The number one way to get search engine traffic to your web site.
Want to know a search engine optimization technique guaranteed to get “loads of traffic” to your web site? How to get “laser-targeted” visitors? I’m “going to spill the beans”.
It’s not the SEO secret Google doesn’t want you to know about. In fact, Google’s Matt Cutts has even publicly discussed this fantastic, white-hat technique to get better search rankings. You just missed it.
I’m about to disclose this secret, and I’m not going to charge you $97 $47 for an eBook (but my advice also doesn’t come with a money-back guarantee and I’m not going to show you a screenshot of my Clickbank account).
Ready. Here it is:
Create compelling content.
That’s right, folks. You didn’t hear it here first. Google has been telling you this for years, but if fell on deaf ears.
Here’s how this incredible system works. You create a web site, make it usable and valuable to web visitors, and build it up over time. You don’t farm out article writing to someone in India. You don’t copy articles from article directories. You don’t splog. You don’t stuff your meta tags. You actually create your web site with your visitor in mind.
Then a funny thing happens. People start linking to you naturally. It’s not like you can ask Microsoft, TechMeme, and TechCrunch to link to you. But if you create compelling content, they will.
There’s really only one drawback to this not-so-secret SEO trick: it takes time. You actually have to care about what you’re doing. But unlike other “tricks”, you won’t find that Google one day decides to drop you from its index.
What are you, some kind of party pooper? You actually think people use the net to find out things? Where do you come from?
People use the net to find out why nothing they have done so far has made money. It’s all about finding the secret.
Giving away secrets for nothing is bad form.
/sarcasm
That’s exactly what I’ve been telling my clients.
Compelling content is an investment of time, resources and money but it is always worth the effort.
Compelling content with the proper keywords and the proper domain name. Content alone will do very little, no matter what Cutts says.
@ FDN – well, you need to at least set up the basics on your page. But that’s done for your visitors, not just for search engines.
yup 🙂
i try to make a video famous and failed 😀
but i linked one funny video to share others and it got so much hits due to digg
In your next post you will reveal secret of making sandwich or you will tell us that water is wet and sun is hot?
Great job Mr. Watson
Hi,
I agree valuable content plays a pivotal role in building up a good rank on search engine listings.
Having said that, imho “don’t farm out article writing to someone in India” is uncalled for.
I understand, it may add a humor element to your writeup however its just a lil corny and cheesy. My 2 cents thats all
Later,
Silver Cookie
“But unlike other “tricks”, you won’t find that Google one day decides to drop you from its index.”
And to add to that, from my experience; for sites with good content that monetize with AdSense, unlike other “tricks” I find that Google does not one day simply decide to drop me from my own account.
there are lots of things you can do, but a great keyword domain on a relevant tld or cctld and GREAT original content, is the ‘secret’
Who needs Google? Building an empire based on Google “treating you fairly”, whether your content is the real deal or a mish-mash of brainless babble, is a recipe for failure.
One day they could just decide to deindex you or pay you next to nothing for your traffic.
It’s time to move away from Google, Yahoo, and Bing.
This is baffling!
If people, in general, like to search for and read Web site content, it must mean that domainers (including bloggers) and monetizing agencies are a minority who don’t like to search and/or read. But then, some domainers are reading this blog!
In particular, I am referring to online essays on the value of mechanisms to manage globally distributive domain name content, which are ignored by the community!
When you’re thinking “get rich quick” and listening to all the “gurus” you don’t have time to write compelling content.
Google says about The Number One SEO Secret
http://www.google.com.eg/search?hl=ar&source=hp&fkt=&fsdt=2329&q=The+Number+One+SEO+Secret+&btnG=%D8%A8%D8%AD%D8%AB+Google%E2%80%8F&meta=&rlz=1W1GGLL_en&aq=null&oq=
I agree that writing original content is very important for moving your domain up the seo ladder.
If you spent 15 minutes a week on each of your top 100 domains writing about 150 words and adding a new page, that’s only 1500 minutes a week. (25 hours). Sounds like a lot of time, but that’s only about three and a half hours a night. What if you did this for only 8 weeks, you’d have 8 new pages totaling 1200 original new words for your websites… all 100 of them. Populate your sites with relevant CPA or adsense links, some storefront pages, and you may get some people bookmarking your sites and return customers, not counting those who arrive because the SE’s liked the relevant new content.
Now if I could only follow my own advice, which I know to be true because I’ve seen clients do it.
So, create a list of your 100 best domains, park them somewhere that allows you to add content and free pages (I think Whypark allows this, and Trafficz). Just sit down and write some stuff about your domain topic. Just do it. Stop whining, just write some original content everyday.
Check back with me next year at this time… let me know how well your domains evolved into moneymakers for you.
I really like the part where you say ” Farm out the article writing to some article writer in India “
There really is no secret on how to drive targeted traffic to a website in order to build business. It just requires a great deal of online marketing efforts working simultaneously. There is no difference in how much energy needs to be put into building a business online as opposed to offline. You have to be very visible utilizing every component possible. The days of loop holes are over.
Problem is that people are lazy and will always try to find an easier way to get up the rankings. Let them keep trying and failing!!
Definitely agreed. Unique content is King, but a website must also be frequently updated. So, fresh, unique content is King.