9 Simple Search Engine Optimization Tips for a Blog

2 Apr, 2007 | Written by John | under Blog Promotion

Search Engine Optimization Tip 1

Keyword Rich Quality Content…

Identify a few keywords or preferably keyword phrases that your going to target for your blog post. Now work out what the average internet surfer would type into google to find the information your going to write about. The answer to that question will be your keyword/keyword phrase that you will target for this particular blog post…

Once you have identified this keyword/phrase make sure that you repeat this throughout your post, without deliberately spamming the search engines with repeating the keyword/phrase too often. Always make sure that you include the keyword/phrase in the title of your post and in the first paragraph as well…

Search Engine Optimization Tip 2

Submit to blog directories. There are loads of blog directories out there which will get your traffic started. I recommend getting the firefox browser plugin from here that will speed up the submission process a lot…

Search Engine Optimization Tip 3

Swap links with other topic related blogs. The most important factor here is to only link with quality blogs that you think are worthy of your blogs readers visiting…

Search Engine Optimization Tip No 4

Outbound linking. Using relevant outbound links from your blog is a good thing as far as i'm concerned as long as they are done in moderation and they add value to the particular post. For example in my last post titled:Internet Business Blog Drug Addicts - Shocking Statistics!

I actually have an outbound link to James Brausch's site which inspired my post in the first place. This is only natural outbound linking as you can see. This is a good example of natural outbound linking for your blog…

Search Engine Optimization Tip 5

Choosing your domain name. Try and make sure that you include the keyword/phrase that your targeting with your blog in your domain name. One way to analyse domain names would be to use a domain name ranking software

Search Engine Optimization Tip 6

Make sure you register your domain name for more than 1 year. I would recommend registering your domain name for at least 5 years if your serious about building a successful internet business. Google now looks at the length of the registration of a domain in it's ranking factors. The main reason google likes long registered domains is that spammy sites tend to be only registered for a short period…

Search Engine Optimization Tip 7

One tightly focused topic for each blog. Make sure that your blog is tightly focused on one particular topic, therefore when google comes to visit your site it will know what your blogs topic is about. Don't try and spread your content too thinly by writing about non related topics on your blog…

Search Engine Optimization Tip 8

Try and avoid using duplicate content such as free reprint articles from article directories because google will see this as duplicate content and won't rank you highly for it. I know it's hard to keep producing good unique quality content but it will pay off in the long run when you get higher rankings for it. I'm personally not posting ANY of the articles I write for this blog on any article directories. This means the only place that the unique content I produce can be read is on this blog

Search Engine Optimization Tip 9

Make sure you ping services like Pingomatic after every post to your blog notifying them that you have updated your blog. I will be shortly posting the addresses of all the sites that I ping after each post…

There you have it 9 simple search engine optimization tips for a blog…

Make sure you apply them today…

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