by Tony C. Herman
Read this article to find out how to get more targeted traffic to your website who are people that will be interested in your products or services. Do what is written here and you’ll see results soon.
Usually when people go on the Internet, they are searching for something specific. What is great about the Internet is that there is a lot of information out there and you can find just about anything you are looking for by searching. What you want is your website to show up in the search engine results.
Get the Search Engine Optimization Done (SEO)
Tuning your website so that it shows up well in search rankings is called SEO, which stands for Search Engine Optimization. For the purposes of this article, we’re going to assume that you’ve done this work - either done yourself or by someone who specializes in SEO, like a website design firm, who can also give you a nice design. This work includes optimizing page titles with the right keywords, placing the right amount of keywords in your copy, creating the right meta tags, having search engine friendly URLs and so forth. Your domain name should be old enough and if it contains a keyword, that is good, too.
The next thing to do is rank better. This is the main thing and the main thing in doing SEO is to get incoming links. Each website that links to yours is like voting for your website. The more votes you get, the higher you rank.When you get more votes than your competition, your site moves above theirs. Links using hypertext (linked text) from sites that also rank well is optimal but a link is a link and they all help.
How To Get More Links to Your Website
Getting inbound links to your company website can be done in a few ways. The best way is when people just naturally like your site and want to link to it. You do this by providing content that is link worthy. You can also encourage people to bookmark your website on social bookmarking sites like Delicious.com. Be sure to ask friends and any business associates or vendors to link to your site. And you can always search around for related sites and propose link exchanges. Actually, you may be getting these requests already from other websites - this is why. These link exchanges are really worth doing, so let’s help each other out and do as many as we can. Don’t ignore those requests.
One secret to getting incoming links is with article marketing. What you’re reading right now is me doing article marketing. You take some time and write a useful article that is original and full of good information. It should answer a question that people may have and be useful to them. That’s why you need to take some time doing a little bit of research. That article is then submitted to article repositories and you get to include 2 incoming links back to your website down in the resource box at the end of the article.
The key to submitting articles is that the article needs to be totally original on each article directory that it appears on. It could take hours and hours to write and then re-write an article over and over and doing that is probably not worth your time. You would also then need take time to submit each article, which is also very labor intensive. Well, as you might have guessed, there’s an easier way. It’s called the Unique Article Wizard.
What the Unique Article Wizard does is automatically submit your article to many article websites (most rank pretty well and Google knows about them) and also creates unique versions of each article for you. I’ve used it many times and I’ve seen traffic and Google’s PageRank go up on those sites - and that’s the idea, right?
Writing an article using the Unique Article Wizard does take some time. It’s true. But in comparison to how much time it would have taken you to rewrite your article, it’s really nothing. If you have writer’s block, then don’t worry. You can hire people on sites like Elance.com to do the writing for you for a good price. When I sit down to do some writing, I try to remember AIDA, which means:
* Attraction
* Interest
* Desire
* Action
That is what your article needs to do and do it in that order. It must grab attention. If it doesn’t, then people will never read it and get to the next part, which is get their interest and then turn it into desire. You then end it with a call to action. One way to accomplish of all this is to write a “how to” type of article. These grab attention nicely and lots of people type the words “how to” into Yahoo when they go online to search.
You’ll then go through the online wizard that’s available, where you adjust each paragraph a little and then it submits your article for you. I usually have it submit about 60 a day and aim for it to be submitted to 500-600 or more directories. Not bad, right?
Then usually within a week or two, you will start to see more traffic coming to your website. search engines will also see more sites that link to your website and that gets you higher rankings. One goal may be to write and submit 1 article per week and you would see great results by just doing that. Many people are doing that very thing, so you know it’s working. Be sure to take your time doing it and include really good information in your articles. That’s key. You will look like an expert in your industry and people will come to your website for more information.