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How to Get More Organic Traffic From Google (3 Powerful Strategies)

The Secrets to Getting More Organic Traffic from Google to your Website

By Jenny AmuisPublished about a year ago 4 min read
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How to Get More Organic Traffic From Google (3 Powerful Strategies)
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Google search is the most widely used search engine worldwide. This means that SEO for Google, and particularly organic search traffic from Google, is an essential part of any marketer’s digital strategy.

Users now typically use speech recognition or natural language processing to access information through Google rather than typing keywords in the search bar as they did before. As a result, the focus has shifted from keyword optimization to creating content that users want to see first when they conduct a search on Google.

This article covers 3 powerful strategies for increasing your website’s visibility in Google searches and its index so more people can find you and your content more easily. Read on to discover how you can get more organic traffic from Google today!

Add Rich Snippets To Your Website

A rich snippet is a special type of search result that contains more information than normal. Typically, these will appear at the top of the page, where they will be immediately visible to searchers.

Rich snippets are an effective way to increase traffic to your website as they allow you to display information about your business and its services directly in the search engine results page (SERP).

This improves click-through rates from Google, leading to more website visits, leads, and sales. In this way, rich snippets are different from other types of SEO, as they don’t involve optimizing your website for search engines.

Instead, they involve adding extra information to your website that can be displayed directly in the search engine results page.

Google XML Sitemap

An XML Sitemap is a file that contains a list of all the pages on your website, including images, videos, and other media files. The file should be written in XML, hence the name “XML Sitemap.” An XML Sitemap is used by search engines to better understand your website and index it more comprehensively.

This is particularly important if you’re publishing lots of new content frequently. New pages appear in the search engine’s index slowly, so they may be left out of the SERPs until they’re crawled and indexed by the search engines’ bots.

As well as helping search engines to crawl and index your content more quickly, an XML Sitemap makes it easier to create a sitemap for your website. This can be helpful if you want to submit your site to directories for link building purposes.

Create High-Quality Backlinks

A link from another website that points back to your website is known as a “backlink.” Links from high-quality websites are an essential part of any SEO strategy.

Backlinks are important because they demonstrate that reputable websites are linking to your website. This is a sign that your content is relevant and useful, which is something that Google takes into consideration when ranking websites in its SERPs.

Your website can be linked to by other websites in a number of ways. You could request that other websites add a link to your website on their pages, for instance.

This is known as “link requesting.” You could also submit your website to directories and ask to include a link back to your site in the description.

Produce Engaging Content

The thing that really matters when it comes to SEO is creating content that your target audience really wants to read. This content is what will bring people from Google to your site and keep them there.

Engaging content is content that is relevant, informative, and interesting for the reader. The more engaging your content is, the more likely it is to be shared on social media.

When this happens, your content can be seen by a huge number of people who were not originally looking at Google.

For example, if you publish a blog post that’s relevant to your audience, explores an interesting concept, and is well-written and structured, it’s far more likely to be shared than your marketing materials, which are usually generic and designed to appeal to everyone.

Conclusion

The best way to find out what your audience wants to read is to ask them. You can do this by running surveys, hosting webinars, and conducting interviews. You can also learn a great deal by simply reading the comments on your social media posts.

When you know what your audience wants to read, you can use that knowledge to inform your content strategy. Create blog posts, videos, and other content that people want to read.

This way, you’ll reach a much wider audience than you would with marketing materials like sales pitches and brochures.

When you engage with your audience, you’ll also be building relationships. These relationships can lead directly to more traffic from Google and more leads and sales for your business!

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