Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

Hi friends, this is a really powerful post about Search Engine Optimization (SEO), I highly recommend if you can, try to read through this post more than twice as I am about to expose you a really deep secret about SEO.

First of all what is Search Engine Optimization (SEO)?

Simply put it, SEO is all about ensuring your website is friendly to search engines(Yahoo,Google,MSN,etc) so that people are able to find it online.Why do people pay so much attention to get their pages SEO ready? Well if you do it right, you get ranked high for powerful keywords and you will get lots of free targeted traffic to your page.

So let's say you have started a blog and sure you want to drive lots of traffic to it. Increased visibility can help to expose your blog in online world, making it more profitable to you.Not sure where to begin? Well, here are a few great SEO tricks that will help you to attract visitors to your blog.

SEO Trick 1 -- Incorporate Keywords in Titles

First of all, if you want to increase the traffic to your blog, make sure that you incorporate keywords in the titles of all your blogs. Remember, people may search by keywords, and using keywords in blog titles can help make it easier for people to find your blog.

SEO Trick 2 -- Allow People to Subscribe

Allowing people to subsribe to your blog is a great idea as well.This is called syndicating your blog. Make sure you do your best to make signing up very easy for the visitors to your blog so they'll come back again and again.

SEO Trick 3 -- Use Keywords in Blog Categories

When you set up your blog categories, you'll help to increase your blog traffic if you use keywords in those blog categories. When you create categories that have good keywords,it will make a url for each post that is SEO friendly.

SEO Trick 4 -- Comment on the Blogs of Others

Another way to bring more traffic in to your blog is to comment on the blogs of others. However, these posts should make senses and add value. Make sure that you use your real name or the name of your blog and avoid using keywords in the name field.

SEO Trick 5 -- Use the Right Keywords

The right keywords on your blog can make it hot and help to get even more traffic to the site. Take some time to do some keywords research(will be shared in coming post) so you incorporate the best keywords. This will make it easier for people to find you via search engines, since you'll be using highly visible keywords.

SEO Trick 6 -- Make Use of Blog Directories

There are many blog directories out there today,such as GoGuides, DMOZ and JoeAnt, to name a few. Make sure that you make use of these directories. Usually they have special categories for blogs that will allow you to have your blog listed in a specific related category. This can help you bring more traffic to your site.

SEO Trick 7 -- Track Backs Can Help

If you happen to talk about a quote from another blog and the blog is relevant to the subject you are talking about, you may want to use a track back. This helps to build the popularity of your links and you may get some readers from that site to come to visit yours. Basically a track back will show a list of blogs that refer to a certain blog post.

SEO Trick 8 -- Offer RSS Feeds that Deliver to Emails

Last of all, consider using RSS feeds that deliver your blog posts to emails. Many people prefer reading blogs by email instead of actually having to visit the blog each day. So, this is a great way to increase traffic and make sure that you keep your readers as well.

Hope you get some useful ideas and clues from this post.

Enjoy!