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A Blog is a great way to get more traffic and back links for your website. Also, once you get one website up and running – you can then get another and another and link them all to your blog.

This helps get you traffic and allows you to get easy back links as well.

One of the good things about Hostgator is you can do this very easily with only 1 monthly payment.

You can also set up blogs easily using the Fantastico software that comes with your account.

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Post to your blog as much as you can. If you can’t think of anything to post, write about the weather. Whatever you do, just post something. People will flock and get interested in your blog.

Then, register another domain in a non-competitive niche. Pick anything – just make sure there is a reasonable amount of money in the niche.

Use SpyFu to check.

OK, now link from your blog to your new website. Put a link on the front page of your blog. Whenever you post something you will get a backlink to your website. This will help a lot over time. YES, It will take time, however, be patient and keep posting.

If you are smart, you will create a blog about 1 niche and then your website will be about the same niche. Doesn’t have to be, but it is a good start. This way all your backlinks are related.

Good luck and remember, you need to keep posting as much as you can.

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Regards,

GW

More Traffic Means More Money.

Der…. ( : ……As if you didn’t know that huh? Well, it might seem obvious to some, but to others, they need it S.P.E.L.T. out…….

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How much are you making online?

If it is not much, chances are you are not getting much traffic.

The BIGGEST difference between making money and not making money is the amount of traffic you get.

Quite simply, you cannot make money if you don’t get traffic.

And to add even more to this, your traffic NEEDS to be targeted (Yep – like the picture of the target). That means people visiting your site that are interested in your niche.

3 things you MUST do.

1. Make sure your keyword is in your domain.
2. Target low competition keywords
3. Check your competition using the allintitle search through Google.

The ‘allintitle’ search will find how many competing pages you are up against.

So if you are targeting a keyword – ‘fastcars’ the search would be –

allintitle: fastcars

Check it out using Google with your keywords.

If there are results over 1000 pages, you will find it hard to compete – however, certainly not impossible. The key is to have a keyword in your domain name and also a keyword in the name of the new page you are creating.

Make Sense?

Search Engines love eating urls – and if you match the url name with some content on the page – you are streets ahead.

Once you are done, Stumble your page and submit it to Digg to attract the Search Engines.

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Yes – you could buy it, but hey, there is no challenge in that is there? You want it FAST. You want it NOW. and You want it FREE.

There are many places to find free traffic. In fact, the internet is saturated with traffic building techniques. This however, creates a big fat problem.

Which techniques actually work?

Which techniques work better than others?

Which techniques send long term traffic?

How much time is it going to take?

Here are 10 Golden Rules for getting more website traffic to your blog – and yes, they are all free – YIPPEE !

Apply these rules and you will get traffic.

Master Of None

Got a blog? Got a Website? What is it about?

Is it about everything?

Have you heard the saying – “Jack of all trades Master of None?” This is critical at start up phase. Your blog needs to be narrowly targeted.

If it is about Cars – Narrow it further. Make it about high performance luxury cars.

If it is about Craft – Make it about Craft for kids.

Got the idea?

Focus on doing this first, until you start getting lots of repeat readers and then slowly start to broaden your topics.

People need to know exactly what your blog is about as soon as they arrive. Visitors that are interested in your topic or niche, will hang around, bookmark it, and come back again.

The others that are not interested won’t – but you don’t want them anyway, so tell them to shooo….!

They are untargeted traffic so are unlikely to buy your product and you will need to be a very good salesperson to convince them otherwise !

The NERD Part

Yes, you might have to ‘NERD UP’ to deliver quality. This means writing excellent content. Time and time again you see this on the internet.

But, have you actually done it? Or, have you written rubbish?

‘Bust your guts’ finding good quality information. Don’t just post for the sake of it.

Do some research whenever you post and dig deep to find out what works and what doesn’t. Then test your ideas yourself and give feedback to your audience.

Facts are much more powerful than ‘dribble’ regenerated from someone else’s blog.

Oi – OVER HERE!

Which one of these titles is better?

A new Traffic Tip

or

HEY – YOU…….psssssttt check this TOP SECRET traffic tip to meltdown your server…….!!!

