How a Complete Novice Took a Site from Scratch to Over 1,500,000 Annual Unique Visitors in 2 Short Years

by kristian on August 24, 2009

How a Complete Novice Took a Site from Scratch to Over 1,500,000 Annual Unique Visitors in 2 Short Years

You can’t never underestimate the keyword research. Dave Kelly presents…

For those of you who have purchased some of my products in the past, you know that I have mentioned a site built by my wife.

http://www.greenbeansnmore.com

This site is a perfect lesson on organic SEO and how to apply basic techniques and turn a site into a traffic powerhouse..

This site currently averages around 5000 unique visitors per day, and that’s on a normal day. during those times of the year when holidays are upon us, this site has pulled in as many as 25,000 unique visitors per day.

This site is a passion and a labor of love for her. It was not built to make money but does pretty well.

She likes to cook. And this site 2 years later is the end result though it is always a work in progress.

Here are the lessons you can lern:

1 ) Keyword research. I NEVER make a page without doing keyword research – NEVER.

2 ) Quality content.

3 ) Updating the site.

4 ) On some of my early pages I used bbq-a, bbq-b, bbq-c, etc. as page url’s. I now use keywords in my page url’s – example:

http://www.greenbeansnmore.com/persianlovecake.html

5 ) When writing a title I use up to three keywords, and use a combination of terms that have high search numbers and lower search numbers.

6 ) As I often see my page come up on a Google search with the meta description I take care in writing a description that I think will catch the eye of the searcher.

7 ) I update the index page on a fairly regular basis using content corresponding with a particular time of year.

8 ) Whenever I add a new page or update pages I always update my sitemaps.

9 ) Getting links has probably been the most time consuming and frustrating thing I’ve had to do.

10 ) Article writing. This is another great way to get links to your site.

11 ) Monetizing the site.

Please keep in mind that results don’t happen overnight. Don’t give up on your site. You will be rewarded in time for your good work!

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