Organic search engine optimization is the lowest cost with highest yield way to make money from your website. Regardless of what it is that you sell, if you get targeted organic traffic, you can make more money and spend less on advertising campaigns like pay-per-click.

Here are five things you can do right now that will help you get more organic traffic:

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Populate and optimize all the relevant tags on your site. Make sure you’re optimizing the title tag, html h2 tags for subheadings, image tags (name your pictures with relevant keywords), meta descriptions for the SERPs, and keyword tags.

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Make sure your site has a sitemap for search engine robots to be able to read and navigate through your site quickly. Many website templates have this already but if yours does not, you’ll find plenty of free options that can help you even if you’re not very technical.

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Do some off page SEO as well as what you’re doing ON your website. Off page SEO can include things like: article marketing, writing press releases, making HubPages, Squidoo Lenses, and social bookmarking your individual articles.

Every internet entrepreneur should make search engine optimization part of their routine for their website. Learn more about SEO for free with Matthew Bredel’s 10-part SEO Exciter Series, which provides helpful lessons on various aspects of making your site attractive to the search engine robots. Getting high rankings in the SERPs will get you more targeted organic traffic which is not only free but historically demonstrates much higher conversion rates than paid traffic.