TEN MOST COMMON TRAFFIC MISTAKES

TEN MOST COMMON TRAFFIC MISTAKES

TEN MOST COMMON TRAFFIC MISTAKES Guest Blog Post By Karen Repoli    If you have a website or blog then you already know the importance of traffic. Traffic is to internet marketing what “location - location - location” is to real estate. It is one of the major ingredients of online marketing. If you can’t generate targeted visitors to your site, you simply won’t make any sales. Usually the owner or designer of a new website is the person designated to drive traffic to the site. The chief ingredient in generating traffic is the search engine. Of course, you can use advertising, but it’s going to cost you. Using the search engines to generate targeted (interested in your product) traffic is the least expensive method known. Unfortunately, many website owners do not understand the importance of search engine visibility, which leads to traffic. They place more importance on producing a “pretty” website. Not that this is bad, but it is really secondary to search engine placement. Hopefully, the following list of common mistakes, made by many website owners, will help you generate more targeted traffic to your site…after all, isn’t that what you want.   (1) Not Using Keywords Effectively   This is probably one of the most critical areas of site design. Choose the right keywords and potential customers will find your site. Use the wrong ones and your site will see little, if any, traffic.   (2) Repeating The Same Keywords   When you use the same keywords over and over again (called keyword stacking) the search engines may downgrade (or skip) the page or site  ...