In order to get the attention of the search engines and thereby attract organic traffic to your website, which is the lifeblood of your site by the way, there are things you must do to ‘optimize’ your site for those search engines. And whether you have an affiliate marketing website, a niche website, or any other type of site, the rules are the same: In order to improve search engine ranking and get traffic without spending a fortune, you must apply some search engine optimization techniques to your website.
Setting up a website that is search engine optimized so that you can pull traffic from the search engines can be a difficult and confusing task if you haven’t done it before. The process will start of course, with doing your keyword research to find the words/phrases that your target audience uses to locate the products, services, or information that they are looking for and that you offer. Here is a great free keyword search tool you can use to get this information:
The Google keyword tool
The SEO Book Keyword Suggestion Tool
Keyword Placement In Your Website’s Content
After you have done your keyword research and found the optimal words/phrases that you feel will bring the customers that you are looking for, there is also the matter of knowing what to do with these keywords.
Courtney Tuttle, who does a great job of teaching how to make money online, has set up a “sample” website that shows you exactly how to place your keywords on your website or blog. On ‘Place Your Keyword Here’, Court shows and teaches the exact keyword placement for maximum effectiveness, creating your keyword rich content, using permalinks, and much more – even displaying the best ad placement for your Adsense ads.
You can find a million different sites on the internet and read almost that many different opinions about search engine optimization, but I haven’t found anyone else who actually has a working website set up just for the purpose of showing you step-by-step exactly how it’s done, and cutting through some of the conflicting viewpoints about onsite search engine optimization.
Some of the topics you’ll find on the website are:
* The Honest Truth About Place Your Keyword Here
* Creating Content About Your Keyword
* Using Your Keyword As A Tag
* Using Your Keyword As Your Blog Title
* Using Proper Permalinks So You Can Place Your Keyword Here
If you want to get search engine traffic to your website and you don’t have a ton of money to spend on advertising, you need to learn keyword placement and how to search engine optimize your website.
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