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Having a site is critical. If you don’t have one yet, now is the time to get started.
You can use WordPress.com for free, but if you want to hire someone to design and build a professional site, there are many good web designing companies that offer lots of technology at very reasonable prices.
Next, choose a platform such as Joomla! or Drupal, which both cost money, but are well-designed and reliable. Or you can buy a template from somewhere like Themeforest (it's cheap and quality material), and then customize it with some color and content.
Finally, make sure that your website offers original content, not just links. People love high-quality resources and they trust websites that provide value.
Put yourself in your readers' shoes. How would you feel if the best news you heard was through a link on a popular website? You need to stand out and give people a reason to click on you instead of going directly to where other people come from.
Owning a website is an investment. Once you start, it becomes more difficult to do so because you learn new things every day. Google updates its search engine continuously to better serve you and your business.
Everyone loves reading articles that are written directly for them. Because you’re speaking straight to someone, they love it even more if you offer advice along with the article.
You can create this type of page easily using Google Docs. What you’ll have to do next is write an article that explains how to make an article easy to read by anyone who doesn’t know much about what you're offering.
After you finish writing the article, go back to the tab called “how to improve the readability of my site” and add another solution.
Finally, take a look at what you’ve created so far. Did you try any solutions last time? Note which ones worked and which didn’t, and learn from those.
As we all know, back in the day (around 2006) people were recommending things like using fake links or putting spam content on your website to get higher rankings. This was called “black hat” marketing.
It worked… for awhile. Then they caught onto it and started abusing those same tactics themselves.
Abusing these tricks means that you have two choices: keep doing what you are doing and eventually rank for your keywords, or start investing into learning about improving your site and using white hat techniques.
White hat techniques mean finding other ways to improve your ranking such as creating excellent content, engaging with others via comments and social media, and getting link building done through editorial links.
By investing time into this effort, you will slowly but surely see results come in. White hats only use methods they think are ethical and safe, so if something sounds strange or illegal, you probably shouldn’t do it.
Although this is not considered ‘organic’ search, it can be very effective. Organic searches usually have free listings, while paid ads may or may not include fees for clicks.
Many people think that using pay-per-click (PPC) advertising is too expensive – but experts recommend starting with PPC to become familiar with the technology and tools involved.
Then, when you are comfortable with that method, try SEO to rank your site higher in organic search. You will still have to do some work either way, but becoming an expert at one type of search marketing has several benefits.
Once you have set up your website, it is time to start doing research into what works and what does not with search engines.
You will find that much of what was popular two months ago is outdated today. What worked then may not work now.
What isn’t changed is how people interact with your content and why they choose to stay within your site.
Consistency is what takes someone from prospect to customer. It happens over time through small actions that show quality control.
Some suggestions for consistency include writing in an updated style, using similar spelling words and grammar, or having multiple pages that look more authoritative than ones that don’t (more about this later).
Let’s talk about the best way to use links for traffic purposes.
Links are important because when other sites link to yours, they help spread the word around the Internet that you exist.
These other websites also can bring visitors to your page who are looking for information related to your subject matter.
It’s easy to get distracted by all the things you could do to increase traffic to your page, but setting regular updates at least once per week is key to keeping your audience engaged.
Consider breaking out daily updates to keep yourself focused. However, be sure to update your business social media profiles as well to maintain presence.
We’ll discuss business social media tips next
We all have days when we feel like running a race or playing a game, getting out there and moving around is what matters most.
Search engine marketing can be kind of slow going at times, but it’s definitely worth doing. Sometimes you need to stick with something until you get results.
That’s why I love the idea of paying for traffic, but taking out an ad every now and then isn’t very effective. You can still pay for traffic, just less money.
More often than not, people try stuff and they give up after trying once. Giving up again after testing some things takes more effort than investing in one product and sticking with it.
Results take time to see, products go back onto the market (or become obsolete), and champions arise. Don’t try to climb too high too fast.
Work on building relationships instead of buying views. Work on being a leader rather than looking for followers. Put in the work day by day, week by week, and that steady growth will eventually lead to results.
When you do marketing for yourself, it can be easy to get distracted with the tricks of the trade and not focus on what is really important – results.
You need to keep testing into account how effective different strategies are at drawing in traffic and converting visitors into customers.
That way, you will know which methods to use to attract people and which to avoid.
Even if you’re not an expert, there are many resources for learning how to do search engine marketing (SEM). These include free tutorials as well as paid training programs from vendors such as Semalt.
Although obtaining qualified SEO skills is relatively easy, it can be hard getting noticed professionally.
That’s why people in the industry need to learn and develop these same tools and techniques to promote their business.
If you have the talent and expertise to help your clients or customers get into the top position of multiple search engines, then other companies will pay for that knowledge and experience.
There’s a common saying in the web world: “Link building is the most important thing you can do for your website, but only practice once.”
That said, many people get too hung up on doing massive link building projects once they learn how to build links.
But investing large amounts of time or money into building links is not something that should be done without consideration. Ranking high in search results requires understanding what makes a good ranking (see above), which takes effort and expert knowledge.
There are other tools that could serve the same purpose, with or without training. Also, natural linking refers to inviting visitors to click through from one page to another by writing content worth reading.
This book will help you understand how to write clean pages filled with valuable information and media articles, and then invite readers to comment, like it, and perhaps buy related products. This is accomplished via various blogging techniques such as adding videos, pictures and polls.
Blogging is about sharing information that matters to you and those who read your blog. The key is to share quality content that provides value to your target audience.
