No matter what you do, do not make the mistake of buying guaranteed visitors to your website. These visitors rarely ever sign up or buy anything because they are not targeted customers. The best customers are the free ones you get from the search engines. Here's how to get free traffic for your website.

The chances of you getting any sign ups or sales are very slim with any guaranteed visitors programs. There are some ways however that you can get FREE targeted traffic to your website. Here's a few pointers to make that happen.

The best way to get free traffic is through the search engines. This is the best type of targeted traffic you can get to your home based business. Think about it, they are searching for exactly what you are offering. In order to receive this type of free traffic to your website, you have to research and place your keywords, then work hard at getting back links. The more back links you have, the higher your website will rank for your specific keywords.

The research and words you place strategically throughout your website is called SEO or search engine optimization. Do not underestimate how important this step is to making money online. If you do it correctly, your website will rank on page one of the search engines for your particular keywords and your traffic and sales will show as well.

To receive free traffic to your website from the search engines, you want to find keywords that are getting searched on a frequent basis but are no too competitive. Once you have found the words you would like to use, you'll want to place those words in your page head/title, meta tags, and throughout the web page. You're looking for a keyword density of 1-3% or higher.

You'll want to start getting back links to your website once it is SEO'd properly. Do this by writing and submitting articles, posting in forums, submitting your website to directories and link exchanges, and leaving comments on blog posts.

The search engines will look at the number of back links you have and rank you accordingly. The higher numbered back link sites are considered to be authority sites in that niche and will rank higher for their keywords.

So in order to increase your back links to get the high quality free traffic to your website, you need to work at it every day. Make a "to do list with chores or tasks you should accomplish on a daily basis. This will help keep yourself focused and to stay on track. To ensure your website receives free traffic rather than your competitors, you will need to work on it everyday.

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