Every blog owner or site owner wants to get a great amount of organic traffic and to achieve this start your strategy from the day you launch your blog or site. You Just need to do proper SEO and Here are the tips which you must opt to get huge organic traffic(traffic from search engines) :
Keyword Research
Keywords are the most important part of SEO. When You start a blog or your business site then You need a proper SEO to get good traffic from Search engines. So at first you need to search the important keywords for your business site or blog.
I suggest using Google adword keyword tool(Now it has been replaced with Google Keyword planner tool) for keyword research. Suppose you have a website which offers Internet marketing, digital marketing services etc. Then what will be the keywords? Just Go to the Google Adword keyword suggestion tool and type few random keywords related to your business such as Internet marketing, internet marketing service, SEO services, Internet marketing solution, digital marketing solutions etc. just like this:-
Now you will see as:-
Here 1 is the keywords are those which you have searched and 2 are the suggested keywords by the tool. Whenever you put few keywords and search in this tool then it also suggest related keywords so that you get few more good keywords ideas. Now according to your requirement filter out important keywords your site. Save those keywords in an excel sheet or notepad (as you want). One more thing try to choose those keywords which are getting enough monthly searches.
[color-box]Note:- Now above mentioned Google adword keyword tool has been shut down and replaced by Keyword planner which you might want to learn to use? Yes? Read here on Brian’s Blog about using keyword planner.
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Keyword Distribution
Now you are having a number of important keywords with you. Now what you need to do is the proper distribution of your keywords.
There are three places in the code you should put those keywords wisely and that are Title, Meta description andMeta keywords. However, recent studies says that Google doesn’t give much priority to meta keywords but there are other search engines which still consider these tags.
The next thing you should do is to categories keywords according to their priority as the most important keywords and less important keywords. Now, Place the most important keywords in <title></title> tags. Remember you must not stuff the keywords in title. Just insert keywords wisely in way that it doesn’t seem to be keyword stuffed. After that write a description for your site(for now I am talking about the home page of site) and Place here as :-
<meta name=”description” content=”your description here”/>
As you have already used the most important keywords in the title tag So Now you need to use other less important keywords in the description. Try placing keywords wisely in the description. Again I want say that it keywords must not be stuffed. It should look like a proper description having few keywords.
After doing this use about other keywords in the meta keyword as:-
<meta name=”keyword” content=”your keyword here”/>
In this way you have distributed all the keywords wisely. Remember you have not finished yet. What ever we did here is just for the Home page of the site Now you must do all the things for each and every page of the site. For each and every page you need to select keywords which are relevant to those pages.
Now you have completed all the keyword selection and their proper distribution.
Tags for Search Engine Crawlers
There are huge number of meta tags which are used to instruct the Search engine crawlers but here I want to tell you to use these for sure
<meta name=”Robots” Content=”Index, follow”/>
<meta name=”Googlebot” Content=”Index, follow”/>
The first tags is enough because it works for all the search engines including Google but if you want to give for emphasis then Use second one too. Its good to have both.
XML Sitemap
Now You must create xml sitemap for your site. There are so many online tools to create better xml sitemaps. After creating an sitemap for your site just place in your sites directory as yoursite.com/sitemap.xml.Now submit this sitemap to the Google webmaster tools.
Alt Text
alt texts are very important when you place an image in your site. Alt is short form for Alternate. Sometimes when you open a site and the images don’t load because of slow connection or anything then you might see there text instead of the image, those are the alt texts.
What I want tell you is that use your sites keyword as the alt texts for images in way that it describes the image also. These tags are also crawled and indexed by search engines and they work for the site as keywords.
These are the basic techniques to do On-page optimization for your site wisely and effectively. If you use it in a better way then you must get huge number of organic visits. If you are running blogs then you should also use important keywords within blog posts.
