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Many seem to be following the “if you build it they will come” business plan.
That simply does not work.
Most of your market is trying to find you by searching somewhere – whether that is on a search engine, blog search, on their favorite Social Networking sites, using search tools like FeelTipTop or in Local Search Directories.
The key questions you must answer when building traffic for your Web site are:
- WHO is YOUR target audience
- What exact words and phrases are they using when looking for what you offer
The very first thing every business, blog, or ecommerce site needs to know is what their most important keyword phrases are – because how you write about and promote those phrases determines whether your Web site gets found online and by how many.
Make this task your highest priority today.
- First identify your target audience – who would look for what you offer and where do they look?
- Brainstorm – ideally with others – how your target audience would go about searching for you online.
- What exact words and phrases would they use? Remember that many will NOT know your industry jargon or the specific names you use.
- Check your existing positions for those phrases (see tools below). Your target is to be found on the first page of results at Google, Yahoo and Bing.
- Identify your very best page or post for each phrase. If you don’t have a compelling pillar post for that phrase create one.
Here are some tools to assist you with the above:
FREE KEYWORD RESEARCH TOOLS:
- WordStream Free Keyword Research Tool – my preferred tool – makes it easy to edit and save keyword lists
- WordTracker (free version) – best for checking actual search volume
- Google Keyword Tool External US
- Google Keyword Tool External UK
There are many others but the first two are what I use most and the last two are what Murray Newlands recommends on his Affiliate Marketing Blog.
SEARCH ENGINE POSITION TOOLS:
- Free SEOBOOK Rank Checker
- If you have the SEOBook Toolbar the RankChecker is built into it.
One you know what they are, use your most important keyword phrases:
- To write posts that target specific keyword phrases
- When leaving comments in blogs using KeywordLuv or that allow you to add links with your own anchor text within the body of comments
- Share them with your blogging buddies, blogger alliance, blog club, or collaborators so they know precisely which posts are most important to you and what keyword phrase to use as your preferred anchor text
- Focus on them when doing blog outreach
If each of us will take the time to share this type of information with our collaborators, it will make a HUGE difference in the results we will see and how fast we attain them. Once we have this information we can select the best anchor text and landing page to use whenever we link to each other. When I blog I also add Twitter IDs and I recommend doing that too.
In case anyone doesn’t know, anchor text is simply the words that are used in hyperlinks you create. Instead of always using someone’s blog name or their name start LINKING their optimum anchor text phrases because your target audience includes the masses who don’t know your business name or blog yet.
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Twitter: @moonheart
This is really very nice guide for start a home business. Yes keyword research is very much important for improve our online business. First we should have to target to some less popular keyword so that we can get rank easily.
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Twitter: @GrowMap
Welcome Moon,
We have many posts that are perfect for those who are growing blogs or businesses or want to work from home like we do full time. Skim the categories in the right column and check out our Best of GrowMap post.
Internet Strategist @GrowMap´s last blog ..Today Dec 1, 2009 is the FTC Disclosure Deadline
Twitter: @moonheart
Thank you for the information, Yes your blog is really very interesting. So I have already subscribed to your blog.
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Twitter: @ChugginMcCoffee
I think it is a great idea to brainstorm about how your target audience may try to find you online. You are only one person, so it would only make sense to ask other consumers out there what they are looking for. I optimize for coffee keywords, and you would be surprised at what some people search for!
Twitter: @GrowMap
Hi Mark,
Many businesses make the mistake of assuming their potential buyers know their industry jargon and the “proper” names of their products. I am continually showing them proof in search tools of how far from the truth that is!
Any blogger or business can ask their co-workers, friends or family what they would search for to find what they offer. Most of them will be in for big surprises. Sit them at a PC and watch how they try to find you. This is FAR more accurate than asking or taking surveys.
You can apply the same concept to do free usability testing on your Web site. Bring up your site and watch as anyone who hasn’t seen it before uses it. Ask them to perform specific tasks and see how they do. If more businesses did that there would be far more better and more usable Web sites.
Internet Strategist @GrowMap´s last blog ..Better Live Chat Equals More Closed Sales
Oh my how often you see someone jumping up and down because they now rank #1 for this ridiculous word or that meticulous phrase until they’re asked, how many are searching for it?
