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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.

The Biggest Mistake Bloggers Make

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The biggest mistake that I have seen many bloggers make is relying on the search engines for traffic. On some of the days my blog got 200 daily views, 10% of that traffic was from search engines. If I relied on the search engines, there would be some days when I only got 20 views instead of 200 views.

The first time my blog got over 400 views, less than 10% of that traffic came from search engines. That big 400 would have been under 40 if I relied on the search engines. The SEO tactics are out there, and although they won’t lead to dramatic success in the short-term, they will help out in the long-term.

Right now, you’re probably wondering how I got the other 360 or so views on my blog when I got 400 views in one day. I did not use any traffic exchange sites to pull this off. Instead, I used social media. Social media contributed to about 200 visitors on that day. Those 200 visitors looked at my other blog posts because I pay special attention to reducing my blog’s bounce rate.

That’s how I got over 400 views and over 200 visitors in one day mainly with social media. Twitter and Pinterest were the driving forces of that day’s success, and the successes of many other days as well. On that day, over 150 people came to my blog from Twitter and over 50 people came to my blog from Pinterest.

While the search engines are a great way of getting traffic, there are going to be some good days with the search engines, but there are also going to be some bad days. In order to get more traffic to your blog, you need to utilize your social networks instead of focusing on the search engines. The search engines are a great way to get traffic, but social networks are more reliable, and for me, they have had better results.

How did you come across this blog? Did you click on the link in my tweet, click on my pin, or use the search engines to find me? You may have used the search engine to find me, but if I had to take a guess, I would guess that you found this blog post on a social network.