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How To Increase Website Traffic -The Basics

admin — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 03:42:14 +0000

How To – Increase Website Traffic – The Basics

This article covers all the basics from Identifying your niche market, to what software to use to driving traffic.It includes links to free and paid for software and other related articles.

Your Blog or Website needs to have a target Market

Most people refer to this as a “Niche Market”. The questions you need to be able to answer BEFORE Starting your Website are the following:

What is your site going to be about?
What is its purpose (to make friends, to make money, to tell the world something important?)
Who is your audience?
Why will they come to your Website?
What are their Needs?
What will make them come back?
Who are your competitors?
What can you offer that they don’t?
What is the language that people using when looking for information about your Niche Market?

You need to decide how important this project is to you

How much time are you willing to spend on your Website to start it up?
And daily and weekly after that?
Be honest if you want it up in a day and automated that’s fine. Then Say So.
How much money do you have budgeted for you Website?
To start it up?
To market it?
To keep it going?
If you want to spend the bare minimum then be honest with yourself.
If you can afford to spend xxx then make that your budget.

You Need to do Keyword Research before writing content

When I said that you needed to understand what language people use when searching for information or products in your niche market what I was referring to is doing “Keyword Research” . Chances are when you go to Google or yahoo to search for a product or information you type in 1-4 words. Those are Keywords. That is what the search engines use to find the information you are looking for. If they don’t do a good job then you will use a different search engine next time you search, so they try to find exactly what you are looking for.

For example If I am looking for information on a black Labrador retriever I would type in the key words “information Black Labrador Retriever”. The Search engine will try to find sites that have information on black Labrador retrievers.

Therefore if I have a Website about black Labrador retrievers then I want to make sure that I have keywords That tell the search engine that I have information on black Labrador retrievers. The more convinced that the search engines are that your site is the best site to fill the need for “Information on Black Labrador Retrievers” the higher your site will be on the list of the results they show the searcher and the more people that will click on the link to your site and they more targeted traffic your Website will get.

Here is a link for an article on this Website that tells you everything the latest version of Keyword Research Pro will do for you. It is the best keyword / niche market software out there. It is pretty cheap but worth its weight in gold::

http://www.keywordsoftwareguide.com/category/keywords-software-articles

If you are on a super tight budget (I don’t recommend cutting corners here but if you are) here is a link to an article that has 5 of the top free keyword research tools. All of them together do not do half what Keyword Research Pro will, but they are free:

http://www.keywordsoftwareguide.com/top-5-free-keyword-research-tools-for-web-developers-and-online-marketers

What I have just defined for you is Niche Marketing, Keyword Research and Search Engine Optomization all in a dozen sentences. So how hard can it be? Easy right?

You need to Create valuable content.

OK, now that you know what your niche market is and the keywords that you need, it is time to write articles, blog entries, stories, etc, for your Website or blog that will give people that are interested in your niche to come to your Website and read your articles and then want to stay around and read some more, either because they like it, they want to know it, they find it interesting, whatever. Hopefully all of the above!

For each new article you should decide what it will be about and what keyword(S) you want to make sure that you are getting across. If it is about training black labs then make that the title. And refer to that term for clarity whenever possible. Just throwing the term “training black labs” around a hundred times in a nonsense article will just piss people off and they won’t come back.Yes some people do this as they just want people to get to their site, as many as possible, so that they will hopefully click on an ad and make them some money. But it is a poor plan if you want to make money over time.

Your Website is like an investment. The more you put into it over time the more valuable it will become. That value can be thru getting your message out to more and more people or it can be thru selling more and more stuff. The value is created by the age of the site, the quality of the information, the amount of other sites that link into it over time, etc. This raises the page rank in the search engines and you get more and more traffic.

Try to fool the search engines and they, and the people, will eventually figure it out and your Website will never increase in value.

Use WordPress if your Website is a blog (ITS FREE) and learn the plugins to start with.

You can get wordpress as a FREE download at:

http://wordpress.org/download/

One reason WordPress is so great is that it has hundreds of free “Plugins”. Plugins are tools that lets your Website do cool or important things. For example. Want your Website to create an XML Sitemap (this is a map that tells the search engines whats on your Website and where so they can come check it out)

SAY YES to wanting a sitemap. OK. Just automatically download and click install on the “Google XML Sitemap Plugin”

.A Website that looks sharp with great features is a competitive advantage

Pick a Website design that makes sense. If You are using WordPress there are plenty of Website designs (Called Themes) for any occasion. Don’t use a hi tech modern design if you want to write about ancient Egypt.

You can get free themes from the free wordpress download. You can also buy a professionally designed theme. I have used both but hands down the professionally designed ones are the best. They look better and have more options that you can configure to make your theme the way you want it to be.

Here is a link to a site that has a lot of good deals on WordPress Themes. It also has a lot of free information on how to set up the wordpress Website and how to make simple changes to your theme, etc. www.wpthemesdeals.com

You need to Optimize your Website for the Search Engines (SEO BABY!)

OK. I gave you a preview of SEO earlier and there really is a lot more to it than just keywords and articles. BUT if you use wordpress you are at an advantage. You can install the platinum SEO plugin for free and it will do a GREAT job of handling SEO for you. Also there is the SEO smartlinks plugin for wordpress as well.

