25 Simple Blog SEO and Traffic Tips
SEO, or search engine optimization, is the process of improving a website's search engine ranking, which will result in more traffic to your site, and ultimately translate into making more money. For those who are trying to optimize their blog, this is a nice concise list of 25 ways to greatly increase your blog's traffic and search rankings.
1) Content is king!
2) Submit your site to as many search engines as possible. After the initial indexing I would recommend resubmitting every 6 months.
3) Comment on as many blogs as possible. Make your comments thoughtful and not spam-like in nature.
4) Link up with popular blogs - trackbacks can be good for SEO as well as your traffic.
5) Write a good article and post it on a site like Digg.com, although this won't help as far as traffic goes (you will get a HUGE boost for a few hours, then it will tone back down). You may not get any permanent readers from Digg.
6) Use Google webmaster tools. Instead of the GoogleBot searching for your pages you can tell it where your pages are. This is a great way to get your entire site indexed.
7) Content is king!!
8) Get a listing on web directories like DMOZ.com. Although many SEO "experts" think it is overrated, no one disagrees that it can help boost your site's rankings.
9) Add some links for feed readers and blog aggregators such asBloglines.com, Google Reader, and Yahoo Myweb.
10) Add some social bookmarking links at the bottom of each post.
11) Make it easy for your users to find your RSS feed.
12) Add an "E-mail This to a Friend!" link either on the header or the footer of each post.
Continued on Part 2...
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