SEO Your Blog! 8 Easy Steps

SEO Your Blog! 8 Easy Steps. Blogging software is really a simple Content Management System (CMS) that easily adds new pages and integrates them into your site’s navigational structure and linkage. Blogs and blog posts are naturally search engine friendly because they are text-rich, link-rich, frequently-updated webpages that use stylesheets or CSS, and have very little extraneous HTML.

Optimizing a blog is very similar to optimizing a website, and optimizing a blog post similar to optimizing a web page. But depending on the blogging service or software you use, the results may look somewhat different.

If you follow some simple rules for search engine optimization, your blog can rank much higher than static website pages in the search engine results pages.

Here are the most important rules to follow to get your posts listed for keywords of your choice.

1. Use your primary keyword in your blog domain

Whether you purchase a separate domain (recommended) for your blog, or host it on a blogging service or a subdomain of your own site, try to ensure that your URL contains the primary keyword you want to optimize for.

For example, if you want your blog to get found for the keyword “rss” get a domain with the keyword “rss”, or use the keyword in a subdomain as in https://trickist.blogspot.com/rss/

Getting a domain name with your own name might make for good branding, especially if yours is a personal blog.

But if you’re doing it for business and want the targeted traffic to flow your way, keywords in the domain or subdomain are a move in the right direction.

2. Use Your Primary Key Phrase In Your Blog Header Tags And The Title Of Your Posts

If your primary key phrase is “business blogging” make sure that the word business, or blogging, or both, appear in your blog headers (the H1 or H2 tags) as well as the title of each of your posts.

Most blogging software will take the keywords in your post title and put them into the file name of the permalink posts it creates.

For example, if you have a blog on Blogger and title your post “Search Engine Optimization For Blogs”, Blogger will automatically create a page with your post and name the file “search-engine-optimization-for-blogs.html” or something similar.

With other server-side software like WordPress and Movable Type, you may require the mod_rewrite command to save the title of your entries as a permalink.

3. Use Your Secondary Keywords In The Body Of Your Post

If you want to get listed for secondary keywords use them infrequently in the body of your post and pepper your blog titles or links with them appropriately.

Don’t overdo this or your posts will end up sounding unnatural and spammy to readers.

 4. Use Your Keywords In The Anchor Text Of Links

Keyword in links have more importance than simple text.

Use your primary and secondary keywords in the anchor text of links when linking to other blog posts or to other pages on your main site.

Link keywords where they naturally appear in the body text, but again, don’t overdo it, or you’ll end up with spammy looking pages.

5. Make Sure Search Engines Can Spider Your Blog Easily

Set up your blog so that the side navigation bar is present on all pages.

Make sure your archives and previous posts are accessible from all pages of your blog so they get spidered easily.

6. Get Backlinks From Other Blogs Or Websites

Links pointing to your blog or posts are essential to build pagerank and make your blog rank higher in the search engine listings.

I’ve seen many people recommend Blogrolling as one method of building links to your blog. BlogRolling is a one-stop linklist manager for your blog or journal.

But all this service actually does is give you a bit of javascript code that “calls” the links.

As far as search engine rankings go, this method of linking is of little use, because spiders can’t read external javascript code.

Instead I recommend that you focus your linking efforts on the methods here.

* Submitting to Blog Search Engines and Directories:

Submitting your blog and RSS feed to blog search engines and directories is essential for getting high-quality links back to your blog. Here is the best list I’ve found of places to submit your feed or blog.

Best Blog Directory And RSS Submission Sites

Submitting your blog and RSS feed to blog search engines and directories is essential for getting high-quality links back to your blog. Here is the best list I’ve found of places to submit your feed or blog.

* Link Exchanges:

Many similarly-themed blogs are often willing to exchange links with other blogs and form richly interlinked networks or communities. Link exchanges with other blogs are easy to implement with most blogging software.

* Trackbacks:

You can also get links back to your blog using trackbacks. One of the disadvantages of using Blogger is that it does not automatically create trackback urls that others can use to link back to your posts.

Haloscan is a free service that will automatically add comments and trackbacks to your Blogger blog.

But if trackbacks are an important component of your linking strategy, I would advise using another software or system that adds this feature automatically.

* TIP:

You can also get back links to your blog by posting legitimate comments in response to posts on other blogs.

7. Update Frequently

There’s no better food for search engine spiders than fresh content.

