How To Get More Traffic Using 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.

Link building strategies change all the time, but because search engines are now focused on great content you should try to create quality content so you can ask other site owners in your niche to link to you. If they like and find your content useful they most likely will be happy to link to your page. Backlinks from .edu and .org sites are great sources to help you get better rankings because they consider this type of links very powerful.

Article marketing is a great strategy to not only gain easy backlinks for your site but also get targeted traffic for your website. Submitting articles is a great way to start generating quick traffic, you can attach links to your articles and gain powerful dofollow links. There are a lot of article directories and web 2.0 properties that allow external links, we recommend you pick at least 10-20 and start submitting content over time.

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.

Now just because you are not on the first page of Google does not mean that you shouldn't worry about sending traffic to your site. While you work on your SEO try to get referral traffic from places like video sites, social networks and article directories. Remember if people find your stuff valuable they will naturally link to it which will benefit your rankings.




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