Web Traffic - Increase Web Traffic 10 Step Guide

Keyword Research: Keyword research is one of the most overlooked yet important steps in increasing web traffic. You need to do extensive keyword research. I use and recommend Google's Keyword Tool that is free. You need to research the most common keywords and phrases for your niche. It is definitely ok to target the most competitive because when you build it correctly, you will be blowing your competitors away.

Step #2a

Relative Keyword Research: You need to do a research on what words are relative to the keywords or phrases you are targeting. An easy way to do this is going to Google and type in your keyword with a ~ in front of it. You will get a normal search but all the "relative" keywords will be in bold. Include these relative keywords in your pages meta and body. This is a big deal with the search engine algorithms today. It is one thing to be keyword stuffed, but you need to make sure you look at the relevant keywords too, this helps build PR and greater PR can help increase web traffic.

Step #3

Site Structure: Keywords should be somewhere in your URL. This is a great way for Google and other sites to see you and give you a higher ranking. Using a "-" in between your words in your url has proven to be a fairly successful way to increase your keyword ranking. Search engines see the dash as a space and it helps to separate the words in your url. Some believe an underscore "_" will do the same. It helps in the site structure i.e. www.futuresoundsstudios.com/recording/recording-studio/recording-studio-samples.html. This structure is putting a very high relevance and ranking on studio and recordings.

Step #4

Directory Listing: This is a very simple method that many webmasters and seo gurus have abandoned. It is so simple, that to some it does not work, but I believe it still does. Remember, the objective here is to increase web traffic, so if you are serious, put your link in as many places as possible. If you do directory listings, you are receiving one-way links back to your website which is a great thing because it can help improve your PR. PR, or Page Rank, is a way to get your on Google's top pages and therefore more traffic. Reciprocal links are not the best way, but if you are brand new, sometimes you have to do it. If you can do one-ways it is much better. Search engines put a higher ranking on one-way links, so concentrate on those.

Step #5

Link Exchange: Reciprocal links are not as favorable to most search engines as one-way links, but they are still very effective. You should try to exchange links with as many websites as humanly possible and for best results make sure they are RELEVANT!!! What I am trying to say is it is not a good idea to have a recording studio site and have a lot of links exchanged with a food website. It is a better idea for a recording studio to be exchanged with other music related sites such as cd mastering, mp3s, other recording sites, etc... This shows search engines that your site is helping people find what they searched for and it is more relevant than other sites that do not have this.

Here is a free piece of advice, it is not a good idea to name your page "links.html" or anything of the sort...it is a dead give away to search engines and they do not appreciate it. Be creative, recording-studio-resources.html or something like that. Note, no more than 50 links on a page!!!

Step #6

Article Writing: The goal with article writing is to get both one-way links and traffic in an all-in-one step. Remember this when writing articles, you must spin every article your write. What this means is change the articles. There are many great article spinning software programs out there that I have used. I am now been upgraded to an "Expert Author" in many article sites and have submitted my same "Spinned" article over and over. Each article generates traffic too...that's the beauty.

Step #7

Article Submission: Recommended to submit to 25 directories every 3 days with your URL in the "Resource Box", not in the Body of the article. If you put your URL in the body, most articles directories will decline you. There is a key to all of this though, never over submit because you could potentially SPAM your site and cause it to de-index or lose PR ranking. Remember, 25 articles every 3 days, don't SPAM your site.

Step #8

Forum, Blogging, Podcast, Video, and more: Always be focused on finding new outlets to generate and increase web traffic. For example, forums are a big deal. Get on a schedule to constantly help others in forums, discussion boards, blogs, etc... This will prove you as an expert and in return people will trust you. To benefit from this, be sure to have your signature file included and don't spam the sites...this will not help you.

Creating videos is a great way to generate free web traffic as well. I had much more traffic since I implemented my video advertising. This does not cost me anything but time and effort to put it out, but has resulted in targeted traffic and people knowing what to expect from my website.

Step #9

Updating Your Content: If you want to keep your visitors coming back for more, you must constantly update your site and have unique content that you cannot get anywhere else. This keeps the visitors coming back for more and will get your site linked to by others because of your content. Free one-way links!!!

Step #10

Repeat, Repeat, Repeat!!!: The whole key is to be consistent and constantly updating your site. Keep on a schedule and repeat the process. NEVER GIVE UP!!!

Hope this helps, please let me know your results.

Want to know more? I got all of my information from Google Snatch.