Post and update your blog frequently using all the rules outlined above and there’s no reason why your blog will not get you top rankings in a short period of time.

8. Stay Put

Once you create your blog, try to stick to the same domain and blog host or system for as long as you continue to publish.

You could end up losing a lot of your traffic, your readers and all your search engine listings if you decide to move.

For more ways of building traffic to your blog, read the article “How To Build Traffic To Your Blog.”

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Fast and reliable WordPress hosting for high traffic

Fast and reliable WordPress hosting for high traffic. Here in this post, I am going to discuss some WordPress hosting provider for high traffic and fast WordPress hosting. Well to handle the load of high traffic and also provide fast server speed its really needs powerful and reliable hosting. Taking the load capacity of high traffic and speed both are minimum requirements for a WordPress site with lots of traffic and also may be millions of visits per month. Here is some hosting provider for high traffic WordPress site:

Kinsta : Kinsta Managed WordPress Hosting is truly for high traffic WordPress site and they provide only WordPress hosting. So their technical staff fully concentrate on WordPress. And their speed also very fast and you can say it like lightning speed. Many popular sites like Kissmetrics, Search Engine Journal, Entrepreneur are hosted on Kinsta. Kinsta provides unlimited visits and their hardware quality is top notch. It starts from a plan of $100 per month.

PageLy : Another top hosting option for high-traffic WordPress blogs is PageLy. They also provide unlimited visits and their service quality and hardware offering really able to handle high traffic with the speed. They have seven different plans and you can choose whatever you need. You can always add additional bandwidth any day of the month on Pagely managed WordPress hosting. The Pagely Managed WordPress hosting stack is built upon Amazon Web Services. Pagely managed WordPress hosting plan starts from $99 per month.

Flywheel : EyeSwift is hosting on Flywheel managed WordPress hosting at the time of writing this post. Flywheel provides very fast WordPress hosting service with an easy to use dashboard. Even non-technical peoples also can use with a few technical knowledge. It has several nice features like blueprints, collaboration, nightly backup etc. With blueprints, you can use the existing themes and plugins of a WordPress site for a new WordPress site.  Also, the security from the hacker is really good on Flywheel. And from Flywheel you can start with a plan only $15 per month and you can increase the plan depending on traffic. So it is really good for starting a new WordPress blog.

Now at the end, I want to say that there are several more WordPress hosting for high traffic available and WP Engine is one of them. Also, Presslabs, Pressidium, Cloudways (you can choose any cloud server between Google cloud, Amazon or Digitalocean on Cloudways) are good WordPress hosting to handle the load of high traffic.

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Some suggestions for better SEO for your blog site

SEO or Search Engine Optimization is very important for a blog site to get search traffic. But sometimes it can be found that newbies bloggers start blogging without caring for SEO. Here in this post, I am going to tell you some suggestion for better SEO of your website or blog. SEO is very important for a blog website as it sends your website traffic. Let’s see some suggestion:

Suggestions for better SEO from your blog

The length of title tag: Website <title> tag should be within 70 characters. this is the most important tag for SEO. It displayed first on every search results on any search engines. For each of the post, you should use a nice title for <title> tag. Users will first see the title of the post on search engines.

Meta description length: Website meta description should be within 155 characters. Don’t make it too short. This meta tag is most important after <title> tag. Search engines always show this as a summary. Also, make your meta description tag related to your blog content and also should be matching with the keyword on your body tag.

SEO friendly URL:  Make the URL of every blog post SEO friendly. I personally suggest structuring the URL of every post like our website – https://trickist.blogspot.com/

Add content regular basis: Adding quality content to your website on a regular basis is a very good SEO tactic. Search engine always loves sites updating on a regular basis. Add new posts regularly. I suggest you write a minimum of 4 posts each week on your blog.

The perfect focus on keyword: If your keyword strategy has been crafted properly and your content is nicely optimized for the right keywords then it will be really good for your site.

Avoid using head tag too many times: head tag means <h1> <h2> <h3> ……… <h6>. Search engines don’t like using head tags too many times o one page or one blog posts page. Only one h1 tag you should use on one web page.

Google keyword planner: You can use Google AdWords Keyword Planner for writing SEO articles.

Never copy content from other websites: If search engines find that content on your website has been taken from elsewhere they may downgrade search rankings for some or even all of your web pages. Your overall site can be affected by Google algorithm update.
 

