Want to drive more traffic to your website?
I’m guessing that answer is a resounding yes.
In which case, you can’t really ignore SEO. That is unless you want to miss out on a huge amount of traffic.
Here are a few things to consider:
Do you know if your keyword research and optimization efforts are working?
When you’re running a website that relies on revenue from search engine traffic, then being able to track specific keywords is critical. Sure, they’re only one part of the SEO puzzle, but it’s important to know how they’re performing.
Mention the term Keyword Research Tools to any blogger, and they’ll most likely think of the Google Keyword Planner.
It has Google on the label, so it must be good, right?
Well, it’s worth checking and using for initial keyword research, but remember that the tool is,
Did you know that you have complete control over who crawls and indexes your site, down to individual pages?
The way this is done is through a file called Robots.txt.
Robots.txt is a simple text file that sites in the root directory of your site. It tells “robots” (such as search engine spiders) which pages to crawl on your site,
As a marketer, you know the importance of strong search engine rankings.
This is how you get highly targeted organic traffic for months and even years on autopilot.
While rankings are important, you also need more people to click on your sites in search engine results.
Most link building advice on the web is wrong.
And if you follow some of that advice, you will be putting your entire blog at risk.
The truth is that the dangerous advice you might stumble across is given without a disclaimer that it could get your blog penalized or removed from Google’s index.
Google is constantly throwing new animals at us like penguins, pandas and hummingbirds.
The result is that many have pronounced the death of SEO, and keep telling us all to forget about pleasing Google!
Don’t listen to these people. SEO is far from dead.