Archive for August, 2008

SEO and How to Get Higher Traffic Rankings

Tuesday, August 19th, 2008

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is the top buzz word on every online marketer’s mind right now, but what does it mean for your website and driving traffic to it?  SEO in short, is how you optimize your site to have higher rankings in Google’s Organic Search results, which appear to the left of the screen.  There are many techniques that you will have to consider to optimize your site, but if you don’t have a lot of money to hire an agency to help you with this process, one simple way that you can help your rankings, is to have as many links as possible from other sites pointed to your site; this is a guaranteed way to help boost your rankings. But how do you get your url placed on other sites? Try going to the top ComScore sites that accept urls from other websites, such as YouTube.

For example,  if you are trying to market a product to a consumer audience, consider creating a short video about how to use the product and place that video on MySpace, YouTube, and Veoh.   Make sure the video you create is fun and exciting to watch, otherwise, you won’t have anyone watching.  Don’t make the mistake that many others do, that assume just because you built it, people will watch it. Make sure to include your url in the video as a tagline at the bottom of the screen, so viewers can go to your site, once they are done watching the video.

By doing simple guerrilla marketing techniques as the video example, will help increase your traffic and boost your rankings in Google’s Search.

Monitor Your Competition with Online Tools

Friday, August 1st, 2008

One of the more important tasks that you must incorporate into your online business plan is monitoring your competitor.  It’s easy to do and there are many online tools that let you review your competitors keywords through online services.

Check out KeywordSpy.com and SpyFu.com.  Both of these services will help you review your competitors organic and paid keywords by simply typing in your competitor’s domain. If that doesn’t work, try typing in search keywords that you think your target market finds your services online.  The keywords that you type in should bring up a string of related keywords that you can use to help drive more traffic to your site and to see who else is using similar keywords.

Also, try Alexa.com to see how your competitor ranks against you in traffic.

Keep in mind, that if you can see how your competitor’s traffic is being monitored, they most likely are monitoring you as well.