Friday, November 13, 2009

Free Ways To Increase Website Traffic

By Kim Rivers

One of the great things about the Internet is the starting a business on the Internet requires minimal investment and monthly outgoings. Of course, you need to get the maximum amount of traffic to your website that you can possibly achieve in order to achieve success and get a larger customer base. However, to increase traffic to your website you don't touch you need to spend a cent.

Though there are plenty of paid and effective methods to increase traffic to your site you will find it much better and much less risky in the initial stages of your business ventures that you use the free methods. This way you have nothing to lose and you should find the results are quite good.

If the main goal of your website is to earn money through advertising revenue, then it is important that you include keywords which are profitable. Regardless of how you use keywords, you will probably find some of the online keyword generators useful and you can also find programs which tell you how much you keyword is worth when an advertisement relevant to it is clicked on. This is also important if you are advertising your business as it will give you an idea of how much is going to cost.

Another fantastically effective way of increasing website traffic is by that of article marketing. Article marketing basically means that you write articles and submit them to the various article directories on the Internet. There are many of these and they are all free. The articles you write should be approximately 300 to 500 words in length and should be about your niche.

The good thing about many of the most effective methods of increasing web traffic is that they are free. Search engine optimization then article marketing cost absolutely nothing however, if you have an enormous amount of content required for your website or multiple websites, then you may want to hire freelance writers to complete the job for you though this is another matter.

The amount of back-links that you have to your website directly govern the search engine ranking so it is a good idea to join various forums and make sure that your website is listed on the various bookmarking sites. Using affiliate programs can also be profitable and making sure that you have a link to your website in as many places as possible is of utmost importance.

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