How to Get a Truckload of Targeted Traffic to Your Website!

Time:2010-01-16 12:29:53 Source:Ezinearticles Author:Riley West

Targeted traffic is the best kind of traffic to get and it is the "holy grail" of SEO marketers.

If you have been trying to earn money online with a web site of any type you already know that the offer is just half of the equation and it may well be the small half. Traffic is the other half of that equation and without it any site, no matter how good, is dead. But you can generate traffic to your web site, and thereby to your offer, with methods usually referred to as SEO, or search engine optimization. We are not talking about plain old traffic. We want after targeted traffic.

That's the traffic you want! If you are selling deck shoes you need the traffic coming to your site to be made up of people who want to buy deck shoes. It's a little easier said than done.

In this article we'll look at several things you can do to start bringing in traffic that won't put you in the position of paying for traffic or being driven broke for the lack of traffic.

1. Keywords: This is the best way to "optimize" your website so that Google, and other search engines, will see your site as good for serving up in the search results. In other words you want to have "deck shoes" in titles, text and pictures on your deck shoe site. The better you do this, the quicker you get to page one. In this case here, you DON"T want to rank for "shoes." The competition would be too tough and the traffic would be too diverse.

Since your site is targeting deck shoes the main keyword would be deck shoes, but you'd also want to get rankings for leather deck shoes, buy deck shoes and purchase deck shoes or other "long-tail versions.

There may well be hundreds of variations of your keyword and some of them will be just right for you to go after. That's one of the key methods to targeted traffic. Try the Google Keyword Tool.

Here's are some good tips on your use of keywords.

Observe the one percent rule. Have your keyword in your title, have your keyword near the beginning of your first paragraph and your last paragraph. Have the keyword in the body of your copy in a ratio of about 1 to 100, or one percent.

When it comes to titles, make them "catchy" as often as you can.

Keywords are good, and titles and copy are important, too, but it is hard to beat "backlinks."

Google really likes them.

2. Backlinks: A backlink is just another site that is linking to yours. The higher the Page Rank of the site linking to yours, the better.

In context text links are the best, in my opinion, because Google counts the keyword text where your link originates as important. Google sees the text link as a 'vote" for your site for that exact keyword!

If you want your rankings for "deck shoes" to go up, thereby increasing targeted traffic, here's an example of a great link. "If you are into sailing you know the value of good deck shoes." - where deck shoes is the actual clickable link back to your site!

Article submissions are great for this. But there are two other easy methods for getting backlinks.

These would be...

3. Social Bookmarking... just look up 'how to do social bookmarking" on Google.

4. Submitting to web directories. Same as above. Google will guide you straight to the places to get this accomplished.

These four things will be a way for you to start getting your share of the highly targeted traffic that Google supplies in truckloads every day.

Go after it and get your piece of the action!

Would you like to increase your websites targeted traffic and also your earnings?

Then don't let yourself miss out on the simple SEO methods that anybody can use!

For great strategies on making money with websites and targeted traffic, visit Riley West's Famous Blog and don't miss the great keywords and SEO coverage at The Keyword Academy.

Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Riley_West

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