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Search engines attract more traffic to a website than anything else

Search engines bring more traffic to a website more than any other means, according to analysis, and targeted search engine marketing can be a very effective way to attract visitors to a website. Targeted search engine marketing is essentially marketing being targeted to your website for a more specific audience, by them using search engines themselves.

For search engine giant Google, which is the most lucrative search engine to be listed on, you can use Google Analytics to increase keyword awareness for your site. These keywords will also be driven through other search engines as well.  

You will need to make sure that the words you are targeting for Google are actually being used by your site’s visitors to find your site. This enables you to verify which keywords are being used by people coming to your site via the search engines. For instance, visitors going to a fashion site, will be using around 10 keywords to get to the website, such as: clothes, fashion, women/menswear, trends, and other fashion related words.

By using Google Analytics, you should be able to test your own site to ensure that the keywords you are hoping to attract visitors with are actually pulling in visitors. The broader the keywords, the more competitors sites are also going to be using those keywords, which lowers your search engine rankings, thus bringing you less visitors.