I’ve talked to my sis once and I knew that some of them only want to share their blog to few of the close friends and they are not intend to “market” their site. In this case, I recommend you don’t read the following suggestions for building a high traffic website. In fact, I believe when the time they saw my title of “build a high traffic website”, they don’t even click on this post. :)

Recently, I have some friends ask me about how to attract more traffic to the website. Remember, build a site for your business is only the very first step. After you have a website for your online business, the process won’t just stop there but now is just the beginning. I still remember why I want to learn about internet marketing. When the time I joined some programs, I thought everything was just so simple like stated in their site that I don’t need any experiences or knowledge. But after I’ve explored more, I found that many things I needed to learn about and one of the thing I needed to know is how to build a high traffic website or blog.

Here are my 3 simple basic suggestions to attract more traffic to our sites.

1. Create valuable content
Strong content is universally valued. It’s always hard work to create it, but in the long run it generates lots of long term referral traffic. It’s not easy for me to understand the sentence of “create valuable content” when I was just get started. It seems so easy yet so difficult. I don’t know what content should I write about for this blog. I have then decided to share my learning experiences on internet marketing and hope others may gain some ideas from my blog.

Every time I write my content, I would assume that I’m writing for my friends who are interested to know what have I learned in internet marketing. Assuming they are reading my blog and they will get something from the reading. It’s very important when I have this in my mind. It’s kind of motivation and also my way to have better content articles.

I believe when you focus on providing real value content, your readers will notice.

2. Create timeless content
It is always better for us to write about something still providing real value and may still be read by people after many years. Unless your site is doing about news or current events, otherwise you should try to write content that is intended to be timeless.

I always try to have content that may be readable in future and at least when people read about my post one year later they still feel that it’s useful.

3. Know why you want a high traffic site
Only knowing the way to attract traffic to your site is not enough and it’s only a bridge to your main purpose. What is your main purpose of having the high traffic? You must know very clearly what kind of traffic you want and what the traffic can bring you.

If you have a business website that offer some products or services at your site, you should know that once you get the high traffic, the traffic must be able to bring you sales. Otherwise the high traffic would means nothing. Therefore, if you succeed in building high traffic website, you must respect this position and serve the best.

Of course there are many other factors to take into consideration for website traffic. However, I think the above are the most important and basic rules that we should take care of. If we could consistently apply the above to our sites or blogs, I believe it helps in long run.

I would like to share with you the two videos about website traffic that I find them very useful.

For more about website traffic, you can read my posts at Website Traffic at Mompreneur Asia.

I’m actually quite surprise to see my website get rank at the first page and even the #1 for some keywords. Let’s share with you some keywords that rank my site in the first page of SERP.

Keyword-Important things of the media, Rank-#1

Keyword-How to do social bookmarking, Rank-#6

Keyword-”Content sharing site” seo, Rank-#1 & #2

Keyword-Google webmaster help center seo, Rank-#3

Keyword-Lsi site creator, Rank-#5

These are the results of 19.01.09 and my Page Rank=2, Alexa Ranking=684,881

If you ask me whether a website with Page Rank 0 can get rank in the first page of SERP, let me show you the following:

My Mompreneur website only launched last month and the PR=0 but still get rank in first page #1 and #2 of the Google Organic Search Results. Therefore, try to focus on your website’s SEO and LSI to attract more free traffic and don’t worry about your Page Rank.

You can read more about my posting of SEO and LSI here.

Google Friend Connect is very user friendly and it allows you to sign in with your Google, Yahoo, AIM or OpenID account. You can interact with other visitors by making friends, sharing media, posting comments, playing games, and more. Another great thing is you may invite friends from other social networks and contact lists to join your site or blog.

Here is the video by Google

If you have joined this social site,  I would like to connect with you too. Just leave me a message here and I will join yours.

Happy Connection!

Of course I’m not mean that we should totally ignore SEO and only focus on Social Media. Search Engine Optimization is more technical but it’s always good in keywords research, keywords targeting and attract free traffics for our website/blog. For long term advantages, we really need to look into it seriously and can’t ignore it’s importance.

