Do You recognize these SEO mistakes bloggers make?

Recently I had a chance to do a review for a blog. This blog was getting decent traffic (about 200 unique per day) and I believed that it had potential to get great traffic and monetize it.

So I got deep into the blog and started noticing a small trend about this blog.

This blog was not optimized properly. I told the owner about it and his response.

Gasp!!! HOW it can be?

Even when the blog had the SEO plugin and All the secret SEO blog techniques (a bit sarcasm here) applied properly.

So I took a few of his post and started showing him the Basics of SEO.

The Big issues with bloggers is that they have 2 beliefs

1. The more content I write, the better it’s for the blog.

2. The more frequent I write, the better it is.

While they are not wrong. But when you start blogging in this manner, you are all over the place without any focus.

Remember, Drip by Drip, A water can break any solid rock. It’s all about focus.

Here are The Universal Basics of SEO techniques.

1. Title Meta Tags of the Blog.

2. Description Meta tags

3. Keywords Meta Tags

4. H1 Meta Tag

5. Back Links.

Keywords Meta tags

We are starting with Keyword meta tags, because keywords are going to be bread and butter source for the SEO. If you are optimizing for the wrong keyword, you are pretty much screwing up yourself.

With bloggers, when we get an idea to write about something, we tend to write like a man possessed. And in turn forgets about SEO and keywords.

It’s not bad about forgetting, so far, you end up using right keywords. After writing the post, Do a keyword research and update your blog elements.

Title, Description Meta Tags and H1 tags.

You’d be surprised to see how many bloggers make this mistake. Often The title of your blog post is taken as title by all the SEO plugins. Which in itself can be bad. I use “All In ONE SEO” and Update title and description tags so that the information is good, focussed and inviting.

H1 tags can be utilized by your Blog’s Style Sheet and you can make your title’s stylized or aligned with your blog design. It’s not that hard.

Back links

Now With the latest web 2.0 technologies, the idea of back links lost its luster. People (SEO guys) are not talking about them at all. Of course who’d talk about the most boring SEO technique when you can talk about web 2.0 and get paid handsomely for doing nothing at all.

I still believe (and I’ve tested it on my own sites) that getting back links is still the best way to boost your natural rankings in search engines.

Now all of these Basic SEO techniques make look deceptively simple but they are still powerful. Why not just go through your blog and start making few of the changes and notice the results of your traffic for couple of weeks. I guarantee you, the results will make you excited.

About the Author

Varun Pratap is working in online business as a pro blogger from 2004. His blog on Imbasics (Internet marketing Basics) is all about making money online ethically without resorting to tricks, techniques and gimmicks.

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