subject: 7 Tips For Optimizing Your Blog [print this page] An frequently overlooked quality to the success of one's blog, andtherefore, the exposure one receives while marketing on the internet, is optimizing it correctly.
Here are a few quick tips on getting your blog more traffic and getting yourself found faster in the rankings.
1) Be sure your domain title contains keywords you are looking for. This is one of the most often ignored and easist fixes out there; when search engines are scoping the internet for info and keywords related to your area of interest matter, having your blog title contain important keywords is critical for getting it found more easily. If you're unsure if this is indeedthe case, do a little keyword research ( this should not be exceedingly difficult for attaining only one or two phrases) and perhapsevaluate exactly what it is and who it is you're seeking.
For the research section of this transition use the Google keyword tool . It's both easy and complimentary, plus there are tutorials on youtube and other sites if you're having difficulty.
2. Make sure to use the primary keyphrase you're seeking in every post in the TITLE of the post.If you're blogging about how to make money on facebook, make sure you incorporate the word
"facebook" in the title.
3. For secondary keywords in posts,make certain to scatter them here and there, but don't over do it, or google will get upset and just maybe remove your site from its index. You do not want that.
4. Categorize. Your goal is to not only have categories in place that are actual keywords, but this also helps tidy things up for the search engines and aids in making you found. Again.
5. Don'temploy'click here' as an anchor text. Instead, remember- keywords. Use them in anchor text links, to another one of your sites or somewhere else on the same site.
The sense behind this is simply that linked text shoulders more weight than other text, plain and simple. Thisis saying to the search engines " Hey , look at this !" You want what they're looking at to be your site, not the two words that are used the most of any link out there. You guessed it. "Click here"
6. Meta tags- meta tags help depict your site and should retain keywords inserted into them to help focus traffic. If you're using Wordpress
here's a simple way to help with this:
Head on over to plug-ins and download and install the 'All-In- One SEO Pack' plug-in. This puts little boxes under your post and lets you edit titles , keywords and descriptions for every individual post.
7. Get backlinks. Backlinks are important for driving your page-rank and pushing your blog higher in the constantly challenging page rankings.How do you achieve this?
- post comments ( real, well-meaning comments ) in other blogs of the alike genre; do so regularly and this will generate backlinks to you.
-The trackback from the comments you post on other blogs eventually becomes a link back to you, if you post enough.
- register your blog, so that it can be indexed more simply and ranked higher in Technorati,
which will definately help it to get found.
You can make a satisfactory start by submitting your blog to all the directories on this page:
http://masternewmedia.org/rss/top55.
Hope this helps you with the success of your blog: for more tips on generating leads and accumulating capital online just follow the links below.
