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In the last couple of years the recession has had a massive effect on almost all of us. Some more than others but the ones who have found themselves bankrupt, out of business or redundant have discovered that it isn’t easy to simply jump back on the horse. Well, I can tell you that there are people who have been effected by bankruptcy and the recession but are making very large incomes simply using the internet.
Any company or individual who has a website needs to have the best possible page ranking for their niche. So when people type in a keyword or phrase to search engines the higher they appear on the page the better traffic they will receive.
The main way most companies do this is buy paying for PPC (Pay Per Click) Campaigns. This involves bidding on keywords with your competitors. Whoever is willing to pay the highest “cost per click” will receive the best page ranking. It works but it can be incredibly expensive. There are plenty of Free ways to create organic traffic to a website. They just take some more time and effort and a lot of companies simply overlook this.
There are some very effective free ways of generating traffic to a website. They simply take some more time and effort. If you know how to use the following methods it is possible for an individual to make a great income by providing a more cost effective service than PPC for your clients.
Blog & Forum Comments: There will be many blog sites and forums surrounding your chosen niche or industry. Search for them and see what the people who leave comments on the site are talking about plus it’s a great way to get ideas for a product or service in order to satisfy demand. Make Sure your blog or forum posts are keyword optimised, have interesting content and include your link! It also helps to agree with the consensus of the forum of blog. Best not to alienate yourself if your trying to build traffic.
Press Releases: Your press releases is one of your most important tools that can drive huge traffic volumes in a short space of time. You can simply use a keyword optimised article or write something else from scratch. The number 1 site for you to do this is PRweb.com. They even have a guide for how to write press releases so don’t panic.
Link Exchanges & Directories: Check out other websites that operate around your target keyword or phrase and see if they have link exchanges. You can then ask to exchange links with that site. Maybe even try link exchanging with another site in the same purchasing cycle. i.e. if you are selling car accessories can you get links from garages, repair centres, insurance brokers, dealerships etc. Try uploading your site to link exchange directories. There thousands of other websites can exchange links with you without you doing any of the leg work to seek them out.
Social Network Sites: The newest and hottest way of marketing on the internet. Get this right and you can sell yourself as a Social Network Marketing Expert. Companies will pay huge fees for this service alone! There are now so many site that have MASSIVE internet presence such as Face Book, Twitter, My Space, You Tube, Linked In etc. This method is a huge part of search engine optimisation. And can drive colossal amounts of traffic to a website.
If you have enough ‘friends’ on these social networking sites you could post a link on all of their “walls” in order to be indexed by the search engines. This will give your site a better chance of a high page ranking.
With all SEO techniques it is important to keep in mind how search engines work. They rely on ’spiders’ or ‘bots’ which are released through the web once a keyword or phrase is typed in to a search engine. Therefore the more times your url appears on pages with the keyword or Key Phrase the higher the page ranking. Google, Yahoo, MSN etc all allow you to register free ads. This can also be an effective tool in driving up you ranking.
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