Huh? What?
Yea…
Dennis Edell´s last blog ..Blogging Halted Here – Don’t Despair, This Is A Good Thing!
Twitter: @GrowMap
You’re right Dennis. Just as trying to rank for the most high traffic, general keywords is a losing cause for most – ranking for anything that your users are not searching for won’t be bringing you any traffic.
Perhaps I need to add these points to this post:
1) DO NOT start out trying to rank for the phrase EVERYONE in your niche is targeting. (It MIGHT be possible but will take a long time, lots of effort and very likely professional SEO assistance.)
2) DO use the tools I suggested to find phrases that your audience are already using and target the ones that are attainable, i.e., are fairly specific two to three word phrases with moderate searches. Skip the first few and target the most relevant to what you are linking and writing about.
Internet Strategist @GrowMap´s last blog ..Tools Wanted for Power Bloggers, Social Networkers
The perfect key questions. I think that we should always be guided of the two key questions so that we may never be mislead. Thanks for sharing this helpful article.
Twitter: @GrowMap
Welcome back Luigi,
If you do what I recommend in this post for your business you will definitely be able to increase your organic traffic. After you get the phrases you most want to target use them on blogs like mine that use both CommentLuv and KeywordLuv to create your own anchor text.
When you fill in your name on a blog using KeywordLuv put it exactly like this:
Luigi @ Custom Printing
Everything after the @ sign gets linked and becomes the anchor text that goes to the Website you put in the Website field. Everyone is invited to link to specific interior pages of their sites and choose their own anchor text here. (No adult content or links please.)
The reason this is important is that you can get specific pages ranked for specific keyword phrases. To use printing as an example, if you had a page where people order or create their own business cards you could use Luigi @ Order Business Cards to make “Order Business Cards” your anchor text that is hyperlinked by KeywordLuv to that specific page.
As you gradually add more links to that page using one or more phrases (you might also use “buy business cards” and “order business cards online”) that page will move up in the search engines for those searches.
I know KeywordLuv confuses many people because so few use it. Anyone who still doesn’t understand is invited to ask questions until it becomes clear to you. I don’t want you to miss out on making your own content easy for searchers to find.
Internet Strategist @GrowMap´s last blog ..MEME: Share What Makes You Feel Thankful
Thanks for excellent tips. It is no surprise I look to you for advice on how to grow traffic to my site TipTop, the real-time, semantic, social search engine that you mentioned. Thanks. TipTop is a great place to research anything, find useful leads for B2C or B2B, discover interesting people and build relationships, and also spread the word about your business.
Twitter: @GrowMap
Welcome Shyam,
My Twitter followers may notice that I Tweet about Tip Top Twitter search engine hoping they’ll realize how handy and valuable it can be.
I’m still planning to write one or more posts with tips on how businesses and bloggers can use your semantic search engine for business promotion and brand management.
Do read the reply I wrote to the comment just above this one about how to use KeywordLuv. When you leave comments in blogs using KeywordLuv you might want to use
Shyam Kapur @ Twitter search Engine
That will give you incoming links to get your FeelTipTop site onto the first page of the search engines when people search for “Twitter search engine”. That is the phrase I would expect most people to use to find what you offer when they don’t know your specific product.
Internet Strategist @GrowMap´s last blog ..Tools Wanted for Power Bloggers, Social Networkers
I think you wanna say something about our keyword which we use for our site SEO. A keyword niche play vital role to boost up your search ranking. Nice tips to generate traffic to site.
Twitter: @GrowMap
Hello Biopse,
Since you asked, phrases longer than 2-3 words are less likely to have significant amounts of search traffic – and unless someone is searching phrases won’t bring any traffic. If you plug that phrase into the WordStream tool it shows 0 searches.
I would recommend you use shorter phrases that describe your products such as:
spam firewall
virus firewall
antivirus firewall
anti-virus firewall
Web site firewall
SSL VPN
Research which phrases get traffic, then use the appropriate phrase to link to a specific page about that product. It looks like someone there already knows about this because your company already ranks quite well on your name and on several of the phrases I used as examples.
Internet Strategist @GrowMap´s last blog ..Better Live Chat Equals More Closed Sales
Twitter: @SpotCoolStuff
I’m somewhat a believer in the “If you build it they will come” approach insofar as you need to have a quality product once people find you.
