Hey guys, I was hoping someone could help me shed some light on some gray areas I have in the concept of SEO. I just started my first niche site. It focuses on a specific breed of a common household pet. I've given it a unique design myself, filled it with some good 7-9 pages of unique content writtenn by myself. (Using Wordpress, btw). I was sure to target specific keywords in the meta title, meta description, meta keywords, post title and post content of each of those pages. I then threw in some PPC ads, Kontera links, and some affiliate products. I'm set. (By the way, the niche I'm in is very low in competition, when searching for the top keywords in google, the average is about 10,000-18,000 pages. The average monthly search rate for these keywords is about 1,000.) I actually saw I got 1 hit from Google already from a certain search string, which I'm surprised of, being I've been in Google for only about 12 hours and see I rank on the first page for that search. Anyway, time for the questions. Now that I'm done setting up the site, I don't plan on updating it anymore. I was thinking of doing article marketing now, but I've never been clear on that. Is article marketing simple writing articles on sites like eZine and linking back to your main article on your site? What do you gain from this? Is this simply for the backlink, or is the goal for visitors to actually follow that link from eZine back to your site? Or is it a mixture of both? Should I submit the EXACT same article from my site to eZine? If not, can I just tweak it a little (replace certain words, etc) then submit it? Whats the best way to get backlinks? Submitting to directories seems to take way too much time, and by the time my link is submitted, passed the review, and indexed by search engines, it's been months. And final question, whats the best way to get traffic? (I know thats like asking what the meaning of life is, but I figured let me throw that out there too.) Thanks for any help guys. - Ralph
You should think of link building as an on going marketing process. It is as important as your content. Spend some time every day contacting other people who would be interested in your site and ask them for a link. It is hard to get links like this, but these links give a huge bang for the time invested. You already mentioned web directories and don't think it's worth the time. Just take a few minutes every day and submit to them. In a year you'll be pleased with the results. When you write an article make it specific (and not duplicated from your own site). The purpose of article marketing is to get a link back from the ezine type site and any other site that downloads the article and places it on their site.
SEOVancouver is right, and another things. Link Building should be constant and continuous. Link Building is a never ending process. And another tip, know your competitors first if theres any. And find related sites to your niches or "closely related" and ask for a link exchange.
Bahaha, tear is right! But yes, link building, article subs, directory subs, they all have their place. G
Since your competiton is quite low, i think a good on page seo will do for you. But to maintain your position in the search pages, get an authority website linking to you. And don't forget the weight of having your anchor text in the links. You can either buys links at websites like http://www.linkadage.com or google for websites that does link exchange. Br Seo_genius