How To Make Money - Getting Search Engine Traffic

When searching for how to make money, most people first turn to the internet. After all, the internet is primarily about information. People browse one website to another in order to gather information for their research, hobby, passion or perhaps making the buying decision. Which is why, they depend on free tool called search engine to obtain relevant information.

 

If you are a website owner, you should realize that search engine has the ability to send massive amount of traffic to your website. Generally, Google users won't turn to the second page when they are searching for something. In fact, 90% of them won't turn to the second page.

 

Therefore, you need to optimize your website so it will appear on top ten of search result. The following steps will be very helpful:

 

1. Generate long-tail keywords by using keyword tool.

 

Before anything else, you need to understand your potential customers. If you are ready to buy something, what keyword would you type in Google or Yahoo search? It could be the product name, model or brand name or problem name. This is the key.

 

Then, head to Google Keyword Tool to get more keyword ideas. This is the best free keyword tool available. Google is the number one search engine so without doubt, their tool can return lots of search data. Even paid keyword tools are depending on the information obtained here.

 

2. Check for total competition at Google.

 

One mistake made by new players is they tend to target broad and competitive search terms like computer software, laptop, stock market, weight loss and diet. It would be impossible to get top ten ranking for such keywords since there's already millions of websites for that search term.

 

 

The key is to get one keyword from Google Keyword Tool and search for that term in quotes at Google. Total competition in quotes must be lower than 15,000. If websites which is ranked top ten on Google is fully optimized for that keyword, you should avoid the keyword as well.

 

 

One optimized Wordpress blog is ranked higher than article from article directories or a Squidoo lens. So, if you found Squidoo lens or Ezine Articles ranked on top ten of Google for that keyword, it is a good keyword to target.

 

3. Register a relevant domain name as well.

 

Your domain name is actually import ant for search engine ranking. In fact, this a factor calculated by search engines to rank one website. If your domain name contain the keyword, search engine will see your website as highly relevant to one specific keyword.

 

4. Use Wordpress and install some plugins.

 

Today, you don't need to worry about learning HTML or Dream Weaver from scratch. You can create a professional-looking blog with just a few clicks thanks to Wordpress. Then, install and activate plugins like All-In-One SEO and Google XML Sitemap Generator. This will have effect on your search engine ranking.

 

Your blog is useless without quality content. Keep posting new articles and content inside your blog at least once per week.

 

5. Get several backlinks from other websites.

 

Today, Google and other search engines will also count total backlinks to rank between websites. You can get a quality backlink by participating in other people's blog as guess blogger.

 

You can start by searching at Google for an authority blog or website in your niche. After that, look for contact information and contact the domain name owner. Usually, he or she will approve you to post in his blog, as long as you can provide good content. As a guess blogger, you can insert your website link in the post. This will dramatically increase your ranking in Google.

 

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