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The SubHub.com Guide to: Getting Free Traffic to Your Website What we will cover What is Search Engine Marketing? What we will cover What is Search Engine Marketing? Understanding How The Search Engines Find Your Website What we will cover What is Search Engine Marketing?
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What we will cover • What is Search Engine Marketing?
What we will cover • What is Search Engine Marketing? • Understanding How The Search Engines Find Your Website
What we will cover • What is Search Engine Marketing? • Understanding How The Search Engines Find Your Website • The 3 Simple Steps for Building Free Traffic
What we will cover • What is Search Engine Marketing? • Understanding How The Search Engines Find Your Website • The 3 Simple Steps for Building Free Traffic • Tracking Your Search Engine Marketing Success
What Is Search Engine Marketing? “Strategies, tactics and activities undertaken to drive more traffic from the search engines to your website”
Ways to Market Your Website 1 3 Online 4 2 Offline Free Paid
Focus on Free Online Marketing 1 3 Online 4 2 Offline Free Paid
Can Google Index Your Website? Type in Site:www.YourDomainName.com
Reasons Your Site Can’t be Indexed • Navigation created with Javascript, image maps or Flash
Reasons Your Site Can’t be Indexed • Navigation created with Javascript, image maps or Flash • Content in frames
Reasons Your Site Can’t be Indexed • Navigation created with Javascript, image maps or Flash • Content in frames • No Sitemap
Reasons Your Site Can’t be Indexed • Navigation created with Javascript, image maps or Flash • Content in frames • No Sitemap BUT…….Be Careful about making changes that break links (more about this later)
Which Search Engines Are Important? Google Yahoo MSN AOL Ask Others >3%
Repeat Keywords in: In the domain name The title The body text
Repeat Keywords in: In the domain name The title The body text BUT……. Google then has to decide what order they should list the pages they have found on the search results page
How Does Google Rank Pages? But We Do Know Some Important Facts ………
Inbound Links PageRank 6 PageRank 7 PageRank 7 PageRank 4
Inbound Links PageRank 6 Relevance of Linking Website
Inbound Links PageRank 6 Relevance of Linking Website Anchor Text Best Vegetarian Food 2007You voted for the best Vegan Restaurant in New York, and we’ve now counted the votes and the results are in..
Inbound Links PageRank 6 Relevance of Linking Website One way Anchor Text Reciprocal links v’s One Way Link Reciprocal
Deep Searching 100% ? Home Page
Deep Searching 20% Home Page Category Article Article Article 80%
STEP 1 – Build List of Keyword STEP 2 – Create Quality Content
STEP 1 – Build List of Keyword STEP 2 – Create Quality Content STEP 3 – Build Inbound Links
STEP 1- Build List of Keywords “What words will people type into the search engines to find your website” start a membership website
STEP 1- Build List of Keywords start a membership website
STEP 1- Build List of Keywords start a membership website Keyword List Membership website Subscription website Make money from online content Make money from online advertising Make money from blogging Start an online magazine Start an online journal etc.
STEP 2 – Create Quality Content Category Publish for Profit Article Article Article Article Make Money from Online Content Start an Online Magazine How to start a Subscription website How to start a Membership website
STEP 3 – Build Inbounds Link Good content attracts inbound links …….. but it can be slow
STEP 3 – Build Inbounds Link Link Baiting
STEP 3 – Build Inbounds Link Link Baiting • Say something controversial
STEP 3 – Build Inbounds Link Link Baiting • Say something controversial • Provide unique & exclusive information
STEP 3 – Build Inbounds Link Link Baiting • Say something controversial • Provide unique & exclusive information • Provide something valuable for free e.g. an ebook, searchable directory, etc