"Create an Increased Search Engine Traffic Surge in 5 Easy Steps"

Keywords are the first line of defence for increased search engine traffic. Identify keywords with a reliable keywords tool to bring targeted traffic to your website. Determine the supply and demand for each keyword you want to use. Use keywords where the demand is larger than the supply. This means that your competition for the keyword is less. It would be easier to rank high with the search engines, leaving you with more visitors to your website. More visitors.... more profit ... leaving you to enjoy your life.

How and where are keywords used?

Include the keywords in the meta tags of the web page. Use them in the title, description and URL of the page. (The meta tags are invisible to the reader.) A good strategy is to include them in the first ninety characters of the page to generate increased search engine traffic. Use the keywords throughout the article on the page.

Search Engine Submissions

Create an HTML and XML sitemap. The visitors will use the HTML one and the XML site map will be submitted to the search engines. A link to your HTML sitemap should be clearly visible to your visitors. Keep both updated as you add new pages to ensure search engines will crawl all your pages. Once the spiders have crawled all the pages you'll notice the increased search engine traffic from the statistical reports.

Traffic reports

Analyze the traffic reports to determine which pages are doing well and which of them don't. Decide whether you want to tweak those that do not rank high enough.

Link building

Inbound links to your website are a sure way to increase search engine traffic. Steadily increase the inbound links (also referred to as link popularity) to your website. Social networking websites are valuable marketing tool if used correctly. Provide the readers with keyword rich content they will be thrilled about! Use the identified targeted keywords and link them back to your website from social media sites. The more valuable and relevant inbound links you get, the higher the ranking with search engines.

Google uses the Pagerank system to determine inbound links and the quality of those links. Ensure the links to your website are from relevant sources and if possible from a website who has a high Pagerank. Pagerank is measured on a scale from 1 - 10 (10 being the highest score). A word of warning: stay away from link farms and services that will add a link to your website for the sake of increased search engine traffic. The search engines evaluate this as spam. Before you know it, you'll be banned.

Video

A great way to build links and traffic are to post videos to video sites. Make sure the videos fit with your site concept. Here are a few popular video submission sites to look at.

• Metacafe .com
• Youtube.com
• Video.google.com
• Howcast.com (use your Facebook login details)
• Expertvillage.com