If you come online and put up a website or blog, but feel that your website is just another drop in the ocean and can’t stick out among the millions of other websites trying to get the attention of the rest of the world. Well, attracting traffic is an easy task when you know how the fundamentals of generating traffic works.

Since there are basically 3 ways to drive more traffic; Paying for it, Creating it, and Borrowing it you have a few choices when it comes to adding more traffic. This article will show you a few web site traffic promotion strategies that are completely free in the “create traffic” area.

The first thing you must understand when it comes to get more free traffic it’s the simple fact that thousands of people are just like you, wanting the same visitors as you do. You have to differentiate yourself by becoming more valuable than your competitors. In order to add value to people’s lives you must know what they want. Therefor you are likely doing your traffic generation wrong. You are wondering how you can “get more traffic” when in reality you have to attract it by adding value to their life.

Web site traffic promotion is easy when you follow these few methods to add value:

* Creating and writing valuable articles.

* Uploading and promoting videos.

* Write and share a blog with tips and tricks.

* Become active in

social media

and become an attractive force that gets the attention of your target market.

These are some of the web site traffic promotion strategies that I personally use to promote my 60+ websites, but there are many more ways to use the internet to share a message you believe in. Video is one of the most powerful ways that I attract traffic.

The reason video works so well is because of the instant connection you can create between yourself and a potential visitor, and if your video has enough value it can spread virally and add thousands of visitors to your websites.

The reason I focus highly on video is because the sheer power of YouTube is so amazing. A keyword that is hard to rank for in Google with millions of competing pages can easily be dominated on YouTube and other video sharing websites. So if you are not using video in your traffic promotion right now you’d be well of giving it a good try!

You should also submit articles as often as you can. They can be short and informative, but bring a lot of free targeted traffic to your websites.

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Learn more web site traffic promotion strategies by visiting http://www.websitetrafficpromotion.net right now!

Today was a big day for Google, Bing, Twitter and Facebook

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To quickly recap:

Bing announced they have made a deal with Twitter AND Facebook to pull their updates into the SERPS (search engine results pages).

Hours later Google announced they too have a deal with Twitter and will be delivering Tweet feeds in the SERPs.

This is exciting and interesting and it confirms one thing: SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and Social Media are partners in your success. You shouldn’t neglect either.

No one knows exactly how this is going to play out yet but we’ve all started preparing for it already. Off the top of my head, here are some tips to help you prepare.

Since we don’t know how they will sort through the massive volume and pick the tweets to return in the results, we don’t know exactly how to give our tweets the best shot at getting picked up.

Let’s look at a little logic and a little Google knowledge.

They like history and they like quality. They also like volume.

So, get an account now if you don’t have one already. Get as much history in as you can. Accounts that have been around longer with more tweet history (and more followers) may fare better. (PLEASE don’t go overboard – the last thing we need is people to start keyword stuffing mass volumes of tweets).

Tweet often but keep it natural – and tweet quality. Tweet when you have something to ask, share or teach.

Use keywords – but don’t stuff with keywords. If the tweets are about your industry, you should be using keywords naturally anyway.

If you are going to retweet your messages at different times of the day to be more likely to catch your audience, make sure you vary them a little bit (and again, don’t go overboard).

Use links in your tweets back to your site (to relevant content on your site) and share the link love – link to other quality sites out there. Make sure you use your keyword in your bio and if you are just setting up your username, maybe in your username too? This may or not help. Again, I must say – do not stuff keywords anywhere – not in tweets, not in your bio, not in your username.

This is a good thing, but if people abuse it and bring the overall quality of Twitter down, we will all be sorry.

If you have a feed that sends your tweets to Facebook, or your Facebook status to Twitter, you may want to consider turning it off. If you have the same message in both places you are missing an opportunity for Bing to pick up both. If they are unique, you have 2 chances to get in there!

So, get tweeting and Facebooking! It’s going to be a fun ride!

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Jennifer Horowitz, Dir. of Marketing for http://www.EcomBuffet.com, has written a book on SEO and has been published in many SEO & Marketing publications. She is the editor of Spotlight on Success: SEO & Marketing newsletter. Over the past 10 years Jennifer’s expertise in marketing & Search Engine Optimization has helped clients increase revenue. Follow Jennifer and stay current on SEO, marketing, social media & more. http://twitter.com/EcomBuffet