Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Increasing Your Traffic Using These SEO Techniques

By Joseph Stan


Generating traffic online is the #1 activity that can help you make your blog or website successful online. The more targeted traffic you are able to generate the more likely you are to make money. In this article we are going to talk about the basics of search engine optimization and how you can use a few simple tweaks to double your traffic.

The first thing you need to do is have a Google friendly site. Use meta description tags to describe every page on your website. Description tags play a large roll in your site coming up during a search. Keep the meta tags simple and of high quality. By doing this you will bring in a large audience, and you may even get more visitors than websites ranked higher than you on search engines. Users won't spend a lot of time at your site unless they are able to get great information, and you can get more traffic if your content is current and useful.

If you are one of the millions of people who have a blog then the only thing that will set you apart from the rest is your content. Great content generates traffic because people will always share your posts if they learned something or find value in your content. But it's also important to focus on optimizing each individual post by creating keyword friendly permalinks so search engines can easily crawl your posts.

A quick yet extremely powerful thing you can do is add a sitemap to your blog or website. If you use Wordpress you can easily find free plugins to installed a sitemap with a single click. You can then take that sitemap and submitted to webmaster tools to get a deeper understanding of your site's rankings and the areas that you need to work on.

As you can see these are simple solutions but they can be very effective if you apply them correctly. Not having these things in order can be the difference between the success and failure of your blog or website. In the end we all want organic traffic and the search engines are the only ones that can make that happen.




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