Free Ways To Increase Traffic To Your Website
Monday, August 4th, 2008It never needs to be necessary to spend a fortune in getting website traffic, and in my experience the most effective ways to increase traffic are indeed free. All it takes is your time and effort.
First, you need to make sure your website contains keyword phrases that have a high search volume but low competition. This will take some research, but it is your most important step as you want to make it easy for people to find your site. Use Google’s free keyword tool to see how often it’s searched for and then use the search engine to see how many other websites are using that keyword - the fewer, the better.
Second, make sure your site contains unique content. The search engines like this. Create pages with unique articles, and make sure your home page is not a carbon copy of everyone else’s.
Get as many free backlinks as you can. You can do this by putting a link to your website in other high quality sites. Use free directories, or trade links with other websites that have a high PR.
Get more backlinks through forum marketing, blogging and article writing.
Tomorrow I’m going to give you some ideas about using blogging and article writing to increase traffic extremely effectively - even if you are not a born writer!
There are plenty of free ways to increase traffic to your website - you just have to put the work in.
Ros Bott
I am a career life coach and writer and I live in the UK, close to the historic town of Stratford-upon-Avon.
I have found that affiliate marketing and the personal development industry are extremely strongly linked, which is why I have added a motivational flavour to my website 
