How To Make Money Online 5 of 11 (Search Traffic)

Search Traffic

Search traffic is #1. It is the best. Period. It does not come over night. Search traffic is reserved for quality sites with good information that has steadily been built up over time (hint, hint). Spammers and so called Black Hats can also get plenty of Search Traffic but it is only temporary-- I'm in the quality content and site will be better long term camp.

You can search and find all sorts of tricks and link strategies for getting higher search engine ratings. They are fine to give you an idea of what you need to do for Search Engine Optimization (SEO). Some basic things:

1. Use ALT tags on your images
2. Use meta tags (doesn't hurt you but some say it isn't as important anymore)
3. Use descriptive title tags on each page. Don't use same title tag for every page on your site.
4. H1, H2 tags are important, use CSS to change the size of them
5. If you have a menu on the left of your page, use your code to display it last and then use css to rearrange it. You want the search engine to see your content first, not your menu
6. use strong tags instead of b for important content
   
7. Have content that doesn't suck and isn't just a copy of someone else.
8. Link to good sites (stay away from "bad neighborhoods"/link farms)
9. Press Releases are good-- prweb is free (or was last time I used it)
   
10. Writing articles and posting them to quality article banks with a link back to your site is good. (google for ezines)
    

Thats all for now, there are LOTS of other tips you can find. Remember to take it all with a grain of salt, and don't just jump on the bandwagon of every SEO "tip" you see. Being creative and ethical will take you a long way.

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