Traffic Secrets 101

The biggest problem that all webmasters seem to face is getting traffic to their websites.

The best way to get traffic is from organic search results, like been on the front page of Google for your keyword term.

I have develop a plan for getting to the top of Google’s rankings, it takes a bit of work but I have also added a fast track method for those of you that can afford the right tools.

The traffic plan is in the form of a pdf file and an excel spreadsheet it will take you step by step and give you the sites that you need to go to to get all the links you need.

You can download the files here Traffic Plan pdf and Traffic Plan Worksheet (just right click and save)

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Link building seems to be the bane of a webmasters life! And I think that most people don’t have a clue where to start,

The first part of your link building strategy should always be knowing how many back links you need!

I see so many people posting projects for Link Building where they are looking for 500 links or 50 links without really knowing how many they actually need to rank at number one in Google for that particular keyword.

If you get the Free Market Samurai keyword tool you can use the competition part of the tool to give you a very good indication of exactly how many links you need back to your site to get that exclusive #1 spot. Another way would be to install http://www.seoquake.com/ in your Firefox Browser and look at the top ten results for  your keyword and find out from there.

This only gives you an idea of how many you need because all links are not treated equally, a link from a high authority site is always better than a link with no authority.

The second part of your strategy should be to make sure that the page your are trying to rank is fully optimized for that keyword (on page optimisation) because if it’s not it will be much harder to rank.

On Page Optimisation is what is required to change a website itself to make it more likely to get higher rankings for a particular keyword (or set of keywords) in the search engines.

It includes such things as improving the page content, using keywords in page titles, using ALT tags for images (i.e. keywords in the text description for an image) and managing outgoing links.

As you build your pages your keyword phrase needs to correspond to that page, make sure the :

Page name
Page heading title
Page title meta tag
Page description meta tag
Page key word meta tag

all use your keyword or Keyword phrase.

The third and final part is to go out and get those links coming in but before I go into that I would like to debunk a couple of the myths surrounding link building:

The sites you link to must be relevant!

Rubbish, relevancy is very important but only for visitors clicking straight through from your link on someone else’s site but the search engines look more at the number of links and the authority of the sites that they come from far more than the sites relevance, the relevance comes in the form of the anchor text that you use more than the relevance of the site that the link is on, which matters for rankings.

There is a much more in-depth article here: The relevant link myth

Only link to high PR pages

Some people think that if your link is on a page that has 0PR although the home page has a high page rank, you will not benefit, this is totally untrue and has been tested time and time again.
As Matt Cutts from Google stated in an Interview with Stephan Spencer

“Matt Cutts: Typically, our policy is: a link is a link, is a link; wherever that link’s worth is, that is the worth that we give it. Some people ask about links from DMOZ, links from .edu or links from .gov, and they say: “Isn’t there some sort of boost? Isn’t a link better if it comes from a .edu?” The short answer is: no, it is not. It is just .edu links tend to have higher PageRank, because more people link to .edu’s or .gov’s.”

You can read the whole interview here. Matt Cutts Interview

Ok, some myths debunked! Now there are dozens of ways to get backlinks to you sites, including:

Compelling Content (Like this!)
Press Releases
Social Bookmarking
Directory Submissions
Article Submissions
Blog Commenting
Forum Posting
RSS Feed Submissions

The major key to a great link building campaign is compelling content it will make you life so much easy if you write great content and that content is picked up by other webmaster and goes viral on it’s own accord.

The same with press and article pieces the better written the more exposure they will have and the more backlinks will come back to your site.

Many of these process can be automated but as I said before if you have a great piece of content then that content will get picked up many many more times than a poorly written piece so to save time in the long run put a lot more effort into your content, it’s worth it in the end!

Watch out for our NEW Link Building Service, Coming in the next day or two!

I have just dug up a guide I wrote a month ago called “The Ultimate Guide to Setting up a Profitable Website for Small Businesses”,  a long winded title I know but there are some gems in there! I wrote this book for another of my sites Small Business 101 it was initially to help offline small businesses create more profit by building an online presence.

I had a lot of great feedback from it which gave me a couple of ideas in progressing it further.

The first idea was to lobby my local area council and Government to make funds available so that small businesses get some financial aid in creating a website and if done properly, following  specific guidelines, create more jobs and bring in more revenue to the local area.

If the Government just invested £1m into an area it would enable around 1,000 small businesses create a new arm to their business and also 15 to 20 jobs immediately and more in the future and with our ‘repayment when profitable’ twist it would come at no expense to the tax payer! (unlike all the public sector jobs that are created)

The second idea was to give you all the tools to become “SEO Experts”, by following the series of free guides that I am producing you can start your own business helping small businesses get online even if you don’t know how to do it yet.

I will be setting up a resource alongside the guides so that you can outsource the whole process to my company for a lesser fee than we would charge you, thereby making a very healthy profit in the process.

You will very easily blow your competition out of the water by having quality well ranked sites built for you and examples that we have already done to show to potential customers.

You can download the first of the free guides here, the complete set will be ready for the weekend!

First off I must apologise for been behind in delivering my traffic secrets 101 masterplan but there has been a death in my family and that has put me behind a week or so but I will get it out to you all as quickly as possible.

As a bonus I have come across a free report on using Twitter and it contains many techniques for getting massive amounts of follows in a very short space of time.

The free twitter report also contains a review on must of the twitter tools both free and paid for that are available on the market today.

It also has case studies on how people have used twitter to get more follows than companies like CNN, very powerful stuff. Anyway here’s the download link, just right click and “save target as”, Twitter Report

Like most webmasters I bet you would like to increase your website traffic!

There are a ton of things you can do right to increase your traffic to your website but nearly all of them take time and lots of it.

I have found the easiest way to get a ton of traffic to my sites is to publish a unique carefully crafted article on them then also publish that article to all the major article directories to gain those valuable backlinks.

I then take the RSS feed from each article and submit those to the RSS aggregators.

Then I would build a network of blogs all interlinked to give me valuable 3 way links back to my site, very helpful for increasing traffic.

I would also submit all of these feeds to the RSS directories as well.

Then I would submit my site and all of the sites in my blog network to all of the major social bookmarking sites.

I would then add another article and go through the whole process once again, rinse and repeat so to speak!

This used to take a massive amount of time until I discover BruteForceSEO. I signed up for this at the launch way back in Oct 2008, the first version was pretty buggy and only half of it worked but even the half that worked produced pretty amazing results!

Now the doors are opening for the re-launch of the third version, completely bug free!

If you need software to completely automate your traffic building efforts and massively increase website traffic then you need to have a look what this software has to offer.

BruteForceSEO does what used to take me days to achieve in hours it’s that quick and effective.

The doors open again Friday 1st May, last time it sold out pretty quickly so don’t delay.

John