I started a network of websites using the Build A Niche Store Program. Many of you have tried this program with varying success. It seems the biggest problem you’re having is driving traffic to these sites. Here are 7 BANS traffic tips.
Here are some of the best tips I use to drive traffic to my Build A Niche Store websites.
With a Social Bookmarking program like Bookmarking Demon you can mass bookmark to hundreds of social bookmarking sites at once. Not only will this drive a lot of Social traffic to you sites, you’ll also be building backlinks to your site as well. Some Webmasters bookmark every page of their site for maximum traffic.
I use sites like Squidoo and Hubpages to create niche specific pages that rank well in the Search Engines like Google. These pages rank well plus once again, I’m building up backlinks to my BANS sites. You can also make money with these pages as both websites allow you to monetize your Squidoo or HubPages. But I don’t recommend it. I want the browser’s to come to my main money page and buy something from my main site!
Article marketing can be a traffic generating goldmine. I use article directories such as GoArticles, Ezinearticles and iSnare. But one of the best services I use is Article Marketer. AM distributes your articles to hundreds, and in some cases thousands, of sites across the Internet. Not only do I get a lot of traffic, I get loads of backlinks from these sites as well. This is one of my best secrets for gaining top search engine rankings with my websites.
Take advantage of StumbleUpon. I’ve created a huge rush of traffic to my BANS sites whenever I publish a new page by Stumbling it. If you’ve built up a list of “friends” on StumbleUpon, they’ll Stumble your pages as well. This translates to more traffic as your page will show more when people Stumble.
One of the best tips I could give you is to build loads of backlinks to your websites. Most of the tips above will also give you backlinks which will help your site rank higher. However, many BANS Webmasters are using Webmaster forums such as DigitalPoint and SitePoint and buy blog post with links pointing back to their websites. This helps boost their rankings which increases organic traffic.
Don’t forget to link to your interior pages. This will help those interior pages rank well for your specific keyword. Better rankings means traffic will be headed your way if you can manage the front page of Google.
Submit your site to Internet directories. I know, you hear this all the time but it still works. Not any directories work though. Only submit them to the high PR type directories. These are the directories that get searched the most and they’re the ones Google loves. The better directories will charge a subscription fee. One of the best ones you could have your site listed on is Best Of The Web. It’s a great directory and worth every penny. Not only will it drive traffic to your site, but it’s a high PR directory trusted by Google and backlinks from this directory will help boost your search engine rankings for your keyword.
With these simple, yet effective 7 BANS traffic tips, you should have no problem driving loads of traffic to your BANS site. It won’t happen overnight, but it will happen if you just keep applying the traffic tips above.
SEO is a process of technical and semantic adjustments performed on one’s content and/or website in order to make the targeted content more accessible for search engines and help them understand the theme and focus of the site. A natural result of a well optimized website is increase in search engine result page position. SEO is not a quick fix or a big job. It is a small job repeated regularly, until the results you require are achieved. SEO is a vital and effective tool for SMEs to further increase their online visibility.
SEO is all about giving search engines what they want (the right keywords) to improve your rankings and create more traffic to your site. The challenge with SEO is that search engines are constantly evolving, so there is no such thing as a quick fix. SEO is a multi-faceted process which encompasses copywriting, site design, coding and link building. Because I understand the essential role copywriting plays in SEO I can take care of the copywriting for you. SEO is something we are very pasionate about. We just finished running our last SEO Melbourne workshop this week and it was a great success.
SEO is mainly concerned with the improvement of the number and position of its search results for a number of relevant keywords. It is also used to increase the number of visitors to a website. SEO is a methodical process of key word and phrase selection, competitor analysis, key word density analytics, ranking measurement, content creation, page structuring, naming conventions… the list goes on. What does this all mean? SEO is undoubtedly a tool that will help you gain those desired results.
SEO is particularly important for e-commerce sites. Site improvements include changing or adding content, improving internal and external links, and formatting meta tags. SEO is not about getting listed for every possible key word or phrase. Many people try to get as many high search engine rankings as possible, for as many key words as possible. SEO is an additional service that may require additional payment. As I mentioned before, you do not have to pay someone to optimize your site although you can do so if you wish.
