The Top 3 SEO Guidelines for Niche Marketers

September 28, 2009 by Bethany
Filed under: Search Engine Optimization

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Now that you have established your niche market, you may be looking for better ideas of how to direct traffic back to your site, but I will tell you that tried and true SEO tips work every time. I have for you the top 3 SEO guidelines that you must know as a niche marketer so that you can draw maximum traffic to your site in the shortest amount of time. If you are looking to expand your niche market and reach all of your target audience, then these are the perfect tips for you to utilize the relatively free force that is SEO for more results with less work. Perfect!

Write a unique META description for each page: Make sure that you are adding a unique META description to each of your pages and not just using the same ones since that will be seen as duplicate content to Google search engines. These page descriptions will not give you a better page rank, so you don’t need to load them full of keywords, but they will make your site more user friendly so that your traffic is more apt to click through these pages.
Give Every Page Original Content: No matter what you are peddling in your niche market site, it is incredibly worth it to take the time and effort to give every one of your pages its own original content with their own natural keywords within them. So if you are selling pages of cowboy boots, then you can have about 200 words of content per page, as well as using the specific type of boot within the text as the keyword. You can also link back to your own pages from your additional content, so that there are no past pages, such as blogs, that are getting moved back into an archive status. You want every page within your site to not only have original content but to be within a few short links back to your home page.
Optimize the Titles of Your Pages: Your title will be where it’s at for you in carrying the weight to rank for your keywords, so that is where you need to make sure that you are optimizing your keywords. Do not make your title more than around 70 characters, and it will be most helpful if you have already researched the targeted keywords for your niche site. You need to make sure that the keywords that you are targeting are something that is already being searched for so that your scope is not too narrow in your niche marketing.

If I have said it once, I have said it 100 times- SEO strategies are vast, and these methods are just the tip of the iceberg. If you are looking to target your own niche audience that are looking for the top brands in men’s and women’s cowboy boots, for example, then put these ideas into play so that you are making sure that your site is utilizing prime SEO tactics to draw more traffic and rank you even higher. Be sure to also focus on making things descriptive so that your users have an easier time quickly navigating your page, becaue studies have proven that the more user friendly that your site is, the better! That is obviously why you are targeting the niche you are in, so make sure that your visitors feel comf0rtable and at home so they can come back again and again. You cannot go wrong!