Nobody likes writing great content only for nobody to come across it and to find that it isn’t displaying in anyone’s search engine result pages. There are plenty of ways that you can get your content seen by hundreds, thousands, even millions, you just need to use the correct tools.
What is SEO?
Websites are set up with appropriate keywords that describe the content on their site so that it can match what somebody searches for. For example, if you wanted to find ‘top 30 songs in the 80s’ then Google would crawl different websites until it finds the top matches for this term.
Tips to increase website traffic
Do your keyword research
Before you sit down and create the content for your website, spend a few hours thinking about the relevant keywords which you should use. Find out what people are searching for by searching for a topic such as ‘top songs in the 80s’ and scrolling to the bottom of Google to find similar, current and relevant searches. Writing about these topics that people seem to be searching for will bring in some traffic.
Google’s Related Searches
Long-tail keywords– These are longer searches used by browsers who know exactly what they’re looking for. For example, ‘how many of the top songs in the 80s were pop?’ is a lot more specific and shows that someone wants to find out more information about 80s pop rather than just 80s music. While less people will be searching for this, there will also be less content surrounding this, meaning less competition.
Short-tail keywords– If you want to reach a larger audience, then this is the better option as it does the complete opposite; short tail keywords reach a larger audience but, due to high competition, you are less likely to show up on Google. If you search ‘80s music’ then there will be a lot more competition as more people are writing about it.
Build some backlinks
Building backlinks from external websites is important because it tells Google that you are writing great and trustworthy content. If another website uses your website as a source of information or recommends your site, it offers your site credibility and authority, therefore increasing the domain authority.
Please note: It is important that the anchor text of the website (the word that is used to link to your site) is relevant to the content on your site. Take a look at some of the different ways you can get quality backlinks straight to your website here.
Create relevant meta descriptions
When you search for something on Google, each website is supported by a description of around two or three lines. This is known as the meta description. It introduces a summary that the users can read at a glance before deciding to click through to your site or not.
Optimize all images that you use
Optimizing an image can enhance a website’s user experience and speeds up a page load time, as well as boosting the content ranking. Name your images using an ALT-tag.
While I personally think that Google is one of the brightest tools in the world right now, it can’t read images, so adding a name to it will help Google understand the relevancy of your content. For example, if you edit the ALT-tag of an image of Michael Jackson, then Google will assume it is an image of Michael Jackson and assume he is in the list of ‘top songs in the 80s’.
Share your content on social media
Once you share your content on social media, it instantly is out to billions of people. If your followers like your content, they will share it to their followers and so on. It is important that you are sharing your content at the times that people are most active – usually 8.30am and 6pm, before people go to work and once they finish. Use appropriate hashtags to share links too. For example, #Music #MusicSite #80sMusic.
Liberty Marketing was founded in 2008 and has since become Wales’ largest online marketing agency that specialises in content writing, social media, SEO and PPC.
Great Post!
SEO is a very effective way to get traffic to website with lasting effect. With SEO, targeting keyword and country specific content to get targeted traffic is the best way.
Thanks for the post.
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Well said outstanding content is not enough to rank well. Today we must understand SEO really well.
For me, one of the biggest challenges is to use modern image formats. At some point, I want to have my images tailored to the browser and screen size of my audience. Today I am still using JPEG. I could not find a decent plugin in WordPress to do it for me in an efficient way.
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SEO provides free traffic to you website. Its free and is very effective for all companies as both established and start ups use them with lot of precision as the competition is becoming tough. SEO is the best way to go.
This post is awesome, SEO can be tough as every blogger wants his site to rank than other sites.
Good and well-detailed content can help a site grow its ranking.
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I agree with the need for Keyword research and to spend some thoughts on building links. However, I think social media traffic should be more than an afterthought – and you need far more to get a ton of traffic from social media than to simply share the content.
While it may take some time to get traffic from Google search to a new website, social media traffic could kick in much faster.
Susanna
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Thanks for this post which was helpful. Given SEO is all about how search engines such as Google rank your website, it seems that one key area that you didn’t mention but is important, especially for e-commerce or any B2C business, is collecting customer feedback.
Customer feedback is great user-generated content that will include keywords, show Google that the site is reputable for the selected keywords, and provide fresh content on a recurring basis (all of which Google loves).
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A starter pack to increase website traffic. Indeed, SEO and social media marketing are two of the methods that you can use to build traffic to your website. You should be consistent and keep on learning in doing those two though as it is not easy for people to reach the first page of Google or to get many followers on social media
This is great, I am hitting brick walls with increasing traffic and keywords are becoming a major headache for me. I’ve taken some notes to get on with, appreciate it!
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I recommend beginners to use a free keyword tool like ubersuggest or google keyword planner to choose their right keywords and maintain the budget
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It’s not enough to produce great content and hope that people find it – you have to be proactive. One of the best ways to increase traffic to your website is to use social media channels to promote your content
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I have a website but needed a beginner’s guide to increase traffic. I feel like I have benefited a lot from this post. thank you
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Great post!! Doing this activity really helps to increase the organic traffic.
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