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Free traffic... continued.
5. Search engine keywords and keyword phrases
Your
web site content is very (very) important.
Remember, the content on your web site is the
most important aspect of your web site when it
comes to free traffic via the search engines.
While you might think you could simply surf the
web copying other peoples content for your site,
don't do it, it will hurt you in the long term.
It's not a good idea since the search engines
(especially Google) will know that your "stolen"
content is duplicate content.
How does Google know? Because it has already
seen the
information somewhere else on the Internet
earlier, it knows what date it was seen, and it
knows that the content was seen at the other web
site... first. If it sees it on your page for
the second time then well, you lose. While
Google might not ban you from their search
engine, they certainly won't hesitate to push
you to the very end of their search results
pages. Have you ever
seen the last page of Google results, you know
where the sentence starts off with "In
order to show you"
etc. These are either additional pages from the
sites in the search results list, or they're the
duplicate sites and their pages.
Bottom line... when it comes to your site or
blog content, make it unique and make it yours.
Read all you can about your chosen subject
online, process it in your brain, mix it up with
your own personality, add a touch of
creativeness, stir it some more, shake it if you
want and then just start typing like there's no
tomorrow.
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You do not have to be an award winning writer,
you just have to communicate in your own
personal style and get your message across to
your readers.
Serious, technical, comical, relaxed, teaching,
mellow - whatever, it's your site so do it your
way. When you're complete with a paragraph or so
then go back and edit for clarity, check typos
and FTP that baby to your site! If you truly
cannot write or you just don't have the time, then
you can opt to
search the web for free lance writers that will
write your content for you.
Search engines (the
search
engine big list - new
window)
generally look for keywords within your content,
they then compare them to other pages within
their index server database, pull the snippets
of page information from the document server,
rank them and then
finally display them in the order of relevance on
their search results page. It's a little more complicated then that,
however that's the basic flow. So, you having
the right keyword or
keyword phrases within your site content is what will get you
into the search results to start.
Here's a search engine position checker widget.
We've pre-loaded it with a web site URL and a
keyword phrase, you can click on "check" to see
how it works. You can also check out any other site -
just input any domain name and keyword
combination you like and click the check button.
Bam!
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When
Google sends out a Google Bot (short for robot), to
crawl (review) your web site all it's really
looking for is text, nothing more. It can not
read music files, video files or your graphics
so keep this in mind when building or updating
your web site... text is very important, the
keywords you use within your text is even more
important.
OK,
before we move onto article writing to increase
your traffic for free we highly recommend you
read up on
how Google crawls your site, then go and
grab your
free sitemap builder. It's the same free
software that Margie and I use here, in fact we
made
our XML site map with this same "freeware". It
works great and it's free - what else do you
need to know!
6. Write articles that direct traffic to your
web site
Submitting articles to the many "article" sites out there does a
couple good things for you as far as
generating free traffic to your site. First of
all you can place a byline at the bottom of your
article so after people read your article they
can visit the link you've placed there - direct
referral traffic. Second, depending on the
article site itself, Google will see this link
pointing to your site which could
increase you Page Rank or your search result
position - both of which will increase your
traffic.
What
you don't want to do is what we mentioned at the
beginning of this section - copying someone
else's article, then plastering it on an article
site (remember
this?). Put some thought into what
you write, let it come naturally, inform and
educate and you can do very well with free article
traffic generation in the long term.
Most
often writers link back to their web site or
blog. It's usually best to link back to the page
that contains the same subject that
you're writing about, why? Because if you've
written an article about Persian cats, and the person
reading your article is reading it because
they're interested in Persian cats, then you
sure don't want to link to your general "pets"
web site home page, you'd want to link to the
Persian cat area of your web site. Make it easy
on your reader and help them get to the area of
your site that is the most similar to your
article, and the most important to THEM.
If
you're writing about pets in general, then
linking to your pet home page is fine and would
be expected.
If you decide to give article writing a shot, we
recommend you visit our three favorite article sites:
Find Articles,
Go Articles and
Articles Factory.
There
are of course thousands of other article
submission sites
out there, here's the Google search for the
search term "article
site", yep more then 250 million listings for
that particular term - whew! We do recommend
that you do a little research on any of them
that you find, like and consider submitting your
articles to. Some article sites use the "no
follow" html attribute which in most cases
doesn't literally tell the robots not to follow
the link and spider the page at the end of the
link as much as "do not score" this link within
the Google Page Rank algorithm. What does that
mean to you? It means that if an article site is
manipulating the article posts so that you do
not receive credit for the article link,
then the only thing you're receiving is
direct traffic from those people reading your
article and then clicking on your byline link at
the bottom of your article.
7. Join forums, establish your expertise,
and earn free traffic along the way.
