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10 Easy Ways To Enhance Your Blog’s SEO

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In order to get your blog to rank well on search engines, you need to pay special attention to your blog’s SEO. Search engine optimization is something that some bloggers know very well while others find it very confusing. When I first heard of SEO, I was completely confused. I had no idea how SEO would help my blog or how to apply SEO. You may be confused about SEO as well, but in this article, I am going to make SEO easier to understand. In addition, I will be showing you 10 easy ways to enhance your blog’s SEO.

  1. Blog consistently. Consistency is one of the keys to success. It is better to blog once a week than it is to blog inconsistently.
  2. Link to your older blog posts in your new blog posts. This helps out with your blog’s bounce rate which plays a role in SEO. It’s as easy as inserting a link to another blog post.
  3. Share your blog on social networks. Getting traffic from social networks helps out with a blog’s SEO.
  4. Verify your blog on Pinterest. This way, people know it’s you, and in addition, you get a backlink from Pinterest. Backlinks are important towards SEO, but if you can get a backlink from Pinterest (one of the highest ranked websites on the web), that is a quality backlink. The more quality backlinks you have, the more traffic your blog will get.
  5. Be a guest blogger. This also contributes towards backlinks if you put a link to your blog in your bio. People will see your name on more places in the web, and that will make people to trust you more.
  6. Have a Top Posts & Pages widget on your blog. This is another easy addition that helps out with bounce rate. When someone clicks on the link to one of your popular posts (which many people believe are your best posts), that will lower your blog’s bounce rate.
  7. Use keywords in your title. What are going to be the words and phrases people search to find you? Use some of these keywords in your title so it is easier for people to find you.
  8. Include tags for all of your blog posts. I recommend having 5-10 tags per blog posts because having too many tags is not good for SEO. Tags are the keywords people use to find you. If you want someone to find you for “Twitter tips,” have “Twitter tips” as a tag.
  9. Choose your tags and keywords carefully. Let’s say you wrote an article about getting more retweets on Twitter. A big mistake people make with tagging is that they decide to tag “Twitter” for their articles. If you tag that way, you will be competing with millions (or maybe even billions) of different blog posts and web pages. If one of your tags is “Twitter tips,” you reduce the competition size. If one of your tags is “how to get more retweets on Twitter,” you have reduced the competition even more. Choose the keywords
  10. Write a series of blog posts. I wrote a blog post called 5 Pinterest Mistakes to avoid. Then I wrote a Part 2. By writing a series, all you need to do is get your visitor to enjoy reading one of those blog posts. Then, the visitor will automatically look at the other one as well.

By implementing these 10 easy tactics, you will be able to see an increase in your search engine traffic. I can’t guarantee immediate results, but over the long-term, you will see an increase in traffic from Google and other search engines as well.

10 Tactics To Get A Spike In Traffic

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More people than ever are trying to get the big spike in traffic. The spike in traffic will result in a few days of a dramatic increase in traffic. Then, those numbers decline, but the average daily visits is greater than it was before the spike in traffic. At the end of 2013, my average traffic for a day was about 150 views. Four days after Christmas, I got over 400 views. When the New Year came, my traffic settled down to over 250 views a day.

The number of daily views my blog got doubled within days, and in order to experience similar results, you need to implement these 5 tactics to get that spike in traffic that will allow more people to know about your blog.

  1. Have a big following on your social networks. My Twitter and Pinterest accounts were the biggest contributors towards my blog’s spike in traffic. On the day my blog got oer 400 views, Twitter referred over 150 people to my blog and Pinterest referred over 50 people to my blog.
  2. Frequently post on social networks. I tweet every hour and pin every day. My traffic from Pinterest always increases when I pin my blog posts. My traffic from Twitter always increases at the start of every hour because that’s when I send out a tweet.
  3. A few days before you want to spike, don’t talk about your blog that much on your social networks. On Christmas Day, I sent out tweets for half of the day about Christmas facts, music, and more. For the other half of the day, I tweeted out my blog posts. I got only 67 views that day which is below my average.
  4. Days after, make sure all of your updates are about your blog. When you do this, you will experience better results when you put your best content forward. Since you weren’t talking about your blog as much, some people may have forgotten about it. Your updates will allow people to remember your blog and be curious about what your blog post is about.
  5. Have strong headlines. The headline of your blog post will be the deciding factor of whether or not someone clicks on the link and visits your blog. Here are some good ways to give your blog posts stronger, attention grabbing headlines.
  6. Connect with others. When you connect with others, many of those people will decide to visit your blog. The more connections you have, the more visitors you are going to get.
  7. Make sure your blog has good SEO. If your blog has good SEO, you will be able to get more traffic from search engines. The better your SEO, the more traffic you are going to get. The search engines are not as reliable as social media, but when some spikes in traffic are a result of good SEO. When you improve your blog’s SEO, you won’t get a dramatic short-term change. The long-term results are what will allow you to see what making small changes can do for your blog.
  8. Have a targeted following. Targeted followers are the people who are interested in the niche that you write about. By having these kinds of followers, you will ensure more traffic.
  9. Write powerful blog posts. The blog posts that go above the call of duty are the blog posts that get more recognition.
  10. Don’t give in. The reason most bloggers don’t get to see the spike in traffic is because they give up too early. In order to get the motivation that will allow you to continue (and eventually see the spike in traffic), you need to look at this picture.

Do you have any tactics that you have used to get a spike in traffic that I didn’t mention? If so, please share with us your tactics below.

 

5 Ways To Improve Your Blog’s SEO

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SEO is a very important part of your blog because it allows search engines such as Google to find your blog. Without a powerful presence on social media, having good SEO or not means the difference between being seen and being invisible. Here are 5 ways to improve your SEO so your blog gets noticed by the masses:

  1. Reduce your blog’s bounce back rate. For a really long time, I did nothing about bounce back rate. I didn’t know anything about bounce back rate, how to reduce bounce back rate, or that it even had an impact on SEO. There are a bunch of ways to reduce the bounce back rate on your blog, and all of them are easy to implement. After implementing these tactics, the bounce back rate for my own blog went from a rate of 83% to a rate of 62% in just one month.
  2. Use words in your blog posts’ titles that help out towards SEO. On this blog, there are a lot of posts with one of the following words in the title: SEO, Blogging, Social Media, Twitter, Pinterest, and Business. By using these keywords, people will find you when they type those keywords into Google’s search box.
  3. Keep your blog fresh. By updating your blog with new content as much as you can, you will rank higher for Google’s keywords. Google doesn’t want to put up a blog that hasn’t been updated for 2 years. Make sure your blog is properly getting updated so it rises above the competition. Showing up is not half the battle. However, showing up consistently is half the battle.
  4. Get backlinks for your blog. One way to get a backlink for your blog is by becoming a guest blogger. Another way to get a backlink for your blog is just by having your own Pinterest account. Another way to get a backlink from your blog is by commenting on other people’s blogs.
  5. Unlock social media’s potential. Social Media is big towards SEO. The reason I really like social media is that you have more control over your results. If you have a big following on a social network, you can get a lot of visitors to your blog that way. Include social media buttons at the bottom of your blog posts so your visitors can easily share your blog posts across all of their social networks.
  6. Bonus: I wrote a blog post about 100 Amazing Blogging Tips. Some of the tips are SEO related while others are just about having a successful blog.