Update Web Pages for Better Rankings and Increased Traffic

Getting increased traffic is and better search engine rankings can be the result of revising your blog posts and web pages.  Your site content may be stale and your keywords irrelevant.  If you update web pages by changing or adding fresh content, it sends a flag to the search engines that something new has been added to the page.  If you re-orient your page to more common search terms, more people will find your web page.

Revisions for Improving Your Content.  Re-reading your content may reveal grammatical and style errors.  Correcting these will make for higher quality content and better reading.  This will make it more likely that people will read your content.  There is always room for improvement.  As a boy, I used to walk along the railroad tracks picking "dewberries," a diminutive blackberry that grows wild in a part of rural East Texas.  Dewberries make a great cobbler desert.  I would pick in one direction and return along the same side of the bush and find more berries that I missed.  Re-reading your web posts is very much like this, you always find new berries when you return to the same place and view it at a different time.

Keywords.  You can use Google Adsense or Market Samurai to inspect the keywords for your site.  There is also the possibility that you may want to add more keywords or change the SEO focus of the article to a new set of keywords.  I did that recently on a health article, which was perfectly good as far as content goes, but it was lacking in keywords that people use in their searches.  Now that it has been changed, it is more likely to be found and read.

For more specific tips on updating web pages, I recommend that you visit this Hub Pages article: Updating Your Hubs to Increase Traffic. Other tips that are included on this site include updating your keywords, changing the title, adding new content to reflect the new keywords and title, and fixing broken links.

So, my advice to all is to tend your garden of web posts.  There are several advantages to updating your web pages and your efforts will very likely that grow your web traffic because of your efforts to make your content current, more readable and more relevant.

Blog Sites for Making Links

There are many places that you can use for link-building, but the overall best is to write good content. Scattering good content in many different locations on the web will help you get noticed. But don't make duplicate content, that kind of noticing will hurt your rankings and income potential. Here are some good sites where you can write articles for links:

Recommended Free Blog Sites

Weebly.com - This site is really easy to start up. There is no verification of addresses and you can enter any email to create an account. I like it for the mere simplicity of setting up a blog. The modular approach to building a page is really nice and easy to undo if you screw up placement. I highly recommend this site.

Blogger.com - I would be remiss if I didn't mention this. It is somewhat labrythian to set it up, but I have found that my sites that have 10 blog entries seem to get page rank quicker than sites than equivalent Wordpress sites. It is a mystery to me...

Wordpress.com - I have a domain that I own that has a blog with several pages and I am comfortable with this blog format. There is a lot of flexibility in how you make the blog look and there are plug-ins to help with various technical details like tracking traffic, automatic tweeting, meta tags, etc. I also have a free wordpress.com site that I use, however, the options are fewer on how you can do things. I find that this site is not ranking very well, too.

Amplify.com - This site is good for writing short blogs that have more content than a Tweet. It allows more characters and if you have something short to say, it is a good vehicle for that format. You can also create a blog post list for you main blog. Another format that is something like this is SheToldMe.com, but the advantage of this format is that you can get revenue from Google Adsense as well.

Posterous.com - I have used Posterous from the beginning because of the ability to send email posts to it. Recently, however, Blogger has added this feature. I still recommend posterous, however for quick posts and have another site for comments in niche areas of your main blog.

If anyone has other recommendations, I would like to hear what you have to say in a comment.

Video Series for Selecting Keywords

Here are the YouTube video addresses for selecting a microniche within a market:

To find a theme keyword:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fa1rwcKfFH4

To find category keywords:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRtl4JlB1xA


Here are some of the terms explained:

SEO = search engine optimization, means optimizing a given site for better ranking on search engines such as Google

SEO traffic = daily traffic on the web for a given keyword or keyword phrase

PBR = phrase to broad match ratio, term used with versus without quotes as shown below for the term phrase

Phrase = the keyword phrase for your given niche or microniche, searched for on the web using the phrase surrounded by quotes as shown here for the Sony alpha 200 Camera Lenses microniche:

"Sony alpha 200 Camera Lenses"

So, the goal in looking for keywords is to find a microniche in which to start that has at least 80 page visits per day, and where there are less than 30,000 pages on the web. The number of page visits is important because it will help you make money through clicks on advertisements or through affiliate marketing efforts, if you choose that method of marketing. Have a microniche with less than 30,000 pages increases your chances of success because there is less competition from professionals in the market.