Tuesday, 10 September 2013

Getting Targeted Traffic With SEO

By Manny Rutz


When a new website is launched many of us rely on social media traffic and paid advertising to generate leads and sales. Although this methods do work the most profitable way to scale any website to the next level is through SEO or search engine optimization. These days owning a number 1 spot on Google for a competitive keyword can be very profitable. Hopefully the information in this article can provide you some advice on how to properly do SEO.

Link building strategies change all the time, but because search engines are now focused on great content you should try to create quality content so you can ask other site owners in your niche to link to you. If they like and find your content useful they most likely will be happy to link to your page. Backlinks from .edu and .org sites are great sources to help you get better rankings because they consider this type of links very powerful.

A great way to get started with backlinks is utilizing article networks and directories to not only generate quality traffic but also unique backlinks. This also a good way to bring some targeted traffic since you'll be submitting content targeting your niche. Web 2.0 properties are also great to create powerful backlinks, places like squidoo, hubpages and a few others can help you get an initial SEO push.

One of the things that can really help you get better rankings is gaining social signals, this means having people share your content because they find value in it. Social signals are important along with great content and Google loves social signals from bookmarking sites and social networks. Another factor is on-site optimization, having proper meta tags and titles along with keyword optimized content.

Now just because you are not on the first page of Google does not mean that you shouldn't worry about sending traffic to your site. While you work on your SEO try to get referral traffic from places like video sites, social networks and article directories. Remember if people find your stuff valuable they will naturally link to it which will benefit your rankings.




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