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How to Really Get Serious Website Traffic

I’m guessing you clicked on this title because you want to know how to really get serious amounts of website traffic.

Follow the directions of this article and you can have access to all the traffic in the universe for free.

I will try to be brief so follow along.

I have been doing this for over a year now. I’ve started new websites since the inception of the one you are now reading.

I’ve done a serious amount of social marketing on different social websites such as Twitter, StumbleUpon, Digg, Delicious, Facebook, Squidoo and the likes.

I know what it takes to get serious website traffic.

I’ve written hundreds of articles for my sites and other sites like eHow, EzineArtciles, GoArticles, ArticlesBase.com and many others.

If you are looking for a way to increase search engine traffic and actually profit from advertising or possibly earn a living selling a product then start building a brand new site at this very moment. Build it using only WordPress.org if you want.

Keep the content of your site about one and only one subject. Narrow your niche down as small as possible. For example, if you are a watch freak then make your site all about Breitling Watches only. This will keep your keywords very focused and extremely search engine friendly. You will essentially write and display everything about Breitling Watches. The point is to get a serious amount of keyword density so that all the major search engines will see your site and know 100% that your site is a specialist when it comes to Breitling Watches.

Write 30 quality content articles with at least two images or pictures on each article before you go live on the search engines. WordPress will give you the option under “settings” to keep your site private from the search engines until you are ready to go live. Once you have your 30 articles written and all advertising in place then you can change your settings to be search engine friendly. The privacy settings will simply be changing the robot.txt files to disallow the search engines until such time you are ready to allow them.

Use your site keyword when you are linking out to other respectable sites related to Breitling Watches. This will help you to eventually rank for that particular keyword.

Be sure you use a theme that has built in SEO or download a plug-in such as “All In One Seo.”

Try to always use alternative text for your images.

Make the site user friendly and easy to navigate.

When you have your 30 articles complete and all Seo done properly then go ahead and change your settings to bring your site live.

Start immediately commenting on other blogs and sites about Breitling Watches. Make sure to leave a link back to your site with each comment.

Submit your site to the biggest blog directories and search engines.

Submit your feed address to the well know feed directories.

If you have completed all these steps properly, you will be seeing large amounts of traffic within days.

Always maintain your site regularly. Check and repair broken links, continue finding new Seo techniques, write new content for your site often.

Write quality content related to your niche for other well know sites in the top level niche and always link back to your site in the resource box.

Get to know other marketers in your niche.

Partner with the ones you trust.

Maybe Brightling Watches aren’t going to be your niche but you get my point. If you love ice cream and you are an ice cream expert then make your site about one kind of ice cream.

When you keep your keywords narrowed to one or two then you are greatly increasing your success rate. You will enjoy extremely high amounts of free targeted traffic forever.

If you read this article from start to finish, you now know how to get serious website traffic.

Best Wishes!

Short Keywords and Long Tail Keywords

As if you don’t already have enough to learn, today I’m going tot talk a bit about short tail and long tail keywords.

For many years now you have been told to optimize your site with relative keywords to your content. If you want to get organic search traffic or any search engine traffic for that matter your keywords must be optimized properly.

Recently you may have noticed a new term being thrown around by the name of “long tail keywords”.

Don’t let this confuse you. The long tail keyword is just a longer form of a keyword you are already using to help narrow the niche. By using long tail keywords it is possible you could gain some additional traffic to your website by using keywords that many other sites don’t use.

For example, if one of your site’s primary keywords is “coffee cups” you may also want to use the keyword “white porcelain coffee cups”. People who surf on the Internet are getting smarter about their searches. They want to narrow the search down as quickly as possible to find what they are looking for. The major search engines understand this as well and are happy to oblige.

The longer keyword or long tail keyword won’t get as much search traffic but it also won’t have as much competition. Basically you are just narrowing the keyword down to gain higher page position on the search engine ranking. Obviously it’s better to have your keyword on the first page that pops up as opposed to the second page.

More than likely you will still gain most of your traffic from the short tail popular keywords but if you don’t incorporate the long tails you are essentially leaving traffic on the table for somebody else to get.

If you’re wise you should be using both to gain as much traffic as possible.

Best Wishes!

How To Find My Niche Market

A niche market is defined by wiktionary as a relatively small and specialist, yet profitable, market. I like this definition. It’s short and sweet and to the point. In order to find your niche market you need to first truly understand what your deepest passion is. Many people have lots of passions. My best advice is to dig deep and think about what you know plenty about. It could be a hobby or a field that you currently work in for your job. Everybody is an expert in something. You just have to figure out what your something is.

Please allow me to tell you about a massive mistake I made when creating my site. I made my niche to wide. Let me explain so you can better understand what I’m talking about. This information will help you tremendously in the way of preparing to launch your first website.

