The SEO Pointers for Blogs
There are a couple of ways that you can give your blog a helping hand to rise in the search engines’ rankings. Look at some of these SEO pointers below:
A blog should be themed. That is it ought to focus on a target audience, a niche, and not wander off that issue. You want to build up a specialized readership of surfers who are interested in one small issue, like flying petrol-powered model aircraft.
A themed blog will have a high concentration of keywords that the search engines deem to be related or on-subject. This will help your blog rise in the rankings – it is an organic, that is, not forced, form of SEO.
In common with web site SEO, the blog should have a name that reflects what it is about. Resist the temptation to call a blog on cooking cakes after yourself or ‘fat and fruity’ or something daft like that. A blog on cooking cakes should have the words ‘cooking cakes’ in the title or URL.
In order to do this properly, you will require to pay for the blog’s domain name and host it yourself. If you go the cheap option and use a free blogging site like Google’s Blogger, decide on your blog’s name carefully and try to have it categorized accurately.
The titles of your posts ought to also be chosen carefully to reflect the content of that article because each piece will almost certainly become a page in the blog, so its title becomes part of its URL
Make certain that your blog pings (that is ‘tells’) the blog registers after every post. This creates links back to your blog and search engines rank blogs and web sites by the number of links pointing back to it.
Acquiring these links or backlinks should become your main priority after posting an piece a day. Acquiring backlinks is a enormous issue all on its own, but two easy ways are to create a signature file (sigfile) with a link to your blog.
Add this sigfile to the foot of every email you send out and join forums and blogs which are on the same subject as your blog. Post to those places and be sure that your sigfile is appended to each post.
