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So you have a blog and want to make some money online. Just by putting up a blog and posting about all the things in the world doesn't gets you money. You need to have some goals, want some traffic to your blog, so that whatever you posts reaches someone. When you have enough traffic to your site other sites will start linking to your site and thereby increasing the traffic through linkbacks.

You can always place advertisements in your blog, but if there is not enough traffic to your blog, its of no use. What is the use of placing advertisements inside a jungle where there are no humans to see it? So if your aim is to make some money online, you need a blog/site with enough traffic, better linkbacks and above all of this, good content.

There are many ways to increase your traffic and a lot of sites don’t have the resources to generate more traffic for their site. Main issue will be paying for advertisements, as these paid advertisements sure will bring traffic to your site. But you can also increase traffic to your site without paying a single penny. Of course these ways are not much impressive as the paid advertisement programs, but these free ways are also important. They will sure get some traffic to your site/blog. Many sites have articles that offer you various tips and guidelines in how to generate traffic using only free methods.

Above all these free methods you need to have the perseverance to do some hard work and should do some research to drive traffic to your site. These free methods alone cannot do anything unless you are interested and is ready to do something. This methods doesn't get you much traffic as the paid advertisements, but these method will help you in standing out from the vast sea of sites fighting to get noticed.

• Optimize Your Site for Search Engines: In order to optimize your website, you need to ask yourself 3 questions:
  
  1. How are people searching for my blog contents, products and/or services?
  2. Which sites are winning for those searches, and why?
  3. Which searches can I win?
  
  
  After you've identified a number of search phrases that can get you some visitors, or you think can get your site/blog up in the search results , you are ready to create a search engine optimization plan for your website. Here are several tips for building a website with search engine optimization in mind.
  
  
  1. Every page on your site must have a unique title tag, meta keywords tag, and meta description tag.
  2. Follow W3C recommendations for HTML document structure. Begin the body copy of your page with your keyword phrase, and repeat it as needed as the theme of the page throughout your copy. Feature your keyword phrase prominently by including it in headers and making it bold or italics.
  3. Use text navigation on your site, and use the keyword phrases you have selected as the links. If you cannot use text navigation, include a footer on every page using text links.
  4. Establish your site by submitting to the major directories, The Open Directory and the Yahoo! Directory, then build your link popularity by submitting to web directories, search engines, and requesting links from related websites.
  5. Be patient. A search engine optimization project can take quite some time to work.



• Get links to your Site/Blog : This doesn't need a single penny to be spent. Find some sites/blogs with same content as your site/blog and contact the blog/site admin to have links to your site placed in that site. This will be based on a mutual understading that "I place your links on my site, you place my links on your site.". Both party will be benefited from this and normally no one discourages this.



• Participate in a Banner Exchange program : It won't cost you anything, and will lead to a few extra visitors. Plus, you're spreading your brand all over the place.



• Publish posts with GOOD & QUALITY CONTENTS : Write articles for your own blog/site regularly. This will help you to win on the search engines and gives your visitors a reason to come back over and over. Almost all of the search engines tracks the keywords and phrases you use in your site and the wya they are used. The content in your site should be something that provides the visitor some information as well as it should be entertaining. This will make the visitors to come back ot your site/blog regularly.




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• Use Images in your Posts : Using images in your posts makes it more attractive and different. Also an image can convey a lot to the visitor than the whole post. This will give more experience for your visitors and also to you. You might have to spend some time to find the appropriate image for the psot but believe me, the time is worth. I can see the rate or visitors in my posts with images are more than those wil no images.



• Make use of Newsletters and Feeds : You should make your site/blog feeds available to the readers. Don't think that the visitors who read the posts through some RSS Readers are not visiting your site. They are and will be counted as visitors your site/blog. This is really important and can be done without any cost from providers like FeedBurner, aideRSS and so on...



• Use KEYWORDS :Make use of keywords all over your post and blog/site. Search engines look for keywords and phrases in your site. You might have to track down the keywords that gets most visitors for your site. This you will get from most of the site couter providers or make use of Google Analystics, Statcounter or Sitemeter. Use keywords in the alt property of the images in your site or title property of the links in your site. Also try to use keywords in your HEADERS.



• Make use of Online Forums & Communities : Find forums and communities which have contents or discussions same as the content of your blog/site. take part in discussions and do post in forums. This will make yourself popular and you can also leave links in these forums and communities which will lead visitors to your site/blog.

All the steps described will help you in getting free traffic to your site. All you have to do is to do some extra research and put some hardwork together. These guidelines will sure bring you traffic and will increase your chance in the fight ot get noticed. Main thing is you have to be patient, as these methods takes time for your site to get noticed and for sure.