Local Search
Have you ever searched for a keyword on Google and noticed a large group of local listings at the top? I use an Australian search and simple searches such as “host” will result in a page full of .com.au sites, not .net or .com. This is the power of local searches, and it can be used to target traffic.
This is another great way to grab more search engine traffic. Just submit your website and business to Google local search, and whenever someone from your area searches for a particular keyword phrase related to your business, you’ll show up!
Registering a .com and the Country Code Top Level Domain (ccTLD) may also help your site, if you want to have targeted traffic. You wouldn’t want someone else to snatch the .com since you were focusing on the ccTLD. Optimize…
YouTube
YouTube is undoubtedly an internet powerhouse, but did you notice that it also grabs a lot of the top listings on Google for various searches? Google and other search engines are moving towards integrating various types of media into their searches, and this means videos on YouTube and other video sites are regularly showing up in the top listings for various keywords.
All you have to do to take advantage of this is to create some videos based around keywords you’d like to rank for, post those videos to YouTube and other video sharing sites, and include a link back to your site both in the video (as a subtitle or at the end) and in the description. Then, whenever your video appears in the search listings and people view it, you’ll get more traffic to your site.
3 Quick Ways to Get More Search Engine Traffic
Everyone wants more search engine traffic, but it can be very tricky. There’s so much competition in nearly every niche imaginable, that getting your fair share of traffic can seem impossible.
But there are a few lesser-known methods that you can use to grab more than your share of the search engine traffic. These methods involve using web properties outside your own website to generate traffic and send it to your own site. You can actually harness some of the incredible search engine power of some of the world’s most popular websites to drive massive amounts of traffic to your website, and grab more listings than any of your competitors.
Search engine optimization, or SEO, is the process of using techniques to help propel a website to the top of the search engine listings for certain keywords or keyword phrases. These techniques have changed drastically over the years, and its very important to stay on top of the latest techniques. Tactics that worked remarkably well a couple of years ago are now almost totally ineffective, and some of them may even result in your website being banned from the search engines entirely!
Fortunately, a few tactics are relatively timeless. These tactics will probably still work just as well five years from now as they do today, and they won’t result in your website being banned, either.
First of all, let’s talk about the title tag. The title tag is the most important element of a web page as far as SEO goes. You must…
