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- Does Social Media Strategy Trump SEO? - December 7, 2012
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- What Is Linking To Your Website? - July 20, 2012
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SEO for Internet Traffic
We all know how aggravating and tedious it can be to get ranked up for Google or some other search engine. All of the hassle that it takes to actually get your blog or site to the first page really takes a lot of time. This in itself is time consuming enough, but I think the most aggravating thing about this topic is getting traffic to your site!
If you really look at the time that it took you to get on the first page of Google for that one high ranking keyword, then you know what I am talking about. But are you secure just being “middle of the road” on the first page of Google?
The Facts of Internet Traffic
SEO does not necessarily mean traffic. Having your site on the first page of Google doesn’t mean that you are about to be flooded with traffic either. Usually top positions are awarded with the most traffic.
- Position #1: 45.46% of all clicks
- Position #2: 15.69% of all clicks
- Position #3: 10.09% of all clicks
- Position #4: 5.49% of all clicks
- Position #5: 5.00% of all clicks
- Position #6: 3.94% of all clicks
- Position #7: 2.51% of all clicks
- Position #8: 2.94% of all clicks
- Position #9: 1.97% of all clicks
- Position #10: 2.71% of all clicks
Total: 95.91% of all clicks occur on Page #1 of SERPs
Notice the click difference between position #1 and position #2. Depending on what keyword you were ranking for, this would posiibly take a tedious effort on your part to overtake that number one position. People like Darren Rowse, who have been doing this a whole lot longer than the rest of us, and probably dominate the search engines for different keywords. In fact, I know from experience that if you search anything with the word “blog” in it, Darren dominates the searches.
What To Do For Traffic?
I know, I know, this is upsetting and probably a little frustrating to see something like this. The realization that some other person has the nerve to compete with you on any certain keyword is literally preposterous by any means! However, that’s just the way it goes.
Ok, so what do I do now? Some searches are worthless going after since there are many other people in this game way ahead of you and I. There is one other process to consider. Keep doing your SEO. On page and off page SEO is key to getting ranked higher on the search engines. Make sure your keywords are “Low” to “Medium” in competition. There are a lot out there that have masses amounts of traffic to rank for. In other words, there is still a chance for a beginning blogger and website owner.
Social Media For Traffic
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With the rise of social media on the horizon, many people benefit from this particular platform in getting website visitors and much needed traffic. In fact, most people that use and make money from Twitter don’t even own a website. Social media is a powerful tool to implement in your SEO strategy.
Here are some Social Media Stats-Quoted from Sharaholic’s Social Media Stats
» Pinterest grew from 2.5% of referral traffic in December to 3.6% of the referrals in January. That’s impressive growth from just owning .17% of the traffic back in July.
» Referral traffic from Google+ dropped slightly in January, although Google’s product set (Google news, Google images, Gmail) continues to be a top referral source. Google continues to integrate Google+ into its offering more and more, so it will be an interesting trend to watch.
» Eyeing its IPO this week, Facebook continues to dominate referral traffic, with mobile traffic alone accounting for 4.3% of overall referrals. Referral traffic grew by about 1% in January, making it the second fastest-growing site for referral traffic after Pinterest.
» Although Pinterest did beat out YouTube in referral traffic, YouTube’s referrals grew by .07% in January. It’s got to be the Sh*t Girls Say meme. Definitely.
» It’s important to note StumbleUpon’s position as the number two referral source. It seems like most people don’t talk or think about it nearly as much as top-of-mind Pinterest and Google+, but it continues its stronghold owning 5.07% of referrals in January. Similar bookmarking site Reddit also ranked as a top source of referral traffic, with both Stumbleupon and Reddit significantly beating out Delicious and Digg.
» Lastly, it’s always interesting to check in with the once-powerful MySpace. It continues to linger as a small source of referral traffic with no sign of growth this month.-End Quote
What to do?? I guess with the knowledge of knowing that only position #1 is going to yield the best results, I would suggest to take a medium competition level keyword that has a lot of traffic searching it, and plugging away at it! My own strategy is to get 3 keywords and build links for all 3 of them. I compete for a Low, Medium, & High competition level keywords. This usually takes a little longer to rank for, but it works after a while!
