Optimizing Your Blog Posts For Better Search Engine Ranking
Long before the golden days of Google Adwords in the home based business industry
was the need to learn SEO or Search Engine Optimization strategies for ranking on the search engines.
On any of the main search engines there are two types of search results for keywords and phrases that get typed into the search bar. The first are sponsored adverts along the top of the page and down the side where advertisers can bid for relevant keywords to be able to place their adverts on the search engine listings.
Make money online claims, income claims and replicated websites answering multiple queries with identical websites have all come under scrutiny from Google in the last year or so. They have axed thousands of accounts for giving their searchers a bad search experience and the pressure from the FTC has increased the sensitivity to making money from home claims, legitimate or not to the point of being non existent.
This leaves a huge gap in the market place for creative ways in which you can still get your marketing message seen by searchers but in the organic listings not the sponsored listings.
People have more faith in the natural listings in any case and creating good content is the only real way a marketer stays in the industry for the long term so those are two reasons why this is a great opportunity.
If you are the first to rank for a keyword you will have a golden flow of leads for all time just from one piece of great content. It can be a video, article, blog post, hubpage or squidoo lens it just has to be relevant for your keyword phrase and be ranked highly for popularity and relevancy.
Blogging is one of the most SEO friendly ways in which you can rank highly on the Search engines and the Wordpress All In One SEO plug in makes the whole job really easy
Tip#1 Is to create an eye catching tabloid style headline that attracts readers but make sure you have your keyword or keyword phrase at the beginning of the title not the end.
Tip#2 Is to get yourself noticed on the search engine listings themselves by having a keyword rich compelling meta description to attract eye balls and visitors to your content.
3. Meta tags or keyword tags. Only use about one dozen keywords, closely related to your topic but not your money keywords because your competitors will poach them. Stuffing your posts with keywords will not help your search engine rankings and it is believed that Google pay little or no attention to the tags for ranking purposes.