SEO is deemed to be a technical task much as websites are commonly seen as belonging in the technical domain. It is imperative to understand that SEO is a collaborative, yet primarily marketing-driven activity. SEO is one of the most popular buzz words in Internet marketing but unfortunately most Internet marketers simply do not know enough about SEO to make this strategy work for them. Even those who are knowledgeable about SEO may have difficulty executing their SEO strategies to produce the desired affect. SEO is not a set-and-forget proposition. Business focus, direction and competitor influences are constantly changing and require regular monitoring and updates to counter changes.
SEO is a carefully created method of improving the probability of your web page appearing on the results page of a search engine query. The nearer to the top of the search engine results page your web site appears, the more likely that searchers will click on the link to your web site?and go on to purchase the product or service you represent. SEO is a very commoditised skills, so if you are paying more than 2000 per month, you have some questions to ask. It is time consuming, and it is mundane, so you should be paying on a time basis only.
Generally, when an SEO company optimizes a website, the dividends in traffic may be from moderate to enormous. It has also been observed that if a site is designed properly, it will convert much of this traffic to sales. Generally, people who get to the top of results use an SEO company to push them up the rankings.
Content, and the organization of your content, is the single most important need for search engine optimization. Search engines rely on the content of a webpage to assess how pertinent and credible that information is to a specific search. Content Is Still King - No matter how many links you get or how great your “homepage” SEO is, content still is and will always be king. Write with your readers in mind before you write with SERPS in mind.
Internet Marketing is the greatest boom in marketing concepts in the 21st century. It is indispensable, growing in popularity day by day, as computer and internet literacy keeps growing at an exponential pace. Internet biggest search engine Google considers link popularity as the major thriving factor to rank the websites. Internet is an easy medium to search for your most preferable seo firm that can offer you the best set of services. As every business organization is different in nature, their requirements also vary to a great extent.
SEO (Search Engine Optimization) both the bane and boon of many a person’s existence. It’s a known fact that the best way to get traffic to your website is by simply having your site show up in the first page or two of the major search engine’s results. Visitors that come in from those search engine results pages (referred to as SERP) have two main things going for them. They are more likely to buy, and they didn’t cost you any money to get there. Getting your site onto those first two pages can be a struggle, and people are always watching what you are doing and gunning for the top spot. You have to keep aware of all of the latest tactics and methods and measure yourself against your competitors.
Yes, competitors. Many people aren’t aware of the competitive nature of SERPs positioning, but it is. Keep in mind that you are ranked in comparison with the other sites in the results. If the search engine thinks that your content is more relevant, then you rank higher, if it is determined that your content is less relevant, then you fall in the results. If they know what they are doing, the other sites showing up for the searches you wish to rank high in are watching you, and the other sites on the first two pages to see what they are doing, and if they are rising or falling.
So how do you ensure that you can rank well against the other sites out there and rise in the SERPs? Well, for starters, let’s assume that there are only three search engines, because frankly, Google, Yahoo, and MSN (in that order) represent the majority, the vast majority of searches. And Google represents the vast majority amongst those three. For the purposes of this article we’ll focus only on Google. If you do right by them, what you do will be good for other search engines as well.
Before we go any further it’s important that you understand the nature of SEO. It is not an exact science. The exalted minds inside the Googleplex do not share their secret sauce with the unwashed masses. The reason for this is simple: if they revealed exactly how their logic works, it would be exploited–this has happened before. The methods for performing SEO are based upon the trial and error of many, many internet users as they worked out what works, what doesn’t and what will get your site unindexed - or worse: banned.
This is important. There are good and bad ways to optimize your site. The bad ways are called ‘Black Hat’. Sure, they may work for awhile, and some Google can’t (or doesn’t bother to) pick up automatically. However you can report a site to Google as using Black Hat SEO tactics and Google will remove that site from the index (meaning it won’t show up in search results). Removing a site from the index is usually only done for a certain amount of time and can be appealable. Banning is far more severe and banned sites are often gone for good with no way to get Google to add it back to their index. Beware of a lot of things that seem shady. If you think they are shady, chances are that the folks at Google will think so too and if one of those other sites in the SERPs wants to rise up and they visit your site and see your shady tactics, they won’t hesitate to report you.
Yeah, it’s a bit unfair, but it’s the world we live in. Google’s not alone in this–the other search engines will do it too.
Now that we’ve got that out of the way, let’s dive into the two ways to optimize your site.
On Page Optimization
This is what most people think of when they think of SEO. In reality it is the less effective of the two methods, though as Google improves its ability to determine real content from fluff it is getting more valuable. A bit of history first.
