Would you like to increase organic traffic to your blog?
Don’t be moved by the rumors out there. It’s true that the Penguin and Panda are extremely clever and can pinpoint ugly optimization tactics.
But you don’t have to use black-hat or grey-hat SEO concepts. Or do you?
Oftentimes, we’re the ones limiting our blogs and websites from gaining traction.
You can increase search engine traffic by optimizing your blog properly. The organic traffic from Google is too precious to be ignored.
It’s better than Twitter, Facebook, Digg and Pinterest traffic. Well, I think LinkedIn traffic is much more targeted than any other social media traffic.
I like web-surfers to locate my blog naturally. This type of traffic is targeted and ready to buy whatever you’re selling – helpful and insightful products actually.
Also, it’s a proven fact that, your AdSense units get more number of clicks when traffic comes from organic sources or search engines. So, if you’ve been whining over Penguin, I’ve good news for you. Stop crying and do what’s right.
I’m going to show you 3 surefire strategies to increase organic traffic quickly. I mean, you would start to see results within 30 days. Yes, I’m so sure of this, but you’ve to work hard to make it work – there is no magic bullet anywhere. Are you ready?
1. Define SEO in your own way
SEO means search engine optimization. But is that all you need to know? Of course not! If you want to see your blog ranking higher on Google search result pages, getting to know what “optimization” stand for is the secret spice. Let me give you a boost…
SEO is simply the process of targeting the right keywords which your target audience is using to locate helpful and valuable information online. You’re not necessarily optimizing for Google spiders, but for real humans. Optimizing for people is the right way to increase organic traffic to your blog.
After all, spiders don’t have credit cards to make purchases, but your neighbor probably has two credit cards. Common sense tells me that optimizing for search spider only is the surest path to failure.
You need a shift in your thoughts when conducting keyword research. You require a deep knowledge about your target audience to win the SEO game – thousands of webmasters and bloggers are playing, but few people always win.
The people who succeeded have moved from keyword stuffing to keyword targeting. It’s no longer the keyword you’re targeting that matters, but how you place it. Read next line to get the full gist.
2. Keyword placement is the best SEO secret
Now what you think – I’m not talking about keyword density here. We all know it doesn’t work in today’s ranking game. Keyword placement deals extensively with copywriting. How you align words so that blog readers, prospects and clients can derive joy in it.
Do you know the secrets of copywriting? It’s all about using words to persuade people to take action. Copywriters would start with the strongest hook (benefit) and cement the thoughts into the buyer’s mind. When writing your headline, the keyword should come first, before any qualifier or verb. This is very important and can positively increase your ranking.
For instance, if your target keyword is “increase organic traffic,” in order to please spider and pique interest, your headline should be in this form:
Increase organic traffic – 7 SEO strategy for your blog
Increase organic traffic: 5 Strategies That Truly Works
If you begin with “7 SEO strategy for,” the purpose of keyword placement is defeated. And most importantly, spiders read contents like humans. They start from left and gradually move toward the right. The earlier the spider defines what your article conveys, the greater your chances of ranking on Google’s first page.
For the body section of the article – You have to strategically and extremely carefully sprinkle the keywords like a poor farmer to reap the benefits from search engines.
3. Streamline Your Link Building Tactics
“Links are the currency of the web” – Brian Clark
You need 2 types of links to build Google-friendly web pages. The first one is internal links, which interlink your most important pages and posts to help your blog readers by citing, recommending and anchor-linking internal pages and archive posts.
Before you go out to acquire more external links, spend time optimizing your internal posts. Use your primary key term as an anchor and link to previous posts.
The second types of links you need to your pages are inbound links (backlinks or external links). Many a times, you can garner 10, 20, or even 50 links from authority sites without lifting a finger, in a natural way, simply by writing a great blog post. And guess what?
This is the strategy that Google wants. The reason for the Panda and Penguin updates are to make the web a much better place to interact, engage, enjoy and find refuge in times of need. Since 85% of web users search for terms on Google, initiating these people into a tribe is very important.
All you need to do is spend quality time crafting exceptional blog posts. Write well-researched case studies, tutorial-based posts that are extremely helpful, evergreen and thought-provoking. People would gladly share, bookmark, link to it and promote it offline via word of mouth.
