"Building Blog Traffic" Posts
How can you get visitors to check out your blog and keep them coming back?
Search Engine Optimization for Blogs – Part 3
Submitting your blog to search engine and blog directories is a good way to attract visitors to your blog. Here we discuss where to list your blogs.
Part 3 of 4: Submit Your Blog to Search Engines and Blog Directories
Submit to Search Engines
Have the search engines found you yet? While a bit time consuming, you may want to take the time to sumbit to various search engines.
Each search engine has its submission procedure, but often you just submit the main URL that you want included in the index.
Search Engine Optimization for Blogs – Part 2
The way Search Engines index your blog is by sending “robot” crawlers to your site to track what you’ve written and follow the links. Here we discuss how linking both inside and outside your blogs can help you with search engine optimization.
Part 2 of 4: Linking Strategy
Get Inbound Links
Every link to your site is seen by the search engines as being a vote of confidence in your site. The best inbound links? These are from higher ranked sites than your own, that are relevant to the topic you are writing about, and who link to you using relevant keywords. Find them and try to get them to link to you.
Search Engine Optimization for Blogs – Part 1
Because blogs naturally offer new content to search engines, you might think you can skip optimizing your blog. In our latest series, here are some ideas you can use to attract search engines to your blog.
Part 1 of 4: Start with Quality Content on a Specific Topic
Quality Content
The best way to get links to your blog is to write quality content that people will want to read. This is still the cheapest and probably safest approach toward to build inbound links in a natural organic way because others want to link to quality content.
Keyword Rich Content
Consider: “How will I want people to find this post in Search Engines?” What will readers type into Google to find the information on the topic you’re writing? Use your answers to identify a few keywords (go for 3-5) for the article you hope to get highly-indexed. Then pepper those keywords throughout your post, as well as in titles, heading tags, image alt tags, and meta tags.
5 Ways to Get Readers to Comment on Your Blogs
Is your blog lonely? You’ve been blogging for a while, but no one seems to be adding to your conversation. Here are five ways you can entice the blogosphere to comment on your blog …
- Invite Comments Via Email – Sending out an email invitation can be helpful toward getting the conversation going. Choose people who can effectively add to the discussion not just your “buds.”
- Ask for Them at the End of the Post – Simply say, what do you think? or what is your experience with? These types of questions can encourage shy readers to contribute.
5 Ways to Grow Your Blog
Now that you’ve started a blog, how do you get those readers to come over and read what you have to say?
Think About Your Content
Go beyong a diary and plan out a content strategy. What will you write about? How often will you post? How will you market what you’ve published? Strive to produce content that matters.
Get a Scoop
Break a big story and get a bunch of inward links and your traffic will flow exponentially. You’ll earn respect (street cred) and build a reputation for being someone in the know.
