I am still spinning my wheels trying to get traffic from Google. Here I was sitting pretty making good money and then Mayday comes along and ruins it all. This is mostly true for me because my sites relied on long tail search results coming from Google. Mayday made changes to those results I guess mainly to weed out thin sites like mine.
Since then I have tried several attempts and have had some ok results but not what I am looking for. I did the Antique Cash Registers site with article marketing and original content posts. It is getting some traffic but nothing like I was hoping for. I just started the Idiot Talk site and I still have hopes for that since I have 100+ followers on FaceBook but I am having a hard time getting them off facebook and onto my site. So what next?
Well I thought this through and have came up with yet another plan. I really want targeted keyword traffic. That is what works best with my EPN sites. So I am going to do some keyword research and pick just one keyword that gets a fair amount of traffic and focus on driving my site to the number 1 spot on Google for that 1 keyword. Now I have micro niche finder and I use Google’s keyword tool and I always end up picking a good keyword and maybe getting in the top 5 and I get hardly any traffic. Turns out this is usually because those keyword tools are flawed and don’t have correct numbers. One way is to use Adwords on my new keywords and monitor how much traffic I get but that can be costly. Another way is to use Google Insight and compare your new keywords against some other keywords that you know the numbers on. This is more acurate then the keyword tools and can save you time from setting up a site and marketing it just to find out that you wasted your time for 1 or 2 clicks a day.
So there you have it… my next plan of attack. I would love to hear how others are combating the loss of long tail keyword results in Google.
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backlinks, backlinks, backlinks, backlinks and still more backlinks. There is only one way to make your site relevant on the web. You have to have others linking back to you with your keywords as an anchor. I have not lost any traffic after Mayday and am doing the best I ever have. Take your time, don’t crank out thin auto sites, they are gone now, and put together useful sites and then backlink the sh** out of them. Outsource it. Find others that are familiar with programs to automate a lot of this and pay them to do it. It’s not incredibly cheap, but the results will sustain G’s updates.
I know that you are right. I guess I just don’t know how to get the number of quality backlinks that I need. Please give us a few ideas as to what paid services you would recommend to get good backlinks.
I recommend reading and participating on the Warrior Forum. You can find a lot of great services offered there. Look through the WSO’s.
Thanks for that… I don’t spend nearly enough time there!