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Permalink Structure
Permalink structur must be meaningful. I saw so many site whic are sueing permalinks such as :-
/product_category.aspx?caid=102
Just Look at it. Can you Figure out any meaning from this permalink. Ofcource Not. It must contain some word or keywords. Suppose If this url points to a page which has information about the social media. then It should be something like:-
/social-media-tips
Or something likes this. It looks meaningful and also social media tips can work as a keyword which must be beneficial for search rankings. Because no one is going to search “product_category.aspx?caid=102” in google or any search engines but there are hell lot of guys who daily search “Social Media tips” (Its just for example).
My point is that Having a meaningful word in link can be beneficial for better search rankings.
After these implementations start your Off page optimization campaign and keep on building links with your important keywords.
Must Remember
- Always look for http errors and crawl errors for your site in the Google webmaster tools. If You find errors then try removing them.
- All the meta tags will fall within <head></head> tag.
- When you start your off page campaign then Please Go Slow while Building Links. Don’t Go fast.
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Great tips bro ! Link building is also a must do strategy to increase the organic traffic of a blog !
yes But Before link building You must have to focus on on-page optimization . First On page then go for Off page.
Everyone love organic traffic. You’re right Atish, should be optimizing on-page first than go to off-page. Nice post !
yes Exactly. Firs you need to decide your keywords and do on page then with those keyword you should start your link building campaign.
good one Atish. Even my site has started giving good organic traffic with your help.
Thank You Priya for your comment here. I am happy that your site is getting good organic visits.
Not all the blogs get organic visits from search engines, we need to follow On-Page SEO while writing the blog posts. You’ve shared some wonderful stuffs here.
Thanks for your comment.
Hm.. Nice post dude.. I was unaware of using Google Keyword tool. But not much help found me on Google. Thanks for posting this awesome post where I had got steps of keyword research using Google Keyword Tool…
You are most welcome Dinesh. This tool is just awesome.
Great tip on the permalinks. There are a number of software tools to assist in creating them for a website as well.
Thanks for this, I think my blogger blog has all the wrong permalink structure to it, I have to fix that issue.
Mind Blowing tips as Many people Know about Keyword Tool but they are unaware of its proper placement. Keep up the Good Work 🙂
You are welcome Gaurang.
This is really mindblowing tips.I think these are really fruitful to generate organic traffic.As we know Keyword is the backbone of SEO.Off page optimization is also important to building links for your targeted keywords.Thanks Atish for sharing this useful tips.
You are welcome Lerissa. thanks for the comment.
Now this is one comprehensive article on choosing the right keywords. And the hows of things. My gratitude. I’m learning a lot on SEO from your site. More power.
Thanks For your nice words.
Thanks for the posting about keyword research to boast organic traffic.
For link building you suggest going slow. What is a pace that you would suggest?
There is nothing can be called fixed but I will suggest create 15-20 solid backlinks dailly. In this way in a month you can create 500+ solid backlinks and so on…
Awesome, Thanks for following up!
Good read. Was looking for a more easy-to-digest SEO article. Bookmarked. =)
I loved the ways. Very truly said, Go slow in building link. I agree with this because if you make too much link building Then Its Not good. In the start you will get hike but later your ranking can fall down. So I agree with Atish, Build links slow and solid.
Thanks for sharing. I already get some organic traffic for my site, but I think I have to re-check again my website with your tips mention above.
Sure , Try them and let me know about your experience.
Very Nice
Today I learned Basic tips to boost traffic.
Really I don’t Know these tags
and Permainks
Thanks for the Share
I request you to Audit my blog post comment here.
Thanks for sharing this very informative post! I agree with strategies involving tags for crawlers and xml sitemap. Also the keyword distribution should be balanced and one must try to avoid keyword cannibalisation as much as possible.
Yes Sandra. better Keyword distribution is need. Thanks for your comment.
Thank you so much Atish for writing such a nice post. To tell the truth I just followed the above steps to create and give all the meta tags for my new blog. It was really helpful. Thanks again Atish for such a helpful post.
You are always welcome Dude. Whenever You need any help then let me know.
These tips are a must-do! It’s crucial to start off with a solid on-site optimization strategy before focusing on off-site optimization. It takes time, but developing a keyword map can help organize your efforts and make the whole process easier.
Exactly buddy.
This is really good info for anyone starting a website looking for better search engine results.