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Even SEO does not necessarily mean traffic but SEO is the main important key to get ranked in Google, SEO is only a method to be crawled by search engine and without getting crawled by search engine our website is nothing and people would never know that our website is exist.
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Thats right
Wade Harman recently posted..Twitter Secrets Revealed
Getting website traffic for a new blog/website is always difficult. With the right SEO, quality link building and quality/unique content will automatically make the website to rank better with time. Google Webmaster Tool is a great way to check not just click %, but also impressions. This would give a rough idea about keywords doing good.
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Yes this is an important part of site strategy
Wade Harman recently posted..Twitter Secrets Revealed
I did not realize there is so much social media out there. I been working on getting my Accounting Firms name out there on the internet. You gave me some thoughts to think about.
Twitter: makemyblogmoney
Yes it is good to integrate social media
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Yes.. I am reading that with new penguin update from google – that social shares are more important than ever.. perhaps even more important than keywords – I have had great success with my business of selling followers – just from twitter!
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Social media is starting to play a huge role in getting visitors
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Someone mentioned Google Webmaster Tools in the comments. Google Analytics is an extremely powerful (free) tool to check your social signals (among other things), and how well you’re doing from social mediums in terms of traffic. Cheers for this excellent post!
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SEO has always been confusing to me, and no matter how much I read, I’m still confused :}
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Don’t try to figure it out. Just write great content, share on social media, post and comment on other peoples stuff and it will happen
Wade Harman recently posted..3 Reasons Why Blog Commenting Can Help Your Blog
How ever Google is changing algorithms again and again. Quality content and social presence is doing great.
Twitter: makemyblogmoney
No one can really figure out this algorithm. The only constant that we have to depend on in the social media platforms out there for traffic.
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Yes, really difficult to figure out the algorithm. Except Social Media what is the another way to get traffic?
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Hi wade,
Thanks for some cool insights. My blog is new and am focusing more on social networking to build traffic. Nevertheless am also doing seo so it can rank naturally with time.
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Norbert, you have a great blog with great potential! keep at it!
Wade Harman recently posted..SEOPresser: A Must Have For WordPress Users
This is what you need for your website:
1. On page optimization
2. A blog
3. Social media accounts
4. A call to action
Write a blog post with internal links to your website and promote it on the social media accounts that your target market visit.
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Absolutely right: the best thing for us to do in terms of SEO is to go after those longer keywords (sometimes called long-tail) and the ones with lower competitipn.
As you mentioned, it’s hard to rank on the first page of Google (let alone the top 3 results) for common keywords, especially when trying to compete with hundreds of thousands of other blogs, and with those who have been in the game for years (like Darren Rowse).
Take some time doing keyword research, look into what your competitors are doing (those who rank well for the keywords you want), and consider hiring an SEO specialist or consultant.
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Seeing the distribution is really impressive as it seems like there is very little difference between the traffic spots 3, 4, and 5 recieve. I previously used focus on low to medium strength keywords, however it appears that getting to the 5th position for a keyword would be just as useful.
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Google says they do not us KW anymore so I guess they are saving me time, but I wonder if this is true. If readers do not use KW’s to find you then how do they find your blog.
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I had forgotten about StumbleUpon and MySpace. Thanks for the reminder Wade.
Cheers,
Jackie
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Position #1 will bring you boost in traffic. But make sure to create valuable content, otherwise they’ll bounce.
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Social media optimization can be helpful to get good ranking and traffic from search engines. Good backlinks and blog comments also provide support to get more traffic.
Even though there are too many sources of traffic to a site, there are only few ways to drive quality traffic. And search engine and Social media are the best ways to drive quality traffic to the site.
Thanks for sharing.
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Nice Post. Thanks for sharing.
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I guess you can add me to the list of those confused about SEO. I guess I’ll just keep at it because I do see gains in traffic.
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I consider SEO, Content are important things to get traffic.
Social media is good for sharing and can also bring ot of traffic.
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I thing directory submissions and link building is one of the great way to gain traffic.
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You pretty much need to be top 3 to get the clicks you want, and if you are not getting them, then you have prob picked the wrong keywords to optimize for.
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Hi Wade,
Am glad that someone out there shares my sentiments that SEO is a lot of hard work, but which is possible to achieve after all. thanks for sharing your ideas with us.