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Targeted Web Traffic is getting visitors to your site who are interested in what you have to offer. These visitors have to be able to find your web site first. The two most common ways visitors will find your site is by typing in a word phrase into a search engine or linking to your web site from another web site. There are several ways to get your web site on the search engines results page and on other web sites. Many of these ways are free. Here are three free resources you can take advantage of to get targeted web traffic to your site.

Writing articles and publishing them on article web sites is a great way to bring attention to your web site. And sometimes these same articles will quickly rank on search engine results pages. This gives you another opportunity for visitors to find your site. These articles should have keywords or search phrases in them that visitors use to find information on your website topic. For example, if you have a website on aquariums. You would want your article to have phrases in it about aquariums or fish. These keywords should be considered in all three ways I discuss to get web site traffic.

Keep in mind, one article will not get the amount of targeted web traffic you are looking for. You will need to write and submit several articles focusing on the topic or niche of your web site. Most article web sites do not allow you to put links to any web sites in the body of the article. However, they do allow a bio box about the author to be used and a link can be placed in this text that points to your web site. Before publishing any articles, review each article web site’s policies.

Social media sites like Squidoo or Hubpages are sites where the members create and provide most of the content for the site. These types of sites allow you to directly link to your web site. So, you can create a page on the site that discusses the topic that your web site is about. You can include links to your web site allowing the visitor to the social media site to follow the link or click through to your site. This then brings targeted web traffic to your web site because the visitor wants more information on the topic of your web site. As with all 3 of these web site traffic ideas, these social media sites want good content and not one big advertisement. Being spammy and not providing any useful content may get your page deleted. And there goes all your hard work.

Blogging and Microblogging are similar and are both ways to get targeted web traffic. Blogging can be done by having your own blog web site or using a community blogging website. Wordpress has both types. I believe it is better to have your own blog so you are in control of the blog contents. Blogging is a platform that encourages the question “What’s on your mind?” to be answered. This type of site allows you to put in your own content, create links to your sites or other sites, similar to social media sites. Updating your blog weekly is a must. The search engines love new content. These updates can be short. Microblogging are sites that encourage very short entries, some only a couple of lines. One of these sites is Twitter. If blogging asks, “what’s on your mind?”, microblogging asks, “what’s on your mind right now?”As with blogging, you can link to your web site with microblogs, but be sure to provide good, informative content.

Using all three of these traffic generating ideas together will help bring in a steady stream of traffic. All of these ideas should be done on a consistent basis to keep the flow of targeted web traffic going to your site. Although I have only listed a few resources, there are almost unlimited resources that can be used to get web site traffic.

This is my blog launch formula. It is an absolute beauty. Follow this strategy and you are GUARANTEED to successfully launch ANY blog in ANY niche. I won’t make any wild claims about the number of visitors you will receive, nor the number of pages you will have indexed in Google, nor the number of mentions you will have in Google, suffice to say, you will be delighted with the return on time and effort invested.

You will have noticed that blogs and blogging play a big part in the 7 Sexy SEO Secrets. In fact, that is the 7th and in my opinion, the sexiest seo secret of them all; BLOG.

Here’s the launch formula that I personally use when I’m serious about a blog. You can trim accordingly for less important blogs, but trimmer beware, who knows where the secret sauce lies?

Task + How Long?

1. Keyword Research and Domain Purchase 1 hour

2. Install Wordpress blog 30 mins

3. Install 2 tag plug ins, change the permalinks to /%category%/%postname%/, insert ping list, insert header. 30 mins

4. Create my Feedburner feed and submit RSS feeds once posts have been completed. Also add my Buzzboost to display in sidebar 30 mins

5. Insert sign up form using Aweber 30 mins

6. Install Google Analytics and submit Google Sitemap 20 mins

7. Set up RSS Bookmarker to take care of my social bookmarking. Could also use AutoSocialPoster 30 mins

8. Claim blog at Technorati. Also submit to Entrecard (worth buying a few ads) and BlogCatalog. 30 mins

9. Write 5 unique articles and post on blog. Submit same articles to Ezine + Article Marketer 3 hours

10. Install WP-O-Matic to publish RSS feed 30 mins

11. Start a low budget PPC campaign on Yahoo, MSN or Google for selected keywords. 2 hours

12. Create a video and post to video distribution sites. Also post video on my site. Also bookmark video by adding video RSS Feed to RSS Bookmarker. 2 hours

13. Link to blog from 4 of my other blogs, including 2 of my blogger blogs. Add FAQ, privacy and contact pages to my site. 1 hour

14. Add my site to links network. Submit RSS Feeds. 10 mins

15. Completely rewrite 25 PLR articles and set them up for sporadic posting over the next month or so. Submit those too. 8 hours

16. Submit site to directories using a directory submission service 30 mins

17. Write and submit a press release 1 hour

18. Write and submit various classified ads 2 hours

19. (Potential to buy links but Google may frown on this practice. Buyer beware!) 1 hour

20. Forum posting (genuine, not Spam), include Warrior Forum Special Offer 5 hours

21. Install ad tracking codes on certain campaigns to measure return on time/money invested 1 hour

22. Rifle shot approach to top listings in Google and other target sites, contacting each site individually and exploring advertising/joint venture opportunities. 5 hours

TOTAL, give or take 40 hours

* Please note that it takes about 5 minutes per account to register for each social bookmarking sites. So, if you don’t have any accounts set up as yet, please allow yourself around 3 hours to set up 30 odd accounts.

So, there you have it. Appreciate it that this might be a bit overkill for some blogs but thought it might cut out a lot of guesswork for others.

There you have it, The 7 Sexy SEO Secrets. They, in case you missed any, are:

1. Long Tail 
2. Off Page 
3. Ranking page ownership 
4. 1 way links 
5. Keep it fresh 
6. You don’t need SEO! 
7. Blog

Good luck on your journey! Remember to always ask for help and to seek expert advice from top SEO services if you need it.

Many times problem arises when you purchase website traffic services and the service provider do not insert keywords while doing directory submission. As a result your increased web traffic drive is hampered adversely. This fact clears how vital it is to use keywords and phrases. Whichever website traffic service provider you choose it should provide the chance to choose the keywords for directory submission.

Keywords are the basics in the procedure for searching the relevant information through the search engines. Maximum percentage of targeted website traffic use keywords in search engines and respective links to locate the information. Every major search engine uses their own official algorithms so that the system generates most appropriate and exact matching results to the keyword’s request. You might feel that search engines produce results in fraction of seconds, so it is a very simple process and no extra efforts are their in it! But the truth is search engines have programmed mathematical formulas and put into system that scans and indexes all type of websites in just fraction of second. Importance of keywords always remains on top priority for getting targeted website traffic.

Website content should have clearly defined and structured keywords/phrases so that the fact is established that your website can meet up the needs of the keyword request of the users. Frame out well-structured keyword strategy leaving no chance for your competitor to takeover your traffic share! Wherever you have text see to it that it contains significant keywords, it can be articles, blogs, social websites, images, directory submissions, link building, etc.

At any cost never practice ‘keyword spamming’, it increases the chances of your websites being banned by search engines. Construct content with relevant keywords in a meaningful way and not use it repetitively just for the sake of it.

When you do purchasing of any website traffic services ensure it that they allow you to select your preferred keywords. It is possible that unlike marketing campaigns have some similar set of keywords. Select the keywords cautiously for the purpose of directory submission, also the directory submission heading should be written carefully.

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