Hi Atish, I must say you are doing a good job. And these tips are really nice to success blog.
Great share … Atish
Includes all the basics .. Pretty helpful to a beginner !!
I suck at SEO. And so does blogger. Lets hope i get better one day by reading such articles and gaining some experience. Nice post atish. You covered a lot of things here…
Thanks Buddy.
Lovely technical post Atish. I have book marked this page and intend to use a lot of the tips mentioned here to create my checklist of ‘things to do with each site I work on’.
These are the core basics that you need to acquire natural traffic for sure and it’s great to have them all in one place!
I agree with the article, definitely do these steps before off page optimization.
Hi! Very interesting post, but he soon will be interesting to a beginner than a professional.
through this we can inprove visitors but if i want lot of visitor without off page. so how it is possible through this we can improve site on page, slowly slowly google crawle your site and visitor also increase but slowly. but how to improve lot of traffic instant with the help of on page.
If you do the proper research of keywords related to your business and then select few best from them and optimize your site with them. You will start getting huge number of visits instantly.
hello atish
nice post to explain to boost the organic traffic of blog nice share ……..really helpful information
A good point at in-page optimazation. Points being noted.
KEY word research plays a important role to boost the organic traffic by the way thnx for the share nice post
Superb article! Thank you! I have a question about the permalinks: I put the shortcode on (in a wp site) to get a smaller link tag for a page and every since then, it shows the page name then some numbers.
What would or should the permalink structure look like in order for it to come out looking like your example above or how can I change the shortcode link structure so that the numbers don’t show anymore.
Thank you to anyone who can offer good advice!
Thanks For your comment. If you are talking about wordpress site then You can change permalink structure from your dashboard by going here Settings>> Permalinks. But make sure if you will change the permalink then all your old post with old permalink will result into 404 not found error. If you have posted too many articles then Just leave as it is because if you change now then you have to redirect all of your post to new url.
Permalink optimization must be done in the beginning.
Good Atish, your running a fine blog here!
Excellent tips to drive organic traffic to my blog, Thanks for your advice and tips here.
My friend has a blog that is not customizable at all, but he has a lot of traffic. is it true if you have bad meta tags that will be difficult to get traffic?
Its not always true but if you have those keywords which are not relevant then you will not get relevant readers.
So, keyword is the answer. It means that, before making the article, we must determine the right keywords. Am I right?
somehow you just need to keep few good keywords in mind which should be added into the post. But try not to insert forcefully. add them in a natural way.
Traffic is most important thing to run successful business online and thank you so much for sharing few important steps.
Good advice regarding on page SEO before getting too many backlinks
Thanks for the post! What combination of factors make a keyword important? ie. low searches, low competition or high searches, high competition? Thanks 🙂
I think low search keyword is not so beneficial. Its good if there is low competition with high searches Because the keyword is getting huge searches and it has low competition then you can rank well with it.
Generation of a XML sitemap is the most important strategy to increase search engine traffic as it tells the search engines about the structure of our blog, and let them index in the search engines for particular keywords !
Hey Atish that’s a very informative article you have provided.
I will definitely try the points that you have suggested to increase organic traffic.
Hey also tell if editing posted articles for keyword helps or not
Sure I t can help If search engine recrawls your edited post. Try editing, It will surely help.
All great tips and I can confirm that they do work. One another tip would be be to install an SEO plugin, like “All in One” this will help. I use one from Yoost that works quite well.
Yes this Plugin can be used in wordpress. But here we are talking about all the sites so i didn’t mention about using plugins. By the thanks for your addition. I like All in one SEO plugin too.
“Keyword distribution” I believe is the essence of blog and website traffic, Very informative article. I found lots of helpful stuff inside:)
Permalinks is a BIG one. I see a lot of folks not utilizing permalinks correctly and i can’t imagine how bad it’s hurting them in the SEO department. Great post!
wonderful tips! about tags, I was having more than 100000 tags in my blog, but now I cut about 90% of them.
Since I’ve got a big database, it’s difficult to check again all the past articles and study new keywords and descriptions, but in theory, it’s what needs to be done to be successful.
