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Blogging for Links (Page 1 of 2)

Blogging is a great way to get quality back links. It’s simple, well recognized, and quick. In order to implement a successful blog linking campaign, you must first understand a few blogging rules. Once you understand these rules, it’s just a matter of gathering your content and posting to your blog.

If the content you write in your blog is relevant, informative, and helpful, your chance of getting back links rises considerably.

Four Important Blogging Rules

1. Write your blog posts just like you would any other article. The temptation is to stuff your keywords in your posts and overdo it. Google is looking for quality sites maintained by real people. Blogs have been abused so much in the past that it’s a very important you post your own content that you’ve created. I don’t recommend using free content that’s so widely available or even private label content.

2. You need to offer something of value to anyone who visits your site. Remember that you’re the expert on your topic. Not everyone knows what you know about shoes, landscaping, or whatever else you’re writing about. A good technique is to review other products or websites and offer something of value that can help someone in a pre-purchase decision. I also don’t recommend putting RSS feeds in your posts since this is a common technique that blog spammers have used in the past.

3. You need to make your blog unique. Give somebody visiting for the first time a reason to come back. Make sure you have a way for readers to subscribe to your content. This is usually done with an RSS reader button somewhere on your page. This is also a great place to put an opt in newsletter box where people can sign up and get free articles or free e-books.

4. Whatever you do, don’t neglect your blog. If you keep your blog updated and offer new posts on a semi regular basis, you will increase your back links and visitors to your site. The worst thing you can do is start strong and simply let your blog die out. We’ve all seen the blogs with 4 or 5 consecutive posts on successive days only to have ZERO posts the last few months, or years! This can actually hurt you in the long run. If visitors see that you can’t maintain your own blog, they might assume that you can’t provide a good product or service. So make sure once you start your blog that you continue to maintain it.

Getting Links

Getting back links from a blog is a natural process. You can put links from your blog to your own website. Make sure you don’t put links that only point to your website. Add resources, information, and other directories and sites where people can go to if they come to your website.

The natural progression is that somebody will visit your blog read your article and hopefully click a link to go your website. Or even better, someone will like your post and link to your post or link directly to your website. The benefit to blogs is that your posts will be syndicated to other sites and directories almost immediately. While syndication is a benefit, it also means your content will become stale faster.

Blogging for Links (Page 1 of 2)

Blogging is a great way to get quality back links. It’s simple, well recognized, and quick. In order to implement a successful blog linking campaign, you must first understand a few blogging rules. Once you understand these rules, it’s just a matter of gathering your content and posting to your blog.

If the content you write in your blog is relevant, informative, and helpful, your chance of getting back links rises considerably.

Four Important Blogging Rules

1. Write your blog posts just like you would any other article. The temptation is to stuff your keywords in your posts and overdo it. Google is looking for quality sites maintained by real people. Blogs have been abused so much in the past that it’s a very important you post your own content that you’ve created. I don’t recommend using free content that’s so widely available or even private label content.

2. You need to offer something of value to anyone who visits your site. Remember that you’re the expert on your topic. Not everyone knows what you know about shoes, landscaping, or whatever else you’re writing about. A good technique is to review other products or websites and offer something of value that can help someone in a pre-purchase decision. I also don’t recommend putting RSS feeds in your posts since this is a common technique that blog spammers have used in the past.

3. You need to make your blog unique. Give somebody visiting for the first time a reason to come back. Make sure you have a way for readers to subscribe to your content. This is usually done with an RSS reader button somewhere on your page. This is also a great place to put an opt in newsletter box where people can sign up and get free articles or free e-books.

4. Whatever you do, don’t neglect your blog. If you keep your blog updated and offer new posts on a semi regular basis, you will increase your back links and visitors to your site. The worst thing you can do is start strong and simply let your blog die out. We’ve all seen the blogs with 4 or 5 consecutive posts on successive days only to have ZERO posts the last few months, or years! This can actually hurt you in the long run. If visitors see that you can’t maintain your own blog, they might assume that you can’t provide a good product or service. So make sure once you start your blog that you continue to maintain it.

Getting Links

Getting back links from a blog is a natural process. You can put links from your blog to your own website. Make sure you don’t put links that only point to your website. Add resources, information, and other directories and sites where people can go to if they come to your website.

The natural progression is that somebody will visit your blog read your article and hopefully click a link to go your website. Or even better, someone will like your post and link to your post or link directly to your website. The benefit to blogs is that your posts will be syndicated to other sites and directories almost immediately. While syndication is a benefit, it also means your content will become stale faster.

How To Bring Exponential Traffic To Your Website With SEO Strategies

Astute website owners will make sure they employ the services of web design agencies that specialise in search engine optimisation (SEO) to tempt visitors to their site. The employment of search engine optimisation techniques has to be put in place in order to stay on top where business competition is concerned and to help to achieve top rankings in search engine results. This will be achieved by the careful use and selection of pertinent keywords and phrases.

When search engine optimisation is used for your site, the prime objective is having your site listed on the initial pages of search engines such as Google, Yahoo and Bing. This will ensure that when people enter your particular keywords into the search engine box, your website will be listed on the first pages, with any luck right at the top!

All of this demonstrates that content is king, as a website that has content which is unique and enlightening will help to make your business a success. For searches to be effective, keywords need to be chosen that are relevant to your site and business. This will give rise to better results.

To help you to determine the best possible keywords for your website, there are assorted keyword tools that can be utilised, such as Google’s Adword keyword tool, Wordtracker, digitalpoint, etc. You should opt for different keywords, depending on the different web pages within the site in order to get the best results. You should also try to select keywords that are less competitive, which will also help with your ranking in the results for search engines.

In addition to primary site content, your chosen keywords need to be positioned in the title tag, description and meta tag of your site. Make sure that your target keywords show in the h1 headline tag, as search engines prefer h1 tags.

Another important point is ensuring website pages are linked together correctly, ensuring that site navigation works well. Your website visitors will expect this, as well as Google, etc.

The images you have on the pages need to have ‘Alt’ attributes, which is something that many overlook. The reason for this is that the various engines are not able to read the images, so alt text can be employed for every image with an important keyword in that text.

In addition, there is the option of having reciprocal links to be considered, but this should only be undertaken with websites that are of good quality and with a good page rank. If you want to take this route, do your homework so that you are able to build up good reciprocal partnerships that will be harmonious with your own site. All of these strategies should be effective in helping to draw people to your pages.