What is the growth route for those websites that don't focus on particular keywords and are very broad and encompassing?
i think no way, except if you are very well-known. Because for me SEO is only the ways to grow a site or to promote in World wide web.
If you were one of the first website to be on the internet, hey, you could make a website around the word "the"... SEO or don't see results.
Be someone controversial and made the headlines of news with the exposure of your website or blog and eventually your website SEO will be automatically built up by others.
Well for me to suggest the best way is you need to catch up good content and some witty poof that is more flexible and mind twisting to those readers, if you have a good daily article or content they do daily visit just to find out what should be the next post. its like the season episodes on television. good luck!
SEO is when you do it yourself when people links to you because your content is awesome, that grows your site too
Mhm.. I ask because, with no doubt, there are many, many people who created websites who probably had no idea what SEO even stood for, let alone that the concept even existed, and still became very or extremely popular. Is it really as difficult as you all make it to be? I'm not questioning your guys expertise, I'm just making sure that all factors are being considered ^^.
@MyBigProject: What they're trying to say is that on-page optimisation is not the only route to the top of the SERPs. Almost any user-generated site -- whether a forum, an auction site, a social network or user-posted news site, etc. -- is going to get promoted and linked by its users, and if it amasses a large number of users, it's going to get mentioned in mainstream news, referenced on Wikipedia and otherwise garner real world authority. Simply put, real world authority means search engine authority. Frank
@OP NONE - it takes either a media blitz or SEO to insure that the money invested in a website comes back this year .
Websites like Digg or reddit grew naturally because they promote natural user growth. It's the same (more or less) with Facebook. All of these sites are broad and encompassing. All a website needs is a way that encourages users to promote that website to their friends and people they know. This can also include links to topics of discussion (I mean, how did you arrive at DP? By searching for "Online Internet Marketing & Search Engine Optimization Forum"? Or were you linked to a thread here?
It is difficulty to think of a growth route without seo. Perhaps only case is if your site is having more than thousands of very good, quality articles on niche subject, then only probably it may happen, Otherwise not possible.
All of the site which is taking place at google first page without any targeted keyword, marked an authority site by Google. Otherwise it's hard to rank well without SEO.
You need to do some things in order to rank in the top 3% of all websites. If you do not. Then your site is not making any money from the free search engines. Write great keyword focus content pages that overdeliver and get quality baclinks.
Create a blog, get backlinks with at least some relevant keywords, make a deal with a local DJ to promote the site for promoting him on yours!
Perhaps having fresh content on regular basis is the best way, then if the niche of your site is prominent then it would be better.