Back when people started realizing that they could make or break their business by where they came up in the SERPs, they started adding all sorts of content to their sites to improve their ranking. The most common of these was the meta keywords. These are words that are placed in the code on a website that tell the search engines what the site is about. Way back when the ‘net was young, the search engines believed these keywords. They don’t anymore. People abused the keywords system by putting their competitors names in them, or by even putting completely bogus words in. A site looking to sell more jeans would put Britney Spears in their keywords to get people to visit them inadvertently. Needless to say, keywords play very little importance anymore. I have gotten sites to the #1 position on Google without using keywords at all.
As the search engines got wise to the whole bogus keywords thing, they started looking at all of the content on a website. They can only read text, so images and animated graphics (like flash) were ignored. People learned tactics to place all sorts of text on their site that was invisible to users, but that the search engines (looking at the source code) would see. So search engines started to distrust the websites themselves.
You’re asking yourself how they can know what a site is about then. They asked themselves the same question and came up with an obvious answer: they can’t. But other humans can. This is called ‘Off Page Optimization’ and is covered in the second type of optimization.
They never really disregarded the webpage entirely, but they lowered its importance in their overall factoring of a page’s importance and relevancy. However, as their savvy increases and they have more computing power to analyse content, search engines are starting to consider the page’s content as being more and more important. They can often discern the difference between human generated and computer generated text, and can tell if the content on a page is relevant to a particular topic or not. As they do this more, the page itself will continue to get more important.
There used to be a lot of tactics and tricks to get the search engines to pay more attention to your page, but the number one tip is now this: Write human readable content (don’t try to write it to load it with terms and keywords) that has value and real relevancy. Make sure that you do use the words and phrases you think people will search for, and do use them more than once, but don’t go overboard. Bolding and using larger fonts (and H1 tags) will help as well, but don’t overdo it. If you make your page look too wonky it will not work for the second type of optimization.
Here’s a quick rundown of things to make sure you do.
Make sure the page title is descriptive - make it different with each page if you can
Use the meta description tag and make it good - this is what most search engines show as the blurb about your site on the results page.
Don’t worry alot about your HTML formatting. Search engines are used to reading crappy HTML and they don’t care too much
Make sure you use your keywords in your copy more than once
Do bold them if it works in your content
If you can make it work, use an H1 or H2 tag. If you are comfortable with CSS you can make the text in them smaller (this is becoming less and less important).
Make sure to use alt and title tags on images. It lets the search engines know what the image is about and can cause your images to show up on the Google image search.
Use title tags on your links. It will help the search engines know more about the page you are linking to and improve relevancy
Don’t put too many links to other sites. Links out lower your page’s importance.
Off Page Optimization
This is also called ‘Off Site Optimization’ which is a misnomer. Search engines care little about ‘websites’ and care more about ‘web pages’. The reason for this is that they don’t link to a site, they link to a page. So what is this mysterious type of SEO you ask? Well, if you read the on page part above you will have learned that Google and the other search engines decided that they couldn’t trust the page itself too much as too many people put fake content on a page to generate traffic. So they decided that the best way to know if a page was relevant was to let people do it for them.
How do they make this work? Well, they simply look at who links to you and what their page is about. If your page is about sewing, and another page that Google knows people like is also about sewing and it links to you, then your page is probably not misrepresenting itself. This is the driving force behind what is called ‘Page Rank’. Page rank is essentially a calculation of the importance of the pages linking to you vs the relevancy of your content to those pages. If a page about banking links to a page about peanut butter, then chances are that the search engines won’t assign any importance to that link, but links between pages of similar content have high importance.
There is also a nebulous thing that we know exists, but don’t know how to quantify. It is the matter of how much a search engine trusts a site. Sites with high trust have their outbound links given more importance than sites the search engine does not trust. An easy way to determine if a site is trustworthy or not is to think about it yourself. The folks at the search engines are humans, they will trust the same sites you do and distrust the same sites you do (give or take a bit).
Untrustworthy Sites
Link/Banner farms - sites with nothing but links to various other sites. These used to work, but the search engines wised up and now having a link farm link to you will hurt, not help
Sites with a lot of advertising on them - The search engines know that these sites are mostly computer generated and have no valuable content, and so don’t pay any heed to what they link to.
