Friday, November 6, 2009

Finding Traffic - The Common Sense Approach

OK, you built your site, it's even indexed on Google's search engine, but no one's coming. This is what most new internet marketers are facing everyday. Follow these simple steps and I guarantee you will be better off than you are right now.

Look at it this way, the internet is just one giant container of website real estate. They are all lined up with the best websites at the top and the weaker ones as you go down the list. Your job is to become better than your competitors so that you can be on the top of the list. The good news is that all of the really hard work has already be done for you. You don't have to go out and spend hundreds of dollars on some system or company to get you ranking high on Google. You just have to do your homework. Yes that's right you do have to do some work. If you are not ready to do that then you can stop reading this is not for you. Now if you are still here just follow these steps and you will be amazed.

Step 1

Pick your main keyword and some long-tail keywords to go with it. Then do a Google search and find the top ten sites that are coming up for your keywords. These site are your competition. They have already done all the hard work for you, because they are showing up in the top ten of Google's organic search.

Step 2

Start a stats sheet for each website. On this stats sheet you are going to take notes on everything and anything you can find out about these websites. First thing you want to do is right click on the websites home page and select view source. Study this data it contains a lot of important information. Things like keywords, description's, meta tags, how many headers and alt tags to name a few. Write everything you can find out from this data.

Step 3

Read the content. Pay attention to the keyword density. Is the keywords used a the beginning of the sentence? Is it in the URL? Things like that. How many words on the page? You get the point. You want to gather all the things from this site that obviously is getting it a top ten ranking. It is all there right in front of you and its free information they have already done the hard work for you. Do this for all ten sites.

Step 4

Build or rebuild your website using the data you have gathered. Make sure your content is original. Make sure your content contains everything your top ten sites contain. This way your website will be ten times better than your competitors. Make sure you follow what they used for keyword density. Make sure you follow the same format. Pay attention to the titles and headers and so on.

Final step

OK, your finished with your site and its up and looks good. Now I want you to write two articles a day for the next seven days. These article can be about anything. They do not have to be about your new website. We are only concerned about getting back-links and not traffic from the articles themselves. I repeat we are not writing the articles to generate traffic themselves, we just want the back-links. You see since you have done the other work. Your website is most likely ten times better than the ten sites you researched. Google loves excellent content and with your new back-links that you are adding you will start to climb the list and beat your competitors. It is important that you place your keywords from your website as anchor text linking back to the pages that contain those keywords in the resource box of your article. Do not just link to your home page unless that is all your site has. If you have done the work you were suppose to do then most likely you will have many pages.. Also I didn't talk about the about page, sitemap and private policy page. Google really likes websites that have those.

Finally you will see that some sites will jump to the top spots with just a few article submissions and some may take a lot more than a few. Its a numbers game sometimes so be patient and keep working you will see results. I guarantee it will be better than when you started.

I hope this helps someone, now get to work!

If you enjoyed this article, Tim is the author of several website specializing in reviews and helpful tips. You can check out his latest website on American standard faucets and also American standard shower faucets

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