Of course, you can use guest posting to build links, but there is a limit to what you can do. Again, you have to be extra careful while writing as well as accepting guest posts. As such, Google give less importance to acquired backlinks by writing guest articles on other blogs and sites.
Moreover, Google doesn’t like the links acquired by writing guest posts on low quality or spammy sites. At the same time, it also doesn’t like accepting guest posts from spammy sites for the sake of backlinks (link-juice).
Even at that, it’s still not enough to make you successful in search. But when other people get hooked to your content, you’ll grow beyond your wildest thoughts. Don’t you think so?
Organic Traffic Hack
The most important thing about organic traffic is conversion. No matter the amount of web traffic you attract to your website/blog, if no one subscribes and comments or buy your products and services, you’ve wasted your time. Take it or leave it!
For better conversion, you have to make a great E-mail list and a greater compelling landing page (squeeze page or Call-to-action page). E-mail marketing and Landing page optimization are never ending topics , I have no problem writing, but I think you are getting bored. May be next time!
In the mean time, take action on the above 3 tips and meet me at the top. Your success is sure!
About mikecoder
My name is Nandita B, and I’m a SEO practitioner and part-time blogger. My sheer passion for sharing knowledge a webmaster needs drove me to create “A Webmaster’s Magazine” called SEOHour.com
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Thank you Nandita. I’m so glad to be here. I hope your readers find my piece helpful.
You are always welcome
Michael, have you seen, How much Google like your article?
Out of 1,710,000 results for long-tail-keyword search Increase organic traffic blog, Google has placed your article @ 2nd place!
Just 5 minutes after publishing, it was ranking @ 19th position. And, after 12 hrs. @ 2nd. Do you have any PR with Matt Cutts or what?
Let’s hope, the article will continue enjoying the pampering by GOOGLE
Wow Nandita, I didn’t see the result of my post in Google first page. That’s so sweet. Sounds funny, I don’t have any PR with Matt Cutts. Lol!
I hope the placement continues my dear. Take care!
Michael Chibuzor recently posted…10 Ways ‘CONFIDENCE’ Makes You A Better Content Writer
That is awesome. I just checked Google and you are now in the number 1 position. Great
Nice post and awesome tips. I really enjoyed reading this article. Keep up the good writing.
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Hi Kharim,
Thanks for the good news! Michael is a prolific writer, which Google also accepts, by rewarding him the 1st place.
Thanks.
Michael, really loved reading the post. I am greatly impressed by your writing style.
Especially, the sentence, “Spiders don’t have credit cards to make purchases, but your neighbor probably has two credit cards. Common sense tells me that optimizing for search spider only is the surest path to failure.”
Funny but so true.
Nandita, thanks for sharing such a great post.
I like your comments as well. Keep watching my back. More helpful posts coming your way.
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Great writing.I like your post.These strategies are great.
Thank you Taran.
Michael Chibuzor recently posted…10 Ways ‘CONFIDENCE’ Makes You A Better Content Writer
Thank you Michael. That was very enlightening, would love to read more such posts from you.
Well, I’ll do my best to serve you with the best contents ever. Keep reading moneyctl
Michael Chibuzor recently posted…10 Ways ‘CONFIDENCE’ Makes You A Better Content Writer
Thanks Nandita it was really a great article…Michael simply Rocks
Ya, he is a RockStar Writer. He knows – How to please Google spiders as well as his readers.
Hey Micheal,
Do you advise using the ‘:’ instead of the ‘-’ symbol in the title, because when I used the : symbol, the text after that symbol wasn’t being displayed by Google.
Hi Aditya,
I am addressing your question on behalf of Michael, b’cos he is a shy guy when it comes to SEO!
1# From readability point of view you should use ‘-’ instead of ‘:’ while writing a post title. For readers with extremely shorter attention span, it serves like a much needed break.
That is the only reason I have extensively used hyphen for most of my article headings.
2# There is no issue with Google displaying texts after ‘:’ symbol in article heading.
Lot of bloggers use this. Checkout an example below -
Thanks.
Hey Nandita, I’m a bold guy – shy? I don’t think so.
You’ve actually answered the question correctly. Both “-” and “:” are used in writing to show the relationship between two variables.
As you rightly said, I prefer using the “-” in my headlines and while writing my articles.
