It’s great when an article or blog that you have just published gets lots of traffic and there is a huge spike in your stats, but this is usually transient. Wouldn’t it be better to continue to get lots of traffic and potential earnings, even years after you first published your article?
Using Search Engines To Get Lots Of Free Traffic
In order to get lots of traffic over a period of years, it is essential to get your articles, blogs and websites listed in search engines. Once they are included you need to make sure that they will be found by searchers. The easiest way to do this (unless you have lots of money and want to pay for prime positions) is to utilise keywords in your articles and posts.
First of all add your article or blog to the search engines. I use a service which is called Submit Express and is free of charge. It is accessed from a website, so doesn’t require any downloading. This adds your article to more than 40 search engines. The others will pick the article up from here but I always add to Bing manually as this is, in my opinion, the most important search engine on the internet.
Now you have added your article to search engines it is available for searchers to find. The more relevant your article is to that searchers requirements, the higher up the list of offered sites your listing will be. For example, if I put the keywords ‘lots of free traffic’ into a search engine and my article only mentions ‘lots of free traffic’ once, or twice, it will be quite low down in the list. However, if ‘lots of free traffic’ appears half a dozen times, it will be nearer the top and easier to find.
Keywords Help Draw Lots of Free Traffic to your Articles
This doesn’t mean that you should repeat the keyword so many times that the article doesn’t make sense and reads poorly. This is known as ‘keyword stuffing’ and is sometimes actually penalised by search engines.
Select your keywords and use them in your article title and in the body part too. Offer the reader good information so that he or she will remember your name, bookmark your article, or even recommend it to a friend. This is how you grow ‘lots of free traffic’ to your articles and blogs.
Choosing Keywords that Get Lots of Free Traffic
I have found that it is sometimes a case of hit and miss when choosing keywords, but using something like the Google Keyword Tool or Wordtracker will help. The higher the popularity score of a keyword, the more competition there will be to be at the top of the search engine listings. So, if you select one that is very popular you probably won’t get much in the way of results. Choosing something lower down the score board is more likely to get your listing seen and bring lots of free traffic to your articles.
September 21st, 2009 at 2:57 am
Good advice as usual, Louie. I have started adding mine to Bing, but the Submit Express is new to me. I’ll check it out, thanks!
September 21st, 2009 at 3:25 am
Thanks for the tips! *off to check out bing*
September 21st, 2009 at 5:36 am
This is really helpful! Thanks!
September 21st, 2009 at 8:10 am
Splendid piece of Information Louie!
Thanks, I have just added submit express to my favourites so I can research that later on.
Kind Regards
Tim
September 21st, 2009 at 8:39 am
Good info Louie.
I’ll be checking it all out.
September 21st, 2009 at 3:29 pm
Great infor to know! I was just wondering how to get more traffic to my articles! Thanks!
September 21st, 2009 at 5:28 pm
This is very useful information. I submit my articles to Bing too. I don’t know if it does any good but it can’t hurt.
September 21st, 2009 at 8:20 pm
This is a very helpful article, Louie. I use Submit Express, but I haven’t used Bing yet. Thanks for breaking down how to use keywords effectively. Other articles have mentioned using keywords to get traffic, but they rarely say how to use them in articles that will help your articles get more attention.
September 21st, 2009 at 9:00 pm
Thanks, Louie, I need all the information I can get re. getting more reads. I barely have time to write let alone bookmark.
September 22nd, 2009 at 3:53 am
Useful article, thanks Louie.
September 22nd, 2009 at 4:27 am
I’m wondering how do u add articles to Bing? I registered on the site as I did not have a windows ID. can u just guide me how to do it?
September 22nd, 2009 at 6:11 am
Sameen: Just go here and fill in the boxes:
http://www.bing.com/docs/submit.aspx
September 22nd, 2009 at 6:56 am
you are right. search engines are the keys to healthy traffic.
September 22nd, 2009 at 8:31 am
Hi Louie, thanks for this useful article. I will try Bing and Submit Express.
September 22nd, 2009 at 3:27 pm
A great article as usual! I remember when you had introduced me to Submit Express. It’s a great feature!
September 24th, 2009 at 8:01 pm
This is a fantastically helpful article. Thank you! I didn’t know about Submit Express and Bing and the keyword tips were great, too. A++
September 25th, 2009 at 12:50 pm
Excellent advice Louie Jerome..thank you!
September 26th, 2009 at 10:39 am
Another good, practical article, Louie.
September 27th, 2009 at 8:52 am
Thanks for some great tips – I will check out Bing.
October 2nd, 2009 at 12:35 pm
Great one
October 9th, 2009 at 4:57 pm
Bing o , a full house of tips, I must submit!!
October 28th, 2009 at 11:22 pm
thank you for the tips. i will bookmark this for future reference.