how do I increase my google traffic?

Bikertov

kwikbreaks wrote: »

What you really need to research is whether the phrase is actually being searched for...

http://www.google.com/trends?q=league+table+spreadsheet

In this case it seems that the answer is no so coming top in a search for it is of quesionable benefit

WOW !

I have been running my Website for 8 years now, and did not know about Google Trends - so a big thanks for that. Another tools in my SEO toolbox !

rambo89

agree with bikertov, SEO is NOT about stuffing meta tags full of keywords and hiding text. That is likely to get you banned from Google if you get caught. People stopped doing that in 1999.

Top of Google is fine, but top of Google for what? If you're top of Google for your company name, thats hardly an achievement. You need to be top for the things that your customers are likely to search for.

Create good content that people want to read, then get other sites to link to it. Thats the basics but for the more advanced stuff you've got a LOT of reading to do.....

rambo89

google is not the final frontier. It is the first, the middle and the last. Sure Yahoo, MSN etc all play a part, but optimise for Google and the rest will follow.

john_s_2

Re my earlier post... I admit my page I referred to isn't the most sought after page in the whole world!

The point I meant to make (not very well it seems) was that offering something that no one else is offering should get you up the search-rankings by itself. But offering the same thing as 100s of others will be a lot of effort. Of course, if you think that your offering is superior than most of the rest then go for it and good luck!! :-)

What you really need to research is whether the phrase is actually being searched for... In this case it seems that the answer is no so coming top in a search for it is of quesionable benefit

Obviously the item being searched for is not going to come in the top 10 (100, 1000 etc) of search requests. But it is searched for and the emails I've had over the years from satisfied 'customers' is good enough for me.