BUT automation is not a substitute for knowledge. We will be posting a article just on SEO in a few days (But most people consider SEO keyword research and placement. But it goes way beyond that).

You need to create a sitemap and submit your site to the search engines

With WordPress if you want your Website to create an XML Sitemap (this is a map that tells the search engines whats on your Website and where so they can come check it out) whenever you add a new post or article you can do so with the “Google XML Sitemap Plugin”. Just automatically download the plugin from the “add Plugin” option within wordpress and you are on your way (OK you have to click install and then go into the options to do a few settings).

Also, go into the “Pages” option and create a page called “Site Map”. Don’t put anything in it. Almost all of the WordPress themes will include this with the pages in the header so people will see it and the site map generator plugin will fill the page with a link to all the articles posts and categories that are on your Website so people can look around easier.

Remember, you can have the best information in the world on your Website but

If no one can find the site it does no good.
If the people who find your site were looking for something else it does no good
If once the people get there the site has useless or copied information it will do little good
And if People have to much trouble getting around your site it will do no good!

You need to submit your site to directories, and to social bookmarking sites and promote it for BACKLINKS and that will help get you the “link juice”(as some like to callit) and that will help get your site MORE TRAFFIC!

But doing all of this can be a pain in the butt. It is a slow and tedious process.

I recommend using Miracle traffic Bot because it is automated and does it all. As I state elsewhere on this site I have personally spent hundreds and hundreds of dollars on different products that don’t do any of this as well as Miracle traffic Bot. Here is a link to a short Review of it. It is another paid for product that is worth its weight in gold:

http://www.affiliatestoreguide.com/how-to-increase-Website-traffic

You need to keep working your site Content! Submissions! Links!

Once you have done all this you won’t get the traffic overnight. It takes a while for the search engines to “crawl” your site, and start sending you traffic and for people to start clicking on the articles that you submitted to the article sites and to the links you submitted to the directories.

In the mean time keep writing new and interesting articles. If you purchased Keyword Research Pro you can keep using it to find keyword phrases to write focused articles around. If you are using Miracle traffic Bot you can keep submitting articles etc.

You can also start to tweak your website. Learn how to add pictures. Learn that you can add keywords to the picture descriptions and names to add more relevance to your site. Browse the Plugin directory for more cool plugins and experiment to improve your site.

Get the Easy Google Analytics plugin, get a google analytics code and start tracking your website with google analytics. It will tell you how many people are going to your website and what keywords they use to get there etc. Just go to www.google.com/analytics and follow their instructions

And I could go on forever. ENOUGH FOR NOW!

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Google Wonder Wheel Keyword Research Tool Helps Discover Hidden Niches

admin — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 23:11:01 +0000

zebolsen.com Google has come out with the “Wonder Wheel” which is a tremendously powerful keyword research tool that helps discover hidden niches. This is one of the coolest keyword research tools ever made, and is very addictive. It is simple to use, and will enable you to uncover hidden gems within your niche to target and dominate google for. Google has also unleashed a few others along with the “Wonder Wheel” that are very cool as well that I highlight in this video. Enjoy & God Bless

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Google Wonder Wheel Keyword Research Tool Helps Discover Hidden Niches

admin — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 04:29:36 +0000

zebolsen asked:

ZebOlsen.com Google has come out with the “Wonder Wheel” which is a tremendously powerful keyword research tool that helps discover hidden niches. This is one of the coolest keyword research tools ever made, and is very addictive. It is simple to use, and will enable you to uncover hidden gems within your niche to target and dominate google for. Google has also unleashed a few others along with the “Wonder Wheel” that are very cool as well that I highlight in this video. Enjoy & God Bless…

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How to Do a Niche and Keyword Research in 5 Minutes or Less

admin — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:24:42 +0000

JonOrana asked:

More Free Videos freevideo.taknique.com – The quickest way to do a Niche and Keyword Research.

Can’t We Skip Keyword Research?

admin — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:57:22 +0000

I came across an interesting forum post today. The guy was wondering if he could just skip keyword research and just go ahead with writing about his topic. His logic was that if he ignored keywords, he would still naturally include good target keywords. Although this may produce slightly better content, he would be missing out on many potential keywords and opportunities for more related content. Essentially he would be losing some traffic.

Missing Potential Keywords

When you write about a topic, it is not realistic to expect all of your keywords to naturally be included in your writing. Just because you might know a lot about a topic, it does not mean that you use all the different terminology that exists in your niche. You likely have preferred names for things and you write a certain way.

Your visitors use a very wide range of keywords to find what you are writing about. They do not all use the exact same vocabulary and spelling, especially if you are targeting multiple geographical regions. People use search engines differently too. One person might prefer to search for one or two word phrases. Another person might like to type entire sentences or questions.

If you do not take the time to find out which keywords are more popular, you are only targeting the people who think like you. If you’re lucky you might accidentally target some other keywords too. Think of all the other keywords that you are probably forgetting.

