How to increase traffic to your website

Tips to become a top player. If you're starting out in the world of internet writing and not quite hitting the traffic figures you want, read our "how to" guide on increasing traffic to your website.

SEO tip 4: Search engines read like you do too

Most search engines will read from left to right, so try to get your keywords in your headlines, page titles and URLs as soon as possible. Remember that lots of words that don't clearly explain your content's subject matter will only dilute your keyword density.

SEO tip 5: Don't cheat

If you're writing the best content and making it plain for search engines to see, you should begin to see traffic increase quite soon. However, don't undo all your good work by putting lots of unrelated content inside of yours. Not only will search engines pick up on this and punish you for it, but you'll also lose the trust of your users and readers. In the interconnected, high-speed, mobile-information world we live in, your reputation can be damaged a lot faster than ever before.

SEO tip 6: No one ever got famous by keeping quiet

Once you've written your amazing articles, remember to shout about it EVERYWHERE. Post it on Twitter and Facebook, Digg it, and big it up in any related forums. Search engines love pages that have lots of reciprocal links from other related, respected and high-traffic websites, so build those networks and links.

If you want to find out more about search engine optimisation, check out the Google webmaster guidelines.