Getting to the top of search engines
Blogging is a ton of fun, but it can get boring fast if no one comes to your site! Getting your blog ranked high in search results for your main key words must be your objective to get traffic. Remember that this will take a while, but totally do-able.
For you to be successful in this endeavor, you’ll need to know about SEO or Search Optimization. You’ll want to start out by understanding which key words you’re going to focus in on. Those are what searchers are looking for with Google and Yahoo! and how your blog will come up. Often, those words will get higher rankings than others, so it’s better to use ones that people also use. Don’t forget that if other people are competing for the same words, it’s going to be harder for you get your blog listed well. However, you might find some less competitive words that do well for you.
For the time being – just concentrate on your main keywords. Find a large one that will take more time to rank for, and a few others that you want to be known for. All of these words should somewhat the same! When you’re writing a blog post, you want to make sure they are used a few times throughout your piece. Be sure to use your main term, and then make use of the others, if it sounds natural. As you use those related terms, the search engines with put your page and blog higher in the results because your content is closely aligned with what you’re trying to rank for.
Pulling this of can be a little tough, though. Often the choice to rank depends on how many links go to your site. It should be a priority to get links pointing to your site. Getting links from all kinds of sites is a good idea. For example other blogs, Squidoo pages and maybe even paying for links -however this is something which you should research further because it can be penalized.
At this point, you just want to keep cranking out the content, consistently over the course of time. Make sure that what you’re writing about is related to your main key terms. Yahoo! and the other search engines really like it if you’ve been at it for a while and keep writing and posting. They will send you more traffic if you’ve got history and keep writing about the same topics. These search engines want to make the search result as close as possible to the pages that it indexes. When you have pages that are similar to your key terms over and over, then you will be ranked more often and usually much higher.
Lastly, just be original. Don’t try to be like anyone else, but you. Make what you write fun and informative and more people will visit. THe best link is one that comes from someone else who says that your content is excellent. Never forget to write for PEOPLE first and then search engines second.
