Work At Home - Attracting Search Engine Traffic

The search engines are becoming increasingly important for those of us who work at home. If you ever use the internet to look for information, probably the first place you would go is Google or Yahoo search. The same goes for billions of internet users. Hence, for webmasters, search engines is their number one traffic source.

 

Internet marketers also keep working everyday to get traffic from search engines since it is extremely important to keep this business alive. This is true as long as they are selling something online, regardless ads space, websites, physical products or digital products. Some people argue that they can also get even more traffic with Facebook and Twitter due to the popularity of both social media lately. While it could be true, the result and money that you can make with Facebook traffic is not the same as Google traffic.

 

The reason for this is obvious. Unlike these social media sites, traffic from Google or Youtube is more targeted. People who browse the search engines and enter one particular keyword is more ready to buy. While the folks at Facebook usually don't browse profiles in order to look for products or services.

 

Therefore, it is important that you master search engine marketing. The following are some facts about search engines:

 

1. In order to get high ranking, you must first create quality content.

 

Content is the king. Therefore, before you start the link building process, you must focus on creating quality content in your website first. Remember, search engines want to rank your website based on whatever content that you presented in the website and not necessarily how many links that you build.

 

2. Search engines love fresh content. So, update your website regularly.

 

You shouldn't be lazy and leave your website just like that. Keep adding new articles, videos or blog post at least once per week. The more content you add, the more frequent search engines will send spider to your website.

 

3. You should avoid duplicate content.

 

Google, Yahoo and other search engines want to deliver the best results to their users. Hence, they don't want the same exact article to appear many times on top ten of their search results. Which is why, you should avoid copying the same articles from other websites, especially your competitors if you want to appear on top ten of Google search. If you do, your website will be filtered out.

 

4. Link building is becoming more important.

 

For some keywords, the competition is quite high that search engines cannot determine relevancy just by looking the website content. Therefore, they need to use another rule, that is backlinks.

 

You can create backlinks in several ways for your work at home website. One of the most popular technique would probably by using Web 2.0 sites like Blogger, Squidoo, Hubpages, Tumblr and Wordpress. These sites are crawled by Google frequently and by getting links from these sites, you will see significant change in your ranking.

 

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