5 Tips To SEO Magic
Just What is SEO Anyway?
Great Question! SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization. So what is that and why is it so important to each of us? If you have a Blog or Website, or plan to have one, you of course, want people to find your blog and visit. That is called Traffic. Without Traffic our blogs and websites would just be dead in the water, going no where.
How do you get traffic, targeted traffic, to frequent your site? One of the best ways is to be sure your site is Search Engine Optimized. When people want something on the Internet, they go to their search engine (Google, Yahoo, or Bing) and type in a keyword or a keyword phrase. This will bring up a huge list of any site that has designed their site for that keyword. That keyword will be in their Meta Tags, or their Titles, or in the body of their articles. This is a major way to drive traffic to your site and let people know you have what they need.
The object here is to be on page 1 of Google’s Search. The more SEO friendly your site is the more quickly it will move up to page 1 on the search engines and make it easier for people to find you and visit your site.
Here are 5 key ways to be sure your site is SEO Friendly.
1. Go to Google Adwords: Keyword Tool. Put in a keyword that your site is about and that you feel people would search for.
You will hopefully get a long list of keywords to match that search and all kinds of variations of that word or phrase.
Take a look at the Competition. You want to pay attention to those with less competition and still lots of people searching for that word. So if it is a medium to low competition, and 15,000 people in the USA are searching for that word per mo., that would be a good keyword to use on your blog and in your articles.
Star those you like and feel are good words or phrases, then download the report and save it. Now you have ammunition to get to work driving traffic to your blogs and websites.
2. Next in SEO or search engine optimization of your blog or website would be Article Writing. Search Engines are looking for content, good, original, high quality content. The object here is to add lots of relevant content to your sites.
SEO friendly articles with keyword that your Targeted Traffic would be searching for. If your Blog is about Knitting, they your articles and content should have words in it about knitting.
Your Articles need to be original, informative, and relevant. So if your Blog is about Knitting, you wouldn’t put articles in there about hunting or race car driving. Stay on topic. You could write about How to Knit, or Knitting Tips, or Knitting Tools.
Your article should be at least 250 – 500 words long. Be sure your keyword is in your Title and throughout the article.
3. There are great plug ins to help you to maximize your SEO efforts with your Blog Posts. One that I like to use is SEO Beast. SEO Beast will teach you exactly what to do as you post articles to be sure you are SEO friendly and get the top ranking.
4. When you are planning your posts or articles, one key tip is to be consistent. If you post once a week, keep it up; if you post every 3 days, be sure to keep it regular and steady. This will help you with your SEO ranking.
There are many SEO tips I could list, but for this article, this is my final one.
5. Once you have posted your article, then it is time to start working on getting backlinks. That will be the subject of another blog post as it is to involved to cover adequately in this post. As a tip, check out Social Monkee, you can get 25 free backlinks every day.
This should get you started and on your way to driving traffic to your Blogs and Websites. There is much, much more. Stay tuned as I will have much more about Backlinks, SEO optimization tips, and marketing ideas in my future posts.
One Response to “5 Tips To SEO Magic”
Debi Jones on September 19, 2011
Nice job Kathy! I know I will always find great, informative articles every time I visit your blog! SEO is so very important to business success! Thanks for sharing this info!
Thanks!
Debi