It is worth cataloguing the basic principles to be enforced to increase blog traffic and search engine rankings.
1. Create a blog with valuable content, products or services. (Duh…)
2. Place primary and secondary keywords within the first 25 words in your page content and spread them evenly throughout the document.
3. Research and use the right keywords/phrases to attract your target readers. Use your keywords in the right fields and references within your blog page. Like Title, META tags, Headers, etc.
4. Submit your blog pages i.e. every blog page and not just the home page, to the most popular search engines and directory services. Hire someone to do so, if you have the budget, its optional though. Be sure this is a manual submission. Do not engage an automated submission service.
5. Keep track of changes in search engine algorithms and processes and accordingly modify your blog pages so your search engine ranking remains high. Use online tools and utilities to keep track of how your blog is doing.
6. Monitor your competitors and the top ranked blogs to see what they are doing right in the way of design, navigation, content, keywords, etc.
7. Use reports and logs from your web hosting company to see where your traffic is coming from. Analyze your visitor location and their incoming sources whether search engines or links from other sites or blogs and the keywords they used to find you.
8. Make your readers visit easy and give them plenty of ways to remember you in the form of newsletters, free reports, reduction coupons etc.
9. Demonstrate your industry and product or service expertise by writing and submitting articles for your blog or for article banks so you are perceived as an expert in your field.
10. When selling products through your blog, use simple payment and shipment methods to make your customer’s experience fast and easy.
11. When not sure, hire professionals. Though it may seem costly, but it is a lot less expensive than spending your money on a website which no one visits.
12.Don’t look at your blog as a static brochure. Treat it as a dynamic, ever-changing sales tool and location, just like your real store to which your customers with the same seriousness.
13. Keep your blog design simple so that your customers can navigate easily between web pages (something I just realised recently)
, find what they want and buy products and services.
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Good information a usual Ben.
A few more tips I wrote down and shall incorporate into my blogging.
Keep up the good work
Leon Bowes
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Ben – All useful tips! Everyone should take these tips and apply them to their blogs. This is a great reminder for myself.
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Wei Liang
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12 outa 13 is an awesome ratio!
However, most if not all top SEO’s will repeatedly tell you submitting is a waste of time…letting the SE’s crawl you on their own is the only way to fly.
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Ben,thanks for the good tips. For # 5 .Keep track of changes in search engine algorithms.. How do you do this. I think a lot of these SE algorithms especially Google’s remains pretty much a secret. Your thoughts on this?
Peter Lee
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Some great tips Ben. I need to spend more time looking at my logs. I almost dropped MyBlogLog until I noticed the traffic I’ve been getting from there. Our logs can keep us from making those type of mistakes.
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You’re right Brian. By the way I joined your community in MyBlogLog.. You can join mine too! =)
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You always got something nice. That’s why I’m always reading your articles. Thanks for the tips
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when i come across these Short Tips To Increase Ranking And Blog Traffic methods,these will be helpfull for all kinds of user’s to create a blog with a valuble contents, when not sure hiring a professional,these sort of things which have been ment bya professionals like you,here we all come across all of us are thankful for you.
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You’re welcome =D
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4. Submit your blog pages i.e. every blog page and not just the home page, to the most popular search engines.
Can you explain Ben should we submit all pages? Couldn’t Google find it by them self if they knew the home page?
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i enjoyed your blog it was very detailed and helpful i am always coming to your blog because you always have great quality content as well as your topics and these tips have been very beneficial as well thanks
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