How To Get Traffic For Your Website Or Blog

If you have a home based business there are chances you also have a website or a blog. The key to making money with these is generating traffic. The more traffic, the more you will get money. Here is some information on how you can get that traffic. I wish I had read an article like this when I was starting out. It would of helped me start making more money quite faster.

The first way, but mind you it takes a long period of time, is to use SEO. What is SEO? SEO is an acronym for Search Engine Optimization. In other words, you have to optimize your website, so it will be Search Engine friendly. You want search engines to pick up you site and be in the top results when someone searches something specific to your content. To do so, you must do the following:

-Use META tags
-Use a keyword rich content
-Registering to search Engines.

There are other steps to SEO, but for a beginner's guide, they are not of importance yet. I don't want to give out too much information and loose you. So let's take apart the different things I named. First the META tags. In your webpage code, you have (...) .In is between these to elements of code that you will put your meta tags. The two most important being:

1- This is where you will put the description of your website. Put some keywords that have to do with your site, but it still has to be a readable description. This is the brief text that is shown when your website comes out on google to describe your website.

2- This one is also very important. It contains all the keywords you can think of that can be in your site. What I mean, is that you put every search phrase or word, you think a person might type in google that might relate to your site content. Once you have found your list of keywords, put them as much as possible in your website. The more your keywords are present on your site, the better ranking you will get.

Don't forget, to make sure your website will be crawled, you should register it with most search engines. Search google, with the term "Add Url" and you will most surely find at least where you can add an url to google. Do this with Yahoo, MSN and any other search engines.

Another way to get traffic to your website, is to use traffic exchange. Traffic exchange is simply what is says, an exchange of traffic. Every time you visit a website through the traffic exchange program, they will send someone to your website, and vice versa. This is another great free way of getting traffic. Most of the time you must sign-up, but it is for no cost, except receiving a newsletter once in a while. I suggest this method, since it is not expensive at all, and if done effectively, you can get a lot of traffic.

The final way, I will give to you guys to get traffic to your website is quite simple: forum advertising.

All you need to do, is find forums on the net that have to do with your website. In those forums, start participating, talk to as many people as you can. Try to get some credibility. At the same time, in your signature (You can update this in your user profile on most forums), just put a link to your website. You will see, more and more you get implicated and credible, more people will visit your website.

In conclusion, I just want to make sure you guys don't forget some important information. When you get some traffic for your website, you are using some bandwidth. Inform yourself with your host what your monthly allowed bandwidth is, because if you don't, you might get a bill that is higher than you expected. Bandwidth is chargeable when you surpass what your are allowed to use. I just thought a heads-up was of great importance.

Don't forget this is only an introduction to different ways you can get traffic for free and for beginners. If you have some income to spare, their are other ways to get traffic, either buying mailing lists, buying guaranteed traffic and such. This is not the subject of the article, so I will not get into them, and anyway most paid services have customer support that will be more than glad to help you out!

The author of this article runs http://bloggingto-thebank.blogspot.com/ which is his blog that is intended to help people make money online.

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