We recently made first result page on Google, Yahoo, MSN, Live, AOL and other search engines. Here are a few tips on how to attract traffic to your website. Researched on your own independently, they would take a LONG time to learn.

1. Download & install google analytics (yes, it’s FREE) – you’ll need this to analyze trends in web traffic.

• Google Analytics: http://www.google.com/analytics/

2. Make use of other Google webmaster tools (also FREE).

• Google Webmaster tools: http://www.google.com/webmasters/

3. Use free Search Engine Optimization (SEO) tools and references to optimize your site for search engines.

• Key Word Suggestion Tool: http://tools.seobook.com/keyword-tools/seobook/
• Firefox Browser (many free SEO plugins available for this browser): http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/products/firefox/
• SEO for Firefox: http://tools.seobook.com/firefox/seo-for-firefox.html
• Rank Checker: http://tools.seobook.com/firefox/rank-checker/
• Meta Tag Analyzer: http://www.scrubtheweb.com/cgi-bin/webtools/meta-check.cgi
• How to use Meta Tags: http://searchenginewatch.com/2167931

4. Join as many social networking sites as possible (Facebook, Digg, Twitter, StumbelUpon, Mixx, Delicious, Blinkbits, Newsvine, Reddit, etc.).

• When you post a blog article on your website, register that post on each of the social sites (don’t forget to create a link in the post back to your site – sounds redundant, but when you register the post on the social media site, your link back to your own site helps with Search Engine Optimization).
• To get traffic up, you should be posting about 1 article/post per day – doesn’t have to be a deep article, sometimes 3 or 4 lines is enough (it’s the link you need registered on the social media sites that is just as important as the content).

5. Submit your site to the search engines (if you have not already done so).

• Google Submit: http://www.google.com/submityourcontent/index.html
• Yahoo Submit: http://search.yahoo.com/info/submit.html
• MSN Submit: http://search.live.com/docs/submit.aspx

6. Login to your Google Analytics account and watch your traffic go up.

If your business is publishing printed media with revenues obtained from advertising, your subscriber count is important to your advertisers – the more subscribers you have, the more exposure for your advertisers and the more money you can charge for ads. When you get web traffic and can chart and show advertisers your web traffic, it becomes like an increased subscription base because online ads are being exposed via your website to a higher population of readers. Often an "impression" is referred to for online ads – it means a unique time that an ad appeared in someone’s browser.

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