Monday, February 11, 2013

Search Engine Optimization Techniques

It is vital to your success as an Internet Marketer that you use search engine optimization techniques as often as possible till it becomes second nature. You will really start making money online when your website is appearing on the first page of Google for your chosen keyword. Another reason for SEO techniques is that it is cheap unlike all the other paid traffic methods.

It is crucial for your domain name to have your keyword or phrase in it if you want to rank well for competitive keywords. At this point you might decide that you want to run a blog website where you will be ranking for various keywords through your articles or you might prefer to have squeeze pages (sales page) where you are targeting only one keyword. I prefer to do both.

To continue your search engine optimization techniques you will need to write articles, create videos and build links. Remember, these days most people ask Google for the answer to their problem.

Imagine the scenario, somebody wants to go on a diet and searches Google for weight loss. Your site appears on the first page for the results and they visit your site. Now you are talking serious money!

Search engine traffic is also extremely targeted. If you wanted to buy a puppy, you are more likely to Google "where to buy a puppy" rather than "puppy". Now you have traffic at your site who want to BUY - Targeted Traffic.

Years ago it was easier to rank very high in Google. Today, you need to use every search engine optimization technique you can think of THAT WORKS!

Backlinks are very important in Google's eyes but they must be the correct ones. Before I continue, a bit of history. It was once very easy to fill your site with backlinks using software that could generate thousands of backlinks overnight and get you to that elusive first page. Google realized that they were being manipulated, so they retaliated. Google wanted websites to have quality information for their readers and backlinks should be from other sites with quality content.They introduced Panda and Penguin which killed many marketers sites off.

So, when you are back linking, you want to target high PR sites and authority sites with good quality content. It will take longer to get lots of links but everyone will count and Google will not penalize your site.

You must also bring traffic to your site from different areas of the Internet like YouTube, real blog comments, press releases, guest posting etc.

Now, I have deliberately left this search engine optimization technique to last as it is probably the biggest. If you are not using it then you are missing out BIG TIME!

Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest & reddit need to be back linking to your site. Do not just open accounts to get the links, instead participate, add friends and have conversations. You will be far more successful if you build relationships. How often have you heard someone buy something because they liked the salesperson.

Social Networking is massive and would be a financial disaster if you did not capitalize on it.

Do not rely only on SEO as there are many other strategies but quality content and back-links using your newly learned search engine optimization techniques will quickly generate traffic to your site while propelling you to the first page.

Search engine optimization techniques will quickly generate traffic to your site while propelling you to the first page on Google.

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