How much do you know about the visitors to your web site? Are they
directly interested in what you have to offer them? Is what you are
speaking about on your site general information that is available
anywhere on the internet or something that they can only get from you?
If you are simply rehashing what everybody else is saying than you are
losing out on a lot of traffic and a lot of income.
Exactly how much you need to know remains something of a mystery.
However, it is relatively safe to say that if you offer only
generalities on your web page, you may generate a lot of traffic but you
will probably not get a lot of return visitors. While people who come to
your site initially may provide some base ad revenue, unless they can
interact on your site, they are probably not going to be very receptive
to actual sales pitches from you.
For example, if you are involved in the health care niche and you only
put out a couple of hundred articles about how important health care is
without giving your visitors and readers any real or useful information,
it is not likely that they will be returning to get any real information
from your site. When you offer them something of substance, no matter
whether it is a digital product or something more tangible, they will
remember your mediocrity and not be compelled to purchase your offering.
On the other hand, if you have fifty well-written articles discussing
the different types of health care and different concerns, benefits and
hazards of specific health care needs, your visitors will be more likely
to return. When you have something specific to offer those readers, they
are bound to be more responsive to your offers.
You can have ten thousand people on your list regarding your particular
niche, but are you taking all of the possible variations into
consideration in order to offer something that is directly relevant to
your list? That is not to say that you have to get into too much detail
but that you do need to offer them something that is directly related to
a specific need. If there is no specific need to fill, none of your
visitors will feel a need to purchase it.
While you do not want to narrow your niche down so far that you no
longer have any real audience at all, you do want to include specifics
about as many of those subgroups in your niche as is possible.
Concentrate on building them up one at a time and you will actually fare
much better than you would by bombarding them with everything all at
once.
If you return to our health care niche example, you could very well
start off with a general site stating the relevance of health care and
how important it is for everyone. That main heading can than be broken
down into sub-categories in order to meet and fulfill the needs and
requirements of all of the people that visit your site.
The health care needs of a professional athlete are going to be
different than the needs of an elderly and infirm person. However, by
including sections in your site to cover the needs of both of those
groups, you have expanded your audience by providing more specifics
separated into different areas. You have also accomplished this without
alienating either group. This is something that is very relevant when
you want to generate return traffic or confidence in the products you
have for sale on your site.
Whatever particular niche yours happens to be, try expanding it as far
as possible while continuing to provide enough information for the
casual reader to learn what category they belong in. Offering something
for both the general audience as well as more specific information for
each of the groups within that arena will only expand your audience,
your credibility and your income.
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