How to Get Free Traffic to your Content, Blog or Offer with Social Media Syndication
Introduction to creating content and getting free traffic to your blog or offer using social media syndication.
This is Part One. of several videos and articles, on getting free targeted traffic.
1. Research your target market . See if there is a niche within that market to generate traffic to your site or offer.
2. Keyword research: start with a broad term like “diet” “lose weight” etc. Then drill or narrow it down to 3 to 5 word, keyword phrases like “lose weight for wedding” or “lose weight before wedding”
Here’s a goood place to start: Free Search Term Suggestion Tool at:
Keyword Discovery
Here is the link below as well if you’d like to cut and paste it into your browser window:
http://www.keyworddiscovery.com/search.html
This will help you get keyword ideas and see how many daily searches are being done on that keyword or keyword phrase.
4. Also research keywords using Google Keyword tool at:
https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal
5. Once you see some keyword phrases you can use and write articles around. Then type them into Google search with quotes “” the returning result (on the top right) will tell you how many pages have that quote – phase in them.
If you’re just starting out, I don’t recommend trying to go after results with more then 20k. Remember that sub-niches is were you’ll get faster search rankings, so even if you only find 4 or 5 phrases with say only 1000 or 2000 searches a month for that give keyword phrase it will be much easier to rank for, as apposed to a keyword with 24k searches a month and 300,000 competing pages.
Here is an example:
Say you have 10 articles with the keyword phase in your title and on topic with 2k searches a month. If each of those keyword phases have less then say 20k competing pages, your chances to rank on page 1 of Google are much more likely, so 10 article @ 2k searches a month will be easier for getting higher rankings and faster results = 2k x 10 = 20k searches.
You will have 10 articles hopefully ranking on page 1 or at the least page 2. Then if your trying to go after a high competition phase that will be much harder to rank for. Where you won’t see any results until you get the 5th or 10th search result pages. Now if you can get hundreds of one-way links back to a high competitive phrase, then yes you’ll have a better chance to rank for that keyword. But what we are looking to do here is get ranked fast and free.
Remember your 10 post that are getting 20k searches a month for all 10 of the targeted keywords. That is only 4k lower the then the one keyword with 24k. Plus your kW phase is very targeted.
This is of course is the long and free way of doing keyword research, but it works. At first just keep it simple. There is of course much more to this and great software that will do this for you, but I wanted to give you a free way of doing this that has proven to work. I will talk later about the software I reviewed or use. That works great for doing you research and is a huge time saver.
Ok – Once you have your 5 to 10 Keyword phases. Start writing your articles (5 or 6 to start with on each keyword phrase.) then post your best one to your blog or Hub and then submit next one to 3 article directories. That will leave you with 3 or 4 articles left to use with Web 2.0 sites.
I suggest these three to start with:
- www.ezinearticles.com
- www.goarticles.com
- www.ArticlesBase.com
Here is a hubpage that list even more.
By the way, all I did to get this above link is I did a Google search on “Top 10 article directories” and this web 2.0 site came up on the first page of Google. Which now leads us into talking about, posting your content (the remaining articles) to Web 2.0 sites.
Web 2.0 sites.
Here is a pretty good list to start with. You can of course expand or use others, but I suggest you start with these. The reason I suggest these web 2.0 sites, is because they rank very well in the search engines.
- www.squidoo.com
- www.hubpages.com
- www.blogspot.com
- www.youtube.com
- www.wordpress.com (this is the free one not the .org )
1st – Set up accounts with each of these sites.
2nd – post your next article on one
3rd – put a text (hyper) link back to your main blog post.
If the site doesn’t let you high-light and insert a link with your keyword phase.
Below is an example of html code to use. All you need to do is change the URL & Keyword Phrase…
<a href=”http://mikealter.net/social-media-syndication/”>social media syndication</a>
Note: be sure and mix up your link text (this is good SEO. example instead of using just “social media syndication” each time, try using, say.. “How I use social media syndication” or “get traffic with social media syndication”
See the diagram below to see how to set up your web 2.0 and article linking.
In the next article and video post. I will go into marketing and keyword research.
Thanks for reading. Please post your comments or questions below.
Mike