You see my site is primarily about music and marketing because these are things that I really love to do and also love to talk about. With that being said I could have been much smarter and narrowed it down to one niche such as “music” or “marketing”. It should have been one or the other. To be quite technical those two keywords or niches could have been broken down to deeper more profitable niches. So instead of music, maybe the niche could have been rock and roll music. Instead of marketing maybe I could have went with website marketing.

Why am I telling you all of this? The reason is because with my niche being so wide I have to work that much harder to dominate the niche. If you don’t dominate your niche your competition will dominate it for you making it very difficult to be profitable. The object is to work smarter not harder! So if you really want to know how to find your niche market take some time to discover yourself a bit. Once you figure it out, whether it be gymnastics, medicine, travel, music, art, writing, comedy or whatever, try to see if you can break that particular niche down even further. This will make it much less like work for you and much more like fun. It will also give you the ability to easily target and then dominate your market. Be sure to use a good keyword tool to do your home work. It’s important to be sure their is an audience for your market before you go diving in too deep.

As always, your questions and responses are certainly welcomed and hopefully this post will give you a little added clarity on how to find your niche market.

Best Wishes!

Power Your Website With Article Marketing

Article Marketing has the power to take your website to levels you haven’t seen. Many people completely under-estimate the full potential of what it can do for their online business. When done properly article marketing allows you to leave your digital footprint on the world and will drive an amazing amount of traffic to your website for eternity. Notice I said when done properly!

Try to look at it this way. Because of the relative newness of Modern Day Peasants it really didn’t matter what I wrote on this blog in regards to getting my articles placed on the first page of the major search engines such as Google, Bing, Yahoo and the likes. The website was too new. They won’t let you in that easy, I don’t care if you’re writing award winning articles. I needed to find a stronger avenue to say what I had to say so I looked into writing articles for online article directories such as eHow.com and ArticlesBase.com and of course my favorite Ezine Articles.(You will do very well with the three I have listed and eHow will even pay you to write for them). I knew these companies had been around for quite some time. I also knew they had some pull when it came to page rank because of the amount of back links they have and because of how long they have been in business. Most importantly, I knew that you get to add a link to your website in the resource box. This is where the real power for your website comes in. I’ll explain later in this post.

Next I did my research on how to write a great article and the very first one I wrote landed on Google’s first page out of 322 million pages and it’s still there. I have wrote 20 other articles since then and I will continue to write them. A little over half of those have ended up on the first page out of millions of pages as well.  Getting your articles on the first page needs to be your goal! So far to date those articles have brought somewhere in the neighborhood of 700 visitors to this site. Now you might say that 700 visitors isn’t a lot but when you add those numbers over years it will be thousands and maybe one day millions. I saw a guy the other day who has written over 1500 articles. The average is about three visitors a day per article, so if he has all those pointing to one website he will get 4500 visitors per day just off his article marketing alone. Do you get my point?

Many people think that writing articles is too much work for the amount of visitors they get but those people are not thinking clearly. You write articles to solidify your presence online. Write them in such a manor that they are of great help to people. Use keywords in your title and make sure that you also use those same keywords in the beginning and the end of the article. Sprinkle just two or three in the main body as well and you’ll do fine. Try to stay between 300-750 words and finally leave a link to your website in the resource box in case the reader wants to learn more. If you do a good enough job presenting your case they will click that link and come to see you.

To sum it up if you truly want to leave an impact in the online world then you need to power your website with article marketing.

Best Wishes!

Blogging for Success!

“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” ……..Herman Cain.

For those of you who have read my articles and previous posts you know and understand I am big on using the words “multiple streams of income”. The reason is because I personally believe that to be very successful online you need to set up multiple ways to get paid. If you are going to make alot of money then you should be experimenting with many different online ideas and concepts. I have listed multiple ways to do that on this website and blog and will continue to list more in the future. Today I want to discuss what I call the “central bank” for your online career. If you really want to make a living from home and earn enough money to make a difference in your life there are 2 main factors that will help you succeed in your quest. First you must create your website and then follow it up and drive traffic by building and promoting your blog.