Black Hat Sites - sites that use questionable SEO tactics aren’t ones that you want linking to you. Google is suspicious of them, no reason to make it suspicious of you
Trustworthy Sites
Directories - There are two types of directories. Automatic and Human verified. Google knows which are which and if your site is listed on a human verified directory (meaning that someone looked at your site and verified that your description and content match the category you chose to have it listed in) then it knows that your content is relevant to the description you gave. Find the directories for your market (just google things like sewing boston directory or whatever your niche/market is and you’ll find some to list in.
News Sites - Many news sites allow you to post comments on them. Don’t spam, but find some relevant articles to your site and post a few comments. Its not advised that you place your link right in the article (unless you think it applies) but rather have your link in your profile.
Sites with high page rank - This is key. There is little point having sites with no page rank link to your site with no page rank. You want sites with high page rank linking to you. Install the Google toolbar and select yes when it asks if you want to view pagerank. This will let you know how other sites rank and help you determine where to try to get links.
There are a lot of other tips and helpful bits of information out there and I’ll be posting a few more specialized articles about them. While there is a lot of bogus software and ebooks out there that will literally tell you no more than what you have read above, there are some that will help you carry out the suggestions above. They’ll suggest directories, give you reports on how well you rank against your competitors and many other things. Most you can do on your own, but they take time. Good SEO software should mainly remove the tedious, manual tasks involved in SEO and help you focus on more important things like niche research and adding actual, valuable content to your site.
Fact: a site with 5,000 pages of quality content & 15,000 quality inbound links will continue to generate THOUSANDS of targeted visitors even if it was never updated again…
And here’s why…
I. Traffic is “The Thing”
During the 1990s, the Internet was reported to be growing at 100% a year. And, the early online marketers figured out that traffic is VERY valuable…If a site’s traffic Increases by 30%, its earnings should increase by 30% too because:
Traffic means visitors & visitors mean potential customers & customers mean money.
In fact, traffic is SO valuable that Google has built a $20+BILLION company around selling PPC traffic to businesses around the world…
So, the real issue is how to generate some FREE traffic for yourself.
Well, THOUSANDS of traffic generation & search engine optimization (SEO) techniques exist & here are just 3 of them…Let’s begin:
II. Strategy #1: Linking “By The Pound”:
Some SEO professionals claim that thousands of inbound links are all a site needs to generate visitors. While they won’t let it slip out publicly, they believe in a fairly simple formula:
Inbound link VOLUME = Traffic = Money.
They trace a causation chain between:
1) The sheer NUMBER of inbound links your site has pointing toward it.
2) The amount of traffic your site gets.
3) And your site’s eventual CASH earnings.
The theory is that as a site gains a “critical mass” of inbound links, its traffic level increases, & its CASH earnings increase too…
They theorize that link VOLUME drives traffic 2 separate ways:
1) The traffic from higher search engine rankings &
2) More importantly, the traffic from the 1000s of links themselves.
Barring a major PPC or offline media campaign, you’ll find that 95% of the really high traffic sites you encounter have TENS of THOUSANDS of inbound links pointing toward them…For evidence of this, next time you stumble over a high traffic site, try checking its inbound links in one of the free backlink tools like Yahoo Site Explorer (”siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com”).
Look at what you see. I bet you see THOUSANDS of inbound links…with each link theoretically contributing a little sliver of traffic every day…some obviously more so than others…
While this is a VERY persuasive theory, it may be slightly incomplete. Let’s look at 2 other schools of thought:
III. Strategy #2: Link QUALITY Is EVERYTHING:
If you’ve been marketing online for more than a few years, you probably remember the “Page Rank” mania that seemed to sweep the SEO world during 2004-2005.
Professional SEOs were convinced that getting 2 or 3 authority links from high Page Rank sites would lead to better search engine rankings & a lot more traffic. The Page Rank hysteria quickly subsided…But, the strategy still remains VERY valid:
Links from prominent sites often ARE incredible sources of free traffic…
Once placed, some links will send a continual stream of 5-100 targeted visitors to your site every day, seemingly forever…And the new visitors will start appearing in your log files within hours of the link going live…If they were physical items, links like these would be worth their weight in gold…
For example, imagine my site has 10,000 inbound links from tons of different websites all over the internet. But, your site has only 3 inbound links: links on the homepages of Google, Yahoo, & MSN. All of which get MILLIONS of visitors a day…
Who would get more traffic? YOU WOULD, definitely…For the same 2 reasons stated above:
1) Your site would see a MASSIVE boost in its search engine rankings given how much “authority” Yahoo, MSN, & Google give each other &
2) The traffic coming off those 3 links by themselves would be HUGE too…
Clearly, link quality is very important.
