OH – STOP PRESS – I DECIDED TO TURN THIS ANSWER INTO A BLOG POST AND THERE’S MORE DETAILED INSTRUCTIONS HERE TOO:

http://www.ziggazag.com/biz/how-to-generate-organic-free-search-engine-traffic/

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Well, like most things, it’s a combination of things, but here’s the overview:

1. Get a wordpress blog going on your main site (install and host on your own server) – set it up for automatic pinging and also install the “All in One SEO Pack” plug-in. Search engines LOVE blogs and with these two things set up, they will *really* love your posts.

2. Drive as much traffic to your blog as you can:

- Re-do any content you’re sending out as reports, email autoresponders, etc. to send people to your blog for the full report or info (rather than giving it all in the email).

- set up a “subscribe by email” opt-in box on your blog and then email subscribers every time you post to your blog (also email your newsletter list). Just give them a teaser, or an article summary in the email with a link to your blog to read the whole piece.

- format any past articles or content as blog posts and get them up there – hire someone from elance.com to do this really fast and cheap.

- then take those same articles and submit them to article websites (like ezinearticles.com or a niche service for your market like selfgrowth.com). Again, you can hire someone overseas to do this very cheaply. Have your bio link to your main site/blog.

WHY am I telling you to drive all the traffic to your blog on your main site?? Because search engines LOVE blogs and the more visitors you get to your blog, the higher your ranking.

3. Keywords:

- Make sure your html tags are set up to maximize your keywords on your site: title tag and meta tags. Don’t put in too many or it will backfire.

- Likewise, have your keywords appear in the text on your page – but only where they would naturally occur, otherwise, again, you’ll be penalized by the SEs for “keyword seeding”

I set up a site for my hubby’s business and we didn’t set up a blog (cause he’s not big on writing) but I did do the above and he’s worked with numerous clients who just found him through organic search results – and he does ZERO marketing for this business cause he’s pretty busy with our other business and referrals. You can see what we did at his site:

http://www.EcotechCRMdesign.com

4. Videos – again, these will rank high in search results and they will also get picked up and featured on other websites without you even knowing. I found YouTube to be the easiest to use and since being acquired by Google, the keywords are working better. type in “jinithompson” and it will pull up my vids for you to see – they are very simple, but just give good info.

5. Social media like twitter, facebook – i don’t know, jury’s still out on these as to whether they are worth the effort. I have farmed this out to an SEO guy – he has increased my twitter followers from 64 to almost 2000 in 2 months, so we’ll see if anything happens with that. No results/changes to sales as yet. He has also made some techy changes to my sites, improved the xml sitemaps, made WC3 compliant, improved meta tags and submitted lots of articles for me and that has made a difference by increasing the number of opt-ins to my free content. We’ll see…

hope that helps,
Jini

BUT what about all the pre-market research. I have never found any one of these guys by searching. It always came from a guy who promoted from the stage, who received my contact info, and then passed along to another marketer, etc….

Do you really know of a way to get organic free traffic thorugh search engince or social media syndication?

We have yet to find a proveable source that can provide niche traffic organically.