Reduce page load and server response time: Search engines give a priority to the websites with fast load and fast server response time. Choose a hosting plan from a hosting server which provides your blog a fast page loading speed and fast response time.

Image attributes: Include words that reflect your site topic in the image title, description, and alt attributes.

noindex, follow meta robots tag: Add noindex, follow meta robots tag for tag pages, categories pages, author pages and for search pages to prevent the duplicate content of your blog. No more about it from this post.

Well if you have a WordPress blog then how to setup SEO? Are you not a developer? Don’t worry, you don’t need to be a programmer or a developer. There are some SEO plugins available that you can use. Yoast SEO, All in One SEO Pack are some popular SEO plugin for WordPress. Well, you need some SEO knowledge so that you can configure your blog SEO with the right way. Browse our SEO category to learn about several things in SEO.

There are lots of other factors that impact your search traffic and affects on your search ranking. But these are the most important and these will work for most of the popular search engines like Google, Bing, and Yahoo. Now keeping these factors in your mind you can start your blog website.

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Moderating Comments in WordPress

Moderating Comments in WordPress. Sure, everyone hates comment spam in blogs, except the people that perpetrate these “crimes” of the blogosphere, perhaps. Most blogging softwares and packages have their own anti-spam measures, and comment moderation is one of them. This gets to be a bit tedious, though, in case you have to approve (or delete) comments one-by-one. But it’s a good start.

Here’s how to control comment moderation in WP.

Comment moderation is a feature in WordPress that allows you to prevent comments from appearing on your site without your express approval. Moderation can be very useful in addressing Comment Spam, but it has more general applications as well. If you would like to learn more about comment spam, see Fighting Comment Spam. 

How Moderation Works

WordPress runs a number of tests on each new comment before posting it to your blog. If a comment fails one of these tests, it is not displayed immediately on the site but is placed in a queue for moderation, the process of manual approval or deletion by the blog’s administrator.

Controlling Moderation

You can control which comments get held for moderation on your Discussion Options page, which is located under Options ? Discussion.

If you would like every comment to be held for moderation, check the An administrator must approve the comment (regardless of any matches below) option, listed under Before a comment appears.

If you would like to send suspicious comments to the moderation queue, while letting innocent comments through, you will need to specify a set of rules for determining which comments are suspicious. These rules are specified in on the Options ? Discussion ? Comment Moderation.

The first option is to hold comments for moderation if they contain an unusually large number of hyperlinks. Most normal comments contain at most one or two links while spam comments often have a large number. Look at your own comments and set this to a value that makes sense for your blog‘s audience. (Note: In version 1.5.2, and possibly others, if you do not put a number in the comment moderation links box, in other words, if this box is completely blank, all anonymous comments (and possibly others) are sent to the Manage Comments SubPanel for moderation, even if the Discussion Options Subpanel has no restrictions set.)

The second option is to specify a set of moderation keys which, if present in any part of the comment, will cause it to be held for moderation. These keys are specified one per line in the large text area, which is blank by default. Moderation keys can include Spam Words, swear words, IP addresses, and Regular Expressions.

When you add a new moderation key, it’s a good idea to test its validity by checking previous comments. Simply use the link entitled Check past comments against moderation list, which is located underneath the text box containing moderation keys. This asks WordPress to check previous comments and tell you which ones would be flagged for moderation under your new set of keys.

The box marked Comment blacklist works in exactly the same way as the comment moderation box, except that comments that match these words will be deleted immediately and without notification. So be careful! Genuine blog comments could be deleted without you ever knowing they were there.

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Streams Of Income Through Blogging

Streams Of Income Through Blogging. More and more bloggers are looking to diversify their income streams, rather than having all their eggs in the AdSense basket. Others are just now discovering blogging, and they recognize right away that it is an ideal platform for information sales business models.

While it’s possible to sell information products created by others through affiliate programs, Iconsider creating something yourself, as it puts you in the absolute best position in the online sales world. The good news is, if you already have a blog, but no product, you’re on the right track. And if you have neither a blog nor an information product in development yet, you will definitely want to consider starting to blog first. I’ll explain why below.

So, without further ado, here are some tips for creating and selling information products with blogs:

1. Blogging for Product Ideas

I believe it’s important that you have a great deal of either knowledge or passion about any topic that you develop into an information product. Knowledge makes it easier to create something valuable. However, if you lack knowledge, but have a great passion to learn about a certain subject, it can be even better. You’ll approach the topic with “new eyes” that allow for a fresh perspective and your enthusiasm will carry you through the learning curve.

