Online Intenet SEO – Learn all about SEO, SEM and other Internet Marketing Mysteries!
Thursday, August 20th, 2009As the owner of quite a few websites, doing my own SEO is essential. But not only am I saving lots of money by doing all my own internet SEO, I find it hugely rewarding and addictive!
Once I started learning about internet SEO, SEM and other internet marketing mysteries, I found myself trawling the net for new ways to promote my site, and constantly checking my stats – on Google Analytics, my website host, checking everything! You name it, I was checking it! I loved seeing how much traffic I had attracted to my site, what keywords were used, and which search engines or referring sites the traffic was coming from. And best of all, how many visitors were actually buying something!
The first thing I learn about online internet marketing, and getting traffic on my websites, was the importance of content of my websites. Its crucial that the content contain as many keywords as possible, and as many times as possible. The search engines pick up the keywords, and that’s how they decide how high you rank on their search engine.
That’s really what SEO is all about. SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION!
How you can attract more and more qualified traffic to your site,
and turn that traffic into business.
To find out the best keywords for my site, I used Google Keyword Analyser, and also did my own manual searching on Google. Once you understand the basic formula, its easy to recognize good keywords. Basically, the keywords with the most searches, but the least competition, are the best.
High searches + low competition = good keyword!
So, when I started working on WebWitches.com.au, I found the following keyword phrases were searched on a lot, but did not have a lot of keyword phrase competition:
Internet SEO
Online Google
Increase Traffic Site
Online SEO
Online Ranking
Online Internet Marketing
So, once I worked out my best keywords, I started writing articles about online SEO and online internet marketing, and internet SEO just like this!
I wonder if you can guess my keywords for this article!!!
Okay, so once I had a few good articles written, I started to look at Social Bookmarking.
There are a couple of ways to social bookmark your website. You can start manually, but going to site such as Delicious, Stumble Upon and Propeller, and individually bookmark your site, and each of its pages/entries. Or you could go to a site called SocialMarker.com, which affectively automates the bookmarking, and you only need to fill in your details once. But the newest way, and the site I am testing right now, is by registering your site, and its URLs with Traffic Bug. Trafficbug.com basically takes your site, and enters it into search engines, creates bookmarks and also creates fab backlinks! In 3 days, my site was on Google 38 times – a fantastic result!
So, that brings me to backlinking. Backlinking is essentially creating links from other websites, to your own websites. A fun, and easy, way to do this, is to search for other sites relating to your own site, and join in forums or comment on blogs. Don’t do the hard sell though! It will be so transparent. Add a meaningful comment or opinion, and then have a link to your website at the bottom. Its really that easy! And not only are you promoting your website, but you are also joining a network – think of it like introducing yourself to your neighbours! And you might learn something too!
The next step is to start writing some articles relation to your keyword or niche, using sites like Squidoo, Hubpages, Weebly etc. Now, here its very important not to make these simply an advertisement for your site. You need to exercise extreme subtlety on these sites, otherwise your articles will be banned or rejected! I think the most you can mention your website address is 3 times…and I think the strictest site on this policy is Hubpages. One o f my sites was banned once, and it was because I included my website link 4 times. I learnt quickly from that lesson.
So…Squidoo (and the others) are like mini-websites. Their names can contain the same as your website. For example, if you have a website www.webwitches.com.au , then you could claim the squidoo URL of www.squidoo.webwitches.com . Within the site, you need to create small articles of interest, with one or two links to your own main website. Hubpages, Weebly etc., all work the same way. More backlinks for you! You are on your way to becoming a brilliant SEO Consultan. Just think what this can do for your business – without having to outsource a thing! And without having to pay anyone to do it!
This is just a sample of what WebWitches can assist you with.
We are a dedicated team of SEO professionals, waiting to assist you step-by-step with your SEO and SEM for your business. We can help you quickly and easily attract traffic and constant visitors to your site. Working with Google, Yahoo, MSN and other search engines, we can find your keywords and phrases, hone in on what people are searching for, and ultimately make your website a very popular site!
Think of WebWitches as your very own online personal SEO Consultant. Its that easy!
WebWitches can teach you this and so much more. Learn how to use Twitter and Facebook to get so much more traffic! Learn about Twhirl, Tweet & Seesmic! And don’t forget Google Reader, Friend Feed, Google Subscribe, Socialmarker, Google Groups, and so much more to get your site indexed and ranking on Google as soon as possible!
