31 October 2013

Building Long Term 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.

These days Google is focused on great quality content and natural link building strategies. For example you can contact trusted websites in your niche to link with your content or page in exchange for sharing quality information with their audience. Search engines like Google love seeing links from trusted sources, especially sources from educational or organizational sites.

You can easily get a few links by submitting articles to online magazines that serve the same market as your site. Include backlinks to your website in your contributions. One factor that makes ezines a great tool for attracting an audience is that they usually remain accessible and relevant for long periods of time and will continue to attract people to your site, which means more targeted traffic.

It's important that you work hard to become an expert on your niche or at least a reliable source of information about your niche where people can find useful content. Believe or not this will also help your SEO efforts since social engagement is an important factor. But another crucial factor is good on-site optimization, the proper use of meta titles, description and tags can give you a little boost in rankings.

If you are not on the first page of Google yet try focusing on building traffic using social networks and article directories, usually you'll find targeted traffic from those sources and they might even link to your content if it's good. In the end natural backlinking strategies are the best ones and work much faster than buying junk links.




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