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SEO Your Website For Free Traffic

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

SEO or search engine optimization of your website may be the most important thing you can do for the life of your home based business. Doing this correctly will not only bring you free traffic from the search engines but will bring you the highest quality targeted traffic that you can get.

To correctly SEO your website for free traffic will require a bit of research. You will need to research keywords that are searched on frequently but also ones that do not have a high level of competition. The internet marketing niche is a highly competitive niche but has many keywords that can bring your home based business plenty of free traffic. It is your job to find those keywords.

After you have done your research and found keywords to suit your website, then you can SEO your website properly for free traffic. To do this correctly you will need to know just a small amount of html. You can find help with this an any search engine. Just type “learning html” or “html tutorials” without the quotations.

Properly SEO’ng your website will require you to enter your keywords in the title of your page, meta tags, h1 and h2 headers, and place your keywords here and there between 1 and 3% of all words throughout your website. It sounds like a lot of work but it really isn’t too bad. A few changes in your website can really make a difference on whether or not your home based business will succeed.

Now that you have your keywords and your site optimized correctly, you will need to build back-links to your site. A back-link is simply a link on someone else’s site that is pointing back to your website. The more back-links you have, the higher your website will rank for your keywords. Once you have enough back-links to rank on the first page for your keywords, you should choose another set of keywords that are more competitive and go for those.

You can increase the back-links to your site by writing and submitting articles, posting in various forums that are related to your niche, submitting your website to directories, and by leaving comments on others blogs.

By using the advice listed in this article, you really can succeed and make money online with your home based business. Selecting proper keywords, SEO’ng your website, and building back-links will bring you free traffic and will work no matter what niche you are in. The basis of this information is really all you need to know about how to market and sell anything online.

Set your website up and do a little each day to build up your back-links and before you know it, your website will be getting tons of free traffic from all the search engines.

Matt Helphrey

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How to Get Free Traffic to Your Website

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

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 tips to do just that.

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. In order to receive this type of free traffic to your website, you have to research and place your keywords, then work hard at getting back links. The more back links you have, the higher your website will rank for your specific keywords.

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. If you do it correctly, your website will rank on page one of the search engines for your particular keywords and your traffic and sales will show as well.

To get free traffic to your website from the search engines, you want to find keywords that are getting searched on a frequent basis but are no too competitive. 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. A good rule of thumb is to include those words between 1-3% of all the written material on the page.

After you have SEO’d your website properly, you’ll want to start getting back links to your website. 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 higher numbered back link sites are considered to be authority sites in that niche and will rank higher for their keywords.

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. Doing something every day will ensure your website free traffic rather than your competitors.

Matt Helphrey

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Search Engine Optimization

Friday, March 14th, 2008

Search Engine Optimization is also something that may be overlooked by many, especially those brand new to operating a website.

What SEOing does is gives your website presence on the internet. Without it, your home based business would only receive visitors or traffic from the links you have pointing back to your site from all over the internet. With it, you will get loads of free traffic from the search engines, and this is the type of traffic you want to your site, people who are specifically typing in your keywords, and you giving them the exact information they were searching for.

Step 1 for SEO: Take your selected keywords that we covered yesterday and place them right in the title of your web page. Include only your keywords!

Step 2: Add <h1> header tags with your keywords in the body of your text. It will be more optimal for you to add them as far to the top and left of the page as possible. If you’re not sure how to do this or change the title for that matter, it is necessary to know at least a little html code. It’s real simple, so don’t be scared to learn.

Step 3: Bold and italicize your keywords throughout the text of your web page. You want to include your keywords in about 1-3% of your total text. That number works best according to all the research I have done. Any more will be considered spam and junk to the web crawlers, any less they may be looked over.

Step 4: Include your keywords in some of your alt image tags for several pictures on your web page.

Step 5: Add your keywords at the very bottom of your website after your copyright sig.

Step 6: Put out as many quality back links as you can and have those links anchored with your keywords. For example, if I leave a comment on someones blog and my keywords are “real online money making opportunities”, I want those words to be the ‘clickable’ variety. i.e real online money making opportunities.

That’s it! The more back links you have, the higher your site will rank in the engines for your selected keywords, so get your site set up and get busy putting those links out there.

Matt Helphrey

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