A common question bloggers ask is, "how do I get on Google?" It's a question with multiple answers:
- Answers
- AdWords - pay for access.
- Links - get lots of inbound links.
- Register - Use Googles webmaster toolkit to 'claim' your site in Google's eyes.
- Sitemaps - Create an XML document for spiders to read.
- Write good content.
Out of all of those answers I find write good content to be the best.
If you look at my chart for the week of 3/14 to 3/20 you will see that over half of my traffic comes from Google. Do you know what one of the best things about Google traffic is? It is that those readers are looking for something.
They are looking and they found you!
It's all about having good content, that is my secret to Google's love. I don't do any SEO work at all yet, I still get good Google love.
Let's take, for example, the one article on my blog with the highest conversion rate. For those who do not know what I am talking about I'll put it in layman's terms; the article that generates the most advertising clicks. Tamagotchi Connection v3 Codes is my best article in terms of click through. Unfortunately for me those clicks are only worth pennies. What I should do, from a making money online stand point, would be to put some affiliate links in that article.
When I wrote that article I was not looking at SEO, I just needed a place to share the Tamagotchi codes for the new game my daughter "had to have". I figured others might find the information useful (other as in other parents) and I was right. That article has received good traffic ever since I posted it.
That is todays lesson: Write good content and Google will love you, write junk and you wil be paying for traffic.
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Something strange happened to me on a new site. I put together a small site for for friends construction company. New domain, uploaded the site (maybe 4 pages) and emailed him via gmail that I was done. NO LINKS AT ALL! 2 days later I notice that all the pages are not only indexed, but cached!
2 thoughts on this:
1) Google scanned the domain from my email
2) Google scanned recently bought domains and found it
Anyone have thoughts on this?
You’re absolutely right about Google. I get more traffic from Google searches than all other traffic combined (except when I get digg damned). I don’t even have a niche and I’m a lousy writer.
The funny thing is that if all of my direct traffic vanished I would still get thousands of hits every week!
My direct traffic is only 6.15%! That means only 61 out of every 1,000 hits are direct links.
Thats a nice ratio!
Its sometimes surprising which turn out to be the better articles in terms of traffic.
Good content is definitely one of the most down-to-earth way to get found or spotted. People do that. Google does that as well. With it, people will automatically link back to your site as well, bring you traffic in the long run.