There is no point of having a website that gets no visitors or worse, it does not rank in the first five page of a search engine results page. If this is the case, it is time you do some serious work and start building targeted web traffic. It will probably take a while before you start seeing results but if you do it the right way, you will be amazed at how much you will be earning. There are many ways of building web traffic but not all of them are guaranteed to work. Below is a list of 10 ways one can build targeted web traffic to a website for free i.e. without paying for advertising space.
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Use Proper Meta Tags
The meta tags you might want to put in place are the title, description and keyword meta tags. This will not guarantee you high ranking in search engines results but they will be used by the search engines to display information about your site in the results. The meta tags should appear below the
head and before the opening
body tag. You must note that they are not written using the same format. i.e. if you have a blogger site, the format is not the same as a .com site.
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Optimize for Search Engines
You should make use of free html code validating site out there. What this sites do is, they will analyze your website html and content and give it a rating. Some of them go to the extent of pointing out flaws in your coding. The best part is that they will give you feedback on the effectiveness of your meta tags. If you are to link back to certain sections of your site, use non-singular keywords instead. i.e instead of using
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Submit Sitemap to Main Search EnginesThis is a must do for every website owner. If you want search engines to pick up your content faster even thou they will eventually after a long time, submit the sitemap to the main search engines. It will take a while but if your content is rich, you will love the traffic streaming to your website. Do not submit your sitemap more than once, you will get your website banned for spamming. Learn how to
submit your blogger sitemap to Google and other engines.
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Blog Commenting
If you have enough time to comment on blogs, do it but make sure that the comments are useful. The other thing is to make sure that you only comment on blogs that are related to the theme of our website/blog. The idea is to leave an impression on the webmasters so that your comment can be approved and then the readers might find that comment and eventually continue to your website for more.
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Valuable Link Exchanges
You need to partner with other webmasters on this. Search engines rank websites depending on the number of quality backlinks. To get the highest score, only link with sites that are relevant to your theme otherwise your site will be penalised and ranked low regardless of the number of links. Better yet, make use of contextual links to rank higher. Contextual links are links that appear within the body of an article.
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Appear As a Guest Author
This method works very well and both parties involved benefits as you get free publicity and traffic and the other gets a break from writing. Contact webmasters of sites related to yours and discuss about this. You should have a couple of sample articles ready just in case they are interested.
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Create RSS Feeds
Feeds are great for getting your message out and quick. Most internet surfers do not return to website they had just visited, they subscribe to your feeds if they liked what they saw. Your feeds will be delivered to their email addresses and they can come back and read more articles if they think it is a good piece. Do a little search on the net and see which feed syndications you might be interested in.
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Make Use of Online Forums
This works like commenting on blogs. Instead of just leaving a comment, you can take part in discussions, recommend product and give readers sound advice. The best part about this is that you are allowed to have a signature file to your profile and every time you post, it appears with the link to your website. If you are having trouble finding forums related to your website, use search engines with your search query ending with forum. For example to find a forum in the digital devices field, use keywords like “iPhone forum”, “digital camera forum” and so on.
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Give Out Freebies
People do like to get things for free. What you can do is create something like a good desktop wallpaper or screensaver with your website address displayed. You can also force people to take part in small contests. Most webmasters achieve this by having people link back to you as the entrance condition.
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Free eBook
Just like the point above, people love free stuffs. If you can write a great article on a topic of your choice and give it away as an eBook for free, you will definitely get traffic. For example, I could have written an eBook on
How to Drive Web Traffic to Your Website explicitly and given it away as an eBook to every visitor to my website. The best part of free eBooks is that if the content is rich, it will always create a buzz and find its way to eBook portals and other webmasters. The best way to write an eBook is by doing it offering guidance to a related topic related to your website theme. The trick here is to have links back to your website placed at the right places.
There you have it. The 10 most simple and free ways of driving targeted web traffic to your website. I know, I could have exploited the points explicitly but I hope you get the idea. If you prefer paying for traffic, it is also an excellent method but for most people who cannot afford to buy ad space, this is generally the best and only way of doing it.
