Content
We all know that having content is key. The content must be targeted around your keyword. Write an article between 300 and 400 words much like if you submitting it to a regular article directory. Apply the same standards that the directory would adhere to. Its very easy to write a sales pitch and post it up on your blog. But is this what you want to see if your searching for a particular item? A sales pitch? No you want answers or tips or reviews..information! Not a sales pitch.
OK so we have content. Here are a couple of things that my help SEO your Post.
1. Ensure the keyword your targeting is in the Title of your post.
2. (kinda of a recap) But re-read your article and make sure you have keyword density.
3. Make sure you have only one link back to your domain. Too many might seem spammy.
4. Add your post to a category based on the keyword or phrase.
5. Add meta tags to your post.
6. Add the keyword into the url of your post
Backlinks
Wikipedia -Backlinks (or back-links (UK)) are incoming links to a website or web page. In the search engine optimization (SEO) world, the number of backlinks is one indication of the popularity or importance of that website or page (though other measures, such as PageRank, are likely to be more important). Outside of SEO, the backlinks of a webpage may be of significant personal, cultural or semantic interest: they indicate who is paying attention to that page.
There are several ways to generate backlinks.
1. Article Marketing.
Now that you have an article posted to your blog. Take that same article and submit it to several of the higher page ranked article directories ie ezinearticles, goarticles etc. Its a fast, effective easy to get backlinks to your blog.
A couple of tips:
a. Input anchor link in resource box as your keyword is linked back to your
website. Example: To know more about Blogging and more...
b. Always have a call to action in your resource box
c. Give a free gift in your resource box to entice people to click your link.
2. Comments
Another great way of getting backlinks is with comments. Find high page rank blogs related toyour subject. Develop a 'relationship' with that blog by commenting often..once a week or so..but you must leave a relevent comment dont just write.."hey great blog" or "hi". Many blog will give you the ability to place you link in the comment box thus getting you a backlink. A great way of finding these high PR blogs is with various software applications or you can manualy do the search with google.
Social Bookmarking
There are basically a few types of web 2.0 sites that can drive you tons of traffic to your blog, below are different types of sites you can get traffic from.
- Social Bookmark Sites
- Video Streaming Sites
- Social Networks
An example of a Social Bookmark Site is Digg.com. Digg.com front page has an Alexa Ranking of 89. Just imagine the the amount of traffic you will get if your post appears in the front page. To know if your post will get in the front page is to determine by the number of
diggs you get from users from Digg.com.
Digg.com is just one of the social sites that are available online. In fact there are over hundreds of social book marking sites online. So, when you compare to how tedious it can be submitting your website individually to other websites, you will come to appreciate the advantages in having your URLs Social Bookmarked by these Social Web 2.0 sites, Great news for you, this can be easily done by using a free online tool at www.OnlyWire.com . It is a web based Internet tool where you sign up for a free account and submit to 18 popular social bookmark sites with the click of a button.
For more in depth information about these techniques please visit: Blogging ( A Step By Step Guide to Blogging ) |
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