GETTING people to find you is a whole other story. Personally, I don’t think I’ve done near enough work with keywords. The links you provided to the free keyword research were a huge help in that regard. Thanks!
Spot@tech blog´s last blog ..Nikon D80 vs D90 vs D300
Twitter: @GrowMap
Welcome back Spot,
If you don’t have quality content they won’t STAY even if you get found; however, there are many excellent blogs and Web sites that get next to no traffic because they don’t understand the concept that I am writing about in this post.
I truly hope people take me seriously when I say “Make this task your highest priority today. ” The sooner they get started the better. Until you know who your audience is and what phrases you want to target getting incoming links from other bloggers or sites or using CommentLuv and KeywordLuv may be a waste of time.
When you start collaborating with blogging buddies you need to give them the specific pages and anchor text you would most like to have them use when linking to your site. Most just link blog or business names which is far less effective at driving more traffic and business.
Internet Strategist @GrowMap´s last blog ..Today Dec 1, 2009 is the FTC Disclosure Deadline
Twitter: @grpasswater
Wonderful post!
If you want to attract clients, you can’t be invisible. You have to work for it and find those clients.
BTW, great blog! Thanks for the mention
George Passwater´s last blog ..27 Ways to Help You Find More Work
Twitter: @GrowMap
Welcome George and thank you. I have found that even major sites that are already PR5 and have much traffic do not apply this specific concept. I am hopeful that my readers will believe me when I strongly recommend that what this post explains really does need to be made a priority – and the sooner the better.
Internet Strategist @GrowMap´s last blog ..MEME: LinkLuv to My Fav Bloggers Favs
Twitter: @adsmarket
In addition to wordstream, I have used wordtracker’s free tool at freekeywords.wordtracker.com. This one shows you the number of searches for your keyword, and variations including your keyword, but then you can click a variation and drill down to see even more variations. It gets me to more options faster, IMO.
GrowMap, what do you think?
For example: an initial search for ‘affiliate’ yields 486 searches. One of the variations is ‘affiliate programs’ with 357 searches. Variations on this keyword included: ‘wealthy affiliate program’ (64) and ‘wealthy affiliate money making program’ (45). These last two, which are sort of wierd and long, actually have more volume than ‘best affiliate program’ (24).
Daneka@best affiliate programs´s last blog ..What Affiliates Want From their Affiliate Offers
Twitter: @GrowMap
Hi Daneka,
The second link in the post is to the WordTracker tool. One thing to keep in mind when doing keyword research is that the results can be skewed. There are two important factors you need to know:
1) Many people use toolbars to search and instead of backing up and going forward they will search repeatedly. That is important to know because one person might have generated most or even all of the weird search phrases you see so you don’t want to target those.
2) In your specific example, both of those phrases refer to a specific Web site called Wealthy Affiliate. That link is to a review Wanda and Paula wrote about it.
While some people might be searching for general information to become a “wealthy affiliate” most of those searches are going to be for that specific Web site.
Why don’t we talk via chat? You have some unique challenges and your company has one major selling point over any other affiliate management program I’ve ever seen: no start-up or maintenance fees for merchants.
Wealthy Affiliate searches refer to a
Internet Strategist @GrowMap´s last blog ..Blog Outreach: 8 Compelling Reasons Why You Should Be Doing It Now
Twitter: @alinkbuilder
This is very nice post, i always wanted to increase the traffic in organinc sense.
Thanks for your help, by showing me the right way to increase the blog traffic.
The tools you have mentioned are quite useful.
Which you said in beginning of the post that we should know about our niche keyword or phrase that will be used by the followers and will make easy to access to your site.
Twitter: @ArticleDirec
Keyword research is one of the key steps. Having a plan usually determines if you or your business is going to be successful or not. Have a plan and stick to it. Everyone who has ever been successful has had a plan that they have followed.
Twitter: @BSwafford
My biggest challenge is remembering to link a person’s name to strong anchor text while I’m writing a post.
This is a good reminder to slow down and use more creativity when linking to another blogger.
Barbara Swafford´s last blog ..The Shortest Lesson Ever
Twitter: @GrowMap
Hi Barbara,
Great to see you here as I know how very busy you are. Bloggers are going to be really challenged to understand this whole keyword research and anchor text concept.
