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USING KEYWORDS TO DRIVE TRAFFIC

What are the key words for your blog and/or business?

Everyone should have a few key words, that are the words people are searching for,
that will lead them to your site. Hopefully, at least one or two of those words are in
your URL. At the very least, you need to be using those words as often as possible
in the titles to your post.

Two important things to keep in mind

1. A lot of bloggers worry about whether their blogs are search engine friendly. i.e.whether they will get indexed by search engines and get the high rankings that so many bloggers boast of.

Use your primary key phrase in your blog header tags and the title of your postsIf your primary key phrase is "business blogging" make sure that the word business, or blogging, or both, appear in your blog headers as well as the title of each of your posts.

Most blogging software will take the keywords in your post title and put them into the
file name of the permalink posts it creates.

For example, if you have a blog on Blogger.com and title your post "Search Engine Optimization For Blogs", Blogger will automatically create a page with your post and name the file "search-engine-optimization-for-blogs.html" or  something similar.

Use your keywords in the anchor text of links.
Keyword in links have more importance than simple text.

Use your primary and secondary keywords in the anchor text of links when linking to other blog posts or to other pages on your main site.

Link keywords where they naturally appear in the body text, but again, don't overdo it,
or you'll end up with spammy  looking pages.

2. Get backlinks from other blogs or websites

Links pointing to your blog or posts are essential to build pagerank and make your blog rank higher in the search engine listings. Find other blogs that get great traffic and ask if they will link to you.

A lot of times, I will plug another blog, on my blog. And add them to my blogroll. Then I send them note, tell them how much I enjoy what there doing, tell them I just did a little feature on them and ask them if they would add me, to their blogroll.

Your traffic can skyrocket if high traffic sites start linking to you!

Derrick Sorles Blog Consultant

http://www.businessbloggingtips.com

http://www.officiallifebydesign.com

 


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