Noble Samurai

In mid-2008, I was playing with some SEO strategies and created a blog that received 41,457 visitors from search engines in its first 8 days online.

The crazy thing is – this simple strategy took literally 2 minutes to apply…

If you knew a strategy that could increase the traffic to your blog posts and web-pages, and give you more value from backlinks, would it be worth your time spending a few extra moments applying that strategy – for every blog post and web-page you create?

Absolutely – yes!

I want to share with you a simple strategy that you can use to get more traffic to your web-site, better search engine rankings AND better keyword-value out of your links:

You’ll love this technique if you’re posting content to a blog, if you’re social bookmarking sites, doing just about any sort of link submission – or even choosing keywords for meta tags – because of what it does for your site…

Firstly, by mentioning additional (relevant) keywords on your web-page, you increase the NUMBER of keywords that your site can rank well for.

Secondly, by mentioning similar relevant keywords on your web-page, you increase the RELEVANCE of your page around your tight-knit group of relevant keywords.

Thirdly, by tagging blog posts and YouTube videos with relevant tags, your content is much more likely to be picked up by a broader number of sites.

And finally – by tagging social bookmarking links with relevant keywords, and having lists of relevant keywords in directory submission keyword lists, you increase the value of those links by increasing their relevance.

And the reason is simple…

By mentioning related keywords, your links and web-pages can seen to be more relevant to that topic.

After I first started my own personal blog, this was the FIRST strategy that I applied that substantially increased the number of visitors that my blog received.

And hopefully it will help you too.

Brent

P.S. – Not all sites will get 41,457 visitors in their first week online

To be fair (and open) the reason I received so many visitors was because I had deliberately targeted a low-competition, newsworthy keyword.

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I wanted to share a video that Eugene Ware (chief troublemaker at NobleSamurai) and I recorded just before Christmas with Alister Cameron.

Alister Cameron is an old buddy and colleague of ours – a real smart cookie when it comes to social media and blogging (and also a truly brilliant designer!)

In this casual video, Alister chats with us about Market Samurai, some recent discoveries we had made around keyword selection and optimization, and increasing blog visitor traffic.

Here’s the link to the video:

Alister Cameron interviews Eugene Ware and Brent Hodgson from the Market Samurai Team

There are a few things that we probably shouldn’t have given away (we’ll try not to be so loose-lipped about things next time ) – but it means that if you’re a Market Samurai user, this video makes for interesting viewing.

Brent

P.S. – The video was published in a blog post announcing the finalists for a Twitter-page design competition, which is currently being judged by internet monolith Guy Kawasaki.

P.P.S. – If you DO use Twitter, you can find us at @NobleSamurai, @EugeneWare and @BrentHodgson

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