Build Your Website

• First you need to set up your own website. I have recommended a few methods to use in previous blogs. Look into HostGator Web Hosting and also check out Ken Envoy’s newsletter and his company Site Build It! Both HostGator and Site Build It are miles ahead of their competition in terms of usability and customer service. Try HostGator first to keep the cost down and if you can afford them both then absolutely go for it.  You are only increasing your chances of stronger profits. These are both outstanding companies and the best part is they will both pay you very well along the way if you choose.
• Take your time and think of a great domain name. Preferably using a keyword related to your business.
• Think in terms of Business Branding. You want your site and it’s name to be known well!
• Learn as much as possible about and try to find niche products.
• Add great content that is helpful to your visitors and easy on the search engines. (Mostly all typing and copy and paste)
• Make your website “Sticky” – (Great stuff that people keep coming back for….useful…helpful)
• Add secure and safe check out procedures if you have a web store  or plan on selling your own product.
• Do not publish too soon!!!!
• Learn about and apply proper use of meta keywords and descriptions for each page on your site.
• Make your website easy to understand and follow.
• Make your site easy to access by all browsers.
• Learn all there is to know about Search Engine Optimization. (Lots of  SEO info. on this blog)
• Always test your site before publishing as well as an ongoing basis for broken links and errors.
• Use “Keywords” in your titles on each page.
• Add alternative text to your site’s images so the search engines can read them. Remember search engines only read text.
• Monetize your site by adding Google Adsense. Let Google pay you for your advertising space.
• Add affiliate links if you wish. I actually recommend it even if you are selling your own product on the site. Do not be embarrased to offer affiliate links. Just make sure the ads are related to your site’s content and also make sure they are products that can benefit your visitors. There is nothing wrong with a company charging a fee for a great product. People don’t expect great things to be free. The company should be paid and so should you for allowing them to advertise on your site.
• Write a good “about us” page so your visitors understand and know who you are and what you do.
• Add a privacy policy
• Test some more and when you’re absolutely ready go ahead and publish it to the world.
• Sumit your new website address to all the major Search Engines, Directories…ie…Google, Yahoo, Alta Vista, Bing, Aol, All The Web…etc….etc.
• Start building one way back links to your site. (Very important in gaining new traffic)
• Sign up with Google Analytics to track your progress and your visitors to see what works and what doesn’t.
• Stay on top of it.
• Enjoy what you do.
• Keep success in your mind.

Now Build and Publish Your Blog

• Most good web hosting companies will offer you a blogging platform at no additional charge. I will discuss WordPress.org because it is offered free with the HostGator Baby Croc Package and because WordPress.org in my opinion is the best blogging platform offered today in regards to Usability and Design.
• Sign up for the WordPress.org account.
• Take a day or two to read about WordPress and understand the different functions, plugins, themes, tools, links, profiles, etc which are now at your disposal.
• Choose a usable blog theme. Make it a custom theme if you can afford it.
• Click plugins on the left side of your WordPress control panel and then click add new plugin.  In the “add plugin” search box type “All in One SEO” or “Platinum SEO” . Download and activate one of these two plugins. I personally prefer Platinum SEO because it has a few more helpful tools at your disposal in the settings. Take the time to learn how these plug-ins work.
• Decide on a title for your first blog post. Use keywords in your titles and don’t take the title process lightly. A good title can make the difference on small amounts of visitors and huge amounts of visitors.
• Keep the body text between 250 and 650 words.
• Write great content related to your website and useful to your audience.
• Be careful to not write too many sales ads.
• Sprinkle keywords carefully into your article like an hourglass. Maybe one in your title. A few in the opening statement. A few less in the body. A Few more in your closing or summary. Don’t over do it.
• Keep your readers first in your mind. SEO tactics should be second.
• Use Post tags on each article.
• Create links to your website.
• Keep up with all the great plugins to make your life easier
• Learn about and add an Rss Feed.
• Have an opt in email form to build a customer database.
• Add Google Adsense to your blog to gain more money from Google for allowing them to advertise on your site.
• Add affiliate links and advertisement to your blog but make them helpful and useful to your readers and visitors. Think again in terms of niche products.
• Always publish your post only after testing and making sure everything is in place and working order and to your satisfaction. Never hurry!
• Add your blog to social marketing and bookmarking sites…ie…Facebook, Twitter, Digg, Blogger.com, Blogged.com, Technorati..Delicious, Stumble Upon,..etc…etc. Use social book marking  and marketing to your advantage website and blogs advantage. There are millions of interested readers out there.
• Like your website the success of your blog requires creating quality one way back links to it as well. Add more back links. Make sure the links are websites which are related to your site’s content with higher Google Page Ranking if possible. This will secure even more traffic and visitors.
• Get a rhythm down. Don’t write too little and don’t write too much. Once a week or so should be sufficient.
• Be aware of Google Page Ranking but don’t get too tied up in it too soon. Good Page ranking also comes with good content unless your niche is very competive in which case it will take longer to rank high and will require more quality back links than other niches.
• Be sincere!
• Be friendly!
• Partner and Network with as many people and businesses you can. Hopefully related to your website and blog content.
• Enjoy yourself! Have a blast. Interact with your visitors!

And the list goes on and on! If I missed a few due to time restraints feel free to add your ideas in the comments. Feel free to link to this page or bookmark it and use it as a reference while you’re working. Remember you will never stop learning. The day you do is the day it’s over with! Perform all the steps listed here and you will be well on your way to a rock solid income to be proud of. You will be blogging for your own success.

Best Wishes!