IV. Strategy #3: Using Links & Content For Higher Rankings…
While the 2 above strategies make perfect sense at 1st glance, they may be overlooking another important factor: A site’s CONTENT CONTRIBUTION. Search engines are VERY POWERFUL sources of traffic because they provide their users easy methods of finding YOUR content (AKA: “stuff”)…
This school of thought theorizes that most search engine traffic is actually derived from a combination of a site’s
1) Inbound links &
2) Content.
This is similar to the “link volume” strategy above, but with 1 extremely important difference: content “on” a website is deemed to be a powerful SEO factor too…
Offering unique content allows you to kind of “set a trap” for random search engine visitors who are searching for content similar to what your site provides…(This may be because “long tail” searches, generally containing 3-15 keywords, seem to have increased in popularity during the last few years. Searchers have seemingly become more specific as they get more comfortable using the web to find information…)
This SEO strategy tries to capitalize on “current” search engine traffic. In other words, traffic related to something that’s just happened or become popular suddenly.
Therefore, if you have a good volume of on-topic “stuff” on your site, you’ll increase your odds of being found randomly for keyword phrases that your competition cannot possibly hope to rank for! Think about it, there is NO WAY for anyone to optimize a page for a term that has only become popular during the last 48 hours…
And now that you know about it, you can this to your advantage…
V. Combining These Strategies For Maximum Rankings:
So, what should you do to increase your traffic? Experiment with a combination of these 3 SEO strategies…
Here are some tips on how to increase your search engine traffic by blending a little bit of each of these strategies together:
1)Enhance & optimize your site by posting the right blend of relevant content, given your market’s characteristics. Feeding the search engines “the right stuff” in the right way will increase your traffic, both from popular keyword phrases AND from long tail phrases.
2)Build as many quality inbound links as possible to generate permanent residual traffic from the links themselves. Links from “on topic” sites are best & high traffic sites that have content closely matching your own are ideal. Sites with similar audience profiles to yours are everywhere & some of them get THOUSANDS of visitors every day.
Furthermore, many webmasters will keep a link up once they create it. 80% of the time, your link will stay there FOREVER…The trick lies in locating the right sites & getting your link well placed in the top 1/3rd of a clean competition-free page that gets regular visitors. Sometimes a link from a “links” page is adequate…Other times, you’ll be better off negotiating for a more prominent position elsewhere on the site, if you can swing it…
Tools exist that help automate the process of ferreting out high traffic sites that have audience profiles similar to yours & that offer links too.
3)Benefit from the SEO effects that large amounts of relevant inbound links provide. Vary up the anchor text of the inbound links at specific percentages on a graduated scale related to what you consider to be “prize” keyword phrases. However, ALWAYS do a thorough competition analysis to see what rankings are realistic to achieve, given the competition. Strive to rank in the top 10 for an array of different keyword phrases…Build enough backlinks using a ton of related keyword phrases & watch your search engine traffic multiply as a result…
In conclusion, implementing these 3 SEO tips will help you increase your levels of traffic- both from the links themselves & from your MUCH higher search engine rankings…
Free quality traffic for your site, sentence look like a fake but its true and you can also know about it that how can you collect good traffic for your site. Do you know why am i telling this type? because all works are completed by you and then after you will also agree with me that i was right.
What will you do for quality traffic within few months or few days to your site?
More than 50% will hire SEO company for this work and remaining or may be all would be think about paid traffic services like “Google adwords” and with this type of services you have to paid cent or dollar to service provider for per visitor.
But above conditions are suitable for marketing, online shopping, affiliate marketing site or any other commercial site because if he paid for 100 visitors and if 10 visitors use his services or buy products then he will be in benefit but if you have a tutorial site, educational site, informatics site then it can be effect your financial management.
As i did some work for my site traffic and share our experience with you. My all sites are related to manual directory submission services, we provide directory submission services for very little cost $00.17 cent only per directory and also give guaranty for 85% Done and in my site you can know every things related to directory submission like rules of submission, how to submit, and more.
According to me if i choose Google adwords then it can be harmful for my finance because my site is completely provide informations related to directory submission and if they are looking for submission services then can buy us, we also provide free directories list currently in our lists more than 1150 directories, so i don’t think for paid traffic because most of user can use our free directory services and our directory submission related informations.
