I have been building backlinks and trying to rank for keywords involving website traffic with some success. I have been told recently that with the type of site I own I didn't need Google. Just focus on getting more traffic and advertising my service. This makes sense since with all my efforts I am still only getting minimal search traffic but have been able to get repeat advertisers from promoting my website. I know for some websites Google is a must, but for some other keywords or websites you might look into promoting your website and advertising your links. Mind you, I still would love to be able to ge first page rank for lots of keywords and have tons of advertisers join from Google, just haven't figured all that out just yet. So in the mean time since I have not mastered SEO techniques I have relied on advertising my website as cheaply as possible. Can you have a service online without getting lots of search engine traffic? are there members out there that have relied on other sales methods besides Google? Please let use all know about any tips and tricks to use if our Google searches just aren't adding up.
Of course you can have an online business that doesn't rely on Google or SERPS in general. In fact it's actually the preferred way to build an online business. It's great if you get traffic from Google but what happens when they decide they don't like you any more...? you're back delivering pizzas because you never really had a business to begin with, just a site that ranked well in Google for a period of time. Google can send some serious amounts of traffic in many niches but you are going to be better served to consider it a bonus rather than something your business relies on or you won't be in business for long.
It's good to have at the beginning for an initial traffic burst. But it isn't necessary for the long haul. It's also useful to use Google when you have a new product on your site or something else you want to highlight. Then you can use Google again to drive a burst of traffic to it. But never forget the basics.
Do not ever rely on Google or any their website for that matter as your source of traffic and income because any day they will put down a change in their TOS, or algorithm, you will find yourself lost and deep in the hole of financial difficulty.
You don't need Google. Make your site popular and people will keep visiting your site. Think of Facebook, twitter...! no one will search these kind of sites on google.
You make your own website its a good for promoting your business online. But without SEO link building you don't get ranking position on first page. You have to hire a SEO person who give you result for your website ranking. You have not much information of off-page link-building so i suggest you hire a SEO person to become popular your website in Google.
True. Sites can get traffic just by word of mouth. I will admit I do sometimes search google on google. XD Chad
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Thanks for the reply. I guess Google is not really needed but should be looked at as a bonus as for as promoting is concerned.
its really a good post , but the thing is even we do anything for our website marketing , it become indirectly working for goole ranking .
You can run your website without needing google, as someone said earlier, what would do you if google decided to pull the rug out from under you. The best approach would be to have a bit of both worlds. Rank for keywords you want to have and also have traffic coming to you directly or through non-google sources. This way even if google decides that they hate you, your business won't be left out to dry and you'll still have traffic coming your way.
Build a following and word of mouth and you will never need google to promote for you also like here forums are another great way of promotions Youtube is also a way of people finding you
By the sound of the status of how you're doing with your website MoolaMails you don't need google at all. They offer effective services for internet marketing, yes but since you're site's already doing good then don't sign up for google's services. As long as you're successful with gaining enough traffic for your website then you're still good to go. Just don't forget to update your page every now and then to keep traffic from coming. Furthermore, making quality content and other features from keeping audiences from going back would surely make you on top of it.
Of course the more traffic the better. This means you should at least look at Google, it is obviously the most trafficked site on the internet.
Google is the biggest search engine and most of the people are using Google. So you can not ignore Google any way. Why not you are taking the extra traffic that Google can provide you?