Of all the challenges that face a website owner, traffic generation often ranks near the top as one of the biggest. Getting people to come to your site is an essential step towards making money online. It may be as easy as setting a pay-per-click campaign or buying a targeted email list.

Is there a way to build traffic for your website without spending a lot of money or buying a targeted list or pay-per-click ad until you actually make sales? Check out the five simple steps below; these steps, when repeated correctly, can significantly increase the traffic you receive and, ultimately, your profit.

Build Optimized Content

Is your content really optimized for the keywords you are targeting? Is it truly relevant to the volume of traffic and the product or service that you have to offer? Search engine robots spider your site for keywords and phrases that are related to your site’s content and, in turn, the traffic you receive. Does your content, together with the keywords you have chosen, create a trusted, confident and interested visitor? If you already have decent content that is attracting visitors, you already have the engine to build a flow of traffic. You just need to adhere to the five simple, proven steps outlined below.

Create an Attractive Attraction List of Keywords

After your content has been found and verified with the use of specific engines, it is time to make a list of keywords and phrases that are specific to the content you are using. What can you do with those keywords? Do some research on the keyword or phrase that is helping peek a customer’s interest enough to make a purchase at your business.

Make a absorbing article around the keyword or phrase that sit in the list. Put the keyword or phrase within the title, first paragraph, second paragraph, middle, and final paragraph. When customers view the list as content relevant to their needs, they trust you more and feel comfortable purchasing from you. If you do not have an article, you will want to create it. For those with a limited writing effort, this step is a great way to build a series of content, which can later be used to help with traffic generation and make profits.

Build Links and Improve Traffic Exposure

These tend to break down into two types of links, the type that improve traffic and the type that don’t. The links or pieces of content that are highly viewed as content relevant to your site’s focus may create a followup building of links. Although building links to your website is somewhat technical and a time-consuming task, it is one of the highest quality methods of building traffic and factoring into the proverbial ‘three-ELY-C Upgrade.’ Just a quick leading-part factor to these links is that it provides a quality second choice for the qualified visitor. Therefore keywords or phrases that you can get the search engine robots to read are valuable. Just as important – the more links you can get, is the better your traffic will be. Links when linked to specific pages hold the equivalent traffic as other traffic sources. The examples below provide an example of a link pointing to a specific page.

Pages not for spiders.DirectoryPages categorize Press Release or Article pages to be safe and securely use release-ready over a period of time to deliver the highest quality traffic to your website. Make sure the release-ready link is on the directory page or press release page as the latter is the place in which the search engine robots scan for links in order to evaluate your site’s relevancy. The bottom line – you want your keywords to be as close as possible to the top of your link as possible to increase your exposure.

Use a Directory5 Directory (also known as Sitesellers) offers website owners a useful service for gaining exposure for the websites that they are running. The directory allows website owners to submit specific content (article, press release, blog, product information) to eliminate the technical issues of finding a good article making the submission. More importantly, what you want to do is get a one-way link to your website, and a directory gives you the tools to actually do just that, submit. The automatic submission feature on a directory makes it possible for the webmaster to determine the relevancy of the article submitted. Other directories offer the option of a monthly submission option that causes deadlines to be met. The directory uses an algorithm to rate the submission and prioritize key words/phrases linked to your site’s content or domain URL as the order of their importance offering debatable information on the subject. The directory offers no SEO options or guarantees, simply the submission process. To ensure your content is good, read the reviews of satisfied customers before submitting to the directory.

Use a Search EngineOptimizer (or vice versa) to improve your search engine optimization (SEO) with split-testing to see what content produces the best traffic.