How to Get Free Traffic to your Website

Some of the most effective ways to promote your website are absolutely free.  This will allow you to drive traffic and make sales without having to pay any money at all!  There is some work involved though.  Here’s what you have to do. 

The first thing you need to do is set up your website with keywords that will bring your website traffic with the smallest amount of effort possible.  This method of optimizing your website to gain traffic from the search engines is called SEO or search engine optimization. 

The most important factor in determining the long term success of your website is SEO.  If you set this up properly, you can expect to receive free traffic without putting in too much effort in the long run.  The most amount of work will come right away in efforts to get your site to the first page, after that it is a breeze keeping it there. 

When doing the research for your keywords, you’ll want to find some that will land your website enough traffic to make you sales but at the same time have few enough competitors where you can rank on page one fairly quickly. There is no written function or science to figuring this out.  In order to get a good feel about which keywords will work, you are going to have to just experiment and do some trial and error.   There are some free keyword tools available and there are also some nice paid tools that do all of the dirty work for you and really take the guessing game out of the question.  To me these tools are an invaluable part of my research and would recommend them to anyone. 

When you have your keywords for your website chosen, then you need to place those keywords in the content of your site.  It’s best to put the keywords in your domain name, header, meta tags, alt image tags, and about 1 – 3% of your site’s content. 

Once you have your site optimized with your keywords, then you need to pick up back links to your website using the keywords as an anchor link.  By writing articles and submitting them to the highest page rank directories, i.e. EzineArticles and GoArticles, this will help in moving your website up the search engines all the way to page one.  The more back links you have, the higher your website is going to rank. 

This is just a small taste of what it takes to get your website free traffic from the search engines.  The search engines use some complicated algorithm to place websites in their rankings.  We know that this process works, and really that is all that matters. 

About the Author:
Matt Helphrey has been writing articles for the past three years. He enjoys writing in many different fields.  Check out his new review of laptop notebook computers website at http://laptop-notebook-computers.com.

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