I went yesterday night to an internet marketing meeting for the second time.If you are not aware of what SEO stands for, I suggest that you start looking into it before starting to write something online~Before writing a blog or editing anything online , you must learn what SEO is if you don't know about it already. The discussion made me think about a situation I experienced while being in Costa Rica. It is amusing to think about how someone would sometimes relate previous and current events in a form that would sound incoherent at first sight.Years ago, while traveling in the area for business, I went to San José, in Costa-Rica.I took along my Lonely Planet book, that tells about the whereabouts of about any spots in the world. Since I was commuting by bus, and the traveling time was about twenty hours, I got plenty of time to look-up everything regarding San José in that book, and a sentence got my attention: For many travelers, a stopover in San José is regarded as a necessary evil before heading to the real Costa Rica. I did not really understood what it meant until I got there. When I left the bus with all my stuff, I hailed the first cab at the corner and told him to get me to my hotel.

I was trying to save some money without loosing too much comfort, so I was following the advices of that helpful book.

To my disagreement, the taxi was turning around and around, asking people about the hotel; the poor man was totally lost. I felt drained from the bus ride and started to perceive that this driver was taking way too many loops to get me where I wanted to go and that he was maybe trying to rip me off little by little. As soon as I saw a hotel that look just half decent and half safe, I asked him to stop and took my chance.You might have heard and read about San Jose's dirty dangerous streets and the risks that can occured to a tourist there. These situations were not new to me, but I really understood what was meant in the book while I was stressing to get from point A to point B.. During the two weeks of my stay, only a few times did I see a street sign, but never a street number on a door. Nobody knew the names of the street. If you asked for directions, you would be told something like this: 300 meters north of the white church and 50 meters east of the big tree. But sometimes, that church was long gone ! So while most local could understand their jargon to find their way around, it was almost impossible for me.

I never thought that someone would work like that!The whole thing was fun but to area]: the internet feels about the same: people might sometimes interact in a way that hard to understand].

Something that sounded very elementary to me as a road and a street number was totally confusing for any cabdriver that was driving me. And for someone like me, 100 meters north and 250 meters east of some place was very confusing. And the very same thing happens at the online sphere. Some bloggers will use time and money to build a site while doing mistakes negatively putting down their ranking. Other people will treat the web as a fishnet and the whole attention} on the DNS, neglecting the quality as a whole. Some people will follow poisonous tips that will numb any chances of attracting visitors to their site.

I have been browsing the web for over 16 years. The majority of people did not know what an email address was in those days. Fifteen years ago, neither IE or Firefox existed. I was connecting on the web through Compuserve and billedby the minute for a slow telephone connection. I decided in those days to look into making my very own site. So I checked for HTML, and struggled to learn, using notepad to edit my code. There was no Google at the time, only Infoseek, Altavista and Yahoo, as well as some weird,other underground search engines. As soon as my very first personal site was born, I installed a counter to it and noticed that the visits were not going up. So I rapidly learned the SEO of the time and submitted my URL to the main engines. Then the counter started to run, but far from fast enough for my taste so I started to look into how to improve the amount of visitors. It is obvious that SEO} came just when the first sites came alive. do it~The secret~The trick} at the time was far from being complicated. Search engines were quite dumb and poorly made, so by just repeating the same keywords a lot of times, your ranking was surely getting better (DON'T DO THAT NOW!!!). A few students of Stanford university in California started improving search results by looking at the web as a whole by checking back-links to get an idea of the weight of sites. The search engine was named BackRub that later became the globally known Google of these days.Google was conceived with one main goal: give a better user experience with better search results. And it achieved that result. Rather than browsing for hundreds of results, we are now able to find the information that we are searching for in the first page, and sometimes at the first result. As a lot of site owners are trying to get traffic without necessarily working for it, Google has to keep the algorithms up-to-date to keep the quality grade of its results. And it is still periodically looking into that. awful blunders done by new bloggers~A lot of awful errors are done by new bloggers}, and I understand them. You try to build wonderful articles and it takes days and days. You wake up one morning andyou find out that almost nobody site~visit your site}, and get really frustrated. It is frustrating~It's a shame} to have the impression that you are talking to nobody ! So you decide one day to go online and search for : Get more traffic or have more visitors to my internet site or something similar. You might get lucky and land on a good site, but most possibilities are that you will land to some site who promise you the unbelievable and will cheat you into very poor steps that will affect your rankings.

To {those of you trying to get free internet visitors, I will tell that there is no secret way~To those looking for free traffic, I have to tell that there is no effortless traffic and no magic secret although there are proven ways of achieving success~If you are looking to have free traffic to your site or blog, be advised that while there are techniques that actually work they all need efforts~Free traffic is an interesting thing to get, it will however require some efforts as there is no magics in search engines rankings}. Some of these tips were good 10 years ago, but if you apply them by now, you would get punished by the major search engines for trying to cheat them~Those obsolete tricks used to work, but will only create problems for your sites with search engines by now~It used to work, but not anymore. Applying those tricks nowaday will actually get your site or blog punished by Google and the alikes.}. Surprisingly, there are truely steps that will help to build traffic that will actually work. And it's not only about building content. I invite you to go to my website and learn about them. You will grow your traffic by using simple techniques and following simple steps.

I also advice you not to submit your website through any type of “service”, as it might result in the search engines believing that you are producing spam.

Thank you for reading this quick article of mine. I have been consulting around the internet marketing area, particularly to niche markets, like PC Recycle. I invite you to follow my new blog at www.newblogs.net.

Best Regards,

Jason Mailley