Social Media on the other hand is very powerful and here’s some of my reasons:

1) Get indexed within 24 hours – Your brand new website/blog will get indexed by Google within 24 hours by using social media. See my posts:

• Power of Social Bookmarking – My Babymoon Travelling Information Guides
• Just A Casual Blogging

If you only focus on SEO and the new website may need to get up to 4 weeks or longer time to get indexed by Google.

2) Networking – I like networking and enjoy the online atmosphere. We can share ideas and goals with each others and people will also get to know you more personally. It gathers like minded people together in a community and we grow by learning from others ideas.

3) It’s kind of Viral Marketing – You can get very up to date information through social media. Twitter is a mini blogging that gives very updated information and once you put your information on to social media, it is shot to websites all over the world.

4) Broadcast – All you need to do is just to do a broadcast on all your social media sites and all your networks friends get the information you are trying to deliver. It’s a very easy way to drive traffic and without any spamming.

5) Branding – The last thing I love is social media helps in the branding. Branding is important in Internet Marketing and you don’t need to be the professional in your niche but you should be the authority in your niche. Social media is a great tool for branding.

1) Be Prepared.
2) Avoid Javascript.
3) Content is King.
4) Build Backlinks.
5) Don’t obsess over PageRank.
6) Focus on Titles.
7) Keep Content Fresh!
8 ) The Key to Good Links.
9) Phrasing it Correctly.
10) Don’t Design in a Vaccum.
11) Keep Adding Keywords.
12) Don’t Split Your Link Juice.
13) Ditch the Long Names.
14) Forget About Frames!
15) What Really Counts.
16) Get Indexed Quickly.
17) Start a Blog.
18) Quality Counts.
19) Don’t Abuse The System.
20) Guilt by Association.

10 Simple Steps To Achieve High Search Engine Rankings

-Know your geographic market and ensure your domain has the correct TLD.
-Include keyword in Domain name (using hyphens if necessary).
-Create as much content about your products or subject as you can.
-AFTER you have your site content start keyword researching
-Decide on 4 or 5 primary keywords to use as main sub-sections
-Sit down and sketch out your navigation system
-Re-write content using knowledge previously gained about keywords and phrases
-Structure each individual page
-Proof read your completed page and get a 2nd opinion
-Construct your site.

Remember

1. Be Patient, Things will take time
2 Don’t Overdo anything – it Can harm you
3 Automated Link Exchange Programs are Dead
4 Never spam as It don’t work
5 Don’t do BlackHat unless you know what you are Doing
6 Don’t buy too many softwares/ebooks
7 Never participate in any kind of traffic exchange programs
8 .edu Links from blogs are Useless
9 If something looks unreal, than most likely, it is

Social media is closely related to Web 2.0 and therefore we must take note of the following when implement the social media marketing.

1. We must be a real user - Here we are not referring to get a robot to work for us. What I mean is to show your real interests and vote for your favourite or what you found interesting. If you are getting your staff to involve at social bookmarking sites like StumbleUpon, Digg or Delicious, it’s important for them to focus on the topics or articles that they like so that they might not lose interest in social media.

2. Get involved in social media sites and understand them – We need to get involve ourselves in different top social media sites and to understand how the sites are working. It’s ideally to use it on a regular basis especially with the social bookmarking sites.

3. Focus on your niche – We might find some top sites like StumbleUpon or Digg drive many visitors to certain people. However, it’s always good for us to identify our niche and focus on sites that can drive correct traffic. Although focus on a niche might send fewer visitors, but those visitors will likely find the content more relevant and help to increase your conversion rate.

4. No control on them – We totally have no control on the results and also the results can’t be guaranteed. It’s just like we don’t have any control over the search engine rankings.

5. Digg is not the only social media site – Many people know the powerful of Digg and the Digg effect. However, Digg is not the only social media site and failure in Digg doesn’t mean that your website or campaign failure. We can always drive massive traffic from other social media sites.

