Guide For New Blog
April 1, 2009
You want to start a blog. However, it can take months for a new blog to start showing a profit. Could you make money faster by buying an abandoned blog?
A blog which is been online for several years has many benefits. Even if the blog hasn’t been updated in a year or two, if it has pages which are indexed in the search engines, it has value. If it still gets traffic, it has even more value.
Let’s look at two alternatives when starting a new blog.
1. Start a New Blog from Scratch
The big benefit of starting a blog from scratch is that you can set up the blog exactly the way you want it. Every decision is up to you, and you can set it up for search engine optimization benefits right from the start. Read more
10 SEO Tricks to Attract More Traffic to Your Blog
July 1, 2008
As fancy as the term “blog” sounds, it’s actually just a website that uses a content management system. While most blog software is more search engine friendly out of the box than many web sites, the opportunities for blog optimization are readily available.
Here are 10 tricks that will increase your visibility in search engines and eventually drive more traffic to your blog.
1) Use keywords in your blog post titles - This is a given for SEO. Most blogging software uses the post title as the url so take advantage of it.
Example: “10 SEO Tricks to Attract More Traffic to your Blog - Search Engine Journal”
Search Engine Journal is included on every blog post title tag automatically.
2) Optimize your blog categories - When you create categories for your blog, be sure to use keywords in the titles. When you post, be sure to default to a general category that is relevant no matter what the post is about. Choose multiple categories on each post when appropriate. This will create a “SEO-friendly” url for each post you make.
3) Syndicate your blog - Make it easy for people to subscribe to your blog. Sign-up with a free service like Feedburner and then create a “syndication” area on your site.
4) Offer RSS to email. Anywhere from 10% to 40% of your blog traffic can come from individuals that perfer to read blog posts via email. RSS readers and aggregators can be confusing. Adding email services to your blog isn’t. There are several free services available for this including: FeedBlitz, Squeet, and Zookoda.
5) Ping blog search engines - This can be configured with blog software such as Movable Type or WordPress to work automatically. If you’re using Blogger.com, then you can do this manually with Pingomatic.com or Pingoat.com.
6) Make comments on other blogs. Your name will be linked to the blog url that you enter. Don’t make comments that offer no value to the blog post. Don’t use keywords in the field for your name, use your name or blog name. Read more