Each blogger has to figure out what it is they want to be found for in the search engines, decide what the very best keyword phrases are for them and also the best page for each phrase and then use that information in comments and guest blog posts.
We may even want to share that information on our about page or at least with other bloggers who link to us. Blog names and the bloggers name are not actually the best anchor text and this is not an easy task – but it is a VERY important one.
Try out Windows Live Writer, it have abilities to do auto-link, auto get strong for selected phases
It’s a great line from the movie Field of Dreams isn’t it. This is one of my favorite movies. However, it’s so UNTRUE in Internet. How many people out there have put up a website with great expectations and nobody came? Answer: Just about everyone…but if you stick to it, they do come!
Richard@How To Videos´s last blog ..How Do I Download Songs Onto iTunes
Twitter: @GrowMap
Hi Richard,
Way back in 1996 I wrote a page about the most important part of getting found on the Internet: Location, location, location. It is much easier to get traffic from where it already is than to wait for it to find you. You must reach out to other sites (including search engines) if you expect to be successful.
GrowMap´s last blog ..MEME: LinkLuv to My Fav Bloggers Favs
Twitter: @imstrategies
Most definitely targeting proper search terms and keywords is half the battle. Sometimes people get caught up in very competitive keywords which is really a mistake as it may take a long time to rank, but looking for the lower competition terms and lots of them can get you ranking in tons of long tail phrases and bring traffic for a long time to come.
JR @ Internet Marketing´s last blog ..Search Hot Keywords with Comprehensive Info with Free Toolbar
Twitter: @GrowMap
Hi JR,
One of the things I recommend for most people is getting someone to assist them in understanding this clearly or even in selecting their anchor text for them. It is so important and most still just don’t “get it”.
That is an interesting link you shared there. I saw that toolbar somewhere before – probably on your site. I hope you’ll share some tips on how you’re applying the information you get from it.
Maybe some who do understand keyword research should offer to select keyword phrases for others for a flat fee per keyword phrase or set of six or something. It can often be faster to just do it than it is to teach someone else – and eventually they would start understanding.
GrowMap´s last blog ..Tools Wanted for Power Bloggers, Social Networkers
Twitter: @AussieSire
This is really good IG, and although it seems like a lot of work it’s absolutely necessary for those who want to get ahead of the rest.
Lucky for me I don’t have a niche or target audience or anything. I don’t do keyword research, although I may take a minute or two to shove some in the title or post or something. Sure I could be getting a whole lot more traffic, but then I’d enjoy blogging a whole lot less, and we can’t be having that now can we?
Sire´s last blog ..How To Stop Infolinks From Appearing In Your Comments
Twitter: @GrowMap
Hi Sire,
Everyone has a target audience. Yours appears to me to be other bloggers. If you would select some phrases and specific pages to land them on and share that information with me and other bloggers you interact with regularly we could move you up in the search engines.
I know the intention of your blog is to make money (based on the ads you have on it) so more traffic = more income. We love you Sire so we would like to assist you in finding a balance in the monetization style of your blog.
I also read Holly’s post about in text links and agree with her about making sure they are not in comments. You already know that I don’t favor them but I can easily ignore them in the body of posts.
I do discriminate against blog posts that place AdSense ads between the title and text when I’m linking out to other blogs and when I decide what to review and share at StumbleUpon, Twitter, Facebook, FriendFeed and Delicious (although I sometimes make exceptions for exceptional content and people like you because I like you).
I know that those who make big bucks with AdSense ads advise putting them there; however, if that page gets shared less and less incoming links wouldn’t it earn less too? There is a study that needs doing.
This year I have to get laser-focused because there simply is not enough of me to go around. Because of this I will be focusing almost exclusively on dofollow KeywordLuv enabled blogs. Any chance you might consider KeywordLuv? (I have two posts in the works on the pros/cons.)
GrowMap´s last blog ..Wedding Boom Predicted for Next 22 Years
Twitter: @GrowMap
Sorry Sire,
I could swear the post I was looking at did not have KeywordLuv on it, but the one I just commented on, reviewed and shared did. Sorry – I can’t always remember everything. Thank goodness for Tomboy Notes!
