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How To Grow Websites Popularity
Written by Demi Lee   
There are two sides of SEO, the first part is website optimization the second part is website promotion. Once you get your website up and running and you optimize your pages you need to start promoting it. Just building links won't help you achieve a thing, since search engines can recognize a link spam. You need to do a natural (organic) link building if you want to achieve success.

Building organic links means writing articles, maintaining blogs and making press releases. That will help you rank higher, but that is not the only goal here. Visits you get from a search engine are less than 50% of traffic, so that means that other 50% or more comes from those links. By following one or several link building methods, you will be building your audience as well.

Community Building

Community building is the first phase in growing your websites popularity. You need to create a user base that will overtime become a solid community. This is not an easy task at all, however if you can do it, you will always have returning users. You can achieve this by building a forum or blog or any other multi user interface. That is a hard task but the benefits are great.

Press Release

Press releases are a great way to obtain links. Press releases for your website and its activity need to have catchy titles that describe the release itself. Good structure of a press release is necessary. There are even SEO websites that focus on optimizing press releases. Make sure to check them out.

Link Building

The best way to build your links if you are starting out in an already established niche is by monitoring and analyzing the links of your competitors. You don’t need to do your research when somebody else has already done it for you. There are several ways to inspect backlinks of a competitor’s website.

The easiest way of doing this is by using some of the applications and programs the SEO specialists have developed. Of course, don’t just submit to any website offering links, you are aiming for organic traffic after all.

Building Reputation

Building reputation and at the same time popularity is the most important part of owning a website. It does take a lot of time, but in the end it is worth the effort. Your income will depend mostly on your reputation and popularity. The best place to start is by building a unique personality of your website. Every niche is explored and used, so the only way you are going to separate yourself from the competition is by creating something different when it comes to your site, by giving it personality.

Letting the people know more about your website and gaining popularity, and at the same time developing personality, requires a lot of personal effort. This means that you are need to use forums, blogs, chat rooms and other social media websites in order to inform people about your website.

Always use the same picture, same avatar, and same signature for all of those. Be honest with the people and give honest and useful advices. Interaction with people is crucial in the beginning. This is the best way of gaining organic traffic.

Targeted Keywords

The last part about gaining popularity is getting your name out in every way possible. We already covered all the basics, but now we are returning to the roots of SEO, keyword targeting. It is difficult to find a short term or short keyword phrase that has low competition. For those kinds of words you will have hard time ranking in the search engines first 20. So, what can you do?

You need to target long tail keywords. Long tail keywords are easier to rank for, competition is smaller and they tend to bring more organic traffic. A person that knows what he wants will type in a long tail keyword, and that person is more likely to make a purchase or convert. Another great aspect of long tail keywords is that you get to establish yourself as an expert in a sub niche.

Every niche is covered, but every niche has sub niches. Therefore, if you tap your website into one of those sub niches you may build up popularity and authority. That is what search engines like and they will give you a high ranking. That is also what people like. If they see you as an expert in a certain field or niche they are more likely to visit your website and revisit it later.

In the end, gaining popularity for your website and keeping it is an ongoing process like most parts of SEO. Building a website and maintaining it over a few years is a lot of work, but if done properly it can be very profitable. You need to remember, if you want your website to be around in a few years, you have to work on its content, authority, personality and eventually popularity.

Stay focused on the most important aspects of website optimization and you will be on a good path to make your website popular.
 
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