How
to Increase Web Site Visitors For Relevant Terms Using
Your Less Relevant Listings
by: Tinu AbayomiPaul
Completely by accident and through no effort of my
own, besides the effort to get my site spidered by
Yahoo's Slurp Search Engine Spider and Google's Googlebot
Search Engine spider, I've seen an accidental increase
in the visitors to my web site.
Suddenly, I was ranking first page for Google, Yahoo
and AOL for the phrases like "picture of William
Hung", and "william hung she bangs".
The Good news is, this means that when the Yahoo Slurp
spider came to the site and indexed my front page
last Saturday, (and no, I didn't submit my site OR
pay for inclusion), my results were in the search
engine by Sunday apparently, which is when I started
getting clicks from Yahoo for this unusual term.
The Bad News is, William Hung, except for being an
example of the power of Free Marketing, has NOTHING
to do with my site!
So how does one fix this situation? How do you turn
an accidental good ranking into several good rankings
for other terms? Or say you've got great rankings
for a relevant, but fairly insignificant term? The
solution is the same.
Just give the spider more of what it wants.
Google, Yahoo - and apparently their search partners
- love that page. So, first thing I did was improve
the page in question. At the time there was no picture
of William Hung on the page that was ranking so well.
It's important that you satisfy web site visitors
who accidentally happen up on your site.
It only happens once in a while, but sometimes the
person who come by is also interested in your regular
content.
The next thing I did, was create other pages I believed
the two sites would like. Since the articles here
primarily offer resources to webmasters who want to
learn how to increase the number of visitors to their
sites, all I had to do was tweak some of the wording
to the liking of both those visitors and the search
engine spiders, and write one more article.
How did I know what the search engines would like,
and how that would increase the number of people who
would come to the site? Well, I found out that some
guarded information about the latest optimization
tips for Yahoo and Google was available on the Web
FREE. (If you want to know what that resource is,
just download the updated Free Google Optimization
Guide.)
Once I had the pages optimized to my satisfaction,
all I had to do was link some of those pages to the
front of my site (where the article was then located)
and wait for the increase in traffic to my site. Google
spiders me every day like clockwork ever since I made
this tiny change to my website that increased my site
rank from zero to five in January.
Of course, I then had to figure out if my secret technique
to baiting the Google spider was going to work with
Yahoo's new search engine spider.
Not only did it work, but it worked faster than leading
the Google spider to specific page of my site! Yahoo's
spider is not back at my site on a daily basis yet,
but it does come regularly, finding new pages, and
reindexing the area with the most content.
So there you have it. If your site has been indexed
well for a term you didn't really want, first, make
the page as relevant as possible to the visitors who
end up at your site.
Next, give the search engine spider "food"
to eat that is more relevant to your site. It doesn't
hurt to optimize this page. You can now download the
new optimization guide for FREE here- IF you're one
of the next 100 subscribers. Only 1000 copies will
be available for download so get yours now.
Third and last, get the spider to come on back to
your site. If you know how to bait a search engine
spider, great! You'll get your results faster, and
since the spider finds the link on its' own, you may
get better placement. Or, you can submit your site
to one of Inktomi's partners, and/or Google and wait
the 6-8 weeks it takes to be included.
Copyright 2004 Tinu AbayomiPaul
About The Author
Tinu is a free traffic FANATIC> She's been offered
treatment for this condition, but says it just saves
too much money. Her parting words "If you don't
know how to bait the Google spider, subscribe to my
newsletter. I give that tip away free in the second
issue. Email ftdsecrets-subscribe@topica.com or join
at http://www.freetrafficdirectory.com, where you
can also read more articles about getting quality
visitors for free."