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By Brent Shields
Getting visitors to your website has been the ultimate dream
of
internet marketers. More traffic equals more money, so they
say.
But how can you do it without spending a fortune?
Unknown to many there are a few ways of getting visitors to
your site without risking a lot of money. But remember, it's
not that easy. It takes more work. So, if you would rather
work
instead of pay to get visitors to your site, then here are a
few
things you can do:
1. Submit articles to article directories. This is probably
one
of the most effective ways of getting traffic to your site. By
submitting articles with a link that points to your website,
you are assured of long term traffic. As long as your article
stays in the directories that you submit to, people can find
it
and the chances of getting traffic to your website is
increased.
A few of the article sites where you can submit to are
goarticles.com, ezinearticles.com, ideamarketers.com,
articlecity.com and articlesfactory.com.
2. Search Engine Optimization (SEO). It's not really rocket
science. SEO is simply a technique that you implement on your
site to rank higher in the search engines. Here are the things
you might want to implement right away:
a) Your domain name should have your keyword in it.
b) Title tag of each page of you site should contain your
keyword.
c) Your keyword should be on the first paragraph of your page.
d) The image alt tags should contain your keyword.
e) The file names of each page of your site should also have
your keyword.
3. Create a blog then link it to your site. Postings at
Blogger
are easily indexed by Google. Updating your blog is feeding
the
search engines. Each time you put fresh content out, the
search
engines will notice it and come running to eat it all up.
Putting your keywords in this fresh content will help you rank
higher in the search engines. Your site gets updated a lot if
you link your blog to it. Blogging is easy and it adds a lot
of
pages to your site. You can get free blogs at blogger.com and
wordpress.com.
4. Posting in forums related to your topic. By participating
in
forums you'll have the opportunity to place your link in the
signature line and get traffic from forum members. You can
find
a forum related to your topic by going to a search engine and
typing your keyword + forum. Make sure the signatures you post
in forums are catchy to attract readers and make them click on
your link and come to your site.
These are simple, cheap and very effective ways of getting
visitors to your website. Implementing the above would
guarantee a stream of traffic not only for the short term but
also for the long haul.
About The Author: About the author, Brent is a regular writer
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