Wednesday, February 25, 2009

How to get real traffic to your website

By Steve Thomas

If you have a webite that does not get the hits it deserves then you need to follow best possible S.E.O strategy.These steps will get you traffic, some steps may not be applicable to all webmasters.

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.

Next, get a damn good domain name, the older the better, preferably with some page rank or at least some back 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.

Your best tactic is to target as many keywords on as many pages as you can. The more you pages you have the better.

You will need some real quality content pages for you site, but regularly add as many pages as you can frequently. You should have lots of intelligent 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.

Its very important to build your links steadily, spread over a period of time. The most import part of your back link should be the anchor text.

A good variety of the anchor text you use, as well as mixing it with you keywords will make it look natural and organic.

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.

If the site you get the link from is not in the same niche as yours, if the page is relevant it will still be give more value to your back link.

Get your links from many different sites, not ones owned by one person or a network of sites. The sites you get your links from should be from on different I.P address, DNS servers or locations.

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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