Tip #1-Ensure you are using the correct keywords and phrases your visitors are using to look for you
What to do
If you use any type of analytics on your website, read your visitor's mind. Look at the keywords and phrases that have been used to find your website. Check to be sure you are indeed using those keywords in your SEO practices. Also look to see if there are variations of the phrase that you can use. Search engine optimization and optimize for search engines are basically the same but can get you completely different visitors and are two entirely different keyphrases
Tip #2-Your content is not optimized to take advantage of keywords or phrases being searched for.
What to do
While you are assessing your keywords and keyphrases, look at your content and see if you can use newly discovered keywords or phrases in them. Rewriting the content slightly to take advantage of the new keywords may also be advisable.
Tip #3-Your titles do not use your keywords or phrases
What to do
Make sure your keywords are used in the title. For instance, if your keyphrase is search engine optimization, a good title for the keyphrase search engine optimization may be; Search Engine Optimization-How to take the pain out of optimizing your website for search engines. If you have noticed, I snuck in a variation of my keyphrase to take advantage of the variation.
Tip #4-You do not receive much traffic from your pictures or images
What to do
I am sure you have done a search for an image before, probably using Google image search or something similar. How do you search for an image? You type in exactly what you are looking for of course!
If you use images on your website, you MUST name them using your keywords that are used in your content, or at least give the picture a name that describes exactly what it is. The alt tag should also contain your keywords or a description of the picture. For instance, let's do an image search for baby chick. All the pictures that show up are in some form or another have a name or alt tag that includes baby chick, baby chicken, chick, or some other variation so the search engine knows it is a picture of a baby chick. If your pictures don't have titles using your keywords or at least a descriptive title, your images will never show up in the search results.
Think about it, your digital camera gives the picture a random name like DSC3008, yet it is a picture of a baby chick. Do you think anyone will ever search for DSC3008 looking for a picture of a chick? The search engines will never know that the weirdly named picture is actually an absolutely beautiful chick so it will never be displayed in the results. If your picture shows up in search results you may get some click through traffic looking for more information.
Tip #5-Your images are not optimized correctly for search engines
What to do
Along with the naming of your pictures, they need to be optimized for fast loading. Search engines like Google may rank your site better if it loads quickly. Also, your visitors will appreciate it much more too.
Your picture doesn't have to be huge, 640 x 480 is plenty large enough. Also, for jpg's, a progressive jpg is preferred.
Irfanview is a free program that can optimize your images and is free. There are also websites online that can be used to optimize your pictures as well.
Tip #6-Use video to draw visitors
What to do
If you are not taking advantage of YouTube and other video sharing websites you may be missing a lot of visitors. YouTube has millions of viewers a day and they spend countless hours watching video. Upload video to YouTube related to your website and have a link in the description to your website. You can also have a short introduction in the video with your website.
Tip #7-You don't have quality links pointing to your website
What to do
Search engines will rank your website higher (which will result in more visitors) if there are links from relevant websites back to yours. These websites can be forums, blogs, etc. If the forum allows it, create a signature with a link to your website. When contributing (high quality contribution, NO spammy comments) your signature will have a link to your website. Anyone who reads your comment can click through to your website.
Conclusion
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