November 29, 2010

Basic SEO For Beginner Bloggers

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Time for basic SEO for beginner bloggers.

Whether you want to become a famous blogger or make money from your blog, you need lots of traffic every day.

The best way to attract traffic to your site, is to get your blog ranked on the first page of your keyword phrases.

You have to optimize your blog. It simply means you need to know what is Search Engine Optimization or better known as SEO.

A word of warning here.

Do not use all those so-called black hat tactics to game Google. You can get your blog deleted by Blogger.

Learn more about SEO to get more targeted traffic to your blog.

Below is the first segment on SEO and how to rank for your keywords.

I would be sharing with you more on how to optimize your blog or get top ranking, so more people all over the world can find your blog.  

1. You need to optimize your blog if you want to get massive targeted organic traffic.

2. First thing is keyword phrase research.

To search for your right keyword phrase, you have to think like your potential customers or visitors.

Ask yourself, what keywords would they type into the search box when they are looking for something.

3. Find out what keyword phrases your competitors are using.

4. Find out what keyword phrases are your visitors using to get to your blog by looking onto your stats and logs.

5. Gather these keyword phrases to improve your current rankings on those words, so you can get even more traffic.

6. If you have a Google search box on your blog, go to Google Analytics to find out at the logs and see what your visitors are searching for within your site when they were there.

7. Break your keyword research into two main group:

i) the easier to rank keyword phrases, but with lesser traffic.

ii) the more competitive or more difficult to get ranked, but have much more traffic.

8. People who are actually want to buy something, usually they usually type in longer phrases (aka long tail keywords).

For instance, they don't just type the word "guitars".

If they really interested in buying or planning to buy a guitar, a good chance is they would type phrases like "second hand guitars for sale" or "where to buy cheap acoustic guitar"  or maybe the specific brand of a guitar.

9. Long tail keywords are easier to get higher rankings faster because less competition and the conversion rate (chances of buying) is better.

10. While you are working to get your more difficult keyword phrases to get better ranking in the search engine results page (SERPS), use these easier long tail keyword to get your targeted traffic.

And with this limited traffic, hopefully you can start getting paid for online with Adsense.

11. Never underestimate the power of these lower traffic long tail keywords.

In fact most people make most money from these long tail keywords.

So they spend more time taking advantage of these long tail keywords, rather than wasting too much time working on the more difficult and competitive keyword phrases.