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SEO Strategy For Bloggers
By bloggerbible | January 19, 2008
Every blogger needs an SEO (Search Engine Optimization) strategy if they are going to succeed online. Unless of course you are so gifted as a blogger that your writing makes magic ripples on the Internet effortlessly. For most of us, it requires a strategically planned outlay of specific tasks to make our blog successful.
Assuming your blog is already up and running, you will need key factors in place to make an impact. This short list provides some of the basics.
- Aesthetically Good Looking Blog
- Meaningful Articles Related To Your Blog’s Core Topic
- Timeless Writing Technique
- Professional Graphics - Tagged & Optimized Properly
- Intuitive Site Navigation
Once the basics are in place, you should carefully analyze the technical side of your blog to ensure it is optimized for search engines. This includes implementing proper “permalinks” to associate your url name with the titles used in your blog. For WordPress users this is an easy task done in the control panel. After that, remove any references to your blog’s platform if possible. This includes removing “powered by wordpress” links in the code. Utilizing these two techniques alone will separate your blog from thousands of others and will put yours at an advantage in the search engines.
Links on your blog will create additional traffic if executed properly. When it comes to links on your blog, relevance and positioning are key. If you write an article, try to provide at least one link that references another article on your website. This technique provides relevance for both the readers and search engines. For every three internally linked keyword phrases in your articles, you should try to have one externally linked keyword or phrase. This ratio works comfortably for most blog topics and will provide huge dividends over time. The 3 to 1 linking ratio combined with using your preferred keywords will provide ample opportunity to cultivate all of your articles for better search rankings while providing the benefits of outbound links.
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Outbound links from your blog have the same power as inbound links in some instances. Providing an outbound link to another’s blog brings in as much traffic as it could potentially loose. The potential loss of traffic due to the outbound link should be linked to a “new browser window” if possible to minumize any traffic leakage. One of the main reasons to use an outbound link is to receive credit from the link receiving website.
If you are writing an article about “search engines” and your blog’s theme is SEO (Search Engine Optimization), try to always leave room in your article to promote someone else. Once you integrate the mentioned website and provide the outbound link, try to notify the receiving website’s author to let them know about the link and article. If you execute this properly, it should provide you additional inbound links of relevance. Not every outbound link will earn you higher ranking inbound links, but at least they will be relevant.
The overall theme points to your blog having good characterists for both readers and search engines alike. Bloggers must distinguish their blogs in every way possible without jepardizing good logical context and framework. SEO techniques that complement both search engines and your readers experience will be the most powerful methods you can use.
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January 19th, 2008 at 6:38 pm
Thanks for the information, I’m always trying to learn as much as I can about this kind of stuff.
January 19th, 2008 at 6:40 pm
Cool, thanks for posting this seo strategy, I’m already doing some of these things, but you added several other things I can do too.
May 3rd, 2008 at 2:28 am
Thanks for the good advice. I see that links of both kinds are very important. I will work on those qualities.
August 3rd, 2008 at 2:41 am
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