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You can now access the Traffic Transformer website and see for yourself what TT can do for you.
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You can get targeted web site traffic and make your website successful by building links to your site. One way to do this is by article writing.

Writing Good Quality Articles To Get Targeted Web Site Traffic

It is obvious that good quality articles get read more often. By submitting articles to article directories, however, you face the possible risk of your links being filtered out by the search engines, especially if your article is not so great. But a good quality article, submitted especially to article sites can go a long way in getting your website free targeted web site traffic. You can aim for two things here – one is to get back links out of the sites which republish your article with your resource box and the other is find good websites that will reproduce your article.

Once you submit a good article making sure you’ve got your resource box in place with the relevant keywords, you will be found by other webmasters who will want to republish your article in their newsletters and send them out. Through this, you will experience a rush of free targeted web site traffic since the webmaster’s recipients will click your link provided in the resource box of your article. This way, you get linked to good quality sites and rise in search engine rankings as well. What if the search engines filter out your link? You will still continue to have the links where your content is published.

Now lets see, you’ve got targeted web site traffic. Go a step further and contact the webmasters who republish your articles. They will probably be interested in doing it on a regular basis. By retaining your active links along with the articles on their sites, you will ensure getting targeted web site traffic when the people who click those links arrive at your website. This is a very effective way of building links to your websites. Continue to produce good quality content that is unique and relevant to your website and it will be a great long term method that will serve you consistently.

You can also look at various other sources to obtain web site traffic through your articles – namely article directories, link exchanges with sites that relate to yours, listings in site directories, etc. The main thing here is to submit excellent quality articles.


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If you are like most other business owners on the Internet and world wide web, you are interested in productive search engine marketing. If you are just starting your business, you may have at least a basic understanding of how important productive search engine marketing is. Through this article, you are provided with three top ways to get started with productive search engine marketing for your new business enterprise.

The most fundamental factor that you need to keep in mind when it comes to productive search engine marketing is that you cannot engage in search engine marketing in a vacuum. In other words, you need to develop a comprehensive marketing plan that includes productive search engine marketing is one of its elements. Search engine marketing and other promotional strategies need to go hand in hand for your ultimate success.

The second top way to get started with search engine marketing is to engage the services of a professional. Even if you’re an intelligent person but, if this is your first for ray into running in owning an Internet based business, you are wise to retain the services of a professional. This is particularly the case when your ultimate goal is productive search engine marketing. There are professionals and business today that specialize in this area of Internet promotion who would serve your interests well.

The third top way to get started on your way towards productive search engine marketing is to make sure that your website is designed in such a way to maximize search engine marketing effect. This includes making sure that the content at your website has been optimized for the best search engine results. Once again, in this regard, you might wanna consider retaining the services of a professional to assist you.


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Free Search Engine Optimization Guide

There’s nothing better then free traffic & when that traffic
is highly targeted towards your product or service it’s
even better because you’re guaranteed to make some big bucks.

One of the best sources of free traffic is the Search Engines &
I just finished reading (for maybe the 5th time!) “SEO Made Easy” a free guide to Search Engine
Optimization & it’s something you should really read & implement. Here it is:

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You should also check out the amazing Search Engine Optimization software, SEO Elite
created by Brad Callen, one of the most prolific SEO experts today.
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And at the very least sign up for his free eCourse there. It
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To Our Success,
Mark

P.S. Be sure to leave your SEO success’s, mistakes, tips, strategies & advice below.


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Free Tools That Will Help Your Search Engine Optimization campaign:
Overture Keyword Tool
WordTracker (freetrial)

Any blog or website owner who wishes to get traffic without constant promotion and marketing will have to use some form of search engine optimization. While search engine optimization is a hotly debated topic, most experts agree on two things: in order to best optimize for search engines, you must establish reciprocal or one-way inbound links; and you must also optimize the content on your pages for specific keywords.

The first phase of any search engine optimization project is researching those keywords. Before you start to optimize, you must determine which keywords will pull the most traffic for the least amount of effort. You can do this by purchasing a subscription to Word Tracker or you can do this by using Overture Inventory to search “aggregate search” records for all possible keywords for which you could potentially optimize your blog. Record all of the returns you receive for an Overture Inventory search you perform on your given keyword. This keyword should be the main top for your blog our website, using the results you can become more specific as to which keyword to optimize your site for.

