How to get targeted traffic to your website: easy, when

How to get targeted traffic to your website: easy, when you know the rules!

Everyone who wants more visitors, set to buy your product or service, raise your hands! If you've got a website which seems to be languishing for want of the right kind of visitors, odds are that you're not getting the right kind of attention from the search engines. In order to get targeted traffic, that is, visitors who are looking for specifically what you have to offer, you must first understand how the search engines view and rank your web pages. The search engines are getting more sophisticated in 'reading' your web pages, with ever changing and more refined algorithms which determine which websites and pages are of most relevance to the search criteria. Today, relevancy is the name of the game.

In the past, many website owners slapped up some of those farm banner ads that had little to do with their product or service. These days, this is most definitely not the way to get targeted traffic to your websites. In fact, when the spider comes by with its roving eye and sees a variety of unrelated content, ads and few informational links, that spider may just cross you off its list for next month's round. Not worth the time. This can also result in your entire site being ignored altogether. Your search engine rankings will plummet!

Today, content is King. You want to stuff your site with as much quality content as you can get. The search engines rank sites with the most content and valuable information first. The new algorithms do a good job of detecting the bottom line on your content. Keywords are an important factor in determining the value of the information you have to offer. If you have an article describing the process of cleaning up your credit, your article should include as many related phrases, indicating that the information is focused on that topic. For example, terms like 'debt consolidation', 'credit counseling', 'improving your credit score' and 'pay down debt' are obviously part of the lexicon of cleaning up your credit.

While content is King, in order to get targeted traffic, visitors who will buy, you must also take the trouble to organize the material on each page of your site. This takes some effort, but you will get more traffic as a result. Let's look at another example to better define your objectives.

Let's say your site sells school supplies. One page contains an article on methods of teaching elementary grade children to read. Everything else on that page should contain resources, such as books, and school supplies, as well as links to other information, and ads that are precisely geared towards that audience. When the spider comes by, it analyzes the content of that page. This type of page organization translates as a page that is of high value to the searcher. This is what makes it to the top of the search engine results. The end result is you get targeted traffic flowing into your site.

Remember, a single sales pitch page won't do the trick. You need quality content and links to related, but not competing businesses, also providing quality information. Reciprocal links are, of course, desirable.

Following these practices will generate website traffic, raising your page rankings with the search engines. Going over every page of your site, as described above, will get targeted traffic and increased income. Which is what we all want!

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