How To Get Visitors To Your Site For Free - Part I
In my last post I had discussed the strategies you can use to get traffic to your website by paying from your pocket. In this post I will list out all the options you can use to get traffic to your site for free. Since the list of options available is quite big, I will discuss this topic using two posts.
Note that the list includes options you can utilize to get short term traffic and long term traffic to your blog. You need to plan accordingly to build short term traffic and long term traffic to your website. So let us begin with the list of options available to get traffic to your site:
SEO Strategies:
1. Choose the right URL.
The URL you choose for your site should be short, self explanatory and must be easy to memorize. Even search engines do not like sites which have a long URL. It is beneficial if you have a dot com domain which is much easier to remember.
1. Choose the right URL.
The URL you choose for your site should be short, self explanatory and must be easy to memorize. Even search engines do not like sites which have a long URL. It is beneficial if you have a dot com domain which is much easier to remember.
2. Write a web page title.
Write a descriptive title for your site and make sure you minimize the number of filler words like "the", "and", etc. Your page title will be hyperlinked in the search engine results, so make it as appealing as possible without using too many words. Make it as proactive as possible so that readers are enticed to click on it and visit your site. Use some descriptive text along with the niche you promote. If you are blogging about affiliate products, don't simply title your blog as "Make Money Online". A more appropriate title would be "Make Money Online using Affiliate Products". Remember, people recognize your site by its title. The highlighted blue words catch the most attention, so if it is attractive people are more likely to click on it.
3. Add a keyword and meta description tag.
The meta tag should ideally consist of no more than three sentences summarizing the web page content. Include the keywords which are related to the web page content. If you include keywords which are not part of the content this could have a negative impact on your SEO.
The meta tag should ideally consist of no more than three sentences summarizing the web page content. Include the keywords which are related to the web page content. If you include keywords which are not part of the content this could have a negative impact on your SEO.
4. Make sure you include all your keywords in the first paragraph
As I had mentioned in my earlier posts Google indexes only first 101 K of your web page content, so don't waste your time writing an introduction in the first paragraph of your post. Google expects that your first paragraph must contain most of the keywords you are focusing on. Make sure that the keyword density is no more than 2% of the total web content.
5. Highlight keywords using hyperlinks.
Remember bots are blind and they will feed only on what you want to feed them with. So anything which is underlined or highlighted is considered to be important by these bots. Try to hyperlink all your important key phrases and keywords with a site name which essentially contains your highlighted keyword. For example if you select make money online as the key phrase,then you should hyperlink it to a site such as http://makemoneyonline.com/. This is a very important but most neglected part in SEO,so be careful to
the sites you hyperlink to.
6. Design pages which are search engine friendly
Having multiple frames or pop ups on your site can stop a search engine from crawling on to your web page and indexing your site. Avoid JS and Flash navigation menus because search engines cannot read them.Make sure you submit a sitemap to all the major search engines to ensure that all your pages are indexed properly.
7. Create separate page for each keyword.
Rather than stuffing all the keywords on a single page develop multiple pages for your site,each focusing on a particular keyword. This helps your site get better rankings for each of the selected keyword. This would help bring traffic for each of the keyword separately and which would boost overall traffic to your site.
8.Fine tune your pages for SEO
Check your position as compared to your competitors for a particular keyword in search engine rankings.Analyze other page which are ranked higher for the particular keyword and check out what search engines prefer for the particular keywords and optimize accordingly.
Check your position as compared to your competitors for a particular keyword in search engine rankings.Analyze other page which are ranked higher for the particular keyword and check out what search engines prefer for the particular keywords and optimize accordingly.
9. Submit your site to major search engines
You should personally try and submit your site to all the major search engines and check regularly that your recent pages are indexed properly by these search engines.
You should personally try and submit your site to all the major search engines and check regularly that your recent pages are indexed properly by these search engines.
