Copyright (c) 2008 Matt Helphrey

Many people make the mistake of purchasing guaranteed visitors to their website. It’s not that the traffic does not get delivered because it usually does. The problem is that these visitors are not targeted visitors seeking the information that you have. Most, if not all the visitors were manipulated into visiting by pop ups or pop unders.

The chances of you getting any sign ups or sales are very slim with any guaranteed visitors programs. There are some ways however that you can get FREE targeted traffic to your website. Here’s a few tips to do just that.

The best way to get free traffic is through the search engines. This is the best type of targeted traffic you can get to your home based business. Think about it, they are searching for exactly what you are offering. In order to receive this type of free traffic to your website, you have to research and place your keywords, then work hard at getting back links. Your website will rank higher for your keywords as you increase your back links.

The research and words you place strategically throughout your website is called SEO or search engine optimization. Do not underestimate how important this step is to making money online. Your website will rank on page one of the search engines for your particular keywords if you do this correctly.

To receive free traffic to your website from the search engines, you want to find keywords that are getting searched on a frequent basis but are no too competitive. Once you have found the words you would like to use, you’ll want to place those words in your page head/title, meta tags, and throughout the web page. You’re looking for a keyword density of 1-3% or higher.

After you have SEO’d your website properly, you’ll want to start getting back links to your website. Do this by writing and submitting articles, posting in forums, submitting your website to directories and link exchanges, and leaving comments on blog posts.

The search engines will look at the number of back links you have and rank you accordingly. The sites that have more back links will rank higher and are considered authority sites.

So in order to increase your back links to get the high quality free traffic to your website, you need to work at it every day. Make a “to do list with chores or tasks you should accomplish on a daily basis. This will help keep yourself focused and to stay on track. Doing something every day will ensure your website free traffic rather than your competitors.

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