Soon I want to build myself a new website. So far, I promoted my other website (= web design) through the local market. Therefore I don't have any experience with SEO!!

I would like to receive approximately 1000 hits on a daily basis in the beginning!

How difficult is it nowadays to get 1000 visitors a day?

Probably, you will say that this depends also on the subject of my website. I don't know what I should do: choose a subject based on popular search term keywords or a specific market (less popular search term keywords)!?

If a build my website around popular search term keywords, then the competition is too big & most likely very difficult for someone like me to get a high page ranking.

I mean there are thousands of webmasters out there who know much better how to optimize websites for search engines then me!!

If a choose something specific, not very common whereby the search term keywords are (much) less used by visitors then you still have competition, but how much traffic can I expect on a daily basis!?

Also link exchange is a problem here:

If you don't have any traffic then popular websites/highly ranked websites will not do link exchange with my website!!

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- I hope that someone is able to tell me how I can approach above mentioned things!

- How I get 1000 hits a day with a new website & how soon?

- What should be a good subject for my website regarding my abilities (read - SEO beginner ) in order to get minimum 1000 hits a day!

P.S. The reason why I mention all the time that I want at least 1000 hits a day to start with is because I also would like to use affiliate programs on my website in order to make a few bugs as well from this!!

I hope to hear from you soon... Many thanks for your time & effort!

Greeting,

Michel

Getting 1000 hits a day is easy as pie; getting 1000 visits a day is much harder. Currently, my website gets around 17,000 visits a month, but the number of hits is well into the hundreds of thousands.

What I would recommend is this: before you spend a lot of money on hiring an SEO professional, do as much as you can yourself. Since you said you do web design, you're probably already familiar with some of this:

• Have a nice, clean site design in which all of your pages are linked to.
• Avoid hidden text, images, and layers whenever possible.
• Include META tags (they're not as important as they're hyped up to be, but they are still beneficial).
• Have the keywords that you want to target somewhere in your webpage text (the more frequent without being excessive, the better). This means that if you want to target the phrase "web design", you'd better mention somewhere that you are a web designer!
• Submit your website to search engines. There are plenty of ways of doing this automatically (or you can even do it through my submission website, AtomicSubmit.com and I'll personally take care of it for you.

After all of that, if you want to spend money on advertising I would recommend setting up a Google AdWords account and a Looksmart account. In fact, Looksmart got me much further than AdWords did, and it even boosted my PageRank greatly by having dozens of Looksmart's search engine partners link to me in their directories.

As for keyword targeting, don't be too specific yet. Once the money is pouring in and you are ready to fight for the top spots, go ahead. For the time being, it may be better to go for "fast web site design", "ohio web design", "web page design", or something like that as opposed to "web design".

With all of that said, good luck! PM me if you need anything else.