SEO Flowchart

Website Traffic and SEO Flowchart Publishing of Website and Content  Keyword list plays heavy in content development  Link building should start immediately Research keywords Google Keyword Tools help improve campaigns Search engines think of links to your website as votes of confidence Link Building Typically Low Traffic First Few Weeks  Organic ranking tends to be erratic and low until after links have been built and search engines crawl the websites with the links.  Use keywords in the link anchor text when possible  Use trusted link sources that search engines see as high ranking Low Hanging Fruit  Friends  Clients  Vendors  Business Partners Directories  Yahoo!  DMOZ  Business.com  Galaxy Content Based Links  Blogs  Articles  Press Releases  Web 2.0 Pages Social Media  Twitter  Facebook  MySpace  Del.icio.us Site Indexed—Search Engines Crawl as Site Ages  Keywords with few matches and limited competition start to rank  Google ranking usually higher than Yahoo! or Bing ranking  Yahoo reports more inbound links than Google  Domain related keywords begin to rank  MyDomainName.com  My Domain Name  My Domain Name + word(s) www.rankingedge.com www.contentbasedseo.com Organic Ranking may fluctuate the first few months. More quality links and age is needed to raise ranking. This process can last for a couple months to a year or more. www.rankingedge.com www.contentbasedseo.com Bringing targeted traffic, for conversion from leads, to prospects, to clients is accomplished by continuous content based SEO. Stable and high rankings depend a great deal on hard work and the amount of content placed in strategic places online.  Site ages  Build more quality links  Increase content based SEO with more articles, blog posts, press releases, social media, etc.  Site starts to rank for more competitive keywords. 0 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 900 1000 1st Month 2nd Month 3rd Month 4th Month 5th Month Website becomes more responsive to efforts, yielding more search traffic and significantly growing profits.