Link building campaign

If you want to increase traffic to your website here are some helpful hints:

1.Set objectives for the link building strategy
The link building strategy is the way to increase links to your website. It is important to write out exactly what you want to achieve. For example, you may want to increase visitors by x% by the end of the next 3 months. These objectives should tie in with the business objectives.

2. Site analysis – find out who links to your site now. You can do this by visiting linkpopularity.com. enter your url it shows the links to your site on google, msn and yahoo. Oh and it is free, so even better.

3. Research competitors – find out who is linking to your competitors. It is always a good idea to research thoroughly the competitors, look at their website, their page rank, their inbound and outbound links.

4. Links from other sites
Once you have completed points 2 and 3 you should have an idea of which sites you want link to your website. Email these people explaining the benefits their visitors will gain from link , the page address you want to link from and your contact details.

Link building is not a one off process. You will have to contact each individual site that you want linking to your site. And you will need to monitor the progress of the campaign. One easy way to do this is by installing google analytics which track the number of unique visitors to the site. Analytics will also show you the % of referring sites, so make sure that your target sites are among these. You may even find that there are new sites linking to you who you haven’t even asked. A bonus!!

What are the most important elements in SEO?

You want to increase traffic to your site but are not sure where to start.

Here are a few tips:

Content
As I mentioned before, content is king. But it is even more important that you have relevant content on your website. Do not have duplicate content. It needs to be updated regularly, so it is a good idea to have a content management system in place. You need to be able to go back to site and amend the anchor text, insert new links, make sure the current links are still active. Put the keywords in the title tag and also the domain name. For example I want to increase traffic to this site and therefore one of the steps I have made is to have the domain name seojoblogs.

Links
Use trusted sites to link too. If you link to a spam site or a link farm, you will not begin to rank higher. You will need to start is by using less competitive words and writing content with those words in mind. For example you may want to put a h1, h2 tag using the exact match of key phrase. Build links to the page and see if you hit that page with the keywords.

Inbound links are also important. People think it is important just to have inbound links to the home page, but you need links to the tier two and tier three pages. At least 50% of links should go to the other pages on your site.

Never give up
SEO is an ongoing job. If you want to achieve high ranks, you will need to see what your competitors are doing, research keywords. You also need to make sure there are calls to action on each page. For example, allow users to sign up for RSS feeds, incentivise them to make a purchase. You want these customers to come back.

The benefit about SEO is that you are able see measurable increases in web traffic. The more you optimise the better chance you have of gaining market share in your area. You may need to add new links to your site, add new pages or even new sub headings within the page. What you mustn’t do is leave your site. A static website is sure to fall down the rankings in all search engines.