GrowMap´s last blog ..Wedding Boom Predicted for Next 22 Years
Twitter: @AussieSire
When I first started blogging it was because I thought it would help the ranking of my website. Now I do it because I fell in love with it.
As for my intentions of blogging being money orientated, I don’t think that’s entirely true.
Sure I have ads on my blogs and I enjoy the few dollars that come in because it means that I’ve done something right, but if I was really interested in the money aspect I would have given it up long ago.
Sire´s last blog ..Why The The Struggle For PR Is A Waste Of Time
Twitter: @GrowMap
Hi Sire,
Most bloggers do just love it. Most of us are working to find the balance between our content and generating some income so we can do more of what we love!
The wedding niche is heating up and we have a great gift affiliate program for it and an easy way to add a wedding store that contains products from 40+ merchants that updates itself daily – all with one line of code. Check out the post in CommentLuv and the Bridaluxe Wedding Affiliate Program.
GrowMap @ Social Media Marketing´s last blog ..Wedding Boom Predicted for Next 22 Years
Twitter: @AussieSire
Checking it out now.
Sire´s last blog ..The Honest Truth About Blogging For Money
thanks for this beneficial post… that key questions is really thought provoking…
Really i am impressed from this post……thanks for shared this with us.i found this informative
and interesting blog so i think its very useful and knowledge able.
good work…unique site and interesting too… keep it up…looking forward for more updates.
sarika@Upper Cervical Software´s last blog ..Zeina & Zak. Westin Hotel Wedding.
A very good piece of work for the beginners. I surely agree with you on optimizing for long tail keywords. Their conversion potential is very strong – and long-lasting. Keep posting!!!
Twitter: @GrowMap
Hi Isha,
I assure everyone that this is not just for beginners. It is key to online success for everyone.
GrowMap´s last blog ..Tools Wanted for Power Bloggers, Social Networkers
an easily understandable post on building traffic…. it has given me a clear idea on which part i have to concentrate more. thanks:):)
Twitter: @GrowMap
You’re very welcome Cary,
I hope you’ll become a regular reader. Do make sure your business is listed in the Local Search Directories.
GrowMap @ Social Media Marketing´s last blog ..Best to All in This Happy New Year of 2010
For any website to be successful it needs traffic, but most importantly targeted traffic. Luckily there are a range of ways to drive traffic to websites meaning there are lots of options to explore in order to get targeted traffic. Thanks for all the tips and advice above
Alex @ Van Seat Covers´s last blog ..Seat Covers for Vans
Twitter: @GrowMap
Welcome Alex,
I can see you have this anchor text thing down. I hope you’ll be a regular reader. Best of GrowMap,\ is a good place to find out what else I’ve written that you could really use.
GrowMap @ Social Media Marketing´s last blog ..How to Use TipTop for Real Time Market Research
Twitter: @saurabhsnv
Yes i think first you have to target your audience and should analysis for keyword competition and blog commenting is the crucial part .Great to read!
Twitter: @GrowMap
Hi Saurabh,
Success depends on doing this. I just hope bloggers and business owners will take it to heart. It really can make all the difference.
GrowMap @ Social Media Marketing´s last blog ..Best to All in This Happy New Year of 2010
Every person knows that finding for BUSINESS can be a exhausting and disappointing project if the person does not know the appropriate source of exploring. What individuals don’t know is that the net is the exact way of BUSINESS.
Twitter: @GrowMap
Welcome Oliviya,
We are fortunate to have the Internet. It can save many small businesses that might otherwise fail in the declining U.S. economy IF they know what to do and act quickly.
GrowMap @ Social Media Marketing´s last blog ..Wedding Boom Predicted for Next 22 Years
Twitter: @icttrends
Excellent tips condensed in compact form making it weight heavier and most useful. I copied the article and pasted in my Doc file so that I can refer to it when I don’t have internet connection.
Regarding brainstorming and using the actual words the searchers are likely to type in search boxes, I have found many time, it won’t always be interesting. I know, I need to choose title in such a way that it includes the main keywords. But most of the time I found my title become less testy to include all those words that users will type in their search boxes. But I believe a balanced composition will help aesthetic value and search engine affection too!
Suresh Khanal´s last blog ..Do I need permission to link to other websites in my post?
