Saturday, July 28, 2007

Increase Web Site Traffic For Free

You have a web site, its built and ready to make money, in one hand you have a few paid methods of web site traffic generation, and in the other you have some tactics to increase web site traffic for free. Before you go getting your credit card out, lets put some of the free traffic generating methods to use first. Now, the most popular free method most people use these days is article writing, but if not done correctly, could be a complete waste of time. Luckily for you, I'm going to tell you how to write the perfect article that will increase web site traffic for free.

Before we actually start writing our article, we need to know what the title is going to be. Depending on what your website is about, I would first grab what I think is one of the best FREE keyword research tools around. It's called good keywords and you can download it from www.goodkeywords.com. Once you have downloaded that, install it and do a search for your main keyword. For this particular article, I want to write about web site traffic. Good keywords will search overture, Ask and yahoo for the previous months search terms for your chosen keyword. When it returns your results, we want to weed out the best keywords we can use that will get us results. By this I mean the keywords that have little competition.

Forget about the top ten keywords for now, let's scroll down further and pick off some long tail keywords, or one's that return the smallest amount of competition. You can find out which one's will work best by picking the keyword out, typing it in Google and seeing how many websites we will be competing against. This article will be focused on the search term "increase web site traffic for free". By putting your keyword in quotations, Google will return the most relevant results, when I did this, Google returned 882 websites I would be competing against. Without the quotations Google returned a result of over 22 million sites! I probably wouldn't stand a chance of getting anywhere with this, but im going to focus more on the "relevant" results.

So, we do a little research, write an article about our keyword, and submit it to ezinearticles.com. If you use the keyword right at the very beginning of the summary, and then add something very similar towards the end, you should be able to achieve even better results. The summary is the bit of the article that will show up in Google's search results when someone looks for that particular information, and I have found that Google will place articles or web pages higher if the title has the main keyword at the beginning, aswell as something similarto the main keyword once more too.

My summary has the keyword right at the beginning, aswell as the term web site traffic towards the end. I wouldn't go too heavy with the use of your main keyword in the article either, although 2-3 work pretty well, and having one main keyword reference in bold also does wonders. If you go too far your article will be rejected, and you will then have to go through and edit your article before it gets accepted. Trial and error is the key, and I would also heavily recommend you never write an article that is less than 350 words long. If I look for articles I tend not to go for one's less than 350 words long, as there is no point. What important information could you possibly put in an article less than 350 words long? As Chris Knight, the owner of Ezine Articles points out in this blog entry - "It takes an exceptional writer to craft a high quality article under 350 words."

There are two options you have when it comes to writing good quality articles. You can get a ghost writer to do it for you, and have around 10 articles created for about $5 each, (Ghost writers can be found on sites such as scriptlance.com) or what I find is better, is to write the articles yourself! It's not that hard when you think about it, and gives you better satisfaction if the article does well! In fact I get satisfaction just by knowing that I have written an article myself. So get cracking, and drum up some good long tail keywords, write a few articles using the methods I have laid out for you today, and you will soon increase web site traffic for free.

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