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by John Spohr, Joh

So just how can you get more traffic to your web site and how much is it going to cost you? The answer is zero, zilch, nada, nothing, also known as “Free”. So here they are, my Top 10 FREE Traffic Generation Tips:

1. Write and submit articles. Write quality unique new articles, not articles that are rehashed or provide no insight to readers.

2. Write and submit press releases. This is nearly as good as publishing articles.

3. Write and ping blogs. Always link back to your website with your blog posts. Make multiple blogs and have them all link back to one primary site.

4. Make sure that your web site is listed in DMOZ: http://dmoz.org

5. Advertise your web site in the appropriate categories on http://craigslist.org. Post your ads in the largest most populated cities in the world.

6. Use your signature (with your web site URL) in niche related discussion boards and forums that you frequently visit if they allow signatures.

7. Review related products on http://Amazon.com. You can try and direct some customers to your web site from your competitors by providing your own web site URL if the product is similar.

8. Review websites in your niche on http://Alexa.com to try to direct some of their traffic to your web site by including a reference back to your site.

9. Review some related products on http://epinion.com

10. If you buy a product that you actually like, then leave a testimonial (with your web site URL). You should get some traffic from that web site if your testimonial is left with a URL.

These traffic generation tips are provided to you courtesy of John Spohr, M.S.M. of The Wealth Formula and EDC Gold.

Also see “8 Ways to Promote Your Business or Website”.

This upcoming article will additional offer tips on the best way to promote your site free or very inexpensively.

Here are my top ten tips for choosing effective domain names:

1. Choose a dot com domain as your main web site domain name. The .com generally performs better within the search engines and is the natural choice for business online.

2. Register your county domain also. If you are UK based then register the ?.co.uk? version and set-up a 301 redirect to your main site.

3. Register common misspellings of your main domain and set-up 301 redirects to your main site.

4. Register a domain which contains your main keyword. Establish your main keyword by summarising your business in one single word. Keep it to one word only - it can be done - not a phrase or 2 words, just one single word. Make this your main website domain name.

5. Search for a domain that contains this word and as few other letters as possible. Do not use numbers or hyphens, Just use the main keyword and a few other letters. The main keyword can be at the beginning or the end. It doesn't matter that much.

6. Discover the top 10 keyword searches related to your site's main theme. You can use a tool such as ?Wordtracker? to find out the most popular keyword searches. Register a domain for each popular keyword term and create a ?content? site on each domain name. The content can be articles, resources, downloads, forums etc... Create the content in sub-directories in the main domain. Each sub-directory will have a theme related to the domain keyword. Make sure the homepage of each content site links to your main web site. In this way you are funnelling all related searches to your main keyword website.

7. Register the .org version of your main website domain name. MSN tend to favour .org domain names so you can create a doorway page for the .org to achieve a high MSN ranking.

8. Use a domain registration service that registers domain in real-time and can provide a 301 redirect service and full POP3 email.

9. Search for expired domain names that could have existing back links to provide immediate traffic and quick search engine listings.

10. Register domain names for ?key-in? traffic. This is traffic from a visitor who simply enters a series of the keywords direct into the browser followed by a ?.com? In other words, the domain will be a series of the most popular keyword terms related to your site followed the domain ending. These type of domains are not as search engine friendly but can provide instant free traffic for your site.

Finally, domain names are a relatively cheap means of driving traffic to your site and if used effectively can increase your search engine ranking and drive free targeted traffic to your website.

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John Spohr has sinced written about articles on various topics from Internet Marketing, Make Money Online and Site Promotion. John Spohr, M.S.M is a 27 year veteran of the Computer industry specializing in B2C eCommerce systems. For more information on EDC Gold visit his site online at