Missing Related Topics

In addition to searching differently, your target visitors may be looking for a wide variety of things related to your topic. Some people may only want broad information or images. Others may only be interested in a very specific subtopic of your chosen topic. If the person is looking to shop, they might only be looking to compare products or they might be trying to find a particular product. Without doing proper keyword research, you might not think of some related topics that people are also frequently searching for.

If you are an expert in your field with years of experience, you probably can accurately predict a lot of the related topics that people might be searching for. Still you might be wrong about the preferred terminology. There could also be related topics that are brand new that you didn’t even know about. Trends change over time and new keywords can become popular overnight.

When you research related keywords you might realize that there is an important topic that you have not covered with your website content. This may warrant a separate article or even a whole new section of your website. By covering many topics related to your niche, you develop an authority website that answers all of your visitors’ questions. Plus you get more traffic from a wider variety of keywords.

Summary

So before you start writing your next article or blogpost, make sure you first research all of the possible keywords that are used within your niche. If you want a successful website, you don’t want traffic from just a few keywords, you want traffic from every important keyword related to your topic. You want to target people who think and search all different ways.

By: Jeremy Biberdorf

Keyword Research (finding niche keywords FAST)

admin — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:40:17 +0000

PotPieGirlDotCom asked:

www.potpiegirl.com – Get this software at http (free 7 day trial). Quick video showing my secret way of finding niche keywords for high-gravity clickbank products. This is way cool!

Improve Keyword Research With Micro Niche Finder

admin — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:33:03 +0000

D79SN asked:

tinyurl.com Good keyword research is the foundation for a strong online marketing campaign. This is a game you absolutely must win if you are an internet marketer! If you pursue a keyword or key phrase that is either under searched or has too much competition, you can end up setting yourself back a great deal of time. It makes sense to use a keyword software tool that will make your keyword research more effective. The theme of this video tutorial is on dominating keyword research with Micro …

Does this keyword research look right to you? ( I even give away a free niche)?

admin — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 04:42:39 +0000

simpleonline12 asked:

Hey guys just need a little advise from you pros out there. I think (or hope) that I have the keyword research area down but I need some advice to see if i am doing this right.

I was strolling through sitepoint.com and was looking for a good niche to dive into and came across the niche “acai berry” to I did a quick look on the amount of hits this exact keyword recieved and its around like a 18,000 or so but the competition is in the millions so i looked down the list and found another longtail keyword which was ‘acai berry juice’ and it recieved like 989 hits per day and only has like 266,000 pages of competition. I decided to launch my attack that this level. The only issue that I have with this is that the number of daily hits for any sub keyword for ‘acai berry juice’ tappers off quickly. I mean the only other sub keyword that has a good amount of daily hits is ‘acai berry juice benefits’ that gets around 155 hits per day and only about 961 pages of competition so I figure I’d hit a gold mine but the only problem is that everything below that sub keywords only get hits in the single digits or teens.

Did I dig to deep into this niche to wrap my site around? Should I have moved a little more broad to a term like ‘acai berry’ ?

Thanks for any advice on the whole keyword research you can shed my light on.

I’m not concerned about this site being competed against as i only launched this site as a test so see if i could get some traffic to this site regardless of making $$$$

PM if you would like…I hope I am doing this right…

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Underground Competitive Intelligence and Keyword Research

admin — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 11:52:31 +0000

Having your website up and running is the first step, but one thing that I learned from Michael Cheney is that you need to optimize your website for your specific keywords, so that you can start climbing in the search engine ranking.

Keyword research will make SEO so much faster and PPC so much cheaper. And you can do this research for FREE with the tools I’ll show you!

Here are some of the tools that I use for my keywords research:

- Market Samurai (free!)

- Google Keyword (free!)

- www.spyfu.com (free!)

- www.wordtracker.com (free trial)

- www.hexatrack.com (free!)

- www.KeyCompete.com (free trial)

What you are doing with your keyword research is you are narrowing your market into your specific niche. You are using a laser beam instead of a flashlight.

So instead of a broad market like?computers, you could narrow it down:

Computers → Laptop computers → Apple Laptops → iBook

See how you have just taken a broad market search term with a ton of website and competition, down to a specific niche with fewer websites and less competition.

You are targeting your specific customer this way too.

You are essentially carving your own slice of cyberspace on the internet with your keyword, that you will then create websites, articles, videos and other content around your keywords.

The coolest thing about the tools I’ve shown you earlier is that as you are searching for your keyword, you are arming yourself with a TON of competitive intelligence and know how to set up your website the right way the first time:

- Competition- who is using you keyword?

- Volume- how many searches a day?

- Trends- are they steady, increasing, declining, or seasonal?

- Commercial intent- how likely is someone to buy something from you based on searching for your keyword?

The commercial intent is one of the coolest things for you and me?because who do we want? Buyers!

We want them to buy from us because of the content and the value that we are giving away.

You want to do your keyword research not only to figure out where the niche is.

You want to make sure that as you’re building pages you’re using that keyword research data and figuring out through PPC which ones are converting the best to then go and build out your websites.

This will tell you what keywords to write articles about or what keywords to go build Squidoo pages around.

By: Adam Spiel

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admin — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 23:59:12 +0000

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