How To Make Money - You Must Start With Traffic

If you want to know how to make money, you have to start by looking at traffic generation. Traffic generation is key to having a successful site and generating income on line. Once you have a summary of the best matching keywords, all that remains is to insert them into your content. Listen to 'stuff' your articles. Google will penalize you for keyword stuffing. The visitors who see your site will be turned off and probably will not respond too well.

 

Tip # 1 - Creating Keyword Rich Content

 

Once you've a listing of the best matching keywords, all that remains is to insert them into your content creation. Now, take care not to 'stuff' them in whenever possible. Google does penalize you for keyword stuffing. The visitors who see your site will be turned off and probably will not respond too well to illegible 'stuffed' keyword content.

 

Generally, a common 1% to 3% keyword density is the rule. For your blog/website copy, your targeted keyword should not be a more than between 1 to 3 appearances per 100 words. If it is a particularly 'long' keyword, then limiting it to a couple of is best; always in the first part of the sentence and in the last sentence in the paragraph.

 

Fairly effective as far is using 1 'short' keyword and 2 'long' keywords per paragraph. When the major search engines index your pages, you will start appearing in the right 'target' bracket. Next your family will enjoy more pages in order to increase the quantity of content in your blog/website until you appear as near to the top of the search results as possible.

 

Tip # 2 - Article Marketing

 

Article marketing is simple, easy to do and you may outsource it for a couple dollars an article on elance.com or ifreelance.com if you do not like writing. Article marketing is just writing an article, and submitting it to article directories. By including a link of your liking in the 'resource box', you'll be gaining back links and the potential for a sale when the person reading the article clicks on your signature link and is directed to your blog/website.

 

However to really make the most of article marketing, the article must be keyword targeted, just like your content, in order to enable people to find it in an article search. The article must be a 'presell' of your blog/website and your product you are offering for sales.

 

You need to be careful especially with the top article sites. If your article is too sales oriented furthermore it will be accepted for publication. Your article should be written in a non-promotional way and should just guide the reader to the resource box which would contain a link to your blog/website or "call to action."

 

Tip # 3 - Forums

 

For almost every niche, there are forums around online where people would flock to discuss the issues that surround it. Naturally, this represents a base of potential traffic that one could tap into, but the question that should be asked is, "How?"

 

Obtaining traffic from a forum can sometimes be a long process. Most good forums generally been established, you may have to establish yourself within the forum so the others there view you as an important and trusted contributor.

 

If you can accomplish this, then your suggestions are bound to be taken more seriously, as will your links. Prior to to this level though, you can start off by including a link in your signature, as is the generally accepted practice with most forums.

 

Make sure you read and abide by the forums rules though, the last thing you want to happen is that you end up getting banned for some offense that you did not realize was an offense.

 

Who knows, once you are very reputable, you could end up tapping into a huge stream of traffic from a forum. Becoming an expert on a forum does lead to a large number of followers be responsible for rapid mass traffic and sales to your blog or website. This is how to make money in this industry.

 

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