There are thousands of forums available to you
in virtually any "niche" market or subject you could ever
imagine. Joining a forum and then posting
questions, answers or general comments tends to
give you credibility on a particular subject
matter. It's similar to article writing (just
not as in depth) where you can either
put a "signature line" at the bottom of
your post, or a link to your web site in your
forum member profile. Over time people will begin to
trust what you say, follow what you write, and
go to a site that you recommend.
The
potential problem... that you are seen as a
forum spammer, a seller, or just someone that
posts for the traffic. Remember that even though
traffic might be the main reason for you joining
the forum, you certainly don't want to make that
your sole focus, if you do your posted comments will be
edited, or deleted or worse yet people will not trust anything you say
and you could even get banned from the site.
This is a very good forum post:
"I
agree with most of what Bob is saying as far as
there being money to be made on the Internet...
however there are other ways to earn an income
online besides just PLR's. I find PLR's over
rated on income potential for the average Joe,
over hyped by all involved (do we really need
any more of this out here) and the market is
over saturated shortly after a new PLR is
released. If you're not writing the PLR, doing
the secret handshakes to line up your JV's with
the biggie email list owners, then you're really
just the little guy left with some measly profit
scraps. For me I've always had the long term
vision of stable and consistent online profits
and to do that you need; a web site site with good content,
some SEO work,
affiliate companies, targeted links and virtual
hands off income generation except for when
you're updating
affiliate links as needed. For Bob to
say "PLR's is the only way to make money online"
is not only false, it's almost as if desperation
has set in and the only way to get anyone to
even consider looking at PLR's is to slam all
the other methods of generating online income.
Nothing against you personally Bob, I just have
a beef with anyone that can say something like
that on this forum and actually believe it
himself or even attempt to assume anyone else
would. Is there anyone here earning an income
beyond PLR's and affiliate programs? If so I'd
love to hear more success stories here on this
board"
David the sincere Forum Poster /
www.affiliatecompanylist.com
- Member since before sliced bread
This is really bad forum post:
"Hi
Bob, good post. Anyways, hey there
everyone I'm making money online through
affiliate companies and affiliate programs (whoa
doggy), so much in fact that I just bought my
second beachfront executive home in Florida and
another (my third) BMW, wowie-zowie huh? You
want some of that green cash money, then join me
(click the link below) and get it early [at the
top] with my team and do nothing because I will
do all the work for you (yep, me). Join now, today, before
it's too late, and before all the hot (sizzle)
spots are gone, don't YOU miss it. Big Moola,
buck-a-roonies, cashola, go now and join, don't
think about it, you can always work some
overtime later to recoup your "investment". No,
no, no just leave the baby cry for now you can
feed it later, that grass is gonna grow even if
you leave this post to go cut it so stay here, and forget
about those hunger pangs (eat twice as much
tomorrow, you'll be fine) just sign up through
the link below. Hey, this is not forum spam,
serious, I agree with whatever Bob said so don't
delete this post and everyone, for God's sake
sign up now before the World comes to an end - you'll
surely thank me later!"
Steve the soon to be banned Forum Spammer /
www.tinyurl.com/jqwpe9
- Member since this morning
So,
get involved in forums, post subjects about
things you
know, help others, answer questions, get
passionate and get your point across without
being rude (assertive is OK, rude is not). But
don't waste your time spamming a forum board,
since it's also a waste of time
for the other members there. Be sincere, inform
and add value to the forums. That free traffic...
it will
come.
8.
Lastly, we highly recommend you join and then promote free traffic generating
programs, they do work. Now here's the
kicker... You can join them free and then
"actively" surf web sites to earn your free
traffic, you can view this
actual surf page to see what it's about and
this our favorite traffic program called "Fast
Freeway" discussed below. You'll see how you're
viewing a members site (in the lower frame) then
when the timer counts down to zero your traffic
credit is earned, on the right is the total for
the session today and it'll go up by 4 traffic
credits each time you "surf" by clicking on the
yellow "next site" button.
While you can earn free traffic by actively
surfing other members sites, the true key to
success with earning free traffic from these
programs is building a referral team. To do this
you join your chosen traffic program, locate
your 'referral link" in your free traffic
member back office, then
place your referral link on your web site like
what we've done below with a few of our
favorites. When others join you some will
actively surf which will generate traffic for
you, and others will promote their free traffic referral link
which then generate even more free traffic for you...
everybody wins.
Note: Once our site URL rotator is up and
running we'll be pulling member referral links
from the referral down lines of the below
traffic programs. We will then place the rotator
on this page so that YOU can benefit directly from
the visitors to this page, we'll be helping to
build your traffic team while we're building
ours - teamwork.
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