Increasing Traffic Rank 74,093 More Notches

Additional Techniques in Increasing Traffic Rank

Traffic Rank Increases at the Upper Stratum
It seems that as you reach the upper stratum of high traffic ranks, it is much
harder to gain big increments in your traffic rank increases. It was easier
when you, for instance, start with a traffic rank of 5,000,000+. When you start
to get serious in increasing your traffic rank, increments from this level will
give you a joyful experience because the incremental increase is very big. How-
ever, as one ascends the ladder of the traffic rank scale, it takes more than
the old techniques you used, to get additional increments into your traffic rank.
Thus, in my sharing with you, I became really exact and specific by saying that
it took also a lot of hard, hard work to get that 74,093 more notches increment
in traffic ranking. What I will share may give you some idea of what you
yourself can do, in your own style, of how you are going to increase your traffic
rank.

Writing Articles As Usual
I continued as before writing articles so that people may patronize my website,
bring in more traffic and thus increase my traffic rank. And so I went about a
fairly big project of writing 18 articles. I wrote down the topics and subjects
of this 18 articles and took it to heart to finish as soon as I can so that I
can take the opportunity of riding the wave of the website's steady traffic
rank increases. Thirteen of the articles I wrote were "genuine" articles. By
this I mean they were written in formal paragraph form. Most them were composed
of 3-4 paragraphs each and the topics dwelt on spirituality, theology and the
internet. After finishing these 13 articles, I came upon a newletter on the
Internet which said that producing "small entry pages" can make a difference
for your website - in visibility in the search engines and thus also in traffic.
Eventually, these "small entry pages" will bring in the increment of traffic rank
we are aiming for.

"Small Entry Pages"
And so I took the advice of that columnist to make the small entry pages for the
website. I focused very much on one keyword each for each small entry page and
made sure that that one keyword is in every line of the article. How do you do
this without being redundant and repetitively uncomfortable in reading? What I
did was to make the article in the form of a list - both in unordered and ordered
style. Thus, the beginning of each list can contain the keyword without being
very redundant. The keyword in fact introduces the subject of the topic and in
doing this in a list, the stress is even more emphatic and quite didactic in
tone. An example of those small entry pages are:
Vatican Teaching
Good Education Hub
Prayer Series
Primer on the Bible
The Catholic Vocation

Second-Level Navigation Menu
Catholic Internet Mission has a first-level navigation menu. By first-level, I
mean it includes navigation between the domain and the files connected with the
domain page, the index.html. With the 18-webpage project that I produced, I
used a subdirectory to contain the files of the articles. Thus, in a way, if a
navigation menu were to connect this 18-webpage project, it would be at second-
level. And so I created the second-level navigation menu which contains all the
links of the 18-webpages. However, I did not put this second-level navigation
menu in all of the 18-webpages. I focused on putting it in the 5 small entry
webpages. As I put this second-level menu in the 5 small entry pages, I also
included the first-level navigation menu at the top of the 5 small entry pages.
This way, as the small entry pages make it to the search engines and they get
traffic as a result of that, when they get visited, visitors will also be led
to the main pages of the website, especially to the domain page.

Reciprocal Linking As Usual
I did not rely only on producing articles and using the 5 small entry pages
strategy with the first-level and second-level menu navigation built inside
the pages. I also went about working hard as usual with getting reciprocal
links the manual way. It is not easy but it works.

Reflecting on the Experience
The nearer you get to the top of the traffic rank scale the harder it is to make
big increments in your achievements. I guess it is similar to climbing a
mountain. Whereas at the bottom of the mountain, it was easier to climb because
of the foliage and the many footholds that you can anchor yourself to. Towards
the top of the mountain, the weather becomes harsher, colder, and the mountain
seems to be made more like rock rather than soil. And it is all the more dan-
gerous as one makes it near to the top. One false step and it could mean your
death. Everything must be cautiously done. The same thing is true with our
goal to get more traffic and to get a higher traffic rank. We have to think
well how we are to construct our pages and make our linkaging and menu
navigation so that we do not dilute PageRank and make a mistake of losing
traffic rather than building it. It is important to think not only twice, not
only thrice, but many, many times as one reaches the upper stratum of traffic
rank. It is a big challenge. A very big challenge indeed. But before we embark
on it we must make sure what we are really striving for. Otherwise, when we do
reach and achieve our goals, it might be an experience of "so it's just like that".
"Is that all there is?" Success is empty if we do not base it on a spiritual goal,
on an ideal that is more than just the numbers we are aiming for. When we base
our motivation on a noble goal and on a spiritual ideal that is larger than
ourselves, then our success will not be empty. On the contrary, it will take
us more into a direction were we become a people of altruism, generosity, and
benevolence. And these are the qualities in a person every society needs for it
to grow into a civilization that is life-giving, nurturing, and very concerned
with each others' needs. For those of you who are Catholic like me, sometimes
it takes a great love for God to really see that success is not by our own
efforts alone. We work, yes. But success is really a gift. And it is a gift
not in the sense of an award or something material or anything monetary. Rather
it has to do what is deep down inside us and how we relate to a God who created
us from nothing.

Dennis-Emmanuel Cabrera
January 18, 2005

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