Great tips how to get traffic

[weazelball]

Hello

I have made my living online for years and want to share some good tips with you. I live in Europe and my native language is not English but I think you understand all easily. I'm not selling anything and you don't have to buy any tools, softwares or "secret information". It would be great if somebody will comment to this thread and got new ideas and thoughts.

You can build backlinks but I don't do it anymore. If I publish a new website I just get a few backlinks and that's it. I know quality backlinks can help a lot but I just don't want to waste time or money by building backlinks which often do not work.

I have a lot of websites. One of my website with about only 15 articles made me earlier about $20 per month. That's not a lot of money. In this january I started to update this website with new articles and now this website makes a few dollars per day. If I 5 folded amount of articles on this website (it's about 150 articles), it will make me easily $500 residual and passive income in one month. And I know it will make much later. If I would write 4 articles a day (takes about 3 hours per day) I have this website with 150 good articles after one month. I know there are softwares and wp-plugins etc which generates content automatically and spin articles and so on. If you want to use those kind of tools it's your choice.

1. Choose one niche per one website. If you write in English you can use tight micro niches to get traffic because of competition. It can be work. But better is to do something different than everybody else seems to do. There are a lot of things in the world. You can do money with not commercial niches which are not so hard to seo. Not service or product related. Adsense is often best way to monetize this kind of websites. Maybe ads are not so laser targeted to visitors but if you get enough traffic you can make money. There are a lot of lucrative niches but the problem is that everybody knows that.

2. Keywords. I use only Google's keyword tool. You don't need any commercial keyword tool. It's much more better if you use Google's keyword tool by logging in your Adwords / Google account because you will get much more keywords results. I normally don't care much how many searches there are in a month. It's ok if there are 5000 or only 200 searches per month. The both are good. But the most important thing if you are searching good keywords is the competition. If you choose a keyword term like "pregnancy early symptoms" you probably not get many visitors to your page because of tough competition. But if you use keyword like "great sphinx of giza facts" you can get your page high in serps. I usually check the competition by using allintitle command in Google search like allintitle:great sphinx of giza facts. If there are under 500 result pages, the keyword is good and if there are only under 100 result pages, the keyword is excellent.

OK, that's it. I hope you got some new ideas. The last tip: use a lot of images with alt tags. Many people use Google's images search and there are not so hard competition.

[jRad]

Awesome post man, I appreciate it.

I have one quick question about Keywords - I've been told to target long tail keywords that are between 500-1000 global searches per month, because it wouldn't be hard to rank high in Google. I've also been told the total opposite, which is to go for keywords that are 10,000 in monthly global searches.

Which is best? I'm new to IM.

[weazelball]

Mainly it's not about amount of search queries but the competition. If there are 10 million people who use your language it's better to focus keywords with a lot of searches. I have a website with only 1 page and this site makes hundsreds of dollars per month.

But long tail keywords are best. It is best for seo and for all the things that could think in the long term.

[jRad]

Originally Posted by weazelball

Mainly it's not about amount of search queries but the competition. If there are 10 million people who use your language it's better to focus keywords with a lot of searches. I have a website with only 1 page and this site makes hundsreds of dollars per month.

But long tail keywords are best. It is best for seo and for all the things that could think in the long term.

Thank you for the help!

I've been researching keywords for a couple days, and every time I find a good long tail keyword with anywhere from 3,000 to 10,000 global searches a month, their EMD's are all taken - it's frustrating.

How do you go about finding your keywords?

[weazelball]

I think you mean EMD = exact domain name?

I know this helps a lot. This is very important thing. You can use domain name like: emd-youcanchoosethispart.com. I'm not sure but I think it's important to put your main keyword to the front of the domain name. It probably works fine.

[AdvancedSamurai]

Exact keyword in the domain name works fine but only for one keyword. If you would like to rank for many different keywords then just go for a domain that is general enough and related to your niche.

[weazelball]

"Exact keyword in the domain name works fine but only for one keyword."

This is very true. Thanks for clarification

[jRad]

Originally Posted by AdvancedSamurai

Exact keyword in the domain name works fine but only for one keyword. If you would like to rank for many different keywords then just go for a domain that is general enough and related to your niche.

