The New SEO - 5 Must Do's to Increase Traffic to Your Website

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Search engine optimization seems to go through multiple changes every year or so. Depending on Google’s new algorithm, you’ll see posts all over the Internet that offer advice on how to increase traffic to your website. Some of the tips are certainly helpful, while others are still part of the guessing game that Google seems to favor. Here, however, are five things you must do in order to increase traffic to your website.

#1 Website Design – Your website needs to be easy to navigate, user-friendly and clear to anyone who visits. In today’s mobile device-dominated world, your website also needs to be mobile-friendly.

#2 Create Original Content – Engaging, original content is more important now than ever. Your visitors want to learn and see new things. Using rehashed content shows visitors that you’re really not serious.

#3 Put Social Media to Work for You – You can drive a lot of traffic to your website with a great social media campaign. It needs to be targeted at the right users, though, so make sure you take time to determine exactly who that is.

#4 Become a Guest Blogger – You can increase traffic to your site by becoming a guest blogger on someone else’s site. A whole new crowd of readers are likely to check out your site, especially when your biography is engaging and interesting.

#5 Use Analytics – You have to know where your current traffic is coming from in order to build more traffic. Google Analytics is simple to use and free.

What do you think? What has impacted your SEO the most? Tell me about it in the comments below!

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