Fine-tuning SEO. Little work for good results.
When checking your stats pay attention to longtail referring keyphrases or those keyphrases that you think might have low competition. In most cases you will find yourself ranking well for such keyphrases. For example exposedseo ranking 8th for “how to make money rings”. Believe it or not this keyphrase brings me a bit of traffic every day. Because the competition for such keyphrase is so low it won’t be hard for me to optimize for it and jump to number one spot. You probably know that the traffic difference between the first and 8th spots can be very significant.
So what i usually end up doing is browsing through my stats and picking out these keyphrases. Usually all it takes then is one backlink from a quality, related site containing this keyphrase in the anchor text and you will see yourself jump to the first position. This is very easy to do and does not take long. Give it a week or so and you should see your traffic improve.
PS: “how to make money rings” might not have been the best example as people searching for this keyprase might not be too interested in seo and marketing. Go for keywords that you think will help you .
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March 26th, 2008 at 10:41 pm
This is advice everyone should follow. I do this all the time as well on my sites and I can confirm that it works. Like you said, considering the small amount of time this takes, the benefits are worth the little effort.
March 26th, 2008 at 11:13 pm
Nice to see someone talking about SEO and better yet you actually know your stuff. What a pleasant surprise. You probably are aware that the more of those low traffic long tails you rank for the more you will boost your main keywords up the serp’s as well. I started out targeting every long tail that had “make money” or “make money online” in the phrase like “make money with ants” and as I began ranking well for dozens of these nonsense phrases my serp rankings for “make money online” began to climb steadily as well. This little system helped get me to page 1 as well as providing lots of trickle traffic over the course of the journey. Great tips and all the best to you.
March 29th, 2008 at 1:00 am
The trouble that I have (and I am still a brand new site, so maybe that is why… not much info yet, and not that many searches to my site, maybe 8-10/day) but each of the long tails that I have, are pretty random, and maybe only 2 or 3 of them, have more than 1 search.
I think I am going to wait a month or so, and try this very thing.
Also, Grizzly, you’re amazing… thanks for the great idea, to be targeting all of the searches that have my main keywords in them.
March 29th, 2008 at 5:44 pm
Yep, you will need to wait until you are ranking for a number of longtail keywords.
March 31st, 2008 at 10:59 pm
I am impressed, keyphrases have brought me some good traffic. I have used phrases such as bidvertiser good or bad, and man I received about 110 hits in one day just from that phrase.