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If you’re just searching the web or have a affiliate website online, guess what? Visitors to your website is very important. Also the websites you visit help the owners get free traffic. Imagine traffic as a major highway full of automobiles searching for a exit. And the exit is your website.

Comcast, MSN, AOL, Qwest and many more networks are the lanes of the Internet highway. Now the millions of cars on this highway are people. These people are looking for favorable exits which are websites and weblogs. And your goal is to make your exit look more favorable to attract as many cars as you can.

I’m going to show you how to increase online traffic FREE. Meaning as in the example above; show you how to make your exit shine brighter than all other exits. Drawling vehicles to your exit. If you’re not familiar with a technique called “keyword optimization” you can spend major dollars alone doing this.

I’m not claiming to know everything or to be the only one with the Holy Grail on how to increase online traffic. But I will show you a simple nontechnological technique to draw FREE targeted prospects to your website. I will keep this short and simple due to time limitations I leave my contact information for more detailed questions.

I want you to know I’m gearing all my information to affiliate products because this is what I prefer to sale. Because with affiliate products there is usually no startup costs. You also receive a free affiliate link from the owner of the product. I usually sale affiliate products from clickBank.com in your spare time check them out it’s worth it!

If you have a large advertising budget, it’s okay to purchase paid advertising. But this is normally not the case for the beginner affiliate marketer. You see saving time and money is the main objective of the affiliate marketer. Our goal is to advertise effectively for free.

Pay-per click advertising is very effective yet it can cost you as much as $600 annually. You can visit (AdWords.google.com) or (enhance.com) for more pay-per click information. But you’ll need a plan to receive FREE traffic.

Now your plan should begin with the proper (keywords) for the product you’re trying to sale. Example: if you’re selling apples your main or primary keyword should be apples. But this keyword is too general meaning competitive. Because there are literally thousands of people selling apples online. As a beginner you must work your way to the top.

Climbing from the bottom to the top should be your goal when competing for keywords in your particular market. By targeting keywords with 3 or more words describing (apples) is far more effective. Example: (red shiny little Apple) is more effective than the word (apples).

Now there are search engine tools online available to verify if people are searching for your particular product. These tools show you exactly what people are typing into the Google, Yahoo or Alexa search engines when looking for your particular product. So to increase online traffic in the search engines you will need: freekeywords.wordtracker.com

Or simply type the words “free keyword tools” in any available search engine. Using these tools type in the name of the product you’re selling to see what keywords people are using to locate your product. Then analyze these keywords starting from the BOTTOM.

These are generally called (Long tail keywords). Remember your website success to increase online traffic is all about effective keywords. For more detailed information about the effective use of keywords please visit: goodkeywords.com they have free tools and information.

Once you have found the right keywords for your affiliate product, now let’s change our affiliate website link to match the keyword we’ve chosen. Remember in our early example: Apples is your primary keyword, and (Little red shiny Apple) is your Long tail keyword.

Remember affiliate website links don’t look pretty because there are payment code’s embedded in the link. Example: my ClickBank.com affiliate link looks like this:http://candyc77.apples.hop.clickbank.net my paid code identifier is candyc77. This doesn’t look good. But to get paid I need this link!

To make this link more pleasing to the viewers of your website you need to change this link to something more pleasant. By visiting the website www.shorturl.com you can get a shorter more pleasant looking affiliate link like this: Apples.2fortune.com for around $1.88 a year.

Now that you have a nice looking affiliate link and a list of valuable “Long tail keywords” let’s find a better traffic vehicle to use. And guess what this vehicle is? It’s called a web log better known as a blog. You can get one free at www.blogger.com or WordPress.com.

I don’t have time to explain the awesome advantages of using a Web blog instead of a website promote your affiliate products. The RSS feed advantages are tremendous and you can learn more at whatever Web blog site you choose to join above.

The RSS feed is already installed so you don’t have to worry about that, just enjoy promoting your product. And no this one thing,(search engines love RSS feed) Now when promoting your affiliate website with your new Web blog use your primary and secondary and long tail keywords to promote your affiliate website.

Remember in the earlier example, your primary keyword was apples which is to competitive for now. You might use (candy apples) as your secondary keyword but this is still to competitive for the beginner. To increase online traffic you should begin with “longtail keywords”.

Longtail keywords are keyword phrases with 3 or more words used to describe a search. Like “small green apples.” Your audience is smaller but your competitive ability is far greater. Free traffic is your goal.

Use the long tail keywords you have chosen in the description of your weblog to describe your affiliate product. Also include the better looking affiliate link you’ve obtained from www.shortURL.com. Apples.2fortune.com is our example linked we acquired from www.shortURL.com. As .com links improve affiliate sales. I highly recommend a .com link to increase online traffic.

To better understand all of the above keyword and affiliate link techniques, you need to visit the websites recommend. There is some homework involved but the knowledge you gain is worth it. You have a entire community of bloggers to present your affiliate product to and increase online traffic to your web log. Now to really target your market you need to visit: www.technorati.com and search their blog directory by clicking on the word (blog) near the top of the site.

All of these websites are very important and deserve some studying. If you learn how to use “longtail keywords” and the benefits of a Web blog, and learn the power of this website: www.technorati.com (ask questions) this general guideline will increase online traffic to your web blog. Now you have the competitive edge for free online traffic, let’s get busy.

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