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How To Drive Free Traffic To Your Website

Brian Armstrong — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 14:10:55 +0000

by Brian Armstrong

The holy grail of internet marketing seems to be getting “free” traffic. Even though you could do a lot with paid traffic, such as pay-per-click, free traffic is great. There are several ways you can get some free traffic to your main website.

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Starting a blog, whether on your own domain or even on a hosted site such as Blogger.com or WordPress.com can give you a great advantage over just a regular website. The main thing that makes blogs great for getting traffic is that they have a built-in RSS feed. These RSS feeds allow search engines and several other directories or engines to index the content of blogs and do this very easily.

There are several social bookmarking sites, such as Digg.com and Del.icio.us and other sites like this. You can “bookmark” your own blog posts and other pages to help them get ranked in the search engines. Often times these social bookmarking “tag” pages will get ranked as well. Although this isn’t a direct link, these pages can serve as bridge pages with links back to your site and these pages rank also rank very well with the search engines.

There are dozens of places on the internet that you can create mini-sites or individual pages. These sites typically will allow you to post whatever content you want to post including your own RSS feeds from your blog, other websites, articles, video or whatever else you’d like to create in these pages. The main key to success with these types of sites is to make sure that you’re posting links back to your website, especially the deep links. Those RSS feeds included in the mini-sites or pages are a great way to get links back to your site. Also, create an individual text links using html or even images.

Next to pay-per-click, articles are the best way to get your website ranked and get traffic back to your website. The main reason these article websites are so good is because the pages on which your article shows up are very relevant and the links that are allowed in the author profile or resource box. Many of the good article sites also have a lot of “authority” with the search engines and their article pages rank very well which also means that the link values passed along from these types of sites are very high.

Posting on forums is another great way to generate links back to you site. Find forums within your niche and start contributing to the conversations. Make sure that you’re posting on forums that allow you to add a signature with a link. Also, whenever possible, view the source on forums and see if they add a “nofollow” attrib within the link code. If they do, that forum won’t do much for your search engine optimization, but will work for getting clicks back to your website.

You can find that there are a lot of blogs that already get a lot of traffic. When you comment on these blogs, you’ll usually have an option to put in your name, email, url and your comment. If your comment is insightful and contributes to the value of the original post, you’ll have other readers of that same blog post find your comment and many times will click through to your blog. I’ve personally done this and also had visitors to my sites also from blogs for comments I’ve left.

These are some great ways to get free traffic but each of these requires an investment of time. If you’re willing to put in a consistent, dedicated amount of time each day or a few times per week. Consistency is a key part of success when it comes to getting traffic to your website.

About the Author:

Brian is an internet business coach that specializes in internet credit card processing. Brian’s specialty is mostly with internet merchant accounts, but he has also done a good percentage of retail merchant accounts as well.

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Make money at home with your computer blogging

David McCammon — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 17:36:35 +0000

by David McCammon

There is a common problem for people who want to make money at home with computer blogging that is not enough money to start. You absolutely must have a website to do business online. Period. To curtail that major expense, a blog is a great alternative.

If you are starting an internet business on a shoe-string budget and have limited experience, then learning to make money at home with computer blogging is an excellent way to get started. This article outlines the key reasons why it is a good idea for you to start making money online with just a blog.

People are finding that when they begin to make money at home with computer blogging they start to earn very quickly. You can begin right away to start to advertise your products and services and affiliate programs on your blog. Customers can buy through your affiliate links earning you a profit immediately.

As you know having a website built can cost hundreds even thousands of dollars. For this reason learning to make money at home with computer blogging is very attractive. So many blogging services are free that you won’t need to buy a domain or even pay for hosting if you don’t want to. It’s so easy that anyone can do it.

The single biggest advantage for those entrepreneurs who have decided to make money at home with computer blogging is that you don’t have to be a geek or a nerd to use it. You can maintain and operate it with just a little training. This means you don’t need a lot of skills or pay someone else.

By making the decision to make money at home with computer blogging you will not spend a lot of money advertising. Blogs are far easier to drive targeted traffic to than are websites by comparison. By learning how to use your keywords appropriately and by posting consistently, you will experience fast indexing and serious blog traffic.

Some more good news when you decide to make money at home with computer blogging is that it can be a whole bunch of fun. That’s because it’s so easy when you choose a subject that you are interested in or you have another source of good content. Since it’s fun the more you do it the better your search results, the more traffic and the more sales and money, the more fun!

So finally if your goal is to make money at home with computer blogging it is a good idea. You don’t need very much money if any to start. You don’t need any experience or technical skills. You can make really good money. What are you waiting for?

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David McCammon Can Show You The Secrets Of Leveraging Niche Blogging To Drive Traffic & Build Back Links And Earn Recurring Income. You Can Acheive Extreme Profits Via Your Own Massive Blog Empire, Then Put It On Auto-Pilot! Make Money At Home With Computer

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Blog, Blogging & Blog Posts – What Does It All Mean?

Russell G. Stuart — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 15:47:21 +0000

by Russell G. Stuart

For a regular web user, a blog is not something that needs an explanation. But, for someone who’s not so web-savvy, what does a blog mean? In simple terms, a blog is similar to a simple website with a theme and has content displayed in a chronological order, which means the latest posted content is displayed first. If you have a blog of your own, you can use it to write content related to your chosen topic and keep adding and modifying those posts.

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Blogging is something similar to keeping a journal that’s visible to the whole online community. The idea is to share events, daily happenings and incidents with various readers. Blogs are excellent web traffic attractors, because they act as a place for the global community to gather in one place and find out information and discuss various interests. Blogging is a veritable tool in online marketing and helps to bring in like-minded people from everywhere to a single venue.

During the past 5 to 6 years, blogs have become a sensationalised platform, with popular blogs attracting thousands of visitors on a daily basis. Sharing ideas, opinions and keeping up with the world events are some of the greatest advantages of blogging.

Most people create blogs with the sole aim of attracting numerous readers, because when there are many readers sharing their own view points in a single place, the opportunity for making a profit through marketing products and services to them is very high. Plenty of businesses and individuals depend on constant blog traffic to market products and services to online consumers.

Are you interested in getting your own blog? Anyone is allowed to have as many blogs as they want, so you can simply sign-up for numerous blog accounts. Maintaining a blog will need some time and effort, especially when you expect to become popular on the internet. Constantly updating your blog and posting new items regularly will keep your blog interesting and increase your online visitors. The following are some tips on how to blog successfully.

Keep it interesting: Research and find something popular and interesting to write about and make sure you know about whatever you choose.

Speak, don’t write: Use a conversational tone to get your ideas across. Don’t be boring and monotonous and don’t use words which require a dictionary to find the meaning.

Determine your blogging frequency: Whether you will blog every day or just once a week, decide about it before your start your blog and stick to that schedule. Daily blogging is recommended.

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The internet is full of sites covering all manner of topics in the world. Then there are blogs, some indifferent, some hilarious and some just infectious. If you are looking for an interesting read, take a peek at this blog and see what you can come up with. Some simple ideas are still the best.

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