Well, after my recent post on the traffic splurge from simple seo, people started asking me about how to do basic seo and how to promote their blogs that were being overlooked by google, so here i go.
First and foremost thing that i would enforce is relevancy, nothing else, if you are relevant to your niche, you’ll be just fine.
Now here are some steps you can take to have a bit more interactivity going on your site which leads to “returning traffic” that keeps coming back for more.
This one is terribly simple, blog directories and communities such as mybloglog and blogcatalog they both are very powerful blog communities, blogcatalog is a blog-directory as well (where i have listed my blog too), it provides carefully reviewed submissions to their directory, which by the way is FREE, so go for it!The more interactivity you have on your site such as those oh-so-cool recent readers widgets that both of those blog communities provide.
One more directory that you might want to submit your blog to would be the BlogFlux Directory, you could do this on a later note too because its not that important to have your blog in there, but an extra link never hurts and blogflux gets tons of traffic! (yep, i have my blog there too)
Now the second step if you wish to, you could take SMM as a promotional strategy for this, make sure your tags for each post have something to do with the original niche that you are trying to base the blog on, and to make this easier i’d recommend using
OnlyWire , its an all-in-one kinda social bookmarking site, you can just use one interface in order to bookmark tons of posts/pages on your site/blog.- Link Building : This is the easiest and most fun part of making and promoting a blog, you don’t have to buy links for every site, its better if you link exchange with relevant blogs on the same niche, make sure they don’t contain any off topic rants or anything, while launching a blog you need to be zero-tolerant on getting links from in-active blogs/sites, usually those sites get de-indexed to the bare minimum amount of pages at google and it stays that way, although some links are better then none links so you should get those too but try to make them your last priority.
If you are worried about what keyword you should try to target then try out my strategy for keyword research…
If you can’t convince yourself you are basically screwed from the very start, so don’t care what other people say is a high paying keyword, do your own research and then you’ll have proof that what you are doing actually DOES work!
On an almost daily basis i use Google Trends you can compare products and search phrases on there to get a more accurate view of the whole situation this is something alot of people skip doing and rather pay marketers and seos to do, Its just one simple query and it can get you a ton of good info.
For example, look at the stats below.
You can see clearly that free games has the highest frequency of searches and activity, so targeting for that keyword would be a bad bad move unless you have a good advertising budget and one kick ass site, so this way you get the full stats of whats the highest used keyword and what keywords you should be using for your sites, in this case id suggest free online games since its easier to land compared to the rest and once you have that you can get free games easily as well because you are on the much relevant, same niche based and less used keyword already, that gives you leverage at serps!
- Sell in-content text-links
- Have more then 40% of ads on your blog
- Link to irrelevant sites
Factors Of Indexation
More factors of indexation
***Note : Digg DOES speed up indexation, so write good relevant articles AND DIGG!