Ahhh! Makes much more sense now.

I'm in a bit of a pickle right now. I picked a health niche, and I've chosen a certain medical problem for my keyword. I've narrowed it down to two choices:

1) learningaboutkeyword.com - this has only 103 results when I enter 'allintitle: learning about keyword'. However, when I use Google Keyword Tool and enter 'learning about keyword', it actually doesn't bring back any results. Thing is, I can write a ton of articles on this niche, so I'm not sure if the actual domain name would matter in this case.

2) howtogetridofkeyword.net - .com was taken, .net was not. this search has 1,410 search results when i enter 'allintitle: how to get rid of keyword'. however, when using GKT, it's low competition and has 720 global searches a month. It's a common disease the most people will get in their lifetime, so the actual keyword itself is searched 1000's of times a month, which I think would help my site out.

Which domain would be wiser to choose?

[Fatality]

Thanks for the helpful tips. I am still learning the ways of choosing a keyword. The Google Keyword Tool is not always accurate for me!

[mikest4u]

Fantastic Information, Thanks a lot for Sharing with us! Keywords research is one of the most important element and you have to put a lot of effort while selecting keywords for your site! Figure out Niche Based Keywords and try to add these keywords at your meta settings!

[JeremiahSay]

Thanks for the sharing

[DanielMilstein]

Originally Posted by weazelball

Hello

I have made my living online for years and want to share some good tips with you. I live in Europe and my native language is not English but I think you understand all easily. I'm not selling anything and you don't have to buy any tools, softwares or "secret information". It would be great if somebody will comment to this thread and got new ideas and thoughts......

Great post! Well, if doesn't look that you are not a native English speaker, and I have understood what you are trying to say.

Well, I am impressed with your thoughts on backlinks. I absolutely admire your approach. If you could continue with what you are doing, I am sure your site will get started to rank pretty quickly. The image optimization is certainly a great example. It is correct that there are loads of images available online and if we can properly optimize them and use them, It will help us a lot!

Personally I start with reverse pyramid approach, for a new site I start with lesser searched keywords and then slowly climb to the most competitive words. It has so far worked for me.

[Davidhudson]

It really such a nice sharing.

[automaton]

@jRad: the real moneymakers are the buying keywords, not the informational ones.
People looking just for information are less likely to click ads (depends on your content) or to go after CPA offers. So, I would go with howtogetridofkeyword.net, seems you can monetize it with some ClickBank/CPA offer.

[weazelball]

Thanks for replies. Some criticism please?

[pbbiet]

are they really great tips ??? I think everyone know content is a king.

[indigeniuous]

very nice tips. It feels great to hear from some one who has actually had success with his skills and work!!

[sarakelly72]

Great post, thanks a lot. Its really nice tips and beneficial for all of us.

[gurleen]

You can Get traffic with SEO Campaign and PPC marketing. Both are important techniques to boost high quality traffic on site.

[gbreddiesel]

Proper backlinking is must. No spamming should be there. Both On page & Off page seo is important.

[harvez16]

Thanks for sharing mate.

Like AdvanceSamurai stated, "If you would like to rank for many different keywords then just go for a domain that is general enough and related to your niche."

A brandable name works perfect for this so you can expand upon keywords, goodluck.

[JohnSmithP]

Google loves to rate a blog that have latest and updated contents every time and if you’re not having latest and hottest content on your blog, Google might decide not to rank the site better since the bot weren’t be able to crawl anything on the blog at that particular time

[kangtj]

nice information, your guide to get traffic is clear. beside google's keyword tool, do you use another tool?

[edwardleon]

Unique and fresh content helps you to get more traffic.

[bijoy01]

Here is two ways to how to get organic traffic?
off page SEO:
1) Social bookmarking
2) Web directory submissions
3) Article writing
4) Building one way back links by commenting on page rank blogs related to your websites.
5) Commenting on forums.

On page SEO:
1) Using keywords in your title,description and body tag.
2) Proper keyword density.
3) Using image Alt tagging...
4) Creating a sitemap.

[millamuscio]

"Tis a great post, thanks a bunch for sharing.