For free quality traffic in starting i used directory submission for my site, through this services i got backlinks from several quality SEO-friendly directories and then after i joined with forum and write articles for my site and last two work are give me awesome of quality traffic.
For free quality traffic your can use three common services, Join Forum in forum you can add your link with your signature, article submission if you are unable then you can hire professional services provider because these type of services are not more costly due to lots of competition but try to avoid automated submission, and directory submission you can my more articles related to directory submission with my id or in link popularity category in same site.
My guess is that if you are looking at SEO articles you are a beginner to the subject. Here I will show ten easy ways to better optimize your site for search engines. These tips are not only great for beginners but also for experienced webmasters as well. Check out these 10 Search Engine Optimization tips and apply them to your site. Remember, search engines are not a magic bullet! But they are a good way to drive extra targeted traffic to your site. Getting to the top of any search engine doesn’t happen overnight it takes time, patience and hard work.
1.) Great Content
If you spend all your time worrying about ways to get traffic and no time spent working on content your site will never get any where. If your content is good people will voluntarily give you non-reciprocal links. SEO, traffic techniques and every thing else is secondary, your content is why people come to your site. Even if you do a great job getting people through the door, if your content is bad they wont come back.
2.) “Link to Us” and “Add a Link”
Create a “Link to Us” and “Add a Link” page and add them to your site map. This lets other webmasters who may visit your site know that your are open to link exchanges. Also, you want to make it as easy as possible for other people to link to your site. For your link to us page you should give people numerous options ranging from images to text. Give them the HTML code to copy and paste into their site. You should not iclude codes for images that are on your server, this uses up a lot of bandwidth and can even screw up your website stats by showing more unique IP’s than have actually come to your site. Instead display the image and tell people to right click, save as, then upload to their own server.
3.) Links, Links, and More Links
All search engines take into account how many links are pointing to your site on other pages. You should avoid indiscriminate linking to other sites in unrelated fields as well as linking to sites that aren’t indexed in Google, as they may have been penalized and could get your site penalized too. The best way to get back links is to visit sites with a similar topic, look for a “link to us” or similar page, then look for any contact information for that site. Place their links on your page first, then contact the webmaster of the other site telling them you would like to do a link exchange and where they can find their link on your site. Then ask for a reciprocal link and give them your link info. You should avoid sending your link info in html format because some webmasters don’t like that. Instead tell them your page TITLE, URL, and DESCRIPTION
4.) Don’t Optimize the Wrong Keywords
Your probably thinking that the more times a keyword is searched for the better it is to optimize for that keyword. WRONG! In fact its just about the opposite of that. If you are a new page with little or no page rank its going to be hard to show up for high competition keywords. The best way to decide which keywords to optimize is to divide the number of times that that phrase is searched for by the number of pages that show up for that search on Google. This gives you the search to results ratio. The higher the ratio the better off you are optimizing for that keyword or keyword phrase.
http://www.goodkeywords.com/ - a free software that tells you how often keywords are searched for.
5.) Use a different page title than your URL (homepage only!)
If your homepage URL is “All-About-Horse-Racing.com” you are almost 100% guaranteed to show up as the #1 result for the search “All About Horse Racing”. So why would you want to make that your page title too? If you make your page title “Horse Racing Strategies” you will probably show up for that search as well. Make your page title the exact search phrase you want to show up for. This only works well for your home page, for sub-domains it is a good idea to have your sub domain URL and your page title the same keyword phrase.
6.) Use description meta tags with keyword phrases you want to show up for
In your description meta tag you should use key words and key word phrases you would like to show up for. Your description meta tag and your page title is what a potential visitor sees at search engines.
7.) Use h1, h2, and h3 tags
These tags let search engines know what your most important keywords are. h1 is for your main keywords. h2 and h3 are for your secondary keywords.
8.) Keywords in Unexpected Places
Did you know that search engines don’t only look at the content of your pages for keywords. They also look at your URL, and names of files in your site. Since search engines can’t tell what’s in an image on your site they rely on its alt tag and file name. You can use ANY image for this. Also, put keywords in your URL. All words in URLs and file names should-be-separated-by-dashes.
9.) First and Last Words
Add your desired keyword phrase (only 1 per page!) to the very beginning and end of your page. You are more likely to show up for your desired search phrase if you add it to the beginning and end of your page.
