You’ve spent months building your first website, assuming that once it was done, people would ‘just find it’. Unfortunately that isn’t the case, you have to work to get traffic. Then, as our online businesses grow, we continue to work on ways to get more visitors to them since more traffic translates into bigger lists, faster testing and most importantly more profits. Today I want to share an easy 3 step process with you that I use to continue to generate increased online traffic to my sites each week.

Step 1 - Find Your Keyword

The first step is to use your favorite keyword research tool to find keywords that you can rank for easily. These are usually long tail keywords that consist of three or more words. You want to pick one you can write an article about that’s helpful to the readers of your site. Then move on to step two.

Step 2 - Add A Page To Your Website

Now it’s time to write the content. This will be a new post on your blog or a new page for your website. When you write your title, include the key phrase toward the beginning. The sooner the better. You will also use it as the anchor text to link to this new article in your site navigation. I like to manage my sites using the wordpress blogging software (it’s free), because it creates this interal linking structure for me.

I also like to use the keyword again in the first 100 words or so of my article. Depending on how long my content is, I may work it in one or two more times. Don’t use your keyphrases to often or you may be penalized for keyword stuffing and make sure your content flows well and is easy to read. Get the content on your website and let’s get working on the last step in this process.

Step 3 - Link Building

Last but not least it’s time to build dome links to this new article or blog post. There are two big reasons to do this right away. The first is that links connect all the various pages of the internet and search engines employ little programs called ’spiders’ that will go out and crawl from one link to the next to find and index new content. To make sure your new post or page is found, you need to link to it, ideally from several different websites. Links are like votes . The more of these link votes your page gets, the higher it will rank in the search engines. This is the other reason to work on link building. Some ideas for building links are to use social bookmarking sites, link directories, write articles that include a link back to your site in the author resource or to write guest blog posts. These are just a few ideas to get you started. I invite you to learn more about link building at www.EasyLinkLove.com/adv

That’s it … now it’s simply a matter of finding more easy to rank for keywords, write good content and add it to your site and then continue to build links on a regular basis until you are ranking on page one of the search engines for the keyword you are after. This will send free traffic to your site 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.