In today’s post, we discuss tips for bloggers that cover writing and optimizing for search engines. Getting this combination correct can result in highly beneficial results for any and every blogger!
Tip #1: Write the best possible content each time you post, even if you post every day!
“Post to your blog often” is the first piece of advice most all bloggers see when learning to blog. The reason this advice is so popular, is due to the fact that it is based on the assumption that posting often demonstrates that you are committed to what you do. The logic in this is simple, posting often results in visitors and readers coming back to your blog to see and read about what you’re up to (maybe even buy something- wink).
However, posting too often could have the opposite effect!
When visiting a blog for the second time, many readers might be looking for the same post to re-read or something similar. However, forcing your readers to go through a several new posts, 1, 2, or sometimes even 3 a day, could be a definite “turn-off” for most readers. The end result? Your reader will just use a search engine to find what they’re looking for (click, and goodbye reader).
Furthermore, posting 2, 3 or more times in a day usually leads to inferior content due to writers fatigue, and therefore less interesting. So instead of posting several times a day, simply post once a day or just whenever you think you have something interesting or useful to write about.
Put some thought into your posts, give your readers a reason to come back and always avoid bombarding them with clutter. Focus your effort on a few good topics. Remember, quality over quantity wins hands-down every time when blog posting.
Tip #2: Optimize your Blog for Search Engines
Most often, many bloggers start blogging the wrong way. Usually when a blogger starts blogging, they do so by relying primarily on social networks for traffic. Social network traffic is great but it rarely converts into money. The best traffic to make money is Search Engine Traffic.
A blogging tip every blogger should read and re-read is this…
Search engine traffic will be the most profitable kind. And although Social networking is an easy way to generate traffic, you should often always spend time to ensure your blog and posts are properly optimized to rank well in search engine result pages. Take a few hours a week and perform a few scheduled and simple search engine optimization tasks.
Tip #3: Blogging SEO In your blog
Make sure your titles are relevant to your topic, make sure you refer to your topic keywords throughout your posts, and make sure you tag your posts properly. Also make sure to interlink your posts with older relevant posts. Always use keywords you are interested in ranking high for and keep these keywords concentrated around a specific topic.
Tip #4: Links from other sites
Get as many one way inbound links with anchor text as you can; by many I mean Thousands!
Think of your site or your blog as a property you acquired in a rural area. Once you begin building on this property, you’ll need to make a road, get it hooked up with power and so on, right? Creating backlinks is much like the road to your property, and is critical to your blog or sites ability to prosper.
Don’t rely only on other bloggers to link to you. Create backlinks to your blog by submitting articles in databases. Write a few 400-500 word articles on similar topics you write about in your blog, add back links with anchor text and start submitting. Ideally, you should submit a few articles to thousands of directories for every post you write. Software is available to help you do this, and be sure to do the same thing for each post.
You can easily create thousands of one way links to your blog and particular posts in less than a few hours. Social bookmarking also works great for this purpose. Make sure you get your posts bookmarked at as many bookmarking sites as possible.
Also, once a week or once every two weeks, use Google Webmaster Tools and see which posts of yours showed up in search engine result pages. Go back to them and optimize them. Add more keywords, make the title catchier, tag them better or even elaborate on certain things you wrote and think will help them rank better in searches.
These are just a few tips to help you on your way to becoming a top-notch blogger! I hope you’ve gotten something from them, and will put them to use…Now!
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Until next time,
Godspeed
James
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