Twitter: @GrowMap
Welcome Suresh,
Excellent copywriting is not easy. Every time I read something that says someone whipped out a blog post or article in thirty minutes I want to choke. I believe in quality and that takes time – often hours and hours.
The same is true of titles. Lyndon Antcliff is a highly paid expert on linkbait – we actually call him the Linkbait King – gets a princely sum for writing ONE title because that is so important to getting an email opened or a blog post read.
The best copywriters can get $10,000+ per mailing piece because of the high conversion rates they generate. Brilliant conversion experts can double, triple, even quadruple sales or more because they understand what works – and just as importantly – what doesn’t.
What we write must flow for our readers and also be easily found by them. That is the key – and the great challenge.
Gail @ Social Media Marketing´s last blog ..AdJump Demographically Targeted Ads Deliver Over 1.5 Million International Leads Monthly
Twitter: @GleeStreet
Awesome post and will try to implement your ideas on gaining traffic. I’ve started to think lately, as I add more content to my site, “There are millions and millions of people out there looking for good gadget, entertainment, and political news and I want my share of those people.” I believe I can get my share, but it’ll take some time and I need more patience. If only I had that patience. : )
Brian H. Gadget, Entertainment and Travel News´s last blog ..Aliph™ Introduces Jawbone ICON™, The World’s First Truly Intelligent Bluetooth® Headset
Twitter: @GrowMap
Hi Brian,
All you need to do is target specific two to three word phrases. You can start with the comments you leave in KeywordLuv blogs like this one. I know this is a confusing subject so I hope you don’t mind me using your comment as a teaching example.
You used “Brian H. Gadget, Entertainment and Travel News” as your anchor text. How many do you suppose will be searching for that exact phrase? If any do they would already know about you.
What you want to target is something people who don’t know you would search on. Next time you comment try something like this instead:
Brian H. @ Gadget Reviews
Brian H. @ What is Bluetooth
Brian H. @ Bluetooth reviews
Use the keyword tools to find out what people are searching for and plug the phrases you select into the SEOBook Search Engine Ranking Checker I mentioned. Find out where you rank now (probably nowhere which will be shown by a dash (-) .
Start targeting that phrase – that is your new anchor text – and land it on the best page for each phrase. Share your best phrases with those who link to you and use them in your comments. Do this consistently and then run that report again to see how you’re doing.
Yes, we all must have patience as this doesn’t work overnight. Building any business takes time and consistent effort. You may want to come back regularly. We make that easy: Subscribe to our RSS or Subscribe via email
Gail @ Social Media Marketing´s last blog ..How to Use TipTop for Real Time Market Research
A good blog how to generate traffics in the sites. Website owners must be pleased with you.Do some hard SEO you will meet your ranking.
Twitter: @GrowMap
Hello Roman,
I hope at least some Web site owners do apply what I share here. It definitely will be beneficial to them.
Gail @ Social Media Marketing´s last blog ..MEME: LinkLuv to My Fav Bloggers Favs
Twitter: @mmangen
Gail – great job with all the resources in this post. I had not heard of TipTop but just checked it out. Pretty cool tool.
I’m still defining some of the points in your post for my own site but def agree with #3 about using words that people would search for. I think that is how I “accidentally” got a few posts of mine into the top search results on Google and they are still my most frequented posts.
Michelle @ Your Virtual Assistant´s last blog ..DoFollow, Keyword Luv & CommentLuv
Twitter: @GrowMap
Thanks Michelle,
Yes, that is how a site “accidentally” gets ranked and how smart bloggers and businesses can make themselves far easier to find online. Nothing is more important right now to any Web site owner – NOTHING!
Gail @ Social Media Marketing´s last blog ..Wedding Boom Predicted for Next 22 Years
Twitter: @bridaltweet
Great post. I’m going to leverage this advice for my own wedding forum
Christine Dyer´s last blog ..Krystal Johnson commented on the group ‘Wedding Vendor Link Exchange’
Twitter: @GrowMap
That is great news Christine. The easier you are to find the more people will use your Wedding Forum. Did you know you can automatically create a link for your chosen anchor text in blogs like mine that use KeywordLuv?
