How to get free traffic 2010 Part 1

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Html structure plays a big part in the ranking of your site in the search engines. Knowing the correct techniques could get you listed high within the most popular search engines, giving you the advantage of generating massive traffic over the competition. Best of all, this is free.

TITLE TAG

The title tag defines the title of the document. Whatever the title tag you enter, it will appear in the reverse bar of someone's web browser when they are viewing your web page. If the title happens to be one of your keywords, then it will do great for your website.

Example of Title Tag: Http:www.mysite.com/page/meta.html

META DESCRIPTION TAG

The meta description tags let you influence the information of your web page in the crawlers that support the tags. (info by www.searchenginewatch.com). Basically the meta description tag is a short summary of what your particular web page is about. When people search for something, they usually get the title and a small description of the site. The description is the meta tag

Meta keyword tags allow you to add additional text information for search engine crawlers to index along with your body content. A lot of search engine crawlers ignore this but it may come into play when you least expect it. Don't pass up any information that may help you build your rank in the search engines. Only use keywords in the meta keyword tag that are related to the keywords that you are trying to optimize your website on, or else they will be absolutely useless.

Most search engines pay close attention to your header tags. Headlines optimize your site as well. H1 being the most important header, H6 being the least important. Its best to start with the most important header and work your way down to the least important. This will help increase your visibility in search engines.

Keywords in hyperlinks help increase search engine rankings. Its a good idea to use keywords when you are linking to internal pages within your website. The search engines view hyperlinks as being important, and having keywords within your hyperlinks will help increase your search engine ranking significantly.

Example of Keywords in Hyperlinks

How to get free traffic from search engines

This works even better when the page you are linking to has the same keywords as your hyperlink. As you can see above, the hub I linked to has the same keyword as the hyperlink.