SEO for Beginners - Driving web traffic to your website
Looking for strategies to build and drive internet web traffic to your blog or website? Follow these basic methods and your online visitors will surely increase!
Hope you enjoy this tutorial.
Posted by: workr77 on September 01 2008 | Category: webguides | Comments: 0 |
Method 1: Submit your sites to the major search engines
The first step in increasing the amount of web visitors is to submit your site’s address to various search engines. Doing this will allow web surfers to come across your site when searching for things online.
Here are a few search engines that are available for you to add your website’s address:
https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/submit
In addition to, check your webhost company if they offer any automated tools for website submissions. This will save a great deal of time and effort.
Other than search engine submissions, try submitting your site to DMOZ.org . This directory style site, composed of editors and authors, reviews all submitted web content. Because of this review process, dmoz directory is filled with good quality content.
Another site similar to dmoz is the yahoo directory listing page at http://dir.yahoo.com
Method 2: Build your incoming links by making link requests.
After you have submitted your site to a few search engines, it is time to build links. Building links will help google determine your contents worthiness. If a well established website links to a page on your site, it tells google that there is something worthwhile on your site.
To exchange links, you can email the web master and request a link exchange. Be sure to build links with quality sites that have similar interest to your site to get full benefit of association.
You can find similar sites by simply searching google about your sites topic or asking around on your favorite web forums. Google also offers the option to type related:www.yoururl.com into googles search box to locate similar sites.
Method 3: Publish a major press releases about your website
A Press release is a major announcement heading that is posted on popular new sites. You can locate a press release agency that can write professional press releases at http://24-7pressrelease.com/ and www.prweb.com or you can create and submit your own. You will need to prepare the following information:
1. Headline to get users attention
2. A summary of your sites content
3. What you want the readers to know. Basically a small paragraph about your content.
4. Keyword about your site on what you want to target.
5. The particular industry your site can be classified as
6. Most important, the url to your website
Method 4: Create a xml feed
As the internet becomes easily accessible via mobile devices, users can now surf webpages on handheld PDAs and mobile phones. With this capability, users typically do not visit regular sites due to page load times and inconsistent browser viewing. However with XML feeds, users can read just the text content. To create an XML doc, you can use a simple site map generator such as the one offered at http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/
After you generate your sitemap, submit your site to various RSS feeds like feedburner.
Method 5: Email lists, forums, social sites, and bookmarking
Another simple method for building web traffic is to post your websites address on various message forums. A polite way to do this would be to find a message thread relevant to some content on your site. If you are a new member and randomly create a post with your url, you may be labeled as a spammer.
Another venue for advertising your sites content are blogs and email lists. You can leave helpful comments on blogs about your site as well as in email lists. Be helpful and genuine or else you may be viewed as a sales guy selling knives or AMWAY.
Other popular sites include:
Method 6: Original content wins, however use tools
Good quality content wins. As google and other search engines mature, improvements are made at weeding through spam content and copycat writers. Therefore, if your content is original and informative, organic traffic will flow towards your website naturally.
Organic traffic are visitors who find your site using search engines. This is the optimum way you want your traffic to flow from. Why, because if you eventually would like to earn profits from your site’s content, SEO research has shown a site gets higher paying ads.
Back on topic,
To create articles, use tools to help format your content wording.
1. One new and very informative tool available now is google search for insight. Using this tool, an author can type a phrase and google insight will display the upcoming search patterns. You can even filter through countries and time frames.
2. More useful tools include a keywords wordtracker tools. These keyword tools will help you create content with popular keywords. Remember, google searches word content and not word meaning. The better keywords in a post, the better likelihood for a higher google ranking.
