Free web traffic

is one the most mis-understood subjects online that most people never understand. How do you really take a website or online business and get it to the top of search engines like Google, Yahoo, MSN? What is the secret? Do the “gurus” have a magic button they click that nobody else has or does it still come down to the fundamentals?

Well, free web traffic has a few fundamentals that they never rarely talk about. See, they want to sell you their “special tools” that will magically get you overnight traffic, but the truth is that free web traffic comes down to a few fundamentals…

Value, trust and attraction are just some of the few things that will make free traffic work for you.

See most people write for search engines, when you should be writing for people. If your content becomes valuable enough, it will spread on its own, leaving further work to the people who share it. That means you should focus on delivering value to the person who reads your article, not spam the search engines. There is a huge difference!

If your content sucks, people will not trust you and since trust is the second ingredient, you’ve just lost the game entirely.

And in order to be attractive you have to have something that other person values. That could be a great personality, good looks or something of value, so when you write or create a piece of content… Create it for a person who will read it and listen to your message, they are much more likely to take it in!

Make articles that you write easy to read.

Split them up in shorter chunks of valuable information. A lot of people are “browsers” who overlook your content and just glance at it. If it’s very long and annoying they will not pay attention.

Try using bullets, because that will help with breaking up the text… Here are some benefits of doing bullets.

So the fundamentals are, build trust with your reader by providing valuable content they can use now, but be sure to leave out the biggest treat at your website so they have a reason to click-through.

Speak your own voice so that you become attractive enough for your reader to want to find out more about you. Write when in a natural state of mind, this will help build that trust you desperately need to get the free web traffic you want.

The last fundamental of course, is HARD WORK and PERSISTENCE! If you work hard and multiply, leverage and pass on your value through the internet you open up a lot of doors you never knew existed!

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Chris Stigson got 107,037+ visitors using free traffic methods check out http://www.FreeTrafficMethod.com right now to discover how easy it was and how you could too!

5 Tips for Joining Your First Social Media Site

Getting started on social media can often be deceptively simple. Or it can be intimidating.

The truth is that this is a world of official and unofficial rules. It is easier if you start out knowing what’s what, and this is probably especially important if you’re more of an introvert.

Let’s imagine you already use email, search for information on Google, and read blog posts. But you’ve never joined any social media sites. How do you start?

And the corollary to this – how wide a sharing of this information are you willing to do.

If you’re a book author and want people to buy your book, it’s a good idea to decide that you will share personal (although not private) information to as wide an audience as possible. If you only want to connect online with former high school friends, your target audience is much smaller.

If sharing information makes you somewhat nervous, think about what it means to be personal as opposed to private. Personal is a good marketing book you just read that you can recommend to help others; private is a fight you had with your business partner over implementing the marketing steps recommended in the book.

(And do start with just one while getting your feet wet in this brave new world.)

- If your goal, for example, is to have a wide audience, then Twitter

may be the best choice because of its “open to everyone” format. – If you only want to search for high school friends, then Facebook may be the best choice as you can confine your information to a very small circle and can search by name for those long-lost friends.

- If you want to make connections to help with a future job search,

then LinkedIn, whose format is set up for such a process, may be the best choice for you.

for information on effectively using that site. That’s right, before you ever sign up, read some blog posts that provide guidance on effectively using the site.

Now this isn’t a research project that serves as an excuse for postponing actually joining the site. Just learn a few of the basic “rules.” And if you do this step, you’ll be way ahead of most other people who start on social media without first doing any research.

And why not learn this on the site itself? Because most of these sites have inadequate information for newcomers or an abundance of information that overwhelms newcomers.

Plus, to encourage you to sign up, the site’s home page says something like: To join now just do this. And it’s only after you’ve provided your name, email, password, etc. that you’re left wondering “What do I do next?”

choose a username carefully. You want to think about seeing this name used all across cyberspace as lots of social media sites pull information from other social media sites (with your permission, of course).

You may initially think, for example, of choosing the name of your first book. But what happens when you write a second book? Or perhaps using the name of the book won’t work well for a site that is focused on a non-book arena.

Keep in mind that whatever you do on the Internet can live forever. So this choice of a username should be considered carefully and for continued use in the long-run. (Once you’ve established a good online reputation with one username you don’t want to start at square one again with a new username.)

sunglasses and a baseball cap are not blocking people from totally seeing your eyes. (This does not have to be professional-photographer quality but should not be blurry.)

This photo should be one that will also work on social media sites you will join in the future because you want consistency across these sites. You want consistency to help people recognize and connect with you on more than one site. (The same for your username.)

Keep in mind that the photos for Twitter are quite small. And even if you’re starting on Facebook, only include a headshot of yourself. Do not include other people and preferably not animals and other props.

By posting a good headshot of yourself you’re signaling that you’re interested in connecting with people – real people such as yourself – and you’ll be off to a good start on your first social media site.

Now that you’ve read these five tips for starting on your first social media site, what are you waiting for? Join the cyberspace social media community today. ___

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Phyllis Zimbler Miller (@ZimblerMiller on Twitter) has an M.B.A. from The Wharton School and is an Internet business consultant whose power marketing website is http://www.MillerMosaicLLC.com . If you liked this article, you’ll love her free report on “Power Marketing’s Top 3 Internet Marketing Tips” ‘ claim your report now from http://www.millermosaicllc.com/twitter-business/