Do SEO experts think of retaining the traffic?

by high pageranks, I'm assuming you are referring to search engine ranking and not google page rank.

You seem to be implying that those of us who like to chit chat about SEO aren't concerned about the quality of our sites and content, which isn't necessarily the case.

Quality content, time on site, number of impressions and return visits are all important factors in my little world of SEO.

I wont deny that some people seem to be too wrapped-up with getting on the first page of google without giving enough thought to what they are going to go with that traffic when they get it but I don't think that is the majority of serious IMerz.

Everything is a piece of a larger puzzle and what pieces you need depends on what the goals of your site are.

For some people, traffic = click on adsense ad = mission complete.

For others who are trying to sell a product they need a site and content that will convince their visitors to BUY BUY BUY.

And for others who run ads, they need a high volume of traffic and page impression to cash in on their CPM (cost per thousand impressions)

And there are the creepy list builders who's only intent is to gather as many emails as they can so they can spam those poor souls until the end of time with Dear friend, you must buy this product or Jesus will kill a kitten junk mail.

It all comes down to what game you're playing and there are a lot of ways to play the internet marketing game.

Most of the forum posters and websites with any kind of authority tend to put an emphasis on content and quality so I would have to say yes. Like anything else you will always find someone trying to take a short cut, because this is the internet you will see it a lot more. It makes sense to pay attention to this if you are going to have customers that come back. Those are the people I try to follow and really pay attention to. Other than that I don't really care what others do (for the most part). I just try to keep learning.

SEO is essentially aimed at first time traffic building. What happens after that depends on the site. I like to use a magazine analogy.

Some magazines are chocked full of great information, such as The Economist, while others are almost pure advertising, like the freebie advertiser magazine in the rack outside a store. If you want authoritative information on how regional politics are going to affect cocoa futures next year, you go to The Economist. If you want a coupon for Joe's Deli, you don't go to there but to a local freebie mag. Each publication is geared toward a target audience and is distributed with that in mind.

When building a site and doing SEO to bring traffic it is important to understand who your target audience is and who your customer is. In some cases, the customer may be the search visitor. In others, the real customer is the advertiser, not the visitor. The better you target this up front, the better you will do.

I think talking about SEO and talking about what you do with the page you SEO'd are 2 different conversations.

So, maybe it seems to you that people who talk about SEO aren't concerned with providing quality and establishing credibility but it could just be that when they are simply talking about the SEO aspect of it and not the quality aspect of the page. Doesn't mean they aren't making quality pages.

its good to get an opt in form on your site and capture your visitors. you either have people that buy now or people that buy tomorrow (people in your list)

Different process to get more traffic.getting high pr more trust of visitors.link building process is the best way to increase more traffic.

You use the word SEO expert to openly, most people will say they are an expert but they are not. Real experts do not spam, real experts try to make money or build something that will be great. New customers and retain old, so your question I think is towards scammers not true SEO experts.

For sure, the SEO process has nothing to do with the quality of the page. However, I would think that anyone who is taking the time or spending the money to get a page to the top of the SERPS would certainly have a page that is going to make the most amount of money for them and that usually involves quality content and visitor retention.

I'm not sure why you keep thinking that SEO experts don't care about this? Why do you say that?

Lee

I understand, but I'm just wondering what gives you the impression that SEO experts don't care about quality. Is it from the threads here or some experience you have had with them? Just trying to figure out where you are coming from.

As a follow-up.

Often, when we are talking about SEO issues, we are focused on the SEO aspects (search engine optimization = ranking well in search engines) so we aren't necessarily discussing issues like content and retention. It's all equally important but ranking a site on page 1 and writing effective copy are two different discussions.

Some of the issues you brought up aren't necessarily SEO but fall more into the realm of sales.

There are a lot of different factors involved and all of them need to be address if you want a really successful site.
a) build a site that meets owners intentions
b) design a site that fits customers needs
c) bring traffic to site
d) etc...

But not all of these issues are SEO related issues.

That's exactly what I was trying to say above, but it didn't come out right!

Lee

I got it all.. Thank you all for your wonderful suggestions and inputs. I have got many things from this healthy discussions we guyz had here.