Thursday, February 26, 2009

How to get real traffic to your website

By Steve Thomas
The following is a proven plan for getting real targeted and high volume search engine traffic. Certain steps may not be applicable to you, but the order is important. Depending on your website, you may want to start from scratch again if you are in a competitive area or niche. Analyse your keywords carefully and target the ones with high traffic but low competition. Dont be afraid of seeking professional help for this step. Avoid starting with a brand new domain name, or one recently registered. Try to buy a old used domain name that had some page rank and links. The domain name should be in your specific field or niche area, the more relevant the better. Make sure it does not have a Google penalty in effect. Once you have a domain and have studied your keywords, try to name your pages similar to you main target keywords. You best tactic is to target one keyword for each page. The most important S.E.O factor on your internal pages will be the title and content on your page. The more keywords you select and the more pages you have, the better off you will be. Your best tactic is to target as many keywords as you can. You should have a number of main pages where you have your best content on and lots of other pages being added on a regular basis, with lots of interlinking between pages. The next critical factor is the number and quality of back links you have to your website. This is the most important part of your S.E.O campaign, get them pointing to your home pages and inner pages. Build your links slowly and carefully over a period of time, getting the keywords anchor text in your links is all important and will make or break your campaign. Use a number of different combinations for you back link text, you will need to make them look as natural as possible. Search engines place a lot more value of links coming from sites in the same category as yours, or sites in related areas or similar niches. As a minimum you should try to get links that are related or semi related to you niche. It also helps if you can get the widest and most varied I.P address and domains from where your get your back links originate from. The best advice for anyone wanting traffic is to follow the above steps or even better pay an expert to do it for you.
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