OK, it sounds a bit unbelievable, however, it creates more interest. The key is to grab the reader’s attention while being able to promise what you are saying you can do and deliver.

The title of your post is very important. A good title will not only attract attention, but it will pick up relevant keywords in the search engines. Check out your title using the Google Keyword Tool to see what keywords you are competing for. There may be an alternative choice that will bring you good traffic through organic search.

Yes, this takes a bit of time, but hey – this time will come back in droves of traffic.

Also, you should have your blog set to permalinks so that the keywords are in the URL. Check this out more here. If you haven’t done this – do it now. This is very important for Search Engine Results.

Then, use keywords in your titles – but make the title have IMPACT. Obviously you don’t want to jam 10 keywords in a title because it will just sound ridiculous.

THINK carefully about your title.

Hey Good Looking….

Make Sure Your Blog Looks Professional – Design is everything.

Is it really looking good? You know – really good?

Have you used a dodgy template?

The visual appearance is the first thing that people see when they visit.

It needs to;

1. Be easy on the eye
2. Be easy to read
3. Have clean lines
4. Have complementary colors
5. Load fast.

Research shows – when selling a product, in order of importance, price comes first and the appearance comes second.

Price
Appearance

The same goes for your Blog. OK, it is free to visit, but the next aspect in line is appearance.

MAKE it LOOK SMOKIN HOT !

If it doesn’t do any of these things – you are immediately behind the eight ball and you might as well – go back to your day job.

Gobble, Gobble, Google.

Get every page or post indexed as fast as possible.

If you don’t know the important of indexing – then you probably shouldn’t be trying to make money online. Google picking up your keywords is a great way to get free traffic. In fact – this has to be one of the best ways!

It is free and it just keeps coming.

If you don’t know the important of indexing – then you probably shouldn’t be trying to make money online.

Indexing your post is easy – go to Digg and submit it. Chances are it will get indexed overnight.

Simple – do it for every post.

What – You Again???

Add value through good features, good content, good graphics and replying to those that comment. Make it a good place to hang out and people will return.

Make sure you have a search tool so your frequent visitors can find what they want.

Participate in the comments made by your visitors. This shows interest in them and creates a community around your blog. This will encourage others to join in.

Update on a regular basis – There is nothing worse than returning to a blog after 2 weeks to find it has still not been updated.

However – remember you want to add some good quality content not just waffle. No one likes a waffler, they switch off at the drop of a hat.

So make sure you spend the time to research your topic and provide quality.

Post links to your blog on other blogs in the comments sections. This is targeting your audience. They will click your links and visit. Give it time – they will come.

You can find other blogs in your niche by using Blog search or typing relevant keywords in Google and going through the results.

Are You The Social Type?

To do this, you need to sign up to several communities and participate. Attract people to your blog through making comments on other people’s sites and looking at other people’s sites.

This is hard work. You can’t sign up to them all.

However – add quality to the ones that you do set up. Don’t just set up a profile and hope that people will flock your way – because they won’t. You need to participate in the community before people will take an interest in what you are doing.

Waffle On

Ever thought about the way you speak to others? If you are writing articles then chances are your articles will be similar to how you speak. Are you dribbling on and boring us to tears?

No one is going to read it. You need PASSION, EXCITEMENT & INTERESTING STUFF to grab people’s attention. This is essential.

Articles are a great way of attracting visitors.

However, you need to be able to reel them in like you are reeling in the ‘big one’. Make them want to read more, dig deeper and find out more. This is the key to getting them to click through to your site.

Articles also get sucked up by the Big G pretty quickly. They get indexed fast and are a good ‘sales pitch’ to your site or blog. Attract people through good quality articles and you will get visitors.

To do this, you need to sign up to several communities and participate.

Name It

What is the name of your website?

Does your domain look like this?

http://www.googlesites/bazza’sinternetmarketingtips.com

What sort of a shambles is that? You want to make people take notice.

This might be better

http://BigBazzasHotTips.com

A real domain and plenty of character. Then you can set your graphics off to match.

