldList, and Hurculist. They are not the only good ones but I have had the best luck using them. You should use a Gmail account to set this up, and avoid using a Yahoo email or Hotmail because users report problems receiving emails from them.
Easy Way To Get Referrals
And It's Free!
Getref is like the traffic exchange except instead of trading "page views for page views" you trade signups. When you join a free program from the list, you earn credits to spend on getting others to join your free program. Most free programs online are listed here or you can suggest a free program to ad to the list.
So What is The Best Way To promote My Site?
free advertising sites? Email? or increased search traffic?
Anybody who has built a website online has discovered that traffic does'nt just pour in just because the site is online. Bringing web traffic to your site can appear impossible to a new up and coming webmaster. Basically he or she has three options to build the traffic. Use free advertising sites, spend a year creating natural search engine traffic, or the fastest way is to use an excellent email marketing system called Aweber. With the email option, you can build a responsive list and get good sales without all the hassle of learning S.E.O.
One can learn how to build the traffic themselves, but it takes time. Really it is not a question of doing one or the other, doing all of these is really the best way to ensure a successful web promotional campaign.
Many people do not know what S.E.O. is. We tend to fear the unknown
and think that only experts understand what to do but in reality learning S.E.O. is just not that hard. Read on as I attempt to explain more. :)
One can learn how to build the traffic themselves, but it takes time. Really it is not a question of doing one or the other, doing all of these is really the best way to ensure a successful web promotional campaign.
Many people do not know what S.E.O. is. We tend to fear the unknown
and think that only experts understand what to do but in reality learning S.E.O. is just not that hard. Read on as I attempt to explain more. :) How To Make Your HTML Code Google Friendly
some small but important things you can do
There are basically two types of website optimization. These are on-page optimization and off-page optimization.First lets talk about on-page optimization, meaning things we can do to your websites code that can affect your pagerank.
The first tip is to place the main keyword of you website in H1 tags and place that at the top of the front page of your website as the header. This tag tells Google what your site is all about and if all other factors are equal between two websites, the one that uses H1 header tags usually wins and goes on top.
If you had a site about advertising resources
the code example could look like this:
<H1>Best Free Advertising</H1>
The H1 tag sets the font size of your header rather large. If it is too big you can control the size, color and other attributes by using style tags. Place the code below somewhere between <HEAD> and </HEAD>
<STYLE TYPE=text/css>
H1 {font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, geneva; font-size: 20pt; color: blue}
</STYLE>
Also, it is best to have your best, most descriptive keywords in your page title.
At the very beginning of your websites code there should be a tag that says <head>
Put your page title right after that like this:
<head>
<title>Best Free Advertising and Website Promotion and Get Signups</title>
Now Google ignores the "and" so it is better to use the break symbol | which you get by holding down shift and pressing the backslash key. That symbol means and to the search engines. So you take up fewer characters and could then add another good keyword instead without going over the character limit Such as:
<title>Best Free Advertising|Website Promotion|Get Signups</title>
Another thing you can do is to use what are called alt tags after your images in the HTML code. These will display some text to the user if they have images turned off in their browser. They will also see this text instead of the image if the image does not load. But the text in the alt tags ALSO counts as keywords to Google. So if it is a picture of money on your money making website you can make an alt tag such as:<img src=http://www.mysite.com/money.jpg alt="money making image">
This method gets you traffic in a few ways. One it will add relivence to the image in Googles eyes but it will also get you visitors who are using the Google images tool. As users surf the images they will stumble into your image and when they click on the image it will take them right to your site! So always make the most of your images. However NEVER stuff long strings of keywords into these alt tags that will get you penalized or dropped from Google all together. Just put one keyword or short keyphrase in and it works like a charm.
OK we've talked about onpage optimization now even more important is the subject of off-page optimazation. This involves getting other related websites to link to yours, in the best way possible.
These links are commonly called backlinks. Why do you need backlinks?
Because Google looks at how many other websites have a link on them that points to your site. They consider each of these links a internet popularity vote of sorts and the more links pointing to your site, the higher your site will be listed in the search engine results page. (commonly referred to as serps for short).
Now even though it is a "he who has the most backlinks wins" situation, Google also has an adjustment for the relevency and quality of the backlink used. If site A has one hundred backlinks that are totally unrelated to site A's content, and site B has two very related backlinks, site B can often take that top spot. So you should always try to find related backlinks for the best results.
For best results the link coming from their site needs to be using your best keyword or keyphrase as the anchor text. Anchor text is simply the text that a person clicks on to go to your site. For example I have a site that lists free advertising sites so when a site links to me, it is best if they use that for the anchor text like this: free advertising sites.
The very best way to aquire these links is to create a site that is so interesting and special that other website owners put a link to your site for their readers without you asking or paying them to do so.
The act of adding useful content for the intent of getting one way links is sometimes called link baiting or link bait. Webmasters often offer useful online web tools to do this such as a free search engine submitter or a do-follow blog finding tool. It gets people bookmarking, coming back, and adding a link on their site for their readers to use. You can use the do-follow blog finding tool to find what are called do-follow blogs. These are sites that do not use the no-follow tag in their website code. ( a tag they tells the search engine not to pass any pagerank influence from site A to site B.) Once you've found a blog using the tool, then post a comment on the blog using a link back to your site. When leaving your comment remember to use the anchor text that you want to rank in the search engines for. Sometimes your site illistrates a point that a fellow blogger was making or a site owner just thinks that his or her readers will find your site interesting or usefull, so they will put a link to your site in the article. Links aquired this way are called natural links;quot; or organic links and are considered by Google to be the best, relavent links and passes high influence on the the sites the natural links are pointing to. But their are other ways to get backlinks, its just that three good natural links can get you just as much serp rank as a handfull of the other types will.
How can you create these backlinks yourself?
One of the best ways is to use a link directory subission service like DirectoryMaximizer.
You can also do a search for the words: post ad and get tons of directory sites where you can post for free if you put a link to their directory on your site. (or you could use SEO Elite to submit to alot of directories in a very short amount of time and automate most of the process.)
You can also go to a good article submission site. I use iSnare.com and it works great. I also use articlesubmissionservice.com which is also a great place to submit articles. Just create a free account there and write an article that tells all about your subject. Make it nice and long with discriptive content that explains what your site is all about. Include a link to your website at the end of the article.
When you write your author bio information, you can add a link there too so I add my website at the end of the article and I put my Squidoo lens addy in the author bio.
Now submit the article to their database and if you want you can choose to pay a small fee one time and they will redistribute the article to thousands of other aticle sites and directories accross the internet. It will take a little time for your article to spread around but slowly it will start improving your traffic. You can also join forums and put a link in your signature. Also you can create free websites at several places besides Squidoo and link those all together. This may seem like alot of work and it is, so I use a really really cool free program called Linkmachine to find link partners and manage my backlinks. It is my favorite program of its kind.
Get all this done and in a few months you can own top keyword phrases that will bring you high quality traffic. This will be people who were searching for exactly what you are offering which is gets far more signups and sales than any advertising service will.
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- johntriggerman johntriggerman Oct 27, 2009 @ 7:50 am
- Nice lens you have here Ray, I left you 3-stars. :)
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- natnickeep natnickeep Oct 13, 2009 @ 8:17 am
- Thanks, this lens is very helpful, I am going to try out these sites right away!!
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