Let's Look At Organic Traffic

Organic traffic or free traffic is very simple to explain, but a bit  harder to implement. Organic traffic comes from the search engines, other sites that link back to your site and from direct access via other online and offline methods. While organic traffic is usually thought of as search engine traffic, as you can see, it can come from other sources as well.

In the interest of simplicity, this post will center around how to get a steady flow of visitors from the search engines. There is tons of material out there about how to get the search engines to recognize and love your site. However, while there's plenty of opinions, what I've found to work for me consistently is onpage SEO.




What Is On Page SEO?

Very simply, if you are running a site about search engine traffic, for instace, then you want to let popele know that is what you're about. The search engines (Google, Yahoo, Bing and others) are actually a gigantic database of sites categorized by words and phrases from the various sites. You can use something called meta tags (which is a serious of words and phrases that search engines use) that are specific to what you're website or blog is about.

For instance, if your blog is about goldfish, then the first meta tag would logically be "goldfish" and not "golf clubs". Another would be fish, "goldfish supplies, goldfish tank, goldfish food, etc. The search engine would then list your site under these words and when somebody search for goldfish supplies, your site would be in the group of results that the search engine returned.

In addition to meta tags, your articles and posts should also reflect your niche. If your site is about goldfish, you should have quality content about the subject of fish/goldfish as well. For every 100 words or so, you should have your keyword or keyword phrase, and it should also appear in the title of your post, and in the beginning and end of the post. This tells the search engines that your site really is about goldfish and will list you higher in the results pages.

If it was that easy, everyone would have tons of traffic, but those are the basic of getting free traffic aka search engine or organic traffic to your site. There are other factors that need to be considered when it comes to getting listed, which I will go into in future posts.

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