This is highly recommended. It looks much more professional and will make a big difference to the response that people make to your site. They see you are serious and are in for the long haul. Not only that, you should make it easy to remember.

Which one is better?

http://bigbazzashottips.com

or

http://BigBazzasHotTips.com

The second one is easier to read so every time you display your domain name – show it in ‘Titlecase’.

This will get you repeat traffic.

Your Opinion Counts

Make comments on other people’s blogs. This shows you are participating in the community and making an effort.

People in your niche will be attracted to your QUALITY comments that provide something decent to read and BANG ! Over they will come to check you out.

You need WORLD CLASS quality ideas and content that people are just dying to hear. Content that is unique, hard to find, new, great to read and informative. Something that your readers can apply to their lives.

Just apply these 10 ideas and you will start to get traffic.

Yes – it is gonna take some sweaty work, but hey, if you are not keen to put some hard yards in, Internet Marketing and making money online is not for you.

Go out and pump gas instead !!

So there you go. 10 Golden Rules for generating website traffic. All these ideas work and are free. Participate in other communities and put a good effort into making a good blog or website and you will get return visitors.

Disagree with what I have said? Got something else to add? We want your comments.

Please feel free to comment and if you want to link to your site – please do.

Ahhhhh….Yes, Time to relax and put your feet up. Wouldn’t it be nice? Well, here are 15 easy, fast ideas you can apply to drive some traffic to your site, so yes, you can put your feet up and relax.

Check a few of these out, and see if you can apply them. However, did you know that these ideas will probably only send you a few hits here and there?

There is one method that does however send long term consistent traffic everyday. Read more about this here.

Anyway – you can check that out after you have read this list…..so here we go.

Traffic Idea 1 – Groups
Post in Yahoo and Google Groups with a link to your site in your signature. You can do this to any forum really. Just go to a forum in your niche and see how active it is.

If there are lots of people participating in the forum, then chances are you have an opportunity to get lots of traffic. Add your website link to your signature – and participate in the forum – and BANG….you will get visitors.

Remember – what you say in your link makes a big difference. You have a small opportunity to get people to click your link – use it wisely.

If you simply say ‘Please visit my site’ do you think that is going to be effective? Hardly…..

You need to attract attention – Maybe something like - ‘Got Money Problems – We Can Fix It Guranteed – You MUST visit Our Site’

What you say and how you say it is the key to attracting eyes – and lots of them.

Traffic Idea 2 – eBay
Sell or place classified ads on eBay with a link to your site. This is just one way of getting traffic from eBay.

Another is – have you heard about eBay blogs? EBay gets a ton of traffic. You need to make use of this.

Go and set up a blog there and add some quality information. OK, the rules are strict so you will have to be careful what you post and what links you include, but if you obey the rules, you can get some instant traffic.

In fact – I set up a blog and got 80 visitors the first day to the eBay blog. OK, they didn’t all then visit my links, but some did and the others were interested in what I had to say.

Traffic Idea 3 – PPC
Use PPC search engine advertising. Hope you have a big fat wallet for this one. This is a dangerous hobby, one that could make your credit card instantly combust.

However, do it right and you will get lots of traffic – cheap. The key here is to make sure your landing page is 100% relevant to the ad you are linking to.

Have a seperate landing page for each add and you will see your Cost Per Click reduce. Combine this with Google’s conversion code and you can see exactly where you sales are coming from.

Remember, Google loves relevance, so think about all the ways you can make yours ads relevant to your landing page and your costs should reduce dramatically.

Traffic Idea 4 – Niche
Submit your site to any related niche directories on the net. OK, this isn’t terribly lightning fast – however, it does works. For example, I submitted one of my sites to the ‘Ask’ search engine. The next day I noticed hits.

The key is to find those search engines that are good quality, free and actually work.

Some charge you to submit your site – my opinion, you are getting ripped off. Don’t waste your cash, spend it on your dog or cat instead. They will appreciate it more.

Traffic Idea 5 – Take Advantage
Purchase the misspellings or variations of your domain name, or those of your competitors. This is a great idea. However, it will cost you a bit. You need to make sure you can recoup your domain expenses.

