Search Engine Optimization for Bloggers

To get the needed targeted traffic in search engines such as Google, you need your blog, and your post to prominently show in the top ten search engine results. Using proper search engine optimization methods will determine your rank on the search engine results page (SERP). Every keyword or key phrase should be used in the titles and first paragraph of the post to be able to get high ranking.

Keywords are what the search engine look for in your title tag and the content of your post when someone type it in the search engine. When you search on a particular phrase, the title or the content of the web page with the exact phrase you have searched for will be the first to be shown on search engine results.

Since Google has tweaked its algorithms on title tags, it now requires that your page/posts should have relevancy to your title in a particular keyword your picked. It simply means that your title has a particular keyword that is being search and some of it is also found in your posts.

Get a lot of one way links, since link-exchange and reciprocal links are losing their effectively, and these links will only clutter your blog template. Google looks at reciprocal links with a frown. But having one-way links pointed to your blog are the best way to get page rank they said but I said since page rank does not contribute much in the search engine ranking, links to your posts from other sites with a particular keyword. It means that many sites links to your blog with a particular keyword your blog page located on your title post and on the body post itself your blog page will show higher on search engine results.

Let us say your blog post is about "fuji digital cameras", and there are thousand of links pointing to your page from the anchor text (fuji digital cameras). Your page will be put on the top list of the search engine when someone look for the term. But don't jump on creating links like this yet. A search engine will look at the thousand of links going to a blog especially if it's coming from a high ranking site.

Links should come from variety of locations (let us say forums with different ip address, social networking sites that are not owned by just one owner. Do not overuse the keyword or same anchor text in your link building effort. Just one keyword pointing to your blog post will trigger search engine suspicion.

Getting back link is easy but requires a lot of effort. You can manually submit your own created articles or rehash content from private label articles to article directories. Look for forums that allow user signature. Use the title of your blog and it's link in your signature box. Be active in forums and post or reply to posts. Read the rules however in posting so that you will not get banned.

Minor methods, but highly popular is leaving comments on other blogs. You can use as your username as your blog title in posting comments. However, you should be posting comments that are fitted on the posts or else your comments will be considered spam by the blog owner.