But there is nothing wrong when you use the colon (:).
Thank you Nandita for throwing more lights on my post. I’m forever grateful. But I’m no shy guy. Lol!
Michael Chibuzor recently posted…10 Ways ‘CONFIDENCE’ Makes You A Better Content Writer
Thank you both. I just used the : once and I had a problem with the title only in the sitelinks but not in normal search. And yes, I agree with both of you and I too use the – symbol often. Thanks for clarifying. Useful post Mike!
Aditya
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Well that was interesting Michael! Although I do know that getting organic traffic from Google is important, I definitely wouldn’t concentrate just on those efforts. With the way they keep changing things, you never know when you’ll get slapped for doing things right.
Referral traffic is to me the best source of traffic because we all know that people are more interested in buying from people who have been referred by friends. Let’s just say it’s my preferred source.
Thanks though for this interesting post. I’ll definitely keep this in mind for when I do write for SEO. Hey, I never said it wasn’t smart!
~Adrienne
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Thank you Adrienne. Thank you for reading. Yes, I agree with you. Referral traffic is good – but we need to work hard to make it work. Stay gracious.
Michael Chibuzor recently posted…10 Ways ‘CONFIDENCE’ Makes You A Better Content Writer
Well said,
Write for your readers first. But also pay obvious attention to making sure its all SEO’d properly. Long-tail keywords is where its at.
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You’re welcome Aditya.
Michael Chibuzor recently posted…10 Ways ‘CONFIDENCE’ Makes You A Better Content Writer
You are right about streamlining the traffic. A lot of hard work is now required in getting traffic, from content to social media. Also some basic seo is required when writing posts to help in the search engines.
Thanks Shalu for emphasizing the importance of SEO for driving Organic traffic to blogs.
Its very helpful
Thank you very much for these secrets
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Great tips I have ever read regarding the traffic increase.
You have explained in such a simple manner so that even an ordinary or newbie can well understand it.
But it takes so much effort to implement all tips to gain traffic to website.
I am trying to get website traffic now by implementing your tips.
Thanks .
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I’m glad you enjoyed the post. Keep reading and don’t forget to take the right actions today.
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My favorite line in above post.
“You have to strategically and extremely carefully sprinkle the keywords like a poor farmer to reap the benefits from search engines”
pakblogger2012 recently posted…Capacity Control of Absorption Chillers
Organic traffic is all are looking now a day, because after google panda and penguin update it’s useless to go to link building companies or other traffic generator.
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I am a bit confused with tactics showed by the bloggers. can you tell me that how exactly I can get indexed in search engine my blog is around 30 days old… but still I am not getting any organic traffic from search engines… Can you please help me out of this… I really need help in this issue
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Hi Abuzar,
There is a lot of facts which directly or indirectly affects the ‘indexing’ , whether its by Google or any other search engine.
Here are some (my experience),
Blog Content: Google is not interested in copied content.
Urls: Urls of your blog posts – should not be broken.
Sitemap: Maintain a sitemap of your site(eg: .xml) and submit it to Google through Webmaster tools.
Backlinks: Both internal and external.
Update your blog regularly.
Dont use porn or illegal contents- Google is very strict.
Like these there are many points that should be take care when you want your site to be indexed by google.
All the best.
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I’m glad to read the post and learn from this. Thank you Michael
Thank you for this wonderful tips, I’ll definitely try this out.
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I’m glad to read the post and learn from this. Thank you Michael….
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first ,thanx a lot for posting so much useful links.
I read lot of tips to increase traffic but your Blog told very unique tips .hope my blog will grow better using your tips.My website http://www.wisdompetals.com was gaining good organic traffic but two months ago ,its drop down to least level.I feel you are very sincere to your readers to share and suggest great tips .please advise me some tips to increase the traffic or suggest reason or write blog why organic traffic decreases.i always try to write evergreen contents.So i think seasonal search/keywords are not my problem.
thanks again for your great articles .
Great article and teach me lot of aspects organic traffic, Bet of all three tips for me was first one. It has more beneficial.
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Hi,
Nandita you have done a great job which help many new blogger and seo beginner to work hard on this tips to increase the organic traffic on blog and this strategies will help more now a days.
Thank
Kamran