Why Every Blog Post Should Be SEOed?

by Joan Harrington Network Marketer/Coach/Full-time Blogger

Why Every Blog Post Should Be SEOed?

 

 

Why Your Blog Post Should Be SEOed?

 

Why Should Your Blog Be (SEOED) Search Engine Optimized?

 

While it’s true that content is king, bloggers very often underestimate the role SEO has in blogging success.

Even when they do SEO, a lot of bloggers only optimize their main page.

In reality, each and every post needs SEO attention.

Doing so will help you rank not just for your home page, but for all your other pages as well.

Most successful bloggers will agree that the vast majority of blogging traffic doesn’t come from home page rankings.

Instead, it comes from many blog posts.

 

Here’s how to SEO each and every blog post for the maximum amount of traffic.

 

The 50/50 Rule

As a rule of thumb, you should spend half your time writing and half your time on SEO and marketing.

In other words, if it takes you an hour to write a blog post, you should also be willing to put an hour into promoting that blog post.

A well written blog post that doesn’t get any exposure is simply no good.

On the other hand, exposure without quality content is worthless as well.

In order to succeed, you need to have BOTH high quality content and a promotion strategy that will get your content in FRONT of your target audience.

Use the 50/50 rule to make sure you’re putting enough time into marketing.

 

Basic On-Page Optimization

Your blog in general should be SEOed.

You should have your permalinks set, your title tags reformatted so the site name is on the end, etc.

However, each individual post should also receive some on-page optimization.

Start with the internal links.

Whenever you write a new post, try to point four or five internal links to it.

Go back through your older posts, find related posts and put a “Related Post” or “You Might Also Like” link back to your new post.

Make sure you have a keyword you’re targeting and use it throughout the content.

Include it in the title tag if you can, but don’t do it at the expense of content quality.

Make sure the keyword is in the permalink URL.

Shorten the permalink URL so it’s not overly long, as it often is if it just ports your title into the URL.

Building Backlinks to New Posts

The most important thing you should do for SEO is to build backlinks to each and every post, individually.

Getting ranked for a specific longtail keyword is much easier than getting ranked for a broad keyword.

By helping your posts get ranked, you vastly increase the chances of your posts ranking, even if it’s for lower volume keywords.

A few easy ways to get backlinks to posts include blog commenting, forum posting, Squidoo lenses and article marketing.

Building just a handful of backlinks is often all it takes to get your content to rank.

Try to build 5 to 20 backlinks for each and every post on your website.

 

Using Metrics to Increase Traffic

As your site gets traffic, make it a habit to see which pages are getting ranked.

Use your analytics package to see what pages are popular and what keywords people are typing in to get to those pages.

Once you’ve found a few keywords that are already working for you, put a little more effort into helping your pages rank even higher for them.

With these pages, you already know Google likes them.

A bit of EXTRA attention could be all it takes to go from #5 to #1.

Optimizing each and every blog post might seem like a lot of effort.

 

However, that’s really how SEO for blogging works.

 

The key lies in optimizing each and every post, rather than just the home page.

 

 

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To Your Success,
Joan Harrington

 

(*Editors Note:  Source of this content…Derek Pankaew has been building internet businesses for over 5 years)

Created on Feb 6th 2012 10:22. Viewed 109 times.

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