Out of all the places you can put keywords you can also make certain words or phrases stick out to search engines by emboldening, underlining or italicizing them. However, don’t overdo it. You should not ‘keyword stuff’. Way back when search engines were just starting, they used to only look at how often a keyword phrase was repeated in a page. A lot of pages climbed to the top of the search engines by just repeating the same words over and over. Search engines have long since changed their tactics, now you may even be penalized for “keyword stuffing”, so don’t overdo it.
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Long tail keywords are a type of keyword phrase that has at leas three, and some times as many as five words in the phrase. Long tail keywords are used when the website wants to refine search terms to the web page, as well as when the searcher is looking for something rather specific. Like normal keywords, long tail keywords are used to define what is on the web page and what the publisher wants to be found under in search engines and on search engine results pages. These keywords are highly specific, and draw less traffic for the website, but tend to draw more quality traffic, which leads in more conversions than normal keywords. Long tail keywords can also be used by publishers and visitors in different ways.
Long tail keywords are 3 to 5 keyword phrases that are much more specific to the product or service that you are selling. These search phrases are used by people who are further along the decision making process and therefore much more likely to convert. E-commerce sites (online stores) need traffic to generate revenues. These stores can get this traffic via paid search (search engine marketing), but at the same time they should be putting effort in to organic SEO. Free traffic, even if untargeted is good traffic if it can lead to revenues or back links. Long tail keywords can often lead to traffic if spread across enough different phrases.
The basic definition of a long tail keyword (key phrase, search) is a keyword phrase that is extremely targeted to a specific niche so that it gets a small amount of extremely targeted traffic. The theory is that you can possibly get more overall traffic to your site by using a large amount of long tail keywords (all of the small traffic for each one being added together) than you can using a small amount of general keyword terms. Basically, long tail would be the dozens and dozens of keywords and keyword phrases that a website is found for, but are not considered a large focus of your marketing efforts.
There are many free keyword tools out there. Both Google and Yahoo offer these tools too. They will show you the most relevant long tail keywords according to the search volumes that match your single keyword.
Analytical SEO tools can help in selecting the best, most profitable and lucrative long tail keywords.
Writing quality content targeting such phrases can prove very lucrative and the increase in web site traffic generated collectively by choosing the right long tail keywords can meet or exceed the traffic generated by more competitive keywords. This is especially true when applied to new web sites and domains which have few quality links.
For an example of long tail keywords, let’s consider the SEO sector - “SEO consultant” is one example of a highly competitive search phrase, whilst “SEO consultant London” is an example of a less popular long tail keyword term
Long Tail Keywords are less popular, less searched for terms which when targeted collectively by a website can result in significant levels of traffic, leading to improved sales. The principle behind long tail keyword theory is to identify moderately popular search terms (with reasonably high search volumes) that people often need to go onto page 2, 3 or even 4 of the search results panels to find relevant results to their query. This implies that existing websites have poor quality content or little relevance to the search term.
Obviously creating content to match the possible long tail searches is probably the best way to go to accomplish long-term organic results. This is done by creating new web pages, using the long tail search term as the topic of the page, the page title, but then considerable content needs to be placed on that page to support the phrase or concept to rank well. It can be challenging, especially when you are a small business person and have so many other responsibilities to juggle.
Brainstorm a list of long tail keywords and use them! This may seem like obvious advice, but sometimes the simplest solution is overlooked. Try to come up with a list of keywords and phrases that really describe the content of your site, and start creating new content that includes the phrases. Especially with something like a blog that is just starting out, you need to keep adding new content frequently. Create new posts make sure that you are using your keywords and phrases in the titles, tags, and inside the post as well. The key here is to add this new content frequently, and add a lot of it. This will help you to start to increase your visibility on search engines, and start to attract new visitors to your site.
Whether you can achieve high rankings for competitive keywords or not, long tail keywords could be highly beneficial for you. If you have a website selling Armani Suits’ but can’t pull any search engine traffic, rather than targeting the keyword Armani’ or Armani Suits’ try targeting more specific keywords such as Armani Mens Suits’. Hopefully you will see an increase in conversions and sales.
Whether or not you plan to use keyword advertising, tools such as Google Ad Words Keyword Tool tell you the advertiser competition and search volume of keywords you enter (if they have data for them). When you enter a few keywords, it suggests additional keywords to consider. You can also search for keywords related to your site content by entering the URL of your site.
Backlinks play an essential part to any website. Backlinks are links that are directed to your website from other websites, blogs or forums.
These backlinks will not only generate traffic to your site by giving web surfers an active link to get to your site, they will also increase your page rank. Page rank is Google's way of measuring the value and relevancy of your website.