Just put Christine Dyer @ Wedding Forum in the Name field and every comment you leave here becomes a dofollow link to your site using that anchor text.
Gail @ Social Media Marketing´s last blog ..Better Twitter Retweets From Favorite Twitter Apps
Before you build your site one should go for the Keyword research. and do the seo for the same which will bring your site to the top rank in the search engine and get organic result for the site. which mean user get the site for which keyword he/she is searching for. Convert rate will be high and your business will grow.
thank you
Twitter: @GrowMap
Hi Sam,
Doing it before you start is helpful when you are deciding what type of site to build. For many small businesses they already know what they want to put on their sites but they often don’t think about how their potential customers will search for them.
I do hope they read and understand this post and ask for clarification if they need any. It is not obvious to most people – not even most bloggers – that you have to include variations of phrases to make sure you are easy to find.
Gail @ Social Media Marketing´s last blog ..Donation Coder Annual New Apps for the New Year NANY 2010 Annual Challenge
First and second points (that you mentioned) are really important when building any website. Normally during marketing or developing phase no one thinks about targeted customers. They make websites with huge database and when it fails, they always wonder “Why my website has failed even with such a huge database”. Local online marketing techniques always give you edge over others.
Lovely post !!!!
Twitter: @GrowMap
Welcome Ann Julie,
Thank you for your comment. Read the reply in the comment below this one if you would like to turn all your comments here into well-targeted incoming links for your Web sites.
Gail @ Social Media Marketing´s last blog ..AdJump Demographically Targeted Ads Deliver Over 1.5 Million International Leads Monthly
When I build websites for clients I parallel the topic of your post, or at least I try, to a new restaurant. It usually clears up any confusion they have.
This is what I tell them.
“It’s like a 5 star restaurant that just opened for business in the middle of the desert. If no one knows about it, no one will come. Your website is similar. Think of it like a store, you need to venture out, post fliers on bulletin boards, advertise in local media, and in other marketing channels. These methods are like obtaining backlinks to your website. Eventually the people (search engines here) will take notice and sample your food.”
Then of course, we start the brainstorming process.
Great post!
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Twitter: @GrowMap
Welcome Mike and thank you for sharing that allegory. Your clients are fortunate that you discuss this with them before you start building their sites. Many Web Designers make pretty sites but don’t understand that what you don’t see is often more important.
I hope you become a regular here. I don’t use a blog the way many do; I use it as a reference resource. Check out the Best of GrowMap post to get an idea which posts have significant resources in them.
Skimming the posts that appear in the Most Popular section at the top right or the categories and sub-categories in the bottom right are also a good way to hone in on the information you will find most useful.
When you leave comments in this or any KeywordLuv blog put YourName @ Your Keywords to get the anchor text you wish to link properly. I’ll fix this one for you next time I log in if I remember.
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Great article. I have been doing this lately. At first I started a blog and targeted the wrong keyword but my audience was the same. Now I am getting a better idea of my audience and what keywords they are searching and will use that to drive more traffic and offer what they are looking. The pillar articles really do help and I am getting into this also. Thanks for the tips.
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Hello again Meza,
You are wise to be learning and implementing what is known to work. Your latest post shows much wisdom; it is very easy to spend too much time reading and learning and not nearly enough time acting. It is good that you know that already.
I hope you will come by regularly and share your experience with others here and attract them to your own blog by what you write here and the CommentLuv posts you feature.
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Hello again Meza,
You are wise to be learning and implementing what is known to work. Your latest post shows much wisdom; it is very easy to spend too much time reading and learning and not nearly enough time acting. It is good that you know that already.
I hope you will come by regularly and share your experience with others here and attract them to your own blog by what you write here and the CommentLuv posts you feature.
Gail @ Social Media Marketing´s last blog ..Search Engine Positions: Easy Free Ways to Track
Twitter: @YourNetBizCafe
Great post to learn the basics about keyword search and tracking. I’ve been using the recommended resources for a while now and they work great!
Best,
Ana/YourNetBiz on YouTube
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well that’s really interesting article and i think we can’t paly hide and seek with market but market can do this with us as it always do. keep it up
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Thanks for your helpful article . I have been doing a lot of blogging lately . I have done a lot of keyword research and try to use more accurate keywords and now to my blog traffic begin to increase .
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