Thursday, November 13, 2008

The secret to improving traffic to your site

By Zigfred Diaz

Following this simple equation: Websites + Traffic + Ads/Products = Money, is all it takes to make money online. All veteran internet market, webmaster and blogger would agree with me on this.

Now that you've got a website how do you bring traffic in? There are thousands of ways to do this. There are ways that requires you to burn money and there are ways wherein you can do it for free.

There is no question that we want to bring in traffic without spending for it. But how is this done? One subtle way of doing this is to write valuable articles for free. When you submit to free article hubs you not only spread your thoughts all over the internet, you also get a lot of free advertisment for your site since other webmasters or bloggers will also use your free article in their blog or website. Most of the sites or blogs that copies and post your articles usually places your authors biography and a links back to your blog or site. After the lapse of a considerable period of time, these backward links will eventually grow in number and will help to further push your site ranking higher.

Be wary that not all backward links to your site are valuable. Majority of search engines gives more value to backs links whose content are in some way related to your site. Back link building by writing free valuable articles is much more better in promoting your site than joining random link exchange programs, link farms and other methods. The reason for such is because most bloggers or web masters will only copy articles that you write that they know are related to their own blog or sites.

I have proven this through my own personal experience. Even if my blog is less than 3 months old as of the time the writing of this article because I have submitted several articles already to different article hubs, I already got a Google page rank of 2 (P.R - 2). There are sites that has been there for more than year but they still barely make it to P.R - 1. Others are even there for almost two years, but they still have a P.R of 0.

This method however is time consuming. Your patience will surely be tested as you have to manually submit your articles to several free article directories. But take heart because in the end what you are doing will certainly bear fruit.

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