First, Bloggers pride themselves on a lot of fronts; mainly on content then on link strategies. Blogs are usually about self-expression, and having people read your posts which can be uplifting, not to mention very inspiring. I know I get excited when I look at my traffic stats.
Second, blogs can be difficult to maintain, and bloggers need to be bursting with ideas and creativity in order to keep their blogs from falling off the virtual blogging cliff..
Third, blogs don’t promote themselves, and the best bloggers are those who are able to spread the word about their blog and get a lot of attention in the process.
As you can guess from the post title it is all about to promoting your blog, for more traffic,and readers.
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Your Top 5 Blog Promotion questions answered
If you're like me, you don't write anything you don't intend not being read. However, I have seen many bloggers make this mistake. They spend a lot of time getting their blog looking the way they want and writing excellent post that don't get read because they don't take the time to promote.
I have been blogging for over years now, and I have seen a lot of start up blogs that puttered out within as little few weeks because the blogger got discouraged because of no or very little traffic.
In this post I am going to answer 5 of your top blog promotion questions. Questions that I have ask myself, then dug deep to find the answers for.
Q: What are the best plugins for Blog promotion?
A: If you are using word press on your own domain there are a few plugins that you can use for blog promotion. WP Social is one of the best. Once installed you will just have to go to settings and click on WP Social Booster then follow the direction or watch the set up videos inside of set up.
Another blog promo plugin is twitter tools. This promo tool will tweet your post link on your twitter board. Great tool if you use twitter.
Rule of thumb about plugins
The more plugins you have installed the more they will slow down your blog, so be conservative. Check my out my post about Blog Speed
Q: What is SEO Content?
A: SEO content is content such as an article, audio, or video that is produced using what is known as keywords that people use to search for on the web. As an example we’re going to start with a type of article that not only promotes your your blog by pulling in traffic from Google and other search engines.
This is referred to as search engine optimized (SEO) content.
By choosing the keywords your market is already searching for in the search engines… and then creating content that will get your blog pages ranked well in the search engines for these keywords. Read on…
Step 1: Choose Your Keywords
Time to go to WordTracker.com, MarketSamurai.com or your favorite keyword tool, is enter your broad keywords (like “bodybuilding” or “parrots”), and take a look at the results. The tool will show you how many people search for each of these words in the major search engines.
Obviously, it would be great if you could rank well for a word that gets hundreds or thousands of searches each day. You can just imagine the traffic you’d get. But the thing is, a lot of other marketers are doing full SEO campaigns to rank well for those words. And these SEO experts are good at what they’d do, so they’d easily outrank you for the most popular keywords.
The solution?
Focus on the longtail keywords.
These tend to be four or five word phrases that tend not to have as many people searching for them each day, but they also don’t have a lot of competition. And that means you can rank well for them.
Tip: WordTracker provides a KEI (keyword effectiveness index) value, which gives you an idea of how popular a word is relative to how much competition there is. You want to find words with a value of at least 100, though the higher the better.
Example: A competitive keyword is something like “weight loss.” But a longtail keyword that’s less competitive is “weight loss for women over 40.”
Step 2: Create Content Around These Keywords
Once you’ve created a list of keywords with a high KEI value, your next step is to write articles around them.
You should include your keyword in the title of your article as well as one or two times for every 100 words of content. So if your article is 400 words, your keyword should appear four to eight times in the article.
Example: Using the example above: You can create an article titled “The Secrets of Weight Loss for Women Over 40.” Then you can sprinkle the keyword throughout the article, such as: “Weight loss for women over 40 – is it even possible?” Or, “Maybe you’ve been thinking about weight loss for women over 40…”
All you have to in order to create SEO content is Research your niche keywords and create at least one SEO article and place it on your blog and promote via Social media.Check out Surefire Idea's for better Blog posts.
Another blog promo plugin is twitter tools. This promo tool will tweet your post link on your twitter board. Great tool if you use twitter.
Rule of thumb about plugins
The more plugins you have installed the more they will slow down your blog, so be conservative. Check my out my post about Blog Speed
Q: What is SEO Content?
A: SEO content is content such as an article, audio, or video that is produced using what is known as keywords that people use to search for on the web. As an example we’re going to start with a type of article that not only promotes your your blog by pulling in traffic from Google and other search engines.
This is referred to as search engine optimized (SEO) content.
How is it created?
By choosing the keywords your market is already searching for in the search engines… and then creating content that will get your blog pages ranked well in the search engines for these keywords. Read on…
Step 1: Choose Your Keywords
Time to go to WordTracker.com, MarketSamurai.com or your favorite keyword tool, is enter your broad keywords (like “bodybuilding” or “parrots”), and take a look at the results. The tool will show you how many people search for each of these words in the major search engines.
Obviously, it would be great if you could rank well for a word that gets hundreds or thousands of searches each day. You can just imagine the traffic you’d get. But the thing is, a lot of other marketers are doing full SEO campaigns to rank well for those words. And these SEO experts are good at what they’d do, so they’d easily outrank you for the most popular keywords.
The solution?
Focus on the longtail keywords.
These tend to be four or five word phrases that tend not to have as many people searching for them each day, but they also don’t have a lot of competition. And that means you can rank well for them.
Tip: WordTracker provides a KEI (keyword effectiveness index) value, which gives you an idea of how popular a word is relative to how much competition there is. You want to find words with a value of at least 100, though the higher the better.
Example: A competitive keyword is something like “weight loss.” But a longtail keyword that’s less competitive is “weight loss for women over 40.”
Step 2: Create Content Around These Keywords
Once you’ve created a list of keywords with a high KEI value, your next step is to write articles around them.
You should include your keyword in the title of your article as well as one or two times for every 100 words of content. So if your article is 400 words, your keyword should appear four to eight times in the article.
Example: Using the example above: You can create an article titled “The Secrets of Weight Loss for Women Over 40.” Then you can sprinkle the keyword throughout the article, such as: “Weight loss for women over 40 – is it even possible?” Or, “Maybe you’ve been thinking about weight loss for women over 40…”
All you have to in order to create SEO content is Research your niche keywords and create at least one SEO article and place it on your blog and promote via Social media.Check out Surefire Idea's for better Blog posts.
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