Here's What It Takes To Get Traffic To A Website Today
As Internet marketers we are constantly trying to get more and more traffic to a website. As competition increases we have to get more sophisticated. This article will show you how we can get an unfair share of traffic to a website.
It used to be easy to get traffic to a website. All you had to do was write a keyword focused article and the search engines would put you at the top of the search listings. Now, everyone's doing it and it's not working as well as it used to.
Marketers then started the era of keyword stuffing. In order to get traffic to a website all you had to do was repeat the keyword in your website or article over and over again and you would get to the top of the search results.
As this technique stopped working people found that if they really stuffed the page with the keyword they would be able to get more traffic to a website.
At its extreme, people started embedding the keyword in white lettering on a white background throughout the article so the search engine robots could see a whole page full of the keyword but humans didn't have to deal with a bad looking page. This worked for a while, but eventually the search engines caught on and it stopped working.
Then people discovered that if they put the keyword in the meta tags like title, keyword and description, and put the keyword in the headline on the page and several times in the article or web page they could score well with the search engines.
Eventually, this devolved into nonsense words on the web page with the keyword thrown in, in the right places. Again, the search engines had to put a stop to this practice since it wasn't serving their customer...the human being that is looking for information online.
Next, people discovered that if they had a number of websites linking to them with the keyword they were targeting as anchor text, Google would send traffic to their website.
This worked great for a while until the search engines discovered that people were exchanging links with each other at random and putting up thousands of nonsense and semi-nonsense web-pages with links back to their main page.
Search engines soon discovered that random backlinks didn't necessarily mean that the content was relevant to what the searcher was looking for. Again, they had to get more sophisticated so they could weed out the nonsense and deliver good content to the searcher.
Recently, the search engines have decided to give importance to authoritative websites that recommend other authoritative websites. This seems to be getting good results for the searcher. When the consumer is being satisfied, the results oriented marketer takes notice.
Internet marketers are catching on. They are discovering that if they produce good quality information, other good quality websites will recommend them.
Search engines notice this "good quality" relationship and give these websites great placement. It's a real solid way to get traffic to a website.
I don't think this strategy will ever fail because it requires work on the part of the marketer. Most people are lazy and don't want to put in the work to produce good quality websites.
In reality, all of the above strategies still work, to an extent.
However, when given a choice, the search engines will promote good quality sites which have other relevant good quality sites endorsing them by providing a link with relevant anchor text.
But there is a problem.
The idea of producing "good quality" is well and good, but from an Internet marketer's point of view, if you rely solely on this premise it takes "forever" to get traffic to a website.
What we need is traffic to a website...and we need it NOW!
New techniques have evolved so we can deliver "pretty-good", fast content and get referrals from other "pretty good" websites FAST. This provides good quality, targeted traffic to a website quickly.
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