SEO or search engine optimization is very important for blog sites to increase following and attract new readers. Through SEOs readers can actually know that your blog exists. Here are some tips that you can utilize to increase readership. Otherwise, it will remain invisible and it will be buried along with the many blog sites out there.
Strategic keyword placement is a common technique, for the reason that search engines such as Google and Yahoo, rank sites based on keywords. Your title must have a primary keyword which you can use in headings or other tags in your content. Ensure that image text descriptions or alternate tags contain keywords that are used in your blog posts.
When you link to other pages or websites use keyword-rich links. Make sure that you have the right keyword count. Use these keywords ...
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Blogging has been one of the most popular things that people do today. Anyone can have their own blog site and write their opinion or write about anything they want. As long they have followers and their posts are interesting to many, it is fine. Now if you are a blog writer and some of your posts were highlighted and you have received bad comments and even a string of profanity from some of your readers what are you to do?
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Taking your blog seriously is not just about posting content. It is making sure that it reaches a network of readers in order to gain a regular following. For this reason, more bloggers opt to register in web portals or search engines to boost their hits and gain more exposure.
BlogSearchEngine allows you to reach a wider audience and increase traffic in your site by adding you to their comprehensive and organized listing. They also provide a reviewed informational description of your blog and a promotional link to your site through several PR5 and PR6 directories.
The redesigned
BlogSearchEngine site currently offers the following packages:
Standard Package $14.99
Blog Search Engine Review Listing
Silver Package $24.99
The Silver Membership Package includes the same offerings as the Standard Package plus a blog review which is written and published with permanent backlinks on Bloggy ...
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Humor is something that is universal. It can be expressed through words, pictures, or video. And you are sure that if your blog is funny enough, you will get the attention of people all over the world and even get them to link to your blog.
This technique is perfect to bait links although I see one flaw – while humor is something that may be natural to some people, not everyone has the gift of expressing humor. I have seen so many bloggers try their hand at humor and fail miserably. There is nothing worse than trying to be humorous and having your jokes fall flat, don’t you think?
If you are not a natural stand up comedian, do not despair, though. I have seen many other blogs which make use of pictures and videos – which they collect from all over the place. This ...
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I wrote something on link baiting in the previous post. Now who would not want to get some other sites to link to his or her blog, right? Well, one way by which you can do that is to stir up some controversy. Get right into the heat of things and get people to notice you!
You know the saying that nice people always finish last? It is something like that, except that you do not have to be “un-nice” to stir up some controversy. The idea is to pick one of the hottest topics that people are talking about and then to go against the flow. That is, if your opinion is not the same as the popular opinion, go right ahead and declare it to the world. You’d be surprised at just how many people will take notice of you.
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I am sure that you have seen this term – or a derivative of it – so many times. But do you really know what link baiting is all about? To be honest, when I first forayed into the world of blogging, I encountered the term link baiting so many times but I did not really pay that much attention to it. One reason I had was that term seemed to carry a negative connotation to it. As such, I didn’t really feel the need to look at it more closely. After some time, though, I realized that it was too big of a thing (time and again I would encounter it) too ignore.
So what is link baiting, really? I like how Darren Rowse explains it:
The term
linkbaiting is a one that seems to have surfaced over ...
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Cross link between your own posts/pages can be beneficial for your blog but at the same also brings some disadvantages. To maximize its benefits you should know its pitfalls so as to avoid them.
The Good
Cross linking benefits you in two ways: it helps you SEO-wise and helps your readers find related more easily. For the SEO part, cross linking is good because it helps establish relevancy between posts and pages. Pages containing related topics will, of course, be the ones linked to each other. Just make sure the anchor text for the links contain the keywords you need to help search engines know what the pages’ topics are.
When it comes to helping your readers, cross linking to older related posts will not only make access to these posts a whole lot easier for readers but will actually encourage them to stay on your blog longer.
The Bad
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What’s more important – internal or external links?
Both kinds of links are very important but when it comes to SEO external links carry more weight. The reason for this is that, as we know, one of the factors that search engines look at to determine a page’s rank is popularity. The number of external links is indicative of the popularity of a page, which is why search engines give this type of links more weight. However, always remember that when it comes to external links it is not just the number that matters but the relevance of the link to your page’s content as well as the authority of the page that point to you.
Just because external links carry more weight it doesn’t mean that you should neglect internal links. You need to pay attention to internal links for SEO purposes since they still do carry some weight and search ...
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We all know that getting people to visit and keeping the attention are two different things. Most often the bigger problem is not the amount of traffic we get to our site but the high bounce rate. After all with high bounce rates the very purpose for doing SEO is defeated. In the long run I would settle for a little less traffic with higher retention rates because that means that your SEO efforts are not going to waste.
So why do people really leave your site? What can you do to lower your bounce rate?
The top reason for immediately leaving a site is lack of relevance of a site’s content in the search user’s eyes. This can simply be because the user entered a very vague/generic term and you rank really well for some generic keywords. Or it can be because you knowingly opt to squeeze your way into ranking ...
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One of the most common advice given to bloggers is to keep things simple. When writing this means using layman's terms and using a straightforward and conversational tone. However, there are times when you really must use technical terms.
Business/industry blogs
If your blog is industry-specific and your target audience are professionals then using technical terms is not only ok but actually advantageous for you. The reason for this is that you want to appear knowledgeable and "dumbing down" your posts might make your readers think that you are not an expert in the field yet. However, being overly technical is still discouraged since you want your blog to be an easy, even pleasurable read. Keep the tone conversational but use proper technical terms when needed. Another advantage to using technical terms will be the effects on SEO. The technical terms will likely be used by search users and using ...
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