Increase Your Web Traffic

Over the course of the next several days, we will be publishing an excellant article by Derek Gehl on increasing your web traffic.

This article includes very important information to increase your traffic. Here is your chance to learn from one of the gurus.

Now, for day one:

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Today I'm going to tell you how to increase the kind of web
site traffic your business really needs...


AND build your crediblity...

AND improve your ranking in the search engines...

AND get your customers talking to others about you...


... all with a simple four-step process that won't cost you
a single dime.

Sound too good to be true? It's not!

Let me give you a quick rundown of the plan before we dive in:


1. You're going to find a handful of keywords that the
ideal visitor to your site would use to search for
your product

2. You're going to plug those keywords into your web site

3. Then you're going to write a SHORT article that
contains those same keywords

4. And finally, you'll distribute your content all over
the web and get people passing your information on
to other people who will be interested in what you
have to offer


You'll be surprised how quickly and easily you can get this
strategy going -- AND how fast you'll see an impact on your
traffic numbers when you put yourself on the radar of people
who are looking for what you provide.

Let's check out the first step in a little more detail...


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STEP ONE: Set up your web site for maximum "searchability"!

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If you haven't taken the time to...


* figure out the keywords your potential customers might
be using to search for your product

AND

* place them throughout the copy on your site


... your traffic is going to be sluggish right off the bat.

How are the people who really want your information supposed
to find you?

When I tell people that they've missed an important step in
their traffic-building strategy, they always ask me: how are
you supposed to figure out the right keywords for your web
site?

Here are the two tools I recommend to help them with the job:


* Yahoo Search Marketing's Keyword Selector Tool
( http://inventory.overture.com/d/searchinventory/suggestion )
is a good place to start your investigation. You just
type in a word or term you think people in your market
might search for, and the Keyword Selector Tool will
tell you how many people searched for that particular
term in Yahoo Search Marketing over the last month.

It will also show you a list of related words and
phrases, and tell you how many times people typed those
terms into the free search engines over the last month.

This is a great way to find out how many people may be
searching for information to solve a particular problem,
and give you a picture of the demand for your product
on the Web. But best of all, it gives you tons of ideas
for keywords that you might never have thought of.


Once you've generated a list of useful keyword ideas, you're
ready to dig in and do some serious research with Wordtracker.


* Wordtracker ( http://www.wordtracker.com ) goes into more
depth to show you not only what people are searching for
online, but also how many other web sites are competing
for the same audience.

Basically, it keeps a record of how many times a
particular keyword or phrase was searched during the
past 90 days across the Web.

When you enter the keyword phrases your market is
searching for, you search the Wordtracker database of
over 330 million searches (or "queries").

You're looking for search terms that are popular, but
don't have too many sites competing for them.

You can also pop all of this detailed information into
useful reports that help you determine which keywords
and phrases will bring you the most traffic.

To check out Wordtracker and get a step-by-step guide
to the process, just head to:

http://www.marketingtips.com/wordtracker

and click "Tour" on the navigation bar.

Wordtracker is a paid service, but you can sign up for a
day for under $8.00 and a week for under $27.00. It's a
great investment.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Derek Gehl specializes in teaching real people how to start profitable Internet businesses that make $100,000 to $2.5 Million (or more) per year. To get instant access to all his most profitable marketing campaigns, strategies, tools, and resources that he's used to grow $25 into over $60 Million in online sales, visit: http://www.marketingtips.com/tipsltr.html

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We will see you tomorrow for Step Two

Hank and Dot
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