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Showing posts with label SEO. Show all posts
Showing posts with label SEO. Show all posts

Friday, March 28, 2008

INCREASE Blog Traffic With Quality Content

So why do people visit a blog in the first place ? Think about the blogs that you visit frequently. What is holding your attention to these blogs ? I’m very sure that your favorite blogs do a good job of entertaining and/or educating you. And they do this with quality content.

Blog traffic can be increased by writing posts with quality content, and it turns random visitors into regular readers !

The benefits of quality blog content do not just end there. Other bloggers are also more likely to link to and/or cite one of your blog posts (or your blog in general) if it contains great information.

And as you probably know, increasing the number of links to your blog from other websites also increases your search engine visibility on top of generating direct referral traffic to your site.

What Is Quality Content?

So what is quality content and how do you create it?

I feel that quality website content should have the following traits :

  1. It explores the subject matter in great detail, regardless of the subject being addressed.

  2. It is well-written with proper spelling and grammar which makes it easy for people to read.

  3. It is interesting and insightful. It doesn’t just rehash what everyone else is saying — it speaks for itself.

  4. It is updated frequently to address current events / changes within the subject matter.

  5. It is written with a clear purpose in mind – be it to entertain, educate or persuade, etc.

Now that you know blog traffic can be increased with quality content, the only thing left for you to do is start generating that great content !



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Thursday, March 20, 2008

SEO and Blog Indexing

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) aims at increasing the volume and improving the quality of traffic to a blog from search engine results. Search engines work on different algorithms to analyze the contents and keywords, and present the search results. Google, for instance, assigns page ranks, and blogs that rank highly will appear early in the results.

Many other factors are also considered by search engines, such as relevance, unique content and quality of links. The major search engines know that revealing these factors will only encourage manipulation of the ranking system and have thus been secretive about how the ranking algorithms work.

The common agreement is that the more visible your blog is on the internet, the higher your ranking will eventually be. Hence, having your blog linked to by many other blogs and indexed by different search engines increase its exposure and visibility.

Blog Indexing

Following up from my previous post, I assume that your blog is now up. It is a matter of time that your blog is indexed by the major search engines like Google and MSN. One of the fastest ways to have your blog indexed is to get another blog that is already in the search engine listings to link to you. When the search engine crawlers visit that blog, they will find your blog and index it.

When submitting your blog, you can just submit the top-level webpage and for Blogger Blogs, it will be an address like this http://blogname.blogspot.com without the www.

Some of the sites send advertisements and newsletters to you in exchange for free submission. If you don't want that, remember to opt out of it. Note that different search engines have different standards of content, design and technical specifications, submission of your blog does not guarantee that it will be included in their database.

Search Engine Listing

You may submit your site URL to these search engines to see if your blog has been indexed.



And the list goes on .........However, this should be more than sufficient to get you going.

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