People trying to make money online need to get their heads out of the ‘I need tons of website traffic in order to make money’, this is a myth that has unfortunately permeated throughout the web. Most of the self-anointed Internet Marketing Gurus on the net today are all selling this idea that you need a lot of website traffic, the problem is that you could be getting  100,000 visitors to your site per day, but unless they are clicking your ads, and unless your posts are optimized to generate the right ads, and unless they are coming from Search Engines and unless your website traffic is clicking on the right ads for a search query that has value, then you won’t make very much with that traffic.

Another factor that people miss when trying to make money online with website traffic is that their sites are too pretty or too scary, either one will lower the number of clicks you get on your Adsense account. I’m not going to go indepth into this concept today, but what I will tell you is that you should be trying to make your site as simple as possible without it looking like a Made For Adsense site. That means that you want people to stay on your site long enough to get them to click your Adsense ads, and not either scare them away or keep them on your site any longer than necessary. I’m not suggesting taht you create a bogus, poorly written site with nothing of value, what I am suggesting is that you take advantage of the advertising methodology that has existed for some time and that is to give your website traffic what they’re looking for.

What you do not want your website traffic to do is to navigate away from the landing page under any circumstances other than clicking one of you ads. If that means that you need to revamp your site to make it more Adsense friendly, then by all means go for it, but remember, if your sites are too ugly people will just get out of there and not click on your ad. That means that you don’t want any visual distractions that draws people’s attention away from your Adsense ads, nor do you want a site that is impossible to navigate and cluttered. Think about it this way, if you website was your home and website traffic were your guests, if your house was too awesome, your guests would never leave. They would just meander around it (Your Website) looking through your stuff? Or if your home was cluttered and messy, your guests would probably not even walk in, and if they did they would walk out just as quickly and not check out all the great things that you wanted them to see (Your Adsense ads). But if your home was plain and clean, nothing spectacular, and it had something amazing in it, like a great piece of art (Your Adsense ad), your guests would be drawn to that like bees to honey.

In closing, It’s not about the quantity of website traffic, it’s about the quality. Getting the right traffic to your site and keeping them there long enough to click on your ad is the primary way that many Adsense Internet Marketers make money, and you can too.

Content and backlinks are the key to your success in getting visitors to your Website and you need both, the trick is knowing what the dosage is. There are many factors that will dictate how your sites are gauged by the search engines, and it isn’t always possible to know with certainty that you will in fact be able to rank for a specific keyword by following a templated methodology. But what you can do is to use be consistent, using methods that have worked in the past and incorporate them into your overall SEO strategy. The following are examples of what I would do:

1. You need Content, Original preferred but you may be surprised to find that Google doesn’t always reward originality. Your posts should have your keyword both in the title and in the first two sentences, somewhere in the body and in the last sentence. Generally, don’t over do it with stuffing the keyword and as a general rule, I use it approximately 3 – 5 times per post but not always in the same way as it appears in the title. That means that the phrase ‘Backlinks and Content can help get you Web traffic’ is just as valuable as the title itself, and in many ways says the same thing but just in a different way. I have found that rewriting the title can help you with your SEO.
2. Second, Make your posts as long as possible, as a standard rule they should be minimum 500 words – 1000 words. You want to add as many synonyms (different words with the same meaning) this will help you attain site visitors. Here’s a hint, go to Google Adword Tool and type in the keyword that you are targeting and run a search, scroll down to the Additional keywords to consider area to get some ideas of the types of synonyms and alternate keywords to consider.
3. Do this for about 3 months of regular updates in order to start generating Google Trust. That means that you should post at least 2 – 5 times per week for the first 3 months.
4. During this time, start sending some backlinks to your site. Start slowly, don’t over-do it, that means a link here and there – aim for about 1 – 2 links for the first month, and then increase it to 2 – 3 links the second month and so on until the third month.
5. As a general rule, you should be getting niche specific backlinks to your posts and not your home page. Think about it this way, your homepage content keeps changing and therefore sending niche specific links to your homepage doesn’t help much. Generally, the only keywords that you should be sending to your homepage are the ones in the site header.

Much of your success will come from the keyword that you chose. For example, if you are trying to get on page 1 for Google for the keyword ‘Credit Card’, forget about it. You should be targeting keywords that have low competition, and I’m not talking about search volume. Keyword search volume and competition are not one and the same, and that means that you may be able to rank better for a keyword with hundreds of thousands of monthly searches over one that has only a small handful. In essence, you need to run a Google search query and analyze who your competition is.

I’ll speak more about this in later posts. Until then, work smarter and not harder and you will find that with the right content and Backlinks, getting Website Traffic will be much easier than you first imagined, and you will eventually start Making Money Online.