How to generate traffic and get your site listed in the search engines?

Now,  you have your blog set up and your affiliate links in position

everything is ready and where is the traffic ?!?

You have total of 1 unigue visitors  and  this is you.

To get your site listed in search engines for organic search results, it usually takes around 3 months for site to be INDEXED (first visitors can come before that).

Why does it takes so long !

10 years ago when google was starting and yahoo was main engine, search engines were receiving a couple 100 000 of page INDEX requests.

And today they receive a couple 100 000 000  of  Indexation requests  per day.

MOST OF THESE REQUESTS ARE SPAM, so the search engines need to filter out those results.

THIS IS LONG TERM  STRATEGY AND IT WILL TAKE SOME TIME TILL YOU RECEIVE FIRST VISITORS

FROM SEARCH ENGINES, SO YOU SHOULD IMPLEMENT SOME OTHER INTERNET MARKETING STRATEGIES THAT WILL BRING VISITORS RIGHT AWAY like E-zines, listbuilders or PPC.

I will not explain PPC and how to do it right in this article

Let´s continue with search engines

In order to get your site listed with good rankings and placement in the search engines you need to watch out  for:

Quality INBOUND links

and also  be careful with OUTBOUND LINKS (links you set to other pages) BAD OUTBOUND LINKS CAN KILL YOUR RANKINGS

SEARCH ENGINES LIKE  QUALITY AND ORIGINAL CONTENT and links from other high ranked sites that serve content in category similar to yours.

EACH LINK FROM OTHER SITE TO YOUR SITE  IS LIKE A VOTE FOR YOUR SITE.

Avoid doing link exchanges with sites that are not unique and “LINK FARMS”

SEARCH ENGINES DON´T LIKE LINK FARMS.

SEO is a long term  strategy and you have to do it right or your site could end up in google second INDEX (SANDOBOX)

or even got banned from search result forever.

FOCUS YOURSELF ON :

1. CREATING QUALITY AND UNIQUE CONTENT AT YOUR SITE

2. DOING LINK EXCHANGES WITH OTHER WEB PAGES THAT HAVE CATEGORY RELEVANT CONTENT TO YOU SITE AND IF IT IS POSSIBLE HAVE HIGHER PAGE RANK THEN YOUR PAGE.

3. Social Bookmarking  (exchange link at social bookmarking sites with other website owners)

By doing that you will get “RESPECT” in the eyes of search engines and start to receive free visitors.