I need to find the time…
Nice post and i recommend this technogie to be submitted on technogies.com a place for Technology bloggers.
Do you guys have Google follow your tag and category pages? I’ve heard a lot of different information on this about duplicate content and others saying Google isn’t stupid. They are going to recognize a tag page for what it is.
Yes its getting indexed and I never get problem with it. I too heard this thing but I never faced any issues with it.
Picking your keyword(s) is definitely near the top of the list, I think it is hard to say it is #1. There are so many aspects to SEO, I don’t think any can truly be labeled as #1. Great article though!
Thanks for your comment. Yes its hard to say #1.
I love your post brother. Please check my title tag on my blog http://www.princeonlineservices.com if it is ok it has no keyword on it and suggest what i should do.
thats fine You have used “tips and tricks” as your keywords in the title.
On page is the biggest factor if it comes to organic traffic. such a nice write up. thank you
So far the finest SEO article i have ever read, you have explained each and every point in detail. Thanks for this complete package Atish. I will implement these tips for sure.
Thanks For your nice words Ajay.
Great post. I am trying to deal with the keywords on-site as I type this but is harder than I thought to try and make it look non-spammy. How many different keywords am I supposed to be targeting.
Its upto your business. How many keywrods you will be needing that can be decided by the nature of your business site.
Great SEO advice. You really covered it all in that post.
I’m still trying to learn the intricacies of the Google keyword tool.
thanks you…
I added tags to my blog
latest tips and tricks
Hi Atish,
I think there is a huge role that SEO is going to play if you want major traffic. All that you’ve suggested are good. It would be a lot easier if you are blogging on WordPress because you have plug-ins like this, and also quick fixes. It’s also good to blog on blogger since you can easily monetize it.
Yes It becomes easier when you are using wordpress because it has plugins to do almost everything.
hi Atish
i really happy that i learn more about SEO i am kat am a beginner of this field Optimization hope you will teach me how to become my websites popular…Thanks
Sure You are most welcome. Come up with your issue I am ready to help.
His domination of the task. You need to know how many decision the company site keywrods.
Really good article Aatish. Keyword research is very important for SEO. I have seen good traffic coming when the blog is optimized.
Yes, On page optimisation is the first and most important task.
Didn’t realise that you had to submit your sitemap to Google Webmaster Tools! Thanks for the info!
Information Regarding ALT Tag was quite good…looking forward to know more 🙂
Thanks Atish !!
Really, HTML errors hurt our websites very much. And I agee with comments above – the article is really well-done
I agree that keyword research is the most important part of SEO, if you get that part wrong then all the work you do afterwards may as well never have been done… It’s a good overview you’ve done. This is my first time coming across the googlebots crawler though, do you think it’s really necessary?
The Google bot thing is not so necessary because by default Google crawler is able to index and follow your site But having it on the site is good though.
This is probably the best tutorial on how to use Google Adwords for finding appropriate keywords. If you sign into your Google account, you are presented with even more suggestions.
Yes this is correct. After login we can see even more suggestions and options.
Keyword is of course, one of the first wheels to drive traffic to your site. We should keep in mind that relevant and appropriate keywords can only bring your site on the top in the search engine. Thanks Atish, for sharing so fruitful post..
You are Welcome.
Thank you for the tips! Some already knew and tried to implement on my site and blog. Others were totally new to me! I will start using it! Another thing..i tried to change my perm link on my wordpress blog but when i did it i couldn’t load the homepage. Any idea where i could get more info about perm links ?
Ask here we will try to answer your question.
I am still facing same problem by the search engine. But your post will be going to help me a lot. Thanks for the post really nice post.
Great Tips! Well-defined and emphasized on important point.
Thanks a lot for his wonderful tips, maximizing your organic traffic is one of the best thing to do if you’re craving to earn in blogging…:)
I didn’t realize that I needed to submit my sitemap to google. I had just assumed that google would see it and take it from there. Thanks to that tip I now know about the webmaster tools as well.
Thanks for sharing.
Its always good to submit your sitemap to webmaster tool.
