Hi gang.
Today we’re back to the numbered Free Traffic format, with methods popping up throughout the week. As I usually do, I’ve decided to expand on what I wrote about, leading up to a big finish that has been in the works for month – another resource I intended to have finished immediately, but then found out so much that I turned it into a bigger resource.
Thank goodness for feeds.
Today’s Free Traffic Topic is Google. I’m still a Google gal, but I didn’t kirk out when they went down. (For the definition of “kirk out”, please see any Star Trek episode where Captain Kirk thought he was going to die.)
It happens. It’s just like how, occasionally, cell phones for an entire network won’t work for a few minutes, or when the electricity goes out from a thunderstorm or tornado… these things happen. I still love my search engines, and wow, I had to do without them for less than a day. Shoot me now, right?
Ha.
My site didn’t even dip in traffic because I had just cranked up the level of other traffic-increasing techniques. Which brings me to my next point – should you study Google at some extent? Yes. Should you obsess about it, or have search engines as your only source of traffic? Of course not.
So here’s Tip #1 for you
Build a great site, and I do mean a great one- as far as your content. Make efforts to make your pages acceptable to search engines, but remember who the search engines are getting for you– visitors!
Never make a page you’d be ashamed for a real person to see. Content. Focus on your content – it may not be as fast a resolution as anything else you could do, but it’s a lot more permanent.
I’m not specifically a search engine optimization consultant and I never will be. Forgive the use of the over-used term, but I believe in a more holistic approach to solving your traffic problem
Nothing wrong with the industry, though there are unscrupulous people out there, as there are everywhere. Study before you buy. I personally suggest that before any person purchases ebooks or consulting from me, they contact people who my methods have worked for – invariably you’ll find that everyone who followed the steps got some measure of success, some faster, some slower. I let that speak for me, and you should be wary of people who can’t give you referrals, if not of their new product, then for their site, their newsletter, some pubically accessible third party who has used and had success with their methods.
All of that said, I believe you can get good results with search engines. I just believe that the every day person sets their sights too high at first. Just like in the offline world, you need to work your way to the top.
I know quite a few things about Google and Google tools that can help you get listed better and/or faster. So I’m officially making Tuesdays search engine day. You’ll hear a lot about the other search engines, but my primary focus is often Google, because I’m very sadly infautated with it, though I refuse to give up Yahoo now that we’ve been reaquainted.
Enough of my rambling though. Let’s get started. I’ll be back in a few with news.
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