SEO Web Marketing: Generate Traffic Using SEO Web Promotion: Part 1 of 2
Once upon a time not so long ago, all you had to do to get people to visit your website was submit your URL to a handful of search engine directories. Actually, that “magical time” probably lasted about 6 months. The search engines have gotten picky as of late. If you want to generate traffic these days you’ve got to have SEO web marketing skills — or be willing to hire someone who does.
It is possible but a bit more time and labor intensive to find buyers with cash in hand without spending a lot of money on advertising and “off page” strategies. It can be done, but you end up spending a lot of time “meeting and greeting” as we say here in the South. Your efforts will eventually pay off if you make a concerted effort at locating folks who need what you have to offer. In order of logic and then expense, here’s a list of SEO web promotion techniques that go beyond basic “on page” optimization.
Here are the first three of six deceptively simple strategies for pulling in visitors to your website:
Strategy 1. Add a Blog to Your Stand-Alone Website
This is the first logical thing you can do. The beauty of a blog is that it can be updated at any time and usually in from a number of different electronic platforms. Your constant blog updates (if they’re good, of course) make it possible for you to emerge as the expert authority in your field. People who visit your blog will comment on what you have to say. Keep the conversation alive on your blog and on other blogs in your niche by making good use of the “Comment” section. Do this on a daily basis and you can expect a spike in your traffic.
Strategy 2. Pay to Get Visitors
If you’ve got more money than time, this is the first thing you should logically do to get practically immediate visits. Use Google Adwords and advertising on other pay per click (PPC) networks to get an immediate surge of visitors. Without visitors you receive no sales. You can’t see how many visitors and where they’re coming from if you don’t have some sort of tracking system in place. Tracking your visit results is imparative if you want to run an economical PPC campaign.
Strategy 3. Use Social Bookmarking Networks
This has been the biggest Catch-22 of all. You write content and then you ask that people rate it for helpfulness and clarity. No one will see it if you place it on your blog and say nothing. So the first logical step after posting an article to your blog is to use a ping service like Ping-O-Matic.com or Pingoat.com. Step two involves getting the word out through social bookmarking sites. Doing this yourself has only recently been considered acceptable. But no one will know your post exists if you don’t take the initiative to get the word out. This strategy takes some time to implement due to the number of social bookmarking sites and the different terms of service you have to observed when working with each one.
Now, go think about these three strategies SEO web marketing strategies for a bit. Actually, don’t just think about them — do something! Then come back in a day or so for part 2 of 2. I’ve got three more traffic grabbing strategies to give you.
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