3 Simple Steps to Boost Your Traffic with Google Analytic
Are you using Google Analytic – well if you are not – you should start using it. It’s free and it will give you tons of information about your website.
Check it out here Google Analytic.
You can check it out here… You can’t really do SEO without knowing something about your visitors right?
Let me show you a simple but effective trick where you can use the information from your Google Analytic to grow your traffic.
1. Step – Find the keywords you are already ranking for
This is what you are going to do.
We will first find out what people are searching for in the organic Google searches to find your website.
Go to Google Analytic – Dashboard – Traffic Sources – Sources – All Traffic. In the right window click on “Google / Organic”. In the next window you are going to click on “Source/Medium” and pick “Traffic Sources” and pick “keywords”.
So now you know what people have written in Google search to find your website. This will be your top-ranking keywords that you got right now.
2. Step – find your website’s ranking position
Now we are going to check your keywords position. So go to Google and write you’re the first keyword you just found.
This can be a little tricky – because if you have a new or relatively new site, you might discover that your website is not showing up on the first page – or maybe not the second page in the Google search results.
The point is that you have discovered a page on your website that have a high ranking for a keyword phrase. And this is what we are looking for.
It’s not so important if its showing up on page 1 or 2 (or 3…).
You can find programs which are showing you your ranking. I have found this ranking tool. This way you don’t have to check too many pages if your keyword is not showing up on the 1. or 2. page.
3. Step – building backlinks
Now the last step is to use your knowledge about your keywords and ranking. You are going to use the keyword phrase as your anchor text.
I would go back to Google and search for “SEO guest post” or “SEO blog guest post” or “SEO comments” and find relevant websites, which could be relevant for a link back to my website here. You will have to search for relevant websites to your blog or website.
Write a comment on the website you just found, or contact the site owner and ask if you could write an article with a backlink.
Then write your article with your keyword and a link (also with your keyword or keyword phrase). If you are commenting a post, again remember to mention your keyword or keyword phrase.
Now repeat this for your other main keywords. Simple right? Yeah I know – it will take some time with articles, but then start by commenting some posts.
After some weeks check out your rank position again.
Well that’s all folks – I better start commenting some articles and write some articles.
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All the best to you as always…
Henrik
Comments (21)
Great article with useful tips. Curious to know in analytics my website shows good traffic for discount cleaning supplies and cleaning products, but I’m showing for the last 30 days 1050 (not provided). What is that as its a healthy percentage of our sites organic traffic? Our site is http://www.discountcleaningproducts.com
I am not absolute sure what it is… if I understand your question the analytic will is only showing a percent of all traffic right? I once had that problem when I was showing the last 30 days in hours.. but when I clicked on the “show day”.. I got all the static correct… If I misunderstand you.. pls write back… have a great day out there.. best regards, Henrik
Hi Mike,
If you’re asking what the “not provided” means in Google Analytics, it represents visitors who found you through Google but were at the same time connected to their Gmail account. Several months back, Google has changed their url to https (instead of http) to “protect the privacy” of users connected to Gmail.
That way, we can’t know what people are searching for when they are connected on Gmail, and you can’t know what they searched for either
Not cool, I know.
http://support.google.com/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=173733
Cheers
Hi Laure.. thx for your answer – I remember that too now… and you are right.. not cool at all… cheers back to you … Henrik
As copywriter who works on for many clients, I feature a lot of different work for cllients that are much more searched for than I am.
My questions is that if the keywords that are pulling up in google analytics are not the words I want to be searched for, what is the best strategy for trying to get more relavent search traffic.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Hi Peter… if you or a company have a keyword which you want to get a high ranking for I would start doing a Top 10 report. You can read about it here http://seocustomer.com/how-to-get-into-top-10-of-google/.
You will have to work both onpage and offpage. Onpage – Do you have the keyword in the title, headlines, text, tags on pictures etc. etc. Offpage – the links which are pointing at your page – what are the anchor text, follow/no-follow links.
A basic report can tell you, where to start. If you send me an email at henrikseocustomer@gmail.com and write the url of your page, a keyword you want to get ranking for and the search engine you wanna use – then I can make a report to you, to show you what I mean. It could be like this… the website: “greatcars.com”, the keyword “blue cars” and the search engine “google.com”. Then I have what I need to make the report.
All the best to you… Henrik
It is really helpful and going to try this. Thanks
Hello… its a simple trick… but sometimes simple is the best .. right? Best regards, Henrik
Thanks for sharing this article!! You make it look so simple in your article!! Even though, your suggestions for increasing website’s traffic are good and the steps are correct, but once you started a website without any keyword in mind, it becomes very hard for you to optimize your website for a particular keyword to earn better rankings. The right use of tools like Google Analytic is when you are researching about keyword before launching a website. Anyway, the process you described is still valid.
Hello Helen… and I totally agree with you. If you know your keyword before you write your page … everything is much easiere. Normally I will pick one main keyword and one second keyword for a page before writing. I really love my Google Analytic
… all the best to you.. Henrik
Great post, I’ve also found Google Analytic to be a powerful tool and will share this page with others instead of trying to explain how it works. Thank you!
Thx Bettye…. I really love Google Analytic.. not because it’s free – but because of all the great information you can get from it. If it wasn’t free I would pay for it.. lol… have a great day Bettye. Best regards, Henrik
Excellent advice on how to climb your site up the rankings for things you’re already ranking for. Given the huge difference in ranking #8-9 and ranking #1-2 in traffic those anchor links are going to pay big dividends.
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Hello Charles.. yes exactly. its really like do what you are good at doing… have a great day, Henrik
You got it right! Its the most basic things you need to remember when doing SEO. Your last step is very effective but time consuming. Just be nice to people and don’t look spammy when asking/posting for links. Just always offer help and not ask.
Hello Skylights… yes I know.. getting backlinks is not always so easy. But there are some tips and tricks. Places where you can get backlinks.. you can check some of my articles… But I agree with you.. it’s time consuming (but important).. have a great day out there.. best regards, Henrik
PS.. check this one http://seocustomer.com/high-quality-backlinks-easy-free-and-instant/
Already seen that article and submitted links to some of them, since Im having a hard time with wikipedia. Have a great day also Henrik!
informative post on how we can improve search engine ranking and more traffic to website
Thank you Virtueinfo … best regard, Henrik
Your information has been a literal BREAKTHROUGH for me – I can’t stop smiling as so many things are finally falling into place in my mind – THANK YOU so very much!
Hello Brandi – thx for your kind words – I am happy if you can use some of the tips and tricks from here. Have a wonderful day out there. It’s a hot summerday in Denmark right now – so I better get a cold drink here now … best regards, Henrik