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How To Get Targeted Search Engine Traffic Quickly
I only speak about methods I have
used and that worked well for my business. There are
a lot of people out there who will steer you in the
wrong direction because they are just regurgitating
old information that might have worked years ago. I’ll
help you discover what’s happening right here,
right now. Let’s get started with the plan.
Your first step is to define your target market. The
better you are able to define your niche, the better
your future clients will be able to find you and your
products or services.
Next, you want to get very specific about what you’re
going to market on your webpage and make sure that it’s
congruent with our next step. When a person finds you
on a search engine, you have a window of only 3 to 5
seconds to convince them that you are exactly what they
were looking for. Make it crystal clear what you offer.
If your meaning is unclear, the prospect will jump to
the next site and you’ll lose that business.
The following step is to brainstorm your keywords
- keeping in mind your target audience. How would they
search for me? What would they look for? Don’t
focus on how you identify yourself. The closer you are
to your target audience, the more hits you will get,
which equates to more customer traffic. The more specifically
you target, the better off you are. You’re not
going to have success if you list yourself too generically,
there is too much competition and you’ll be lost
in the crowd.
Once you have established your target market, define
what specific categories you should be linking to and
add them as part of your navigation page. A linking
strategy is very important for building your link reputation.
Links to your page will count towards link reputation
and link popularity.
There are a lot of different search engines - six
in particular that give you about 90% of all web-traffic.
Of those Google has the most web traffic so we’ll
focus on it. Google has a link page rank feature which
rates the importance of your page. You’ll want
to download their toolbar http://toolbar.google.com.
This will allow you to view the ranking of every site
you visit and how important it is in the almighty eye
of Google. This is a key ingredient in determining linking
strategy. Google ranks itself as a 10 on their scale
of 0 to 10 (the higher the ranking, the more important
a page). This is determined essentially by who is endorsing
and linking to you.
You must map out how you’re going to get Google
give to you a high page rank. For Google, the most important
attribute is the title tag. You want to make sure you
use your most targeted key word in the beginning of
your title tag. Google will typically list the first
83 characters so the title is where you put your most
valued key word(s) so it can be easily accessed.
The next maneuver is to focus on your link relevancy.
Link relevancy is how well the text on your pages relates
to your title tag, also taking in consideration the
content of neighboring web pages. The analysis of all
of this data enables Google to return results that are
relevant to user queries. You want to be sure you are
listed in user queries so make your content match your
title, match your links, and match your products and
or services. Remaining consistent and obvious is your
key to directing traffic to your site.
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