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Social Network Marketing WebSite traffic rules. As the world goes, so goes the internet. Rather, should I say, as the internet goes, so goes the world? How about this riddle... Name an ever changing beast, requiring to be fed continually, that can manipulate the rules at whim. Hmmm... I could be referring to:

1. Our Government

2. Our Spouses

3. The Internet

Wrong. I am speaking about the latest, greatest beast of all. Google. I love Google. I have to. So do you. If we do not play the game by the rules of Google, then we lose. It's as simple as that. No whining, crying, begging, or pleading will change the rules. Google is one beast we have to obey or we will pay, the penalty being "no site traffic."

"No site traffic," will destroy a business, an entrepreneur, an artist with a dream, a salesman with a family to feed, a merchant, a corporation, an internet marketer, a socialite blogger, a social marketer... One thing I think we can all agree on is... We all need site traffic.

Someday there will have to be a better way to get site traffic. Come on all you genius minds out there, you wonderful techies... help us out here. Millions of people are typing in a few choice keywords and only getting back a page of 10 sites at a time to sort thru... it can take quite a while to click through 2 or 3 pages, now who has time for that?

For instance take the sarch word phrase "get traffic" (every webmasters goal) there are only 26,800,000 webpages that contain those keywords, and people generally only have the time to sort through perhaps 2 or 3 pages, which is about 30 links.

If you are not one of the lucky 10, 20, or 30 top websites that get placed at the top of the search pages, or you are not rich enough to pay for privileged position, you will never get traffic from the Google search engine. Now some might take offence to my calling the top positions "lucky." They might claim that it is their knowledge and smarts that has put them at the top. Honestly, we know that Google works in mysterious ways, and we are not supposed to keep up with their site selection process. If we all figure it out... then what?

Thankfully, there are many creative ways to get site traffic, but even then Google is making the rules, which they seem to change as often we change underwear. If you can't beat them, join them. So here are some methods that no longer work. These are things NOT to do to get site traffic.

What Not To Do To Get Traffic

(Psst... Tip. Old Techniques... They won't work)

1. Play Keyword Paragraph

2. Talk To The Search Engine

3. Make Your Site Flashy (Search Engines Do Not Care For Flashy...

4. Forget The "alt tags" and "desc" On Your Images

5. Hide Keywords In The Background

6. Avoid Making A Sitemap

7. Don't Redesign Your Site

8. Never Add New Content

If You Would Like Some Modern Methods Of Getting Free Site Traffic Try Social Marketing And Get Social Traffic.

Now that we've covered what not to do... let's discover what we should be doing to keep our beastly friend Google happy.

What To Do To Get Site Traffic

1. Be Honest With Your Writing. Be honest with your content and honest with your keywords. Anything less than honest doesn't deserve to be on the front pages of Google or any search engine.

2. Write To Humans. People like you and I, keeping your tone conversational, simple, and friendly. As far as lacing keywords in every sentence, well... the search engines can now tell if a sentence does not make sense.

3. Google Cannot Read Flash. Flash may be loved by humans, but it is ignored by search engines, if you get no site traffic, you get no love.

Google Loves Words. Write, write, write, and if you will not write... hire a writer.

4. You Will Get Points From Google If You Describe Your Image With A brief Sentence... Using Some Keywords.

5. You Can't Trick Google - Not For Long. You want your keywords to show up in your article text about 2% of the time.

6. Google Loves Site Maps! Create a site map (Google the instructions) and don't forget to ping Google so they can re-index your site

7. Keep Your Site Fashionable But Professional. If you have jumping bunnies, trickling hearts, or outdated wallpaper, it is time to update.

8. Keep It Fresh. Update your website atleast once a week. Start a blog. Blogs make it very easy to post often. People, and search engines (Google, in particular) love blogs. Blogspot is good for beginners and wordpress is a more advanced system , which I recommend. I use wordpress and I post daily.

I hope you have enjoyed and found useful, some of my rantings and ravings about... Feeding Google appropriately and getting site traffic.

Well, for now I've nothing left to say but... See you at the top! ;-)

Your Online Friend

Mia