Once you know the general topic, start blogging. You don’t necessarily need or even want to know exactly what your product will be, unless you already have an idea you think can’t miss. Even then, blogging allows you to have interaction with your readers that will give you valuable market insight. Comments and questions that you receive will be guideposts, and you can also survey your readers.

The secret to hitting a home run with an information product is to ask your readers what they want.

2. Blogging the Product 

In the case of traditional books and e-books, there’s a trend gaining steam where you literally “blog the book.” Blogging on a regular, set schedule is a great motivator to actually get the writing done. It can also take you in new and better directions thanks to feedback, so that you actually get a better end result.

Some people react badly to this idea. Why would anyone buy something that you’ve essentially published for free online? Well, due to the reverse-chronological order of blog posts, it’s a really bad way to digest large chunks of information. Having the same information in book or even PDF format is much easier to deal with. Plus, your readership will be small at the beginning anyway, so by its very nature, your blog isn’t giving away the whole story.

The key is getting the book finished. There will be plenty more people to sell it to once it’s done, even if none of your current readers buy it (which is doubtful).

3. Blogging for Affiliate Relationships

One of the most important reasons to blog first is the relationships within your niche that you will develop. You should be producing content that gets you noticed, and networking with other blog owners that have complimentary audiences.

This can get you links, which leads to traffic, subscribers and eventual buyers. But the relationships you establish have much more value than that. Those key people can also become your affiliates, joint venture partners, and a source for crucial pre-launch feedback and testimonials.

Recruiting quality people to sell your product for you is harder than many people think. But it’s a whole lot easier when you have built up credibility with your blog, casino online well before you start selling anything.

4. Excerpts That Sell

A tried and true method of enticing prospects to buy a book is to offer a couple of the initial chapters free of charge in PFD format, in exchange for an opt-in email address. You can deliver the chapters via email, which then allows you to follow up with reminders, special offers and promotions.

Excerpts work because generally the first chapter or so should naturally make a great selling tool for the rest of the book. Why? Because a well-structured e-book or report will first tell the reader what they are going to read before getting into the actual meat of the book. Great opening chapters that succinctly explain the subject can sell plenty of e-books when the excerpt tactic is used.

5. Tutorials

You can also tell and sell via a mini-course or tutorial that explains what the content is all about, as well as highlighting the benefits of having access to it. And remember, information products don’t have to be in written format. They can be audio recordings, teleseminars, screen capture and/or video presentations. Therefore, your complimentary tutorial should be in the same high-quality format that hints at what the learning experience will be like after purchase.

6. Sales Page

No matter what pre-selling technique you use, you’ll still need a sales page that entices people to click through and order. At a minimum, this page should have a great headline, restate the core benefits of your product to the prospect, and follow those up with the features that support your benefits. This can be a confusing distinction, so for more information, here’s an article I wrote about the difference between benefits and features.

The idea is for your blog, combined with your excerpt or tutorial, to have pre-sold the reader, so that they simply scan your sales page and scroll down to the order button. But it’s still important to have a substantive, low-hype sales page, with plenty of those testimonials that you acquired from key people in your niche and from select subscribers. A money back guarantee also helps boost sales immensely.

The sales page is there to remove any lingering doubts, and to make the transaction as risk-free as possible to the buyer.

7. Pay Per Click Marketing

Once you have all of the above in place, plus a shopping cart and product delivery mechanism, you can start looking at strategic return-on-investment (ROI) marketing. Now that you have something you can charge for, it opens up all sorts of traffic-generating avenues beyond blogging and affiliate relationships.

Now, instead of trying to make money with Google AdSense, you can switch to AdWords and target niche keywords that drive qualified prospect to your site. You may want to send them straight to a page that offers the excerpt or tutorial, rather than your sales page. Remember, it’s all about pre-selling. Make sure you offer a subscription to your blog as well, so you can build relationships with people who are not ready to buy.

The Best Business Ever?

There’s no better business in the world than being both the manufacturer and direct seller of your own high-margin product. Information products may be the best product of all, as it takes only your mind and your time to manufacture them, and some smart blogging to sell them. Blogging can help you identify and create a saleable product, and then help you sell the product by establishing affiliate relationships and acting as a platform that points prospects to your promotional tools.

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