Link Bait Technique: Tickle Their Fancy

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 ... 0 Comments

Link Bait Technique: Stir Up Controversy

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 ... 0 Comments

What Is Link Baiting?

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 ... 0 Comments

Cross Linking Between Posts: The Good and the Bad

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 ... 0 Comments

Internal vs. External Links

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 ... 0 Comments

Addressing High Bounce Rates

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 ... 0 Comments

Using Technical Terms When Blogging

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 ... 0 Comments

Keywords in Your Post Title

As promised, here is another post on how you can best use keywords to boost your SEO efforts for your blog. Let me ask you, how do you come up with post titles? Do you like coming up with a cryptic and catchy title? Or do you think about other things? Uniquely interesting titles are good. When they are outrageous and cryptic, they do tend to get more clicks as human readers would wonder what the post might be about. However, if you focus solely on this consideration, your post might not even make it to ... 0 Comments

Going Back To Keywords

I already made my segue for this topic in the previous post – if not PageRank, then what? The “what” is the use of keywords. In the early days of SEO, a lot of people obsessed about keywords. The basic idea was that the more keywords you have in your page, then the better you will be off in terms of search engine rankings. It was not long till web writers took up the practice of keyword stuffing. That is, cramming as many keywords ... 0 Comments

Do You Want Traffic? Pay Attention To Blog Design!

You do realize that I am talking about traffic to your blog and not traffic on the streets, right? If you are still thinking terms of the latter point, then I suggest you go back to the earliest posts in this blog and learn a bit more about SEO and blogging. Anyhow, I think that traffic is one of the most important things – if not THE most important – that bloggers want to have, at least those bloggers who want other people to read their blogs. So ... 2 Comments