Your next step will be to analyze the site or page supply for your keywords. You can do this by searching for each of the returned keywords on Google. Not only will you want to record the search return data in terms of numbers, but you will also want to look at the top competitors for those keywords (i.e., are the PR 9 home pages or are they a deep page for an unranked site?) Optimal keywords for search engine optimization purposes will have high search counts, low site returns, and low-quality competition in the top slots.

Your next step should be to perform onpage search engine optimization. You can do this by using your selected keywords as titles and headers on different pages of your blog. You will then want to fill those pages will good information about the keyword in question; additionally, you will want to optimize it for a keyword density of 1.5%. This means that your keyword will appear approximately 3 times in every 200 words. This is not an exact science do do not worry about it too much, just make sure that your keywords feature heavily throughout your site.

The last step in your search engine optimization campaign is to perform offpage optimization. You can do this by submitting links to directories that contain a selected keyword in the link title. You can also join link swap programs and swap with other high-quality blogs or websites.

Getting links can be highly time consuming but there is software to speed up this job.
It’s called SEO Elite.

Using these steps you should get your SEO campaign off to a flying start I also recommend you check out The A to Z guide to SEO for a complete course on search engine optimization.
http://unorthodoxtraffic.com/SEOatoz/index.html


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‘Cheating’ the search engines

‘Cheating’ the search engines
By Spencer Kelly
BBC Click

We have come to expect a lot from search engines.

Type in a phrase, and we not only expect it to find millions of relevant websites, but we also expect it to list the best or most important sites first.
Woe betide a search engine that requires me to click to page two of the results before I find the site I am looking for.

Generally they do a decent job but, up until very recently, if you were to search on the term “miserable failure”, top of the Google search results was the official George Bush page on the official White House site.

This is an example of how even the biggest search engines can be manipulated.

Essentially, the web is a collection of pages, all linking to each other.

If you are searching for something, search engines like Google, Ask, and Yahoo! will first find all the pages they think are relevant.

Then, crucially, they need to decide which order to display search results in. One of the most important factors in deciding how relevant particular sites are is to count how many other sites link to it.

The more references, or links there are to a site, the more important it is deemed to be.

Because lots of people quote and link the BBC website, for example, the BBC site is seen as relevant and a good hit. That is why the site ranks quite highly for many search terms.

An underground movement of bloggers exploited this fact, to create a “link bomb”. They encouraged thousands of their peers to include a link to the Bush homepage in their blogs, and label it “miserable failure”.

With all of these links, the main search engine algorithms were fooled into thinking this was a relevant result for that search term, and Bush was driven to the top of the rankings. Mr Bush had been link bombed.

At first, the search engines ignored it – it was not their job to censor search results, however controversial.

Nor did they censor other link bombs – googling “liar” would show Tony Blair’s homepage first.

Link bombs are usually self-defeating – as they become successful, other popular sites begin to discuss the bombs, and end up becoming more popular than the link bomb, driving it from number one.

Apostolos Gerasoulis, co-inventor of search technology for Ask.com said: “I don’t think this is the problem though. This is just fun.”

“Why we don’t remove it, or why the search engines don’t remove it, is because as long as we give relevant results for most of the queries that you type then we’re OK.

“The impact of this bombing, as it is called, is minimal, insignificant. It might be two or three examples,” he added.

Google decided to tweak its search algorithm to spot link bombs, and the miserable failure dropped away. On other search engines, such as Ask, it remains high.

The link bomb actually achieved what any business would love to have – the number one search result in their category.

The ideal place to be is in the centre of the search result, the so-called natural search result, online marketer Fadi Shuman, explained.

“You get 80% of the clicks from the natural results. That is where we all want to be. The way to achieve that is through search engine optimisation.”

Optimisation is produced by making the website as visible to search engines as possible and having other sites linking to it.

However search engine optimisation also has a darker side.

Blacklisted

In February 2006, BMW Germany got into hot water over its website.

The problem was that the site was laden with keywords which customers could not see, but which search engines could.

They were there specifically to boost the rankings. Google has rules to guard against so-called black hat methods – specifically, “don’t present different content to search engines than you do to your users”.

Once discovered, Google blacklisted the site and dropped it from their search results altogether until BMW redesigned the site.

Jason Duke, search engine optimiser, said: “We try and persuade people to link to us, whether that be via content, whether that be via methods of creating controversy in the marketplace.”

It is an ongoing battle of sorts, between the search engines and the optimisers who would love to work the system to their clients’ advantage. Although both sides prefer to call it an uneasy truce.

Mr Gerasoulis added: “If they build the right page, it’s OK, if they build a great page, it’s OK. But the problem comes when they really try to cheat you.”


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