14.0 The Truth About FREE Website Traffic
14.1. Getting Free Website Traffic Takes Time
There are literally hundreds of free methods you can apply to drive traffic to your website. This is often more of a problem than a solution. Because there are so many methods around, it is easy to lack focus and as a result your efforts are ineffective in driving any substantial traffic to your site.
This is an important point. If you concentrate on the one method we outline here as the most effective method, you will receive a great deal of website traffic that is real unique human traffic, highly targeted and best of all free.
14.2. There is No ‘Free Website Traffic Tap’ You Can Turn On
Ever seen a website where you can simply go and click your mouse and – bingo the free traffic starts flowing?
No – neither have I.
This is because they don’t exist.
However, you can turn on a ‘website traffic tap’ and get a ton of visitors for a few dollars. Usually this type of traffic is totally untargeted traffic and useless.
Ever seen site like $7 for 10 000 visitors or similar? These sites don't work because the visitors are untargeted. Don't waste your money.
14.3. Aim For Quality For Best Results
If you are starting out online, then you need to first realise that generating free website traffic takes considerable time. It also takes effort. If you are not prepared to put in significant effort and time into generating traffic then you really have only a few options;
1. Give up selling online 2. Get someone else to generate the traffic for you 3. Pay for traffic.
There are no simple answers – so be prepared to work hard and long to generate your website traffic. After saying this, the effort you put in certainly reflects what you get out of it.
You are better off thinking carefully about your overall strategy and producing quality in everything you do and not simply rushing the process. In the long term this really does make a difference.
So – Aim High and Aim for Good Quality Results.
14.4. Best Traffic Tip 1 - Set Up Your Site Well
This might seem obvious but often people just don't do it. I made this mistake and regret it.
Set your pages up well.
Think of your website as a long term process. Therefore, think how big it could possibly get and structure it so it can grow.
Once you create a webpage address - you don't really want to change it. It will get better with age as long as you keep adding to it.
14.5. Best Traffic Tip 2 - Ezine Articles
A lot of people have thrown out the idea of quality content on Ezine Articles since Google updated the algorithm for the hundredth time.
But the truth is Ezine Articles still works well and send quality traffic that converts. So spend the time to write good quality content and post it to Ezine Articles.
No need to go overboard - you just need to post content that is good quality. Quality rises to the top and quality converts well.
14.6. Best Traffic Tip 3 - Facebook, Linked In and the Social Media Giants
Social media is critical to Google. make sure you are posting conent on the big 3 at the minimum.
Facebook, Linked In and Google Plus. There are many more but seriously how much time is there in one day?
14.7. Best Traffic Tip 4 - Google Maps
List your business in Google Maps. Make it have a physical address and contact details. Ensure your contact details are on your website.
This makes a massive difference to Google as you are then seen as a legitimate business.
If you are hiding from Google for whatever reason - then you are hiding from your customers.
Doesn't look good to Google.
14.8. Best Traffic Tip 5 - Legitimate Business
Following on from the point above - creating a legitimate business gives you credibility in the eyes of large companies like Google.
Therefore take it seriously and create something that you are proud of and stand behind. If you produce rubbish and try and make a quick buck - it simply won't be sustainable and will not product the results you are looking for.
Take the time to make it legitimate.
14.9. Best Traffic Tip 6 - Clean Well Structured Website
This might seem obvious but there are plenty of examples where websites are not built well. Using Wordpress makes a huge difference and allows you to build a clean well structured site.
It isn't rocket science - keep your site clean with keywords in the page names and you should see good results in the SERPS.
14.10. Best Traffic Tip 7 - Backlinks
Backlinks are important - however it takes significant effort to get them. If you are trying to get backlinks spend the time getting the links that are relevant to your niche.
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