However, if there is a site that is hugely popular, then you are certainly going to pick up some stray traffic.

Remember, getting traffic is a numbers game – it’s all about adding up all those small hits from lots of places across the web.

Often if you mis-type a popular domain into the url bar and hit enter, one of those dodgy MFA (Made For Adsense) sites comes up.

I can’t tell you the number of times this has happened to me. So, take a leaf out of their book, buy mis-spelled domains and redirect to your site – EASY !

Traffic Idea 6 – Buy Old Domains
Buy a Domain name related to your niche that is already receiving traffic and forward it to your site.

These can be hard to find.

Also, some of the traffic statistics given with domains that are for sale are FAKE. Yes – the big fakers are potentially scamming you out of your hard earned cash.

It’s easy to fake traffic to a site. You can simply buy traffic – Cost Per View traffic for pennies. This creates FAKE traffic statistics and before you know it – you have been scammed.

Do your research. A great tool is to put the domain you are considering buying in your Google Webmaster tools. It will tell you all the gossip about the domain – and you need that gossip to see if it has been a bad domain or not.

Also – you can use the Way Back Machine or Tool or whatever it’s called – can’t remember at the moment. But it will tell you what the history of the domain has been.

Traffic Idea 7 – Ads
Purchase Ads on other sites. This works. Approach other blog owners and say you want to buy some advertising links.

Obviously, some owners are going to charge an ‘arm and a leg’ – no names here….. If you don’t want to lose an arm and a leg – then find blog owners that have smaller traffic numbers but still have traffic.

They are likely to be in your budget.

Traffic Idea 8 – PPC
PPC (Pay Per Click) advertising is ideal if you want to drive traffic to your site very quickly and don’t mind paying for it. This is idea number 3 – sorry – have to think of another one.

Traffic Idea 9 – Forum Advertising
Many forums have a place for you to advertise your site once – find them and do it. Forums also have other places to put your links.

Instantly, you will now how much traffic a forum gets by the number of people using it. Target the most popular forums.

You can create a blog in a number of forums. This is worthwhile as people do read the blogs.

Yes, more original content will need to be written, but hey, what else are you doing? You want results don’t you? So put some effort in and stop been a cry baby……

Traffic Idea 10 – Submit Blog
Submit a blog to a blog directory. This is a great tool to get some heavy hitters. Also, if you participate in the blog directory community you get even more hits. There are tons of blog communities out there.

I’ll tell you a hidden secret on how to find them………Type – ‘Blog Directory’ into Google and they will pop up…..( ;

If you can’t find any doing that, try MyBlogLog or Blog Catalog – 2 of the best.

Traffic Idea 11 – Forum Signature
Have a signature link in forums that points to your site. This is the same as number 1. I have repeated myself again.

Traffic Idea 12 – Comment Backlink
Leave comments on other people’s blogs and link back to your site (tip: look in the digg upcoming section for blog posts about to get a lot of traffic).

This is a great tip. If you not doing this, slap yourself in the face. This works.

The key to unlock the massive website hits from blog comments is……write decent comments!

So many times you see comments like – Thanks, nice post. WHAT A WASTE OF EFFORT ! OK, I have done this too, however, this is really not worthwhile.

If you are going to make a comment, spend an extra 2 minutes writing a decent one. It will pay big time in the long term.

Traffic Idea 13 – Yahoo Answers
Answer questions on Yahoo Answers – quote your website as the source. Yes, Yahoo Answers does send a considerable amount of traffic.

However, you can get banned at the drop of a hat.

There is nothing worse than spendig hours and hours answering questions only to get banned 1 month later. ARRrrrrrgggghhh….!

Be careful.

Traffic Idea 14 – Buy a Review
Buy reviews about your site on other people’s site. Another good tip. Approach other blog owners, it is worth the effort.

Traffic Idea 15 – Site Map
Create a sitemap and submit it to Google. If you haven’t signed up to Google Webmaster Tools in your Account, then do it. This is FREE and gives you tons of information about your site.

