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The site has been built, the content has been targeted with keywords and long tail phrases. We’re spending time commenting on blogs and submitting links to directories. So, where’s the traffic?Well, the search engines and the people have to find your website in some manner. There are a few key ways that internet users find websites.- Direct links from advertising- Search Engine Searches- Virtual Word of MouthDirect links from advertising is pretty much what it sounds like. You pay to place your link or your ad or your link and ad in a highly visible place where people click on it and are guided to your website.Search Engine Searches: Google, Yahoo, MSN, Ask, etc. You get it.Virtual Word of Mouth. In the past few years there has been explosion of websites that are not using the traditional static information pages to generate and drive content. A new player has entered the web information realm. You, the user.This is Web 2.0.Social networking, social bookmarking, social searching, social interaction.Okay, so what does this mean for me? I mean really, I just have a local Garden Shop here in Seattle with a new, little website that I’m hoping will bring a little business my way.Web 2.0 properties (websites) can be great sources of traffic. And they’re also a great way to get your website indexed by the search engines quickly.What are some useful Web 2.0 sites?There are literally thousands of user interactive, user driven websites out there. And a hundred more appear each day. You might have heard of some of the bigger 2.0 sites out there: Stumbleupon, Digg, Del.icio.us, MySpace, Facebook, Technorati, Wikipedia, etc. Some of these sites are the most trafficked sites on the web. Millions of users are using these sites on a daily basis. Each of these sites promotes social interaction in a slightly different way. MySpace and Facebook encourage social networking in a 21st century way. They make it easy to find users and large groups of people with similar interests and contact or market to them in a quick and efficient manner.The social bookmarking sites like Digg, Del.icio.us, and Stumble upon (among hundreds of others) have users submit content – articles, webpages, videos, blog posts – and promote them in different ways often employing a form of online voting (digging, thumbs up or down, bookmarking) that encourages more traffic the more users promote/vote for different sites.Wiki’s are a great way to find user generated information. On Wikipedia anybody can go in and write about or edit information on a million different topics. It’s like a giant online encyclopedia that is continually being generated/edited/written by the readers and users themselves.So how will these sites help my small business?Use them. Promote your site with them. Bookmark your content and articles. Submit links to them. Add your link to a wiki. Create a gardening group on Facebook.I hope you enjoyed the tutorial on free web 2.0 tips.

What’s the Secrets of Turning Your Website Traffic Into Sales?

All right now – so you have your site up, and you are very proud of it. You are so happy with your site that it takes a while for it to sink in that although it’s a great site, it’s absolutely useless if only you, your mom and your preferred ‘other’ are the only people to go see it. You need traffic – but not just any website traffic, as there are ways for you to get tons of hits to your site that will drive it up the rankings.

What you need is quality traffic that you can turn into the main thing you and everyone else with a site are after –real traffic, those that buy, click on the ads and all those lovely ways to make some extra cash from your project. Here’s a couple of no-brainer ways to get this going for you.

1) Get yourself an opt-in list – simply have a ‘join our newsletter’ box on your site, you’ll then start building a list of likeminded people (it’s important that they are like minded, so they will get what you send them) then send your specials or updates on a semi regular basis to the list.

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Backlinks: How To Obtain Them And Why They Matter

Backlinks are links coming into your Internet site. They are commonly referred to as inbound links. Backlinks are links on one website, that lead or “point back” to another site.

The Significance Of Backlinks

Backlinks are the lifeblood of website positioning in the various search engines, such as Google, Yahoo and Bing. Backlinks from authoritative sites relevant to a given topic are highly valuable. The more established and high quality the website is that contains the link, the more power it has to help the linked website with its search engine positioning. As your website acquires more high quality backlinks, its ranking will be optimized and climb in the search engine’s directory. Your increased ranking will result in more traffic to your blog or website.

Outside of search engine optimization, backlinks also indicate your personal and cultural audience, indicating who is paying attention to your page.

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How to get your article more page views and traffic?

Writing article and submit them online is easy. All you need to do is just write and post your articles on the paid to write websites like Helium, Bukisa, Triond and so many more. Writers basically get paid for how popular their articles are. Which is why, page views and traffic will determine how much money writers can actually make.

But the truth is, getting traffic to your website is not as easy as submitting your content on the Internet. A good article with perfect grammer does not necessary makes the article popular. Many of such ‘good writers’ may be dismayed and surprised when their work is not generating as much money as some other articles which they felt are not good as theirs.

So how to get your articles more of these much desired page views and traffic?

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