After a career as a professional musician and band leader in the Miami South Florida Area I decided to see if I could make some money with this new internet thing. After years of trial and error I started to get the hang of it and now I am completely financially independent because of my various online businesses. The goal of this blog is to chronicle my continued marketing experiences. I focus on real examples of what works and what does not work.
Google does not give us a recipe for getting our sites ranked. We have to use our own experiences to see what actually works rather than theory.
I hope you enjoy the blog. Please let us know what you think in the comments area. We appreciate your feedback.
How to Increase Organic Search Traffic By Answering FAQ
One of the most effective ways to increase organic search traffic is to answer to your customers questions and solve their problems. So how do you find out what their problems are? One way is to research all the frequently asked questions sections of your competitors websites.
If you ware a personal injury attorney, for example, you can go to Google and type in “Frequently Asked Questions FAQ Personal Injury Law.”
You will get hundreds of pages from various personal injury related websites where they both ask and answer questions.
People are looking for answers to their questions online. If you are the person solving their problem they will be more likely to trust you when they need for example a personal injury attorney.
This tactic will work in any niche, however. The goal is the be the “answer man” or the “authority” in your niche.
Another way to find out what questions people need answers to is to go to industry forums and see what the most popular posts are in your niche.
That is how I got the idea to do this post. I went to the Warrior Forum which is a popular internet marketing forum and went the the Search Engine Optimization forum. This is what I saw:
The post that I saw that was getting the most votes up was entitled “How can I get more organic traffic (SEO)?” So since this is what people seem to be concerned about in my niche I decided to write an article on the subject.
In order to get an seo optimized title I did a little keyword research using the SEM Rush widget. I typed in “organic traffic.”
This is what I saw:
So I decided on a variation of the title “how to increase organic search traffic.” This search term does not get an enormous amount of traffic but there is almost no competition and often you can do better ranking for long tail keywords than for highly competitive keywords.
Another way how to increase your organic search traffic is to look for find out what questions your potential customers are asking is by going to Quora.comwhich is a question and answer site.
You join the site and then you can see what questions people are asking. Simply go to your topic and see what questions people are asking. You can even answer the question if you wish. If you have a relevant article or video you can even include your link or video in the answer. This can give you some excellent quality traffic and back links.
After researching what you customers are looking for you could easily put together a list of the 100 most frequently asked questions in your industry or niche.
Then:
Start a YouTube Channel and do a video for each frequently asked question and answer.
Start a blog and do a blog post for each frequently asked question and answer. Embed the corresponding video into the blog post.
Do social media posts for each frequently asked question and answer
Create an ebook with all of the frequently asked questions and answers and post it on document sharing sites such as Slideshare.net
Give away the ebook to your existing customer base as a bonus to joining your mailing list
Join forums in your industry and answer the most popular questions. Many forums will allow you to include your YouTube video if it is relevant.
Of course, make sure you include links back to your website in all the videos and social media posts.
People are looking for answers to their questions online. If you are the person solving their problem they will be more likely to trust you when they need for example a personal injury attorney.
If You Answer The FAQ of Your Industry on Multiple Platforms You Will Become An Authority In Your Nice And You Definitely Increase Your Organic Traffic.
This tactic will work in any niche. however. The goal is the be the “answer man” or the “authority” in your niche.
If you have any other suggestions on how to increase organic search traffic please comment below.
You must be logged in to post a comment.