Trying to generate website traffic? how's that going?

Well first of all search engine optimization is not difficult to do to drive organic search engine traffic to your website, it just takes a small amount of keyword research to help make your site rank well for your chosen keywords.

Some people will tell you that you need lots of keywords to add to your website, but really you only need three to five main keywords that you want to aim for using effectively within your website content, try and think about the most profitable PPc keywords and the less profitable keywords that are being used in the AdWords program, this will help you gauge the keywords in your niche area.

The key areas that you should think carefully on are:

• On site optimization - This is so that Google and the other search engines know exactly what keywords to index your site under.
• Your domain name should ideally have your main keyword contained within it.
• A main keyword in your title tags.
• Include a couple of your keyword variations in your header tags, H1, H2, H3.
• Also Your meta tags need some keyword sprinkling.
• Don't forget your image tags too on any images you have on your website, this shows up as alt="" tags in your code and you place your relevant keywords within the quotes.
• Include keywords in your anchored link text for related links to redirect to relevant pages, things like this help the search engines follow and index or rank your pages according to the links you place.

Of course there are other factors to be taken into consideration such as keyword density, different sources online don't really know the specific density but it is estimated to be anywhere from 2% to 6% for every 100 words, and this really makes sense, of course we now know that keyword spamming will do your site harm, so no one does this anymore.

The more you concentrate on your sites seo the more likely you are able to generate organic search engine traffic and that is free traffic for all, it's just a matter of keeping up with anything that Google might let slip, little nuggets or breadcrumbs have often been leaked before by previous seo experts who have worked for Google or another search engine.

So the more we learn and maybe trial and error the optimization of our websites the more we might generate some quality and indeed targeted free traffic.

There are many link directories out there now and my top tip is to catalogue all the ones you submit your links to, free link directories are the best to submit to when first starting out.

Go for all of the top link directories like Dmoz, but additionally backlinks don't just stop at link submission directory sites, other places you should be concentrating your time and effort into are article directories if you can be bothered to write quite often, this is the preferred method of generating traffic to your site.

Other ways of increasing your in bound links are:-

• building a blog
• Write a few press releases every now and then.
• Post on social networks and forums related to your site.
• Try exchanging other links with websites that are in your niche.
• If you buy someone elses product, send a testimonial to that product owner and your url will be a good backlink.

Video uploading sites have become a good source of traffic for many websites and typically the traffic that is generated can be rather quickly indexed by the search engines, the title and descriptions of the videos play an important part obviously with your sits main keywords and more often these videos do not have to be professional videos or even that long for that matter.

By the use of short 3 minute videos you can start to generate traffic that is also targeted and a useful promotion, speaking as a marketer though there are some rules to follow that will boost your traffic.

• Make sure your videos are short and not overly too long, people are busy and don't want to be stuck watching a video unless they have the time to watch a tutorial type video.
• Don't sell anything on your short videos, your main website should be for that sort of thing.
• Overlay your website url on the video, at the end usually creates a call to action that is effective.
• Get straight to the point on your video, make it useful to the viewer and no long introductions at the beginning of them.
• Always try and relay to the viewer the key benefit.

Try and go for the high traffic video uploading sites, also there is a site called TubeMogul were you can upload to over twelve top high traffic video sharing sites and analyze the results from within your free account, for best results try and have a handful of videos ready to upload surrounding a main theme within your niche and remember to write a detailed and keyword description and title for each video you do.