Archive for Blogging
The Best SEO Tips for Bloggers
Posted by: | CommentsThis is an excellent, pretty comprehensive of practical tips for bloggers who are trying to increase their organic traffic from Google. If you read it, you’ll see that none of this SEO stuff is quick and dirty. It truly takes some forethought and effort.
Here’s a summary of the tips, but you must read the entire article for the meat and great examples:
10 SEO tips that I know can have a profound impact on your search traffic:
- Adopt the proper mindset
- Prepare the targeted keywords in advance
- Target 3 and 4 word phrases
- Know where to find the right key phrases
- Choose the right 3 and 4 word phrases to target
- Optimize page titles and permalinks
- Optimize the internal links within your site
- Add No Index meta tags
- Remove unnecessary links
- Building up a ridiculously sized tag cloud can be a good thing
Starting a New Blog – Strategies for Success
Posted by: | CommentsStarting a new blog can be intimidating, but ProBlogger’s Darren Rowse provides these 3 valuable tips in his recent post, How to Launch a Blog and Have Fresh Content for Weeks:
1. Have 5, preferably 8-10 articles/posts already published on the blog
2. Have at least 5 draft posts already written and saved as drafts
3. Have a list of 20 post ideas for future topics and articles
These are excellent suggestions and I’ve recently started writing and scheduling a few posts at a time, which is really easy to do in WordPress and Blogger. Knowing the importance of always having fresh content for readers and the search engines, the pressure to think of a new topic to write about every day was too much for me. So now, I have at least 5 posts not just saved as drafts, but scheduled to be posted for the next several days. I hope to always stay ahead of the curve and eventually have 10 scheduled.
Dedicating an hour or 2 on one day of the week is a lot easier for me. Share your challenges, writing schedule and strategies for blogging in the comments.