6. Good contents not always mean good traffic – The main key is what is the social media users want at the particular site. Althought you have generate very good content but it doesn’t guarantee you the traffic and there might be very few users really picked it up.

7. No heavy pitching or selling – Many content sharing sites don’t allow advertising content and we should go light on selling or promotional messaging. Instead of writing about how great our products are, we should go for the benefits or features of the products.

8. Always offer value especially to your niche – Value means different things to different people. Same contents but always mean different value to users and we should always create content that offer value to our niche.

9. Participate personally in communities – It’s always essential for us to participate personally and engage with communities on social networks. Leaving comments on blogs and forums or joining groups on Facebook are good ways to build online presence and get people to notice about you.

10. Should also use other strategies – Don’t only rely on social media marketing. Other strategies like SEO, LSI or PPC Campaigns are also important to bring in the great results.

Search Engine Factors
A) Keyword Use Factors
B) Page Attributes
c) Site/Domain Attributes
D) Inbound Link Attributes
E) Negative Crawling/Ranking Attributes

A) Keyword Use Factors
- Keyword use in Title Tag
- Keyword use in Body Text
- Relationship of Body Text context to keywords (Topic Analysis)
- Keyword use in H1 Tag
- Keyword use in Domain Name
- Keyword use in Page URL
- Keyword use in H2, H3, H(x) Tags
- Keyword use in Alt Tags and Image Titles
- Keyword use in Bold/Strong Tags
- Keyword use in Meta Description Tag
- Keyword use in Meta Keywords Tag

B) Page Attributes
- Link popularity within the site’s internal link structure
- Quality / relevance of links to external sites / page
- Age of documents
- Amount of indexable text content
- Quality of the document content (as measured algorithmically)
- Organisation / hierarchy of document flow (i.e. broad > narrow)
- Frequency of updates to page
- Number of trailing slashes (/) in URL
- Accuracy of spelling and grammer
- HTML validation of document

C) Site/Domain Attributes
- Global link popularity of site
- Age of site
- Topical relevance of inbound links to site
- Link popularity of site in topical community
- Rate of new inbound links to site
- Relevance of site’s primary subject matter to query
- Historical performance of site as measured by time spent on page, clickthroughs from SERPs, direct visits, bookmarks, etc.
- Manual authority/weight given to site by Google
- TLD extension of site (edu, gov, us, ca, etc)
- Rate of new pages added to site
- Number of queries for site/domain over time
- Verification of site with Google webmaster centre

D) Inbound Link Attribute
- Anchor text of inbound link
- Global link popularity of linking site
- Topical relationship of linking page
- Link popularity of site in topical community
- Age of link
- Topical relationship of linking site
- Text surrounding the link
- Internal link popularity of linking page within host site/domain
- Temporal link attributes (when in time the links was created/updated)
- Domain extension of linking site (edu, gov, us, ca, etc)
- Page rank (as measured by the Google Toolbar) of linking page

E) Negative Crawling/Ranking Attributes
- Server is often inaccessible to bots
- Content very similar or duplicate of existing content in the index
- External links to low quality/spam sites
- Duplicate title/meta tags on may pages
- Overuse of targeted keywords (stuffing/spamming)
- Participate in link schemes or actively selling links
- Very slow server response times
- Inbound links from spam sites
- Low levels of visitors to the site (measured via toolbar, clicks in SERPs, etc)

Compare to social media marketing, I find SEO more technical and less interesting. However, it’s always good to learn new things and SEO is a crucial part of internet marketing.

