Archive for the ‘Blogs’ Category
published by Gary in Blogs
Once you have the theme for your blog and selected the relevant key words, choosing an apposite title for your blog is crucial for attracting search engine attention. Descriptions on some blogging sites can be up to 500 characters and spaces but about a third as long is the right length for a blogging description.
When writing the title for each of your blogs it is important to use the right density of key words and key phrases.
It may be that you wish for your blogs to be entirely separate from your own website in which case you can join various blogging forums. It is important whether blogging in a forum or blogging on your own website to utilise key words and key phrases in a density of about 5 - 10%. Remember, that short key phrases can be even more effective if the words are joined by hyphens.
Blogs are not rants or streams of consciousness where a whole mix of thoughts are thrown into the blog. If you keep the main message in a blog simple you will keep the reader reading.
Some people use third party blog forums but also publish their own website links to attract people to their sites so that they can read an article in full or find out more about a subject.
If you plan to publish your blogs on your own website, then you will need to set up a link from your Home Page to the blogs page. If your blogs are on a third party website then it is also a very good idea to have a link joining your site to the blogs forum. Within your blog, encourage readers to link to your blog from their own blogs or their own websites. The more honest links you have the better the search engine spiders will like you.
It is true that Google is blocking links to websites in the comments section but not within the actual blogs themselves. By making website links in comments ineffective it enables Google to stop spammers. However, encouraging others to set up links to your blog or website is always a good idea.
If you are blogging on a third party forum, always remember to sign off with your name, company and website address.
Finally, there is a courtesy in the world of blogging and that is to not blatantly sell or to try and flog your own wares when you comment on other people’s blogs.
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published by Gary in Blogs
There is only one reason why so many individuals and corporations blog and that is because blogging works and is another effective tool in the SEO armoury for building up business online.
Blogging has no rules but if a blog is perceived to be of use to the person reading the blog rather than simply a sales message, then blogs can be very effective at driving traffic to a website especially if there are opportunities for people to comment on the blogs.
The freedom that blogging brings to a business is that it can provide a commentary on the global state of an industry or the way the prevailing wind happens to be blowing, but the information should be stated as opinion rather than hard fact. If written in a good conversational way, regular blogging can be an incredibly effective marketing tool.
Blogging is also a very simple way to keep people up to date with news and events. Blogs can be posted as a part of a website or on special blogging websites where there is cross-reference and opportunities to comment. The secret to good blogging is that the information must at least appear to be impartial.
Companies and individuals set up blogging sections on their own websites which is god for SEO but it can be equally effective to regularly blog on special blogging forums as the opportunities for people to find your website are greatly increased.
The actual process of blogging requires a mix of informality and pinpoint focus. The scattergun technique of mixing up ideas and thoughts doesn’t work. Of course it is important to choose a topic that is relevant to what you are selling from your website and to the people you are wanting to read your blog.
If you have more than one key area to promote then the simple solution is to set up separate blogging accounts.
Blogging is not blagging so it is important to be in command of your subject and also to research the key words and key phrases that are used by people searching for the kind of information you are providing within your blog. Many people blog without giving a second’s thought to SEO content but blogs that are search engine optimised attract far more attention.
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published by Dan in Blogs | Keyword Research | SEO
We are often told to make use of good keywords that are being sought over the web. There are various keyword checkers that can help us in finding out what keywords to use. Overall, they may seem easy to use but remember that word count also varies. The number of keywords used should be in line the whole post. Going over it may put your composition in the category of spam and hence kill your effort as trying to adhere towards known keyword utilization principles in line with your SEO efforts.
Keyword density is something that can help identify the amount of keywords you are using. At times, it seems that you are repeating so much. But again, it depends on how you use it in line with how understandable your post may be. In blogging or article writing, you have to follow a certain level of percentage in keyword density. For example, it is recommended that in 300 word compositions, a 2% keyword density is deemed as the most appropriate level to categorize your post as something that is acceptable. Going over that may place you under the category of spam and most probably a senseless write-up.
So what does SEO have to do with it? Well for people looking for information, Google for one has placed a certain medium to determine which are spammers who are abusing the whole effort of authentic bloggers and writers who want to do their contribution over the web. If you want your whole effort not to go to waste, then a keyword density analyzer is something you may want to utilize.
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published by Dan in Blogs | SEO | SEO Strategy | SEO Tools
The funny thing about the web these days is that once a new trend in social marketing is identified as an effective way to address the search engine optimization efforts, they will immediately be turned on to. Social bookmarking has been found to be a good way to do just that, a great alternative to the usual link building and directory submissions that are obviously targeted to get links that point back towards the mother site.
The number of links to a site is known to be a varying factor towards measuring the degree of relevance and importance that a site has. The thing with bookmarks, it is something that you can do by a simple sign up and then submit a site or certain posts of your site for others to read. Depending on how you look at it, it has two things that are trying to cover, namely:
1. To share information
2. To entice fellow bookmarkers to check out the site
As you can see, this is a good way to optimize a site and build on popularity. While it seems that bookmarking is easy, do not be misled by the ease of using it. For one thing, they still do not entertain spam and once you fail to read their TOS or Terms of Service, one violation can get your account banned along with the links to go with it.
No one loves spam. We all know what it is. While there are some people desperate for popularity, it should be done in the professional way to optimize promising sites that we have today.
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