subject: How To Blog And Rank Well In The Search Engines [print this page] How to blog and rank well in the search engines is something you should start thinking about once you have your blog up.
Make sure you do a very good job on your keyword research. Now take your keyword and put it in the title. The next thing you'll want to do is to put the keyword at the beginning of your article and at the end of your article. Take variations of the keyword and put them through out the article too.
On your web hosting server take your main domain name which has your keyword in it and include it in your blog. The reason why you want to keep the keyword in your domain name is because you'll have 50-60% of the traffic going to your main website because of the linking you'll be doing. You'll use a different method of promoting your main page than you will for your blog.
On the main part of your website where you're promoting a product or service you want to write the best ad copy you can get your hands on. Most people skip putting a blog on their website but they shouldn't because this is good search engine spider food. Also doing this will greatly enhance your SEO plan.
Write some articles that center around the main keyword that is in your domain name. This will help you gain extra traffic to your blog. Now you'll want to social bookmark every article, submit the RSS feed to other RSS directories, aggregators and search engine submission directories.
Over time you'll get link value, but the value of the links will be low. Don't stop social bookmarking because of this. Make this routine a part of your SEO plan.
You might be wondering what else you can do because this link value is low with your social bookmarking. There is. Write articles and post them to the different article directories. Hop on different blog networks and post a link from your signature. It's important to replicate what happens in nature so that it looks like something growing over a period of time.
Don't under estimate the power of social bookmarking. It's good because the links build up over a period of time and not something that happens fast.
Social bookmarking is a great way for you to promote your site even though the link value is low. This is search engine spider food. It takes longer to do things this way but well worth the effort in the long run. Following this plan will take one to two week anywhere up to a couple of months for the search engines to pick up on these links. You'll be glad you did this once you start. Learning how to blog isn't that hard. Put together a good plan and stick with it and you'll be successful.
