Today I would like to share with you exactly what I have done to earn several top ten listings as well as many more listings in the top 50. I earn over a million hits a month using this process. It didn't happen overnight.
The search engines are the least costly way to earn free traffic to your website. Choosing the best keywords is the secret to getting the freest traffic. 90% of my traffic is free from the search engines.
The following is the step-by-step process I use to select the best keywords for a new page or to launch a new product on the web.
1) The first step is to build a short list of what I believe will be good keywords for the site in question. I'll start with 4-10 choice keywords.
2) I type each of the keywords into Alta-Vista and then Info-Seek. I use Alta-Vista because they maintain the largest index on the web and Info seeks because they will index my pages within a day after I submit them. This gives me faster access to submission results.
http://www.altavista.com/
http://infoseek.go.com/
3) I look at several of the top ranking pages found with each keyword to test the suitability of each keyword. When I visit the pages I look at the other keywords these top ranking pages are using. I may add a few new keywords to my list. I try to find a total of about 25 words.
4) Next I will visit JimTools keyword generator. This tool will generate a list of keywords that are actually in use in the search engines. Using this tool, I may end up with about 50-100+ keywords.
JimTools Keyword Generator
http://www.jimtools.com/
Still you will find that some of your keywords get much more traffic than others. I want to focus on the most used keywords that I have already determined will deliver the traffic I seek.
You can make bids on keywords at GoTo.com and 16 other search engines. At Go-To.com you may bid as low as a penny a word. If your word or word combination is used the list of results pages will be ranked according to your bid price. To get a higher listing you can buy more keywords for cheap or just use the ones with high visitor counts. I'll go into more detail on keyword bidding in future article.
5) Next I prepare Meta tags for the page. You can get information on writing the Meta tags at the following URLs.
How To Use HTML Meta Tags
http://searchenginewatch.com/webmasters/meta.html
Writing Meta Tags for Higher Search Engine Placement
http://www.globalserve.net/~iwb/search_engine/killer.html
Meta Tag Analyzer
http://www.scrubtheweb.com/abs/meta-check.html
Free Software! Meta Tag Generator
http://www.siteup.com/meta.html
6) Now I want to go back to my web page and make several additional versions of my original page, they will each target different keyword combinations.
I will also revise the title and description Meta Tags to include several of the 5 to 10 most used keyword combinations I had discovered earlier.
For example, if I was making a page about dogs I might use several the following keywords. I can easily see the top keyword combinations by the number of actual requests displayed to the left of the word.
Don't use just use the top keywords if they are not a good match for the content of your page. I measure the quality of the keywords in cold hard cash; I look at sales, not just traffic. The keywords that sell products are the ultimate even if they are not the most used keyword combinations.
GoTo. Com Keyword Ranking Tool
http://inventory.go2.com/inventory/Search_Suggestion.jhtml
Searches done in Apr 2000
- 87516 dog
- 13414 dog breed
- 3946 dog training
- 3009 dog breeders
- 1472 dog health
- 1267 dog for sale
- 1240 dog wallpaper
- 1157 picture of dog
- 949 dog kennel
- 916 small dog
- 887 dog supplies
- 881 dog grooming
- 807 breed of dog
- 798 dog screen saver
- 755 dog breed choosing
- 718 dog breeding
- 668 dog collar
- 651 dog bed
- 627 dog behavior
- 608 dog breed selection
- 599 maltese dog
- 599 pug dog
- 582 pet dog picture
- 579 pet dog
- 566 rare dog breed
- 555 hunting dog
- 549 guard dog
- 547 snoop doggy dog
- 537 dog pet names
- 533 big dog
- 533 pitbull dog
- 530 dog crate
- 526 snoop dog
You can usually use about 5-7 combinations on your page. Make sure to use them in your title and description as well as the first headline and the first paragraph and on your image alt text within your page.
Keyword density is determined by the ratio of indexed words that contain a specific word or word combination.
I will even go one step further and actually name the page the actual keyword I want to focus on; in the preceding step I would name the page "dog". Some search engines will give extra weight to the name of the page in search results.
7) I create several additional introduction pages designed to rank well with one specific keyword each, by using several combinations that also use that keyword. I will do the same for each important keyword.
Remember we started with one page, now we are making several versions of that one page designed to rank well with several of the top keywords we discovered earlier. Having several pages listed it will boost traffic from the search engines. Since the average web page will only earn one or two visitors a day, using this method will assure that you get more visitors every day. This difference can amount to a lot. If you get a top listing for any of your keywords you can expect hundreds or even thousands of visitors from just one keyword combination on one well-ranked page.
8) I use "WebPosition Pro" software on the back end to follow and improve on my rankings for my most important keywords. This software really works over time and I haven't seen any other program that can do what Web-Position does at any price. The free demo will allow you to actually see results in Alta Vista and several others, even before you decide if you want to purchase it.
http://www.smithfam.com/wpg/index.htm
9) In addition I use Traffic Builder Software to submit pages automatically to the smaller search engines, Free For All sites and Free Classified sites. It's the fastest and most stable program I have found as well as the best value in this type of software.
http://www.smithfam.com/ts.html
SUMMARY
Each search engine is an independent business. They are not required to do anything to help you. In order to obtain higher placements help the search engines by keeping your pages targeted as specifically as possible.
Getting your pages live is often a two-step process. Step one you submit your URL address. Step two; the search engines send a robot spider to actually add your pages into the index. This process can come up to six weeks in the future. In some cases it may not be added at all.
Don't continue to submit your site every day, it won't help, and it could get you banned. The best results come from careful preparation of the original page. Normally you shouldn't re-submit your page often unless you have changed the page and even then submit it again only about once every 4 to 6 weeks.
You can gain a higher position if you optimize your page for a specific search engine. You can also loose rankings changing a well-positioned page. Many people actually loose position by changing pages with a high placement. If you obtain a high placement don't re-submit that page create a different version of that page instead. You can submit to the Free 4 All, and free classified pages almost as often as you like because these listings work their way off the pages in days or even hours.
Following these guidelines should help you earn higher placements. I don't know of any other ways to attract valuable traffic at a comparable cost.
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Best Wishes
Bob
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