Use the Submit A Site Map Tool to submit your site map. This tells the Big G all about your site and identifies any problems it may have.

The best thing for organic traffic is making sure the Big G loves eating your site. If there are errors – it ain’t gonna like it.

OK, so there are a ton of easy ideas to get you more website hits. However, if you want you business to be successful online, you are going to need a lot more than a few hits.

You need to put some effort into getting traffic. If you keep doing what you are currently doing, your results are just going to be the same – Horrible !

So, if you want more hits – targeted hits that actually convert to money then you MUST check this out.

Read more about it here.

Oi – Don’t leave without commenting……Got Something to say? We want to hear it. Participate in this blog and add a link back to your site. Remember, Idea# 12 – Comment on Other people’s blogs…..

Most people have an opinion. Hence the popularity of making comments on blogs. However, if you want to ride on the back of popularity, then consider this.

Step 1:
Go to Ezine Articles.

Step 2:
Search for articles written by others related to the website you want to promote/link to. You can find articles that are very popular and get thousands and thousands of views.

Step 3:
Check out the comment area. You can post comments easily in Ezine Articles. You can also add a link to your site.

Step 4:
Make sure your comment is relevant, well written and your link is also relevant. This will improve your chances of getting it approved.

This is a very easy way to get backlinks to your site without much effort whatsoever !

You need true hard facts. Facts that actually get you free traffic.

Here are 5 Ideas that are easy to do and actually work. Use them.

1. Sign Up To MyBlogLog.

If you haven’t done this already – then do it. It actually works. You will receive traffic. Yes, you need to participate in the Communities, but hey, this is easy and takes no effort. Simply signing up will feature your site and you will almost instantly get a few hits.

Well worthwhile, so check it out.

2. Post Comments on Other People’s Blogs

This will also get you traffic. Spend some significant time doing it and you will get visitors clicking on your links. Add excellent quality content to your comments, totally relevant to the post and you will get even more traffic.

Remember, this is about adding good quality information, not spam.

3. Join Digg and Submit Your Webpage’s.

Have you checked out Digg yet? If not, do it. If you submit your webpage’s to Digg, you will receive traffic. It is that simple.

The other bonus about submitting to Digg is that your pages will get indexed by Google overnight. This is a great advantage. Getting your content into the Google Monster is what you need otherwise no one is ever going to find you.

Have you tried spamming a thread that is popular? I am not recommending this, but if you do, you will get traffic. You may even get banned too……So use it correctly and watch the traffic come in.

The key to Digg is to find new content – post it to your blog or website and then go and post it in Digg.

You need to be the first though with your new content – whether it is a ‘news’ item or whatever. Otherwise you will be competing with everyone else.

4. Give Away Freebies

Everyone loves freebies and people will even come to your site just to check what you are giving away.

A free e-book? Remember to ask for their email address first. How about partnering with other sites where you can offer free products and get people to your own website.

Free goods work. How about free stickers? Cheap to make and easy to post. These are the types of items you are looking for to promote your website.

5. Hold A Competition

Everyone loves competitions. Particularly if there is a big prize. If you have made some money online already, reinvest it in a product you can giveaway. All the top bloggers do this to get people coming back to their sites.

Make sure you advertise your competition everywhere – forums, blogs, twitter etc. You need the most coverage to get interest in your site.

How about you? Got any good easy ideas for website traffic? If so, please leave a comment.

It is amazing to see how and which keywords are picked up after writing a considerable amount of content to some of my blogs and websites. This is where statistic trackers are very useful. These trackers show you exactly how your blog or website was discovered.

If you are not using a tracker on your website it is highly recommended. In fact it is critical for it’s success. You can use Google Analytics or even Statcounter. Both are free and will show you all the information you need to keep discovering how people are finding you.

It is amazing to see how and which keywords are picked up after writing a considerable amount of content to some of my blogs and websites.

So, once you have your counter loaded up – start writing. If you don’t like writing, then you should get another hobbie like riding bikes or jogging, as if you want your blog or website to be a success you need to write unique content all day everyday.

