SEO and Blogging
Blogