You have a lot of things working against you when you try to get free traffic to a newly created website.
- The search engines and especially Google likes old domain names. All new domain names end up in the sandbox for a few months and it takes years to garner trust from the search engines
- It takes time to get incoming links to a new website
- It takes time to create content for the website
- It takes time to get a higher PR (Page Rank) value
- etc.
In short, it’s darn difficult and takes time to get a new website ranking high in the search engines. But there is an easy shortcut you can take.
Here’s how you can take a “free ride” on other websites and get free traffic
You can “piggy back” on the hard work other website owners have done to get traffic to their website and the best part it’s free traffic for you.
Note: the concept of piggy backing might not be new to you but i’ve added a unique twist that makes it much more effective.
Step 1: Find a photosharing website that fulfill the following criteria’s
- You can put an outgoing link in to your website from the photo sharing site. It’s great if you do NOT get a “nofollow” link but it’s OK if you do.
- The title you give the image is included between the TITLE tags
- The title you give the image is included in the ALT tag
- You can set keywords for the image
- Old site with lots of traffic and images, a high PR and rank high in the search engines.
It may sound complicated but it’s quite easy to find out if the photo sharing site fulfills these criteria’s. And once you found one it’s as easy as 123 to piggy back on the free traffic from the website. More about that later…
Step 2: Upload your best images images to the photo sharing site and give them keywords
After you uploaded the images you need to give each of them a very specific keyword they should be optimized for. For instance, if you have an image of the Niagara falls at sunset you can use the keywords “a falls sunset”. Make sure the keyword is relevant to the image and that it’s a keyword you think people would use when they search for an image like this. There are many free tools on the web that helps you find out how many times a certain keywords is searched for.
Important: Make sure you include the keyword in the caption and/or title field for each image.
Step 3: Put a link to your website in the description field
Now you just have to put a link to YOUR website by mentioning something like this “You can find many more beautiful images like this at YOUR WEBSITE”
So people come to the high traffic website, find your images and get interested, Then they click on the link and come to your website.
You just got free traffic to your website!
This concept to piggy back is not new but there’s a unique twist in that you keyword each image and put the keyword in the caption/title filelds and that the keyword also is added in the ALT and TITLE tags. This makes it easy for Google and other search engines to find your images.
