10 Useful SEO Techniques for Your Blog Posts

Writing quality content and hitting 'Publish' button alone is not sufficient to make you a successful blogger. The basic knowledge about SEO and some blog promotion techniques is essential for attracting visitors and to occupy better positions in search engines result pages.

Below describes most powerful and simple SEO steps that can be used for your next and existing blog post.

Keyword Research

Keywords are, what searchers might type on search engine bars to find articles related to what you are going to write. 

As an example, for this post, a blogger may search for "most useful SEO tips for blog post" or "SEO tips for Blog Posts". Find out low competition and high search volume keywords to get started with and include exact matching keyword and similar words in your blog article. 

Create Unique Content

Remember the rule, 

"An article with errors is better than an exact copy". 

"Content is  the King" and always will be... Create unique article which is relevant to your industry or area of expertise and treat one topic per article. If you are blogging for a business, It is very important that, each and every blog post might be relevant to your business niche or organization. 

Ginger Software can be used for writing grammatical error free articles.

Craft and optimize Title

The title plays an important role in attracting people and Search Engine Rankings. Include keywords in the title and craft it attractive. 

Add Relavent Images 

Adding relevant images in blog articles is a good idea and give keywords included title tags and ALT tags and caption for those images. 

Optimize Page URL Structure

Keep page urls short and include possible keywords and make it readable.

For example: 

www.example.com/xyz 

 www.example.com/10-useful-seo-tips-for-blog-posts

www.example.com/seo-tips-for-blogs

Which one is better? Third one, right?

Use the Power of Social Media

Social Media is a powerful tool for generating targeted visitors to your blog. Internet users spend 70% more time on Facebook than Google.  Share your blog post links along with relevant image is the best strategy.

Email Marketing is also Powerful

Powerful email marketing strategy could ensure revisit of your readers and to notify them if they forgot about your blog. "Never Let Them Go"

Comment on Others Blogs

Still, there are SEO experts and SEO companies doing blog commenting for SEO. Google no longer counts blog comments for SEO or ranking. But blog commenting could help you to maintain a relationship with other same niche bloggers and to lead some traffic from their blog. Always try for being one of the first three of the commenters to get noticed by their visitors.

Update Blog Regularly

Updating blog regularly is the best way to invite the Google robot to your blog for crawling your blog/website. Search Engines love website/blogs which updates with fresh content regularly.

Monitor and Reply to Comments

Be strict in monitoring comments receiving on your blog post. Never accept comments which include spam links or comments written for only for SEO purpose.

Replying to comments could help you to maximize the engagements and comment counts.

Update: If you are blogging with Blogger platform, Synschronizing Google+ comments and Blogger comments is easy.

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7 Must Follow Simple and Common Life Rules

Some common rules that can be applied in your daily life. Try to follow them in your LIFE and it could make you a good social player.

"Make Sure That Don't Forgot to Return That Book You Borrowed."

"In Case You Miss A Call, Drop a Message As Soon As Possible If You're Unable to Call."

"When Using Borrowed Computer or Phone, Don't Go Through Their Stuff without Permission."

"Always Leave The Last Piece For The Person Who Brought It, Unless They Insisit They Won't Eat"

"When You Borrow Someone Else's Car, Fill Up the tank As a Way Say Thank You!"

"Don't Smoke When Somone Around you is Visibly Uncomformable."

"Try to Return the favor Within A Week"

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Top 6 Tips for Better Blogging for Your Business

Still thinking about "is blogging important for your business?" You can't ignore blogging if you are serious about your business.

Business blogging is entirely different from personal or professional blogging. The ultimate target of professional blogging is to network with like minded people and also to earn some extra money from the Internet via various advertisements and affiliate marketing methods.

Then why business people blogging without ads or affiliate links? Business blogs stand for improving customer relationships, to get new customers by providing helpful content and also to prove, you are the master in the industry. 

Below are the most important strategies for making your business blog success.

Choose the Right Topic

Choosing the right topic is important. That topic you selected should be useful for you5r current customers or new visitor and should showcase your expertise in the industry.

Craft your Title

Spend more time on crafting the title as it is the key to rank on search engine result pages. Make titles of each posts attractive and SEO friendly with relevant keywords. However, write a title for your readers, not for search engines.

Call to Action

Each blog post should drive readers to do something and never leave them after reading your just one article. CTA (Call to Action) could help you to convert your visitor into leads. Provide links to sign up pages of your website, showing newsletter forms, offering some useful stuff like eBooks or promo codes after subscription are the best example.

Internal Linking: Linking your blog posts to other  "relevant"  blog posts could help you to engaging your reader more time on your blog. Also, this strategy would be useful for internal link building and hence could rank well for targeted keywords

Polishing your Post

Read again and again before moving the cursor to the publish button. This could help you not only to correct the mistakes, but also to include additional data.

Save your article as a draft and read it again after some time. This could also  help you to add some extra details.

Avoid external Advertisements

Some companies accept advertisements for their blog from advertisement network and direct advertisements for a fixed amount or as PPC plan. Accepting advertisements (even may you have blocked competitor ads) for a business blog is not a good idea because you are losing your leads without giving you their information and it pays just some penny only. 

Promote your blog post

Hitting "publish" button is your last task? No.. Your job is not completed yet. You have to ensure your blog post is still reaching to your targeted audience or else your blog might be DEAD and there will be no result for your effort.

There are some simple SEO techniques to make a website or blog search engine friendly.

Social media would the most powerful tool for promoting your blog.

Blog Frequently

Did you know why frequent blogging is important for your business blog? Because google crawls websites / blogs which updates regularly with fresh and quality content and potential customers and other readers revisits blogs which gives them latest information regularly.

Choose the right to time to post your blog post by doing by A/B test researching for getting readers at the moment you publishing it.

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