The Free Traffic Blog

I used to really dislike Google when I was a newbie internet marketer because Google would receive a lot of my hard earned money. I wasn’t yet an expert at Adwords, so at times I would spend advertising dollars that got me zero results. Eventually I learned and was able to profit from certain keyword phrases while using Adwords. This was great, but it created for me a type of love-hate relationship: I loved that I was getting traffic to my site, but I hated that so much of my profit went to pay Google. I didn’t start to really like and appreciate Google until I discovered the secrets to getting free website traffic. Now, I rarely pay Google for my advertising and absolutely love the free traffic that they provide.

One of the first ways I started to appreciate the way Google gave me free advertising was by noticing that Google was ranking my articles. When I submitted my very first article, I only submitted it to EzineArticles.com. When I went and looked at Google Analytics for that site, I was fairly pleased to see that I was getting a little bit of traffic from that one article. After searching, I also noticed that with certain keyword phrases, Google had given me a high ranking for that article. Needless to say, I now make an effort to write and submit a lot more articles because of these high rankings. Thanks Google!

A second way that I learned to appreciate Google was through my video marketing. I was introduced to certain software programs that allow you to submit your videos to multiple video sharing websites. I learned that if you title your videos well and add relevant tags and descriptions, then you have a good chance of getting your video ranked on Google. For one of the videos I submitted, Google gave me the #1 spot for a phrase that should have rightfully gone to a huge corporation. That corporation actually contacted me, thinking that I was somewhat of a guru in the industry, and said that if I wanted, I could do an interview with their company’s spokesperson!

A third little trick that I have used in order to get a lot of free website traffic has been growing my blog daily. What I really like is that fact that Google has started to spider my blog very often, allowing pages and pages of my website to be indexed by Google. When I get this free traffic to my blog, I make sure that I have an email opt-in box and information to the side of my blog that lets people know that I have even more great things to offer them on my “normal” web pages. Once again, thanks Google!

The fourth way that I know to work really well for free Google advertising is to follow what I call RSSEO (Really Simple Search Engine Optimization). Part of my RSSEO is to continue to theme my web pages while still using titles and meta tags. I also always make sure to submit a sitemap to Google at www.google.com/webmasters/tools. Some website owners get frustrated because Google isn’t spidering, indexing and ranking their web pages. Most people easily fix this problem by submitting these sitemaps.

So those are just 4 of the really great techniques that I have been able to use in order to get more and more free traffic to my websites. I am grateful because I have been able to stop my pay-per-click campaigns for most of my sites. If I want more traffic, then I focus more on these free traffic techniques. I could get more traffic by paying for it, but I’d rather motivate myself by building my own traffic and looking forward to the larger amounts of profits that I will receive due to my efforts. Why pay Google for your advertising if they are so willing to give it to you for free?

Daniel Pereira

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