3 Secrets To Getting Real Traffic To Your Site…Revealed!!!

Are you still glowing?  Good, because the title might have a slimy, salesman’s type of feel to it….but this post will actually help you.  To get my 3 secrets to getting real traffic to your site, all you need to do is send me 3 easy payments of 49.99.

Relax, I’m kidding….

I can’t tell you how many times I come across a blog post or forum post like the one above.  9 times out of 10 they’re a waste of time bullshit!  What sucks even more is the fact that the majority of the readers are new to blogging, e-commerce, and the internet as a whole.

“But wait a minute Jack, your blog is monetized like the others!”

Good observation.

Look, I do have affiliate links on this blog, and I do have Adsense…..It’s pretty transparent.  But almost all of my posts have great tips that does not ask for anything in return.

And the programs and tools that I market on this blog are the programs that I use everyday for online marketing.  You have a choice and some people appreciates honest posts that helps them out.

Anyways….back to my sales pitch…I mean blog post.

3 Secrets To Getting Real Traffic To Your Site Revealed

So what are the 3 secrets to getting real traffic?  Is it really a secret?

First off, the 3 tips I’m going to give you might be new to you, it might be commonsense, or it might have been a practice often forgotten.  Whatever it is, it’s still good to sharpen our skills.

What is real traffic anyways?

Real traffic to me is when someone is actually interested in reading the content on your site, instead of having your site getting votes because you’ve got a good network from a social media site!

I’ve talked about this before, having your post get voted on the front page of whatever social media site is great.  BUT you need to know what’s the main goal for your site.  Entertainment and video blogs thrive off social media, but it’s different if you’re trying to make sales either from affiliate marketing, display ads, or selling physical products.  If you still don’t understand what I mean, just browse through my previous blog posts.

Now that we got that out of the way….Here are the 3 things you need to FOCUS on when trying to get REAL traffic to your site:

1. Keywords: Not a big surprise right….So why the hell do you expect to rank for something when your blog post’s title is label “This is bomb! Nom nom nom!” when your blog is about BBQ?! I see it all the time.  Look, if you already tons of traffic to your site….you can call your posts whatever the heck you want.  But for most people, don’t do it!  A better title would have been “5 Amazing Backyard BBQ Recipes.”  You getting this?  Good!

Make sure you have your keyword in the title of your post and within the body on your content.  Bold your keyword at least once in your post, and have them appear early in the body of your content.

Have an anchor text with your keyword pointed back to the same post (preferably within the first couple of sentences) in case a scraper sites pulls your work.

Before you go out and write a blog post for every keyword in your niche.  Do your homework first!

a. Keyword Analysis: Use a free tool like Google Adwords Keyword Tool or a more robust tool like Keyword Elite.  I use both tools for my research. 
It’s a deadly combo to have!  Here’s the rule of thumb: The more searches a keyword has, the harder it will be for you to rank in the SERPs.  So what
advise you to do is pick a few long-tail keywords (those keyword phrases with 3+ words in them) because the competition is lower.

“but there’s barely any searches on these long-tail keywords you idiot!”

Yes…..I’m aware of that.  Thanks

What you do is make a list of long-tail keywords to optimize your content for.  Adding the total searches for these long-tail keywords will give you a
a good amount of traffic to start with AND it would be faster to get these ranked high as well.

2. Backlinks: The backbone of seo.  Why?  If you have two identical sites optimized exactly the same on their on-page seo, the only thing that will differentiate one from the other in terms of how well they’re ranked is by the number of quality backlinks they have.  The number of backlinks you need to get depends on how much competition you have for your keywords.  If you’re working your backlink strategy to your long-tails, then you probably won’t need as much.  So where can you get backlinks?

a. Bookmarking Sites: Submit your sites a few bookmarking sites for every post that you write-up.  You can use a service like OnlyWire to speed things up.

b. Article Directories: Write articles for each long-tail and submit them to article directory sites like EzineArticles, GoArticles, etc. If you want to
use a paid service to do all the submission work for you, give iSnare a try.

c. Comments/Signatures: Leave comments with a link back to your post on blogs related to your topic and have a link in your signature when you
join forums.

3. Dedication: Yes….this will bring in traffic.  You need to be dedicated in one method of traffic building in order to see results.  If you want to hit the article marketing angle, fine.  But hit it hard!

Feeling social media?  Fine, but make sure you participate on those sites until your eyes bleed and fingers fall off!  Whatever you feel like doing, do it well!

This is not easy work people, but the reward will come for those willing to put in work. Cheers!

image by: Elizabeth Welsh

Related posts:

1. Your Traffic Stats Don’t Matter, Unless…….
2. Keywords Will Get You There, Backlinks Will Keep You There. Read On…
3. Monetize Your Site – Not The Same Old Mumble Jumble
4. How To Get 300+ DoFollow BackLinks Each Month In 10 Minutes A Day
5. Writing For Traffic or Visitors? – Have You Been Doing It All Wrong?

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