subject: 5 Easy Steps To Improve Website Traffic [print this page] Improving website traffic is a goal shared by all website and blog owners. The best way I know of to improve website traffic and improve search engine rankings is to employ sound seo techniques to your website content.
I have included five crucial search engine optimization methods below that if applied to your website will unquestionably help you improve your website traffic.
1. A unique title tag that contains the keyword that you want to optimize your page for should be created for each of your web pages. The title tag is the number one most important element on your page so you want to make sure you get this right. Your title tag should be distinctive, clear and succinct.
2. Focus each of your web pages on a single Keyword or keyword phrase.
Your keyword should appear in the content of your web page as well as the title tag. Keep your keyword density (the number of times your KW appears per each 100 words of content) between 1% and 3%. Definitely no more than 5%. You should also include keywords that are related to your principal keyword. Place your keyword in bold text a few times within your content.
3. Use appropriate ALT tags for all your images and avoid the use of frames, flash and javascript as your only form of content.
Frames, flash and javascript do not get read by the search engine spiders and will not help your rankings.
4. Great content is the king of SEO.
Providing unique, fresh content in the form of text videos, audio, widgets, etc is the key to increasing website traffic. Not only will this get your content indexed faster, but will keep vistors and the search engine spiders visiting your site frequently.
5. Build backlinks to your content.
Building links to your webpages is an effective Search Engine Optimization method. You can create backlinks to your site many different ways. Article submission, press release submission, link exchanges with other webmasters, directory submission and social bookmarking, social networking are just a few of the more effective ways to build links to your site. The more you get the higher your content will rank. Building backlinks to your site is essential for if you expect to improve your website traffic.
Just remember that optimizing your website content won't happen by accident. Applying the steps above to your website will put you on the path to higher search engine rankings and as a result you will improve website traffic.
