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Ahhh! The age old question, how can I increase traffic to my website, without paying for advertising?

Well, sad fact is, they simply won't just turn up to your website, without you doing something to get them there!

So, here are 5 free ways to increase your traffic:

1. Search Engines.

This has to be number one but it is getting increasingly difficult to get a good position in top 10 search engines. So, how do you gain a good position? Well first of all, whatever you do, for goodness sake don't use a free submission service that will automatically submit your site to top 1000+ search engines. Don't expect to get a good position (if any). Just focus on top ten search engines. Primarily, they look for:

- Link Popularity. This is number of sites that have a link to your site. You can increase this by contacting other related websites and ask them to link to your site.

- Keywords. Your keywords are placed in tags of your web pages. When someone types a word into a search engine, your keywords are what search engine looks for to see if your site is relevant to search. Have a look at your competitors keywords, don't copy them but brainstorm a little and try to think of other words or phrases people might be looking for, that are relevant to your site. A good site to look for popular keywords searches is: http://www.wordtracker.com

- Keyword Rich Pages. These are pages which provide good content and in which a particular keyword is repeated a number of times. So that page gets a top ranking for that keyword.

This is something I have discussed at length with a number of very successful people over last few months! It's also something I have actively studied as I constantly interact with people every day. At some point, things that separate successes from failures became glaringly obvious. What became obvious is that you, individual, decides whether or not you are going to be successful. Then you implement that decision.

As strange as it may sound to you, we decide how successful we are willing to be. History is full of examples of people who decided they were going to be big successes and how they made this happen. Most of examples that I can think of were people who identified people who could help them achieve their dreams. They then attached themselves to these people. Alexander Graham Bell's assistant was such a person. Napoleon Hill was such a person... he used Dale Carnegie to make him a big success. Most of online "gurus" that I know also did same thing. They studied, modeled, and became understudies of those already successful.

Before you can become a huge business success you have to make that critical decision to do so. Once you have decided (emotionally as well as intellectually) that you will succeed, then you begin to make it happen. It's very important that you make that decision at emotional as well as intellectual level. If it's not an emotional decision to make it happen, you will give up too easily when going get rough. You will give up too easily when inevitable obstacles appear in your patch.

One of big fallacies spread online is that it's easy to be a big online success. From those I talk to every day, and based on my own experience, I think nothing could be farther from truth. Most of those making six-figure incomes put in many very long days. I have personally worked many 18-hour days as I struggled to complete a project. I have only recently reached point where I don't feel compelled to do this. So don't let anyone tell you that it's easy, but do commit that you are going to make it happen.