You will achieve a higher page rank based on the amount of inbound links coming to your site. So therefore, the more links that come in, the higher page rank you will receive. With a higher page rank, you will attract more websites willing to link with you.
So, as you can see, by increasing the backlinks to your site, you will be driving up the number of visitors to your website as well as attract more websites willing to link with you.
Here are a few ways you can increase your number of backlinks:
1. Visitors to your site could very well have their own website or blog. Ask them to link with you. You'll be amazed at how well this works, as long as your site offers good content that is useful and informative.
2. Create a "Link to Us" page to make it easier for others to link to you. Provide the html code for them to put on their site so all they have to do is cut and paste. The easier you make it for them, the more likely they are to exchange links.
3. Write some articles and submit them to various article directories. In exchange, you will receive a link back to your site. This is usually done through your Resource Box that will be submitted with your article.
4. Go to Link Directories and submit your link. There were no search engines back in the early days of the Internet. Most people found what they were looking for by searching through directories. These directories were broken down into categories, making it easier for the searcher. Today, most people prefer to use search engines to find what they are looking for, but that does not mean that directories are dead. There are people that still use them and the links will still count towards your page rank. Do a search for Link Directories for a list of directories where you can submit your site to.
5. When you agree to link to a website in exchange for that website linking back to you, is called a reciprocal link. As with directories, many website owners have all but given up on reciprocal linking. They argue that the search engines have devalued reciprocal links to the point where they're not worth the time it takes to obtain them. On the other hand, there are others who still have great success with this method. The key is to not just link to anyone for the sake of linking. Link to sites that are truly useful and relevant to your visitors.
When done right, reciprocal linking will work for everyone and both websites will receive an increase in traffic.
Backlinks do take some time to set up, but once done, are a great way to bring traffic to your site.
Internet Marketing is a term that is used when we want more people to know more about your site or your business. This is where Search Engine Optimization(SEO) comes up. If your site is not working out well or your site isn’t working out as well as you expected, I have 5 useful SEO tips to give that are always overlooked.
Title tags - Title tags say a lot about a page. It might tell about the content of the page. It might also tell you what a particular page does. It is important that you write a very informative title for every page in your website.
H tags - They are particularly important because H tags are used on very important words. Use them carefully and use them only on the important keywords.
Anchor Links - We often see sites with links like “click here” and “go now”. Anchor link texts should be very descriptive of where the site is going where the site is going to.
Alt tags - An image alt tag is something that is usually forgotten when writing a page. It does more than just telling what the particular image. It also tells something of what the page is all about.
Page names - Also an important aspect of SEO. You sometimes see pages that uses “this-is-the-page-name.html” file names. This also tells about what the content of the page is all about.
You know how we redundantly complain about the traffic we encounter on the Interstate in the morning and after work? Well imagine that times 100 or maybe even a million. While we all deal with the daily pile-ups on the way home from work, it only involves who lives in our area. Imagine how terrible it would be if it involved the entire planet. Now that would be one serious traffic jam, and you can bet there would be countless fits of road rage. Well, lucky for us, we don’t have to battle that kind of traffic in the physical world. Now, Internet traffic is an entirely different story.
I will be the first to admit that often Internet traffic really ticks me off. Maybe they should call that cyber-rage. Anyway, like me, you’ve surely been on the web at times and had difficulty maneuvering from one site to another. This may concern your actual online connection, or more likely it involves the current Internet traffic. You know, all the other web-surfers who’re online with you. I typically encounter this sluggish mess when I’m checking my email. You’ve got to love Hotmail. Now, I really shouldn’t complain, because this is a totally free service. But yet it’s still annoying to get on MSN and not be able to check my email account. I will say that this overload of Internet traffic generally happens when folks are getting off work or primarily on Saturday.
Websites love tons of traffic. They want as much as they can possibly accumulate. Traffic is wonderful for them because it either means more business or more web-surfers clicking on ads. Ad clicking often means revenue earned via advertisers. If you know what you’re doing with this stuff, you can really generate a chunk of change off it. So the next time you’re surfing net-land and notice your computer being sluggish, you can assume it’s the overload of fellow cyber nuts. Although there is room for everyone in cyberspace, things do tend to get a bit slower when we’re all crammed in together. Just don’t get upset and toss your expensive laptop out the window in a fit of rage. You’ll need it later to check your email.
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