Page Rank = SEO Tips + Persistence

SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is the foundation for almost every form of online advertising and we need to know:
• what a meta tag is and how to use them
• what keywords are
• how many keywords to use
• where keywords should be placed and why
• what title tags are
• what alt tags are
• what header tags are
• what a sitemap is and how to use the different kinds
• why links can help or hurt you
• why commenting is a good thing

Some SEO Tips
- Content
- Individual Title and Descriptions
- Site Architecture / Navigation
- Inbound links to your site from relevant and trusted sites
- Keyword Terminology
- Universal XML Sitemaps
- Rich Media
- Web 2.0
- Mobile Web
- Content Relevancy
- Constant Monitoring of Paid and Organic Analytical Information
- Become a More Trusted Site

More SEO Tips
- Site Design Consideration
- Don’t use frames
- Don’t use dynamic URL’s
- Don’t have an entirely FLASH homepage
- Don’t use image maps as the only method of navigation
- Don’t use javascript as hte only method of navigation
- Carefully choose your keywords
- Optimization of your Title Tag
- Optimization of your page content
- Optimization of your META tags
- Optimization of your images using “alt”
- Optimization of your Text Hyperlinks
- Optimization of Heading Tags
- Wait for 4-6 weeks before re-submit to Google
- Things to avoid ~ Optimization for Search Engines

Before I go further, let me do some introduction about my new website. This is my brand new “one page only” website which the title is “Babymoon Travelling Information Guides”. Many of you know that my I named my two year old daughter “Baby Moon” and I found that “babymoon” has a wonderful meaning.

Babymoon – a vacation taken by couple that is expecting a baby in order to allow the couple to enjoy a final trip together. The main objective for Babymoon Travelling is to let parents have a relaxing and enjoyabe time while awaiting for the newborn.

I am about to finish writing a book on Babymoon Travelling, but to provide good valuable information to those who wishes to travel a babymoon holidays, I have this new website seeking your help to Share your knowledge, ideas as well as experiences you think should be in my book.

I published my website on 17th November and the next day it has get indexed by Google and ranked in first page. Last night I have submitted videos to youtube and my website get rank #1 today (22 Nov 2008).

*click to enlarge (result – 22.11.08)

Keyword – Babymoon Travelling (#1 & #4)

Keyword – Babymoon Information (#14)

Keyword – Babymoon Guides (#14)

Keyword – Babymoon Singapore (#13)

Enjoy the video – The baby in the video is my Baby Moon =)

So, now you might want to know how my “one page only” website get indexed by Google within one day and what is the secret behind? I would tell you that there is no secret, what I have done is very simple – Social Bookmarking! I have only done Social Bookmarking and please do not doubt about my answer. I have submitted my website to many social bookmarking sites and this is the result.

What’s my result of get rank within #20 of organic keywords search? I think you should know the answer – TRAFFIC! I get more than 200 visitors in one day right after my babymoon travelling website was published.

I hope you like my sharing and please participate in my Babymoon Travelling Information Guides. I will send you a FREE COPY for your participation and valuable time to make this a complete and meaningful ebook.

The logo is my lovely Baby Moon =)

Join my facebook group – Babymoon Travelling Information Guides

1. Participation generic amoxil levels – Actively participate at social sites such as StumbleUpon or Digg is a good way to increase your visibility and develop your brand recognition. You can maintain high submission volume so that your profile to become more familiar to other users and broad visibility will give you lots of opportunities for networking, which helps you along the way. But please remember, only submit good stuffs and don’t spam.

2. Continuous presence – Not only you need to actively participate, you also need to continuosly presence at social media sites. It is not a good strategy to actively involve with certain site and then disappear for few weeks and then back again. You might find the other users have unfriend you. It is good if you can make it a habit to get yourself involve with the social media sites everyday.

3. Joint ventures – Normally at social sites, people often vote because of the submitter and not the story. Do you have the experience that when your friends ask you for favour and you will help? This is exactly the same at social media and you need to take the initiative doing someone a favour and ask nothing in return. It’ll come back to you because this is the unspoken rule of reciprocation. Always think further and think about how you and the other user can collaborate in mutually-beneficial ventures.

4. Conversation – Keep in mind that conversation is a big part of social media. Communicate with others and you’ll learn new things. Conversation also an integral part of building relationship and make new friends. It will help to enrich your social media experience and always make it easy for others to contact you.

5. Value leads to trust – You should provide value in order to build a successful brand through social media. By providing value, you earn trust and your attention and brand grows. It then leads to greater benefits in the future in terms of traffic, reputation or connections.

Hope the above helps in building your social media profile and your online reputation.