Are You A Blogging And SEO King? Claim Your Crown With Our Tips
Posted by Patrick Murphy on Thu, Jun 23, 2011
Getting the momentum going on your blog can be tough, especially if you are part of a small business. The momentum needs to be kept up too, if want to start driving quality traffic to your site. Sometimes, we get a bit of writers block and can’t keep coming up with new topics to write about that are still relevant, and even harder can be the fact that we need to stick to SEO guidelines too.
The following are some guidelines we’ve come up with, to help you keep coming up with relevant content that has great SEO too.
Get Back To Basics With Your SEO Keywords And Topics
Looking for great things to write about that are new and fun is tough work- especially if you are writing every day or a few times a week. Sometimes, we are trying to think outside the box so hard that we miss the basic topics- not everyone who visits your site will understand what you do, so it’s important to keep plugging away with the normal stuff, the every day stuff, and blog about your services, what they mean and what they will do for the viewer. Keep it simple!
Do some keyword research for EVERY blog. Whatever your message is, there is a great keyword out there, which will drive the most traffic. Use keyword comparison tools, such as Google analytics, to plug in your main phrases, and messages, and find out what people are really searching for. Knowing this will help you to apply SEO to your blog topic.
Keep Plugging Your Prime Topics In Your Blog
You don’t just write one blog on one topic if you want to drive traffic back to your site- it will require a number of blogs on the same traffic, using the best keywords for your topic in each one. Reference back to your other articles on the same topic, and link them together with hyperlinks. Once again, this helps with SEO.
Your “alt” and “title” tags are VITAL to SEO. Make sure to fill them in, even if it does feel like a lot of extra work. Always use your keywords in them and sum up the blog content.
Your content and SEO go hand in hand- they are vital to getting your site and pages indexed on search engines, which means higher traffic, and more chances to generate leads. Take good care of your content and it will pay you back in spades over time.
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