Tuesday, August 19, 2008
How To Gain Your Traffic Besides Google
One of the biggest bloggers that I have recommended, John Chow has recently gotten the hammer from Google. Google has dropped his site from being listed as being the number one spot down to page five in one of the hottest area of online searches, "making money online." As one of the most popular blog over the internet, this is definitely a heavy blow. To achieve the number one spot with Google in the first place is definitely not an easy competition with huge companies out there who are also fighting for that top spot. Just imagine all the news media, stock firms, investment firms, all competing for Google's search and the list just goes on and on. What Google has done has definitely given him a temporary set back in his blog.
Through seeing what has happened to him, it has drawn more attention to me on the importance to address the subject of where to gather your audience besides Google. You can see it from my opinion with today's video. It's no surprised to many webmasters that Google is the golden spot to be if you would like your web site to be recognized by the internet world. Many web masters including myself have always strongly encouraged people to optimize their sites with Google. However, what if one day you are faced with the same thing as John Chow? You are no longer in that magic spot in the top 10 search results with Google on the keywords you have optimized? Or worse yet, you were banned from Google? Now what?
It's always good to spread yourself throughout the web world even in search engines like Yahoo and MSN as well which both are under optimized by most webmasters. Sure the market of people doing a search in their search engines are in no where comparable to Google, however if you are strongly rooted in such search engines you would be a lot likely to minimize your impact with Google due to your strong presence on top keywords on these other search engines.
Let's not also forget the fact that since these search engines are less looked at by most webmasters, that it really translates to where the hidden gem is really at! Less competition in your specific keywords, less competition to grab the top spot, the lists goes on and on and the perks are endless. I do have to be honest, I haven't optimized MSN as much as I would like to be but with Yahoo I have definitely done my homework and my web site currently has over 8.5k of pages indexed which is huge for a blog with only 3 months moving onto its 4th month in its history. How do I get indexed in so many pages? Well, what I've found to work for me lies on meta tagging your site. Meta tagging is something that webmasters used to do back about a decade ago to optimize their listings inside the search engines, however due to the amount of abuse it was then discounted by most search engines nowadays. However, I have found that meta tagging is still being regularly used by Yahoo in their indexing method so for those of you who are thinking optimizing with Yahoo that should not be something you want to miss.
Besides the big three search engines, where else should you go and grab your audiences? I will recommend one of my favorite social book marketing sites, Mybloglog. It's fun, enjoyable, and in a way it gives you a mini "Myspace" feel which I like. With it being ranked as one of the top four bookmarking sites in existence with heavy traffic, it's definitely not one you would like to miss.
The nature of a bookmarking site is different and not auto piloted like the search engines. It requires you to log in and connect with others and frankly it takes a bit longer time to maintain. However if properly implemented, it can definitely bring a good amount of traffic towards your website. I hope you are in good terms with Google, however in the case where you are banned from Google it's not the end of the world yet. If you are well situated and have grounded your blog in good contents, the visitors will come and that's really the fundamentals you do not want to trade or settle for something less. What you write is more important then how search engines view you and being sure you have the right point of view when building up your web site will determine the success your website. For those of you who still relies on Google, it's a never ending battle to figure out their algorithm and even you do it's doom to change soon and you should always keep that in mind.
Henry Hsieh is a an enthusiastic entrepreneur who enjoys blogging and writing articles for various web sites. He currently resides in California and writes his blog under http://swapw.blogspot.com about his own personal experience in making money through the internet.
