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Top Five SEO Tips to Increase Website Traffic

Use Extensive Keyword Research

This is the most important thing in gaining search engine traffic. It is important not to rush out on projects and not take the time to get the keywords right.Taking the time to get the keyword and foucsing on this will be a more effective use of your time and you will see results quicker. There are many different factors for choosing the right keyword so taking the time to get a good list will be good for you.. There are tools out their that can help you in choosing the right keywords and you should be using them.

Some great tools that I cannot live without are the Google Keyword Tool, Google Suggestions, Google Insight and Google Trends. You will get the number of searches for that keyword. You should choose exact match. Here is what you should do then;

Download them in an excel sheet. Find out your kind of keywords (that match your website content and products).Sort them by daily searches.

Original Content

SEO based content writing is a key element on a page. Having the right mix of original free flowing content with efficient SEO content is the key here. You need the on page SEO to be efficient so it can be best determined by the search bots. It is good to have variations of the keyword aswell. The good page will have around 5% of the keyword or a couple of times. Having the keyword at the beginning and end helps.

a) Use two to three keywords in the whole content.
b) Start the content with the most important keyword and end it with the same keyword.

SEOPressor is a great tool to help you do your on page SEO.

Web Page Optimization

This is mostly overlooked by people who have little html knowledge. Search engines read only the HTML parts of the page and having html tags will allow the search bot to find the relevant parts of the website and highlighted keywords. Having the keywords in the Title and Description will help in SEO. Do not forget to put H1 to H6 using the keywords. Alt Tags must be placed on the images wherever possible.

Article Marketing

An old and tried method is to write articles and press releases. Submissions to the major article direcotires and press release wbesites will be of huge help to get traffic and establish search engine rankings. Do not forget to leave anchor texts so that readers can come to your website as well.

This method is easy and very effective. This helps the website get crawled by search engines and reinforces the natural ranking of the website. Leaving links to the inner pages is also good practice.

Social Bookmarking Sites

It is very important to be a highly actively involved into social bookmarking activities. Join all the major Social Bookmarking websites like digg delicious etc. Bookmark your own articles and press releases over there, make friends and share your bookmarks.

These websites get the search engine bots to their website regularly and will help your new pages or post to be indexed very quickly.

Try these methods an see for yourself the increase in rankings and traffic.

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