23 Jun 08 How To Get Free Search Engine Traffic
Do you want to get more free traffic to your website or blog from the search engines, especially Google? Do you love the idea of building your site and just watching the traffic come in totally free??
I know that is what I am striving for…absolutely free traffic coming into my site from the search engines and from other sites. It is really the holy grail of internet marketing isn’t it? The absolute ideal is to build a site and then here comes the traffic, but it doesn’t necessarily work that way does it? There are some keys to doing that and a few simple rules to follow. This is not intended to be a technical article on SEO. Instead it’s intended to give you a basic idea on how to get traffic to your site from the search engines.
There are so many gurus out there teaching you how to get incoming links to your site by gaming the system. Let me tell you right now that it won’t work in the long run. Short term you will have some success, but Google especially strives to give the people that use it’s search engine the best content that lines up with what they are searching for. They are going to slap down sites that are gaming the system by generating their own incoming links all over the place without providing good content.
The biggest tip I can give you is provide good content that readers will love and keeps them coming back for more. What a secret, huh? That will do more than anything to drive that search engine traffic to your site. Why? First things first is that the search engines strive to reward good content. When you are writing on subjects that people want to learn about and you write well it keeps them coming back. If they like it they’ll link to it in their blog, on facebook, in del.icio.us, reddit and various other social bookmarking sites. They’ll write about it in squidoo or hubpages and you’ll automatically get all kinds of incoming links without having to do it yourself.
There is nothing better than you can do than to provide great content that helps your readers. When I am writing I am thinking, “what can I write that will help me readers?” I am not thinking, what can I write that will make my readers want to buy something. Of course I ultimately want to make money from this blog, but without traffic I will never make a dime and without great content that will help my readers I won’t ever get any traffic.
If you feel challenged by the idea of writing good content that will genuinely help your readers than I suggest a few things; first, read good copy and content from other writers. Secondly, start writing a post on your blog every single day. Well, I don’t write on Sunday because it is a day of rest and worship for me, but I do write at least once the rest of the days and it definitely sharpens my skills. I am by no means a great writer, but I can see improvement as the weeks go by.
If you want your page to be optimized for the search engines this is the long term way to do it. Don’t expect results overnight, but if you provide the kind of content your target market loves they’ll keep coming back and they’ll get all their friends and colleagues to visit your blog as well.
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Jason DeMars
Tags: good content, search engines, SEO, traffic, valuable content
