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June 21, 2008
Having a great site means nothing…No really, having a great site means nothing at all. Seriously it doesn’t mean a thing…If no one ever gets to see it - 
Having a great website definitely means a lot, but not if no one ever sees it, in this case it becomes “useless greatness.” As soon as people begin to view this “greatness” of a site, then it becomes of some use. So what can you do to get traffic to your site? Well a great and what I believe to be the BEST way to get traffic to your site would be organic traffic.
Why is this the best?
Well for one it’s FREE, and if you can manage to get on the first page of results for a popular keyword you can potentially get thousands of daily visitors all without paying a cent. Isn’t that great?
In all reality it is, but it’s a tough process to get yourself on the first page that requires a lot of search engine optimization. This is why I made this post breaking down the top 10 factors of search engine optimization.
1. Title and Meta tag - include the desired keyword in the title and meta tags of your website
or blog.
2. H1 tag - create a H1 tag and make sure to include the keyword in the
H1 tag as well.
3. Domain and URL - include the keyword in the domain and or URL of your website or blog - i.e
yourkeyword.com, yoursite.com/yourkeyword.
4. Body Text - keyword use in the body text of a page plays a major roles as well, the more
you have the keyword on the body of a page, the better that page will be ranked
for that keyword, however be sure not to over do it, or else it will have negative
consequences.
5. Link popularity - the link popularity or amount of incoming links that are relevant to your site
play a part in how you will rank as well.
6. Relevance - Quality of incoming links and how relevant the page is to your keyword.
7. Age of URL - new domains and or URL’s are not ranked as well as older domains and older
URL’s.
8. Weight/Authority - incoming links with authority or “weight,” such as sites with .gov or .edu
can give you a great ranking.
9. Anchor text - the describable text on a link also known as “anchor text” is a major player
in the SEO game. Make sure your incoming links are anchor text with your
keywords.
10. Quality Content - last but not least quality content. The actual text is not what’s ranked by the spider, It’s the consequences of having quality content that gives you better rankings. Providing quality
content ensures return visits, keeping traffic coming back. Not only this
but other webmasters that come across your site will find your site to be
worthwhile, and will naturally link to you. Thus giving your site a boost in
ranks.
If your looking to gain free, quality traffic, then optimizing your site for search engines like Google is the way to go. The top 10 factors above will help you get there, however search engines constantly change their algorithms (the factors that determine how they rank sites) and it’s important to keep up to date with all of them.
Currently these are the top 10 techniques, if used correctly and applied efficiently will get you the ranking you desire for your specific search term or keyword in Goggle’s SERP’s (search engine results.)
SE tags for re-visit and using seo plugins
on wp blogs can be useful too.
I’m glad you did this. I’ve always been confused with SEO, descriptions, meta tags, etc. and now you’ve added to it with an HI tag. What is that?
Including the name of the site or blog into the keywords and description is something I am not doing but will address now that you’ve made note of it.
What are author and robots meta tags? I’ve seen those mentioned but have no idea what they are or how to apply them.
I’ll hire you to fix all of that for my site - I’m not kidding.
Thanks again for this informative post.
@Make Money Talks - Yes, for those of you who update your site frequently under daily basis, it would be very wise to use a re-visit tag on your site. This tag tells the search engine how often to come back and index your site. (Sites that are frequently updated are considered slightly more important by the search engines.)
@MoonDog - An H1 tag is important to improve site relevance for your keyword in the search engines eyes. An H1 tag describes to the search engine spider what the page it’s on is mainly about, thus allowing the search engine to rank your site better for your particular keyword.
As far as the title, description and meta tags, there is a really neat plugin called the All In One SEO Plugin and it allows you to easily type in all the keywords and descriptions right from your WordPress.
Robot and author tags are okay, but I don’t feel they are all that necessary, I don’t bother using them. However depending on a persons situation it might be of some use to them.
A robot tag allows you to prohibit the search engine spider from indexing certain parts of your site you choose. Author meta tags are simply to identify the author by their name and provide some type of contact info.
If you seem to be having trouble with this, I’d be more then happy to help you out, just get in touch with me through the contact form on this site.