Hi Atish,
Why should we go slow on off page optimization (link building)? isn’t good if we build our backlink fast so Google spider will crawl our page faster and index our page faster and higher, or is it the other way around I’m still confuse here.
Thanks
Hi Auren,
Nice Question. Those days are gone when SEOs do heavy link building and come out on first pages of Google. Now Its different, If you do heavy link building then may be you will get benefit but that is temporary. Google takes you as a spammer if you gonna do heavy link building. So go slow and build links naturally. “Slow” doesn’t mean here to be irregular, Be regular and keep on creating links from Good sites.
however, as its well said “Excess of anything is Bad” so it applies here too.
Hiii ,
Very informative article , i have got a problem ,i don’t know much about google webmaster so when i first used it i think i had save settings of my blog cgmagia blogspot com , in my privacy settings not visible to search and i fetch in google webmaster . now i found that even if i changed it too visible to search engine , the robots are blocking all search labels urls , but all urls are indexed in google . i am getting some poorest search organic traffic . so my question is the your meta tag script Tag for crawlers will help ? robot to stop blocking my 500 search label urls .
Thank you
Yes these tags will surely help. Those errors are crawl errors. I too get errors in webmaster for my blogpsot blog the errors is like cgmagia.blogspot.com/search/label/abc (something like that), it show restricted by crawler. Don’t worry for this. I too get for my blogspot blogs. It means this type of urls formed in your blog is not getting indexed by Google. Don’t worry. Your main url is getting indexed, then its fine.
For search engine traffic, try to do keyword research and then do the proper placement. also Do link building.
Thank you .
You are welcome Buddy.
Agree with you, Keyword research is very important thing.
Ofcourse keyword research is the most important thing.
meta keywords ,SEO are major tools to get organic traffic . Well content also matters…
Nice tips to boost traffic to a blog.Will try it out and comment again.Thanks.
Really Nice One .. Atish Sir You are welcome at Hackersfind.com
Thanks Gaurav.
Just want to say Great work Aatish. Thanks for sharing the link.
Great points.. i am looking for traffic tips.. These will help me. Thanks
Thank you Atish vaia very much…….Now I fully understand what is SEO ……..And on page optimization………. Thank you Again!
You are most welcome Tanik.
Well with the recent google panda update keyword research has turned more important for a blogger to target the right readers and content quality has more value. Thanks for the nice tips
Would you recommend using Google adword keyword tool for a newbie or spending some money on a paid one
Yes, Its good and a newbie should use it.
I like this sentence “Go Slow while Building Links”, thanks for the tips.
Hi , i used from your list Google adword keyword tool and Tags for Crawlers, I am satisfied, you have done a great job with this article. Keep up you work because is good!
Hi. Great post. There is one thing that I might add. In my own strategy, lately I go only for the long tailed keywords, thus keywords that don’t get a lot of searches, as is much easier to rank for those keywords. If I make a lot of pages on a diversity of subjects, based on long tail keywords, there is a big chance to get traffic, more rapidly than struggling to rank for a highly sought after keyword.
Just my strategy.
Thank you Bogdan for your add up. is this strategy working for you? If yes I would like to try it out 🙂
Hi Atish,
Sorry for the late reply.
I’m using Longtailpro, which is $97, one time payment.
With this tool I do the keyword research, and not only. It uses an APi from Seomoz, so you can also check the keyword competitiveness.
So it can help you to choose a niche also, depending on the strength of the competition.
So actually you can see the number of searches for a particular keyword, and also have competitor analysis on top 10 Google results, in terms of domain age, PR, backlinks and so on. It can help you decide if you go or not after a certain keyword, and is also suggesting other long tail keywords.
To me is really useful.
Good to know Mate. Seems a great tool. I will try this tool in future may be.
Good stuff Atish!
Thanks Brian!
Hello Atish,
All point are well explain and useful to get organic traffic, specially the keyword researching is more important weapon in to build or get a organic traffic. Thanks for sharing your valuable suggestion with us.
I don’t think search engines use the keyword tag anymore but rest of the advice is top notch.
Yes and I have mentioned that already in the post.