SEO Your Blog The Right Way

Today is day 23, I am going to talk about blogging a bit more. We’ll discuss SEO-ing your blog and Link building for blogs…

If you have been following the articles then you know getting started with blogging is not that hard. If you want a few blog then blogspot (owned by google) or wordpress blogs can be pretty good. But if you want some hardcore traffic, then you need to do SEO for your blogs.

If you want to maximize the potential of blogs then you need to follow these steps.

1. Choose the right blogging software: Right now currently there are 3 Hot blogging software platforms that you can find. Blogger, wordpress and moveable types. If you want Big bang for best bucks then wordpress is one thing you should go with.

You need to understand that you’ll have to implement lots of features and plugins that can help you save time while blogging. With wordpress there is Huge userbase of programmers who keep creating new plugins and making life easier for wordpress Bloggers.

Moreover its free.

2. Research Thy Audience: Now you may be wondering why in the world we need to research our audience to do SEO. Well if you don’t understand your audience you won’t be able to write interesting content and get some free back links.

Plus with so many users having access to Ipods. You might want to consider using podcasting instead of normal blogging.

3. Maximize The power of Your Feeds: When you are creating a blog, RSS feeds will be automatically created for your blog. Now Make sure your feeds are in working condition (readable by RSS aggregators). I have seen so many blogs where feeds are not working.

Here’s how you can maximize the power. You can use Feed burner to provide your feeds and regular update notices to your visitors. These days quite a few online visitors use RSS aggregators to read & follow blogs. Make sure you give your away methods to aggregate your feeds.

4. Permalink structure: Wordpress has a default permalink structure of something like thing myblog.com/?id=23. Did you notice the link structure it doesn’t give away anything about the post title or content. We only get the post Id is 23.

To update you need to change your permalink structure in options. Make sure your permalink structure is something like this myblog.com/date/your-post-title/.

This is optimized for search engines. There are quite few controversies over this kind structure but you don’t need to worry about it.

5. Submit Your Blog to Blog directories: There are number of directories you can use to submit your blog. Some are directories, some acts as blog search engines. Submitting to them will give you a decent boost in link popularity.

Herre are some of the blog directories and search engines.

Technorati.com, feedster.com, blogwise.com. Oh I found a link for you. Use this to submit your blogs http://www.toprankblog.com/rss-blog-directories/

6. Use Right keywords in Titles and Meta –tags: There are plugins that can help you add keywords to your meta tags for a particular post for your blog. Now this can help you optimize your blog a little bit. So make sure you use them.

Another thing to take notice is that you should be using Keywords in your titles to optimize your blogs for search engines. It does make a difference.

7. Powerful Content: Ahhh, do we really need to talk about content while discussing SEO. Yes, of course, again like I said, you need ways to devise to get free back links from other Bloggers, forums and other places. It’s all about social networking. Did you forget web 2.0? If you did, then read my articles on web 2.0. Good content is back bone for web 2.0.

Well this is small list of things that can get you started in no time. I’d advice you to follow these tips along with my content generation and traffic building tips. With all of these combine you’ll more chances to succeed with blogs. Not forgetting about choosing the right niche and right keywords. Best of luck.

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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