Yes, sounds a bit like a fulltime job eh? Well it doesn’t need to be that way. Writing what comes to mind is pretty easy really and it only takes a few minutes usually to write a post.

So, if you need some inspiration the put your head in the freezer for 10 minutes and see what comes….just kidding. The best place for inspiration is obviously the internet. You can simple type any topic into Google and find something to write about in literally any niche.

So, if you enjoy writing then people will be attracted to your site by the massive amounts of unique content you are adding to your site.

OK, this is not for everyone, as it takes a lot of work. But, if you are the type of person who is serious about your website and you really want to be a success online, then you need to take note of this and apply yourself everyday.

OK, this is not for everyone, as it takes a lot of work.

If you are the lazy type, then this is not going to work for you as it take significant commitment and dedication everyday to apply yourself and post as many backlinks as you possible can on several thousand websites.

The good news is, if you find a relatively unsaturated market, it can be quite easy to get to the number one position on Google for certain keywords. All you really need to do is find the niche you are interested in that is not saturated. This would mean that there are limited results in Google when you search on the term.

The good news is, if you find a relatively unsaturated market, it can be quite easy to get to the number one position on Google for certain keywords.

Then all you need to do is buy a domain with your keywords in it and then create a website. Add a lot of content to it, generate some backlinks and drive some traffic to it using the best free methods online and before you know it you will be receiving significant traffic.

There are numerous ways to get free traffic, but some of these work much better than others. Really, if you are serious about your online website and need traffic consistently everyday for the long term then you must check out this method.

This will get more hits to your website free, guaranteed.

King of the free traffic generation techniques.

Post Comments On Blogs In Your Niche
This is easy to do and you can do it quickly. Add relevant comments and make sure you are genuine. Quality makes a difference.

Sign Up To Google Alerts
Google Alerts will send you an alert via email everyday notifying you about blogs that have been released in your niche. Then you can simply click on the email and link through to the blog and post comments on it with a link to your site. This is simple and convenient. Go to Google Alerts to find out more.

Join A Forum In Your Niche
Participating in forums in your niche is a powerful way to drive relevant traffic to your site. Remember, it is the quality of traffic you are after not the quantity. You want visitors that are looking for answers and ready to buy.

Get Traffic Organically
Getting traffic organically is the best way to get traffic. This can be really easy if you apply some simple principles. Structure your site in a clean organized manner where all the relevant files of the same theme are in the same directories. This will improve your search engine rankings which in turn will boost your traffic.

The Best Way To Get Free Website Traffic
There are so many ways to get free website traffic. A lot of these methods send a small amount of traffic. If you want lots of traffic then there are limited free techniques to achieve this.

There is one way that is the king of generating free website traffic and is used by all the professionals online to deliver consistent targeted traffic day in and day out.

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There are plenty of ways to get free website traffic.

I recently tried a few methods and have posted my results below.

Website Traffic Idea 1.
I just posted yesterday a few posts on Yahoo Answers. What I did was post comments in my niche and included a link through to my site as reference. I answered approximately 12 questions. This took about 45 minutes to do this. I answered them well and put plenty of detail. Today I check my logs to see how much traffic it generated.

It generated approximately 4 visitors for 1 day. This is not a lot of visitors for 45 minutes work. But, these visitors are highly targeted. They have clicked my link because they are interested in what I wrote on yahoo answers.

So, Yahoo Answers does work. It sends you highly targeted traffic in very small numbers. This type of traffic is the traffic you are after, but obviously you want a lot more visitors.

Website Traffic Idea 2.
I posted a few comments in about 10 blogs. These blogs were in my niche and I found them by searching with Google Blog Search. After checking my statistics today I can see that the moderators are checking my site to see how relevant my site is and if they want to approve my comment or not.

Really though, after a few days I have not received any substantial visitors. Around about 2 or 3 for the same number of days.

So you can see that these 2 methods do get you traffic, but in very small quantities. They are not going to put a big dent in your visitor numbers. However, they will send you targeted website traffic and the best part is it is free.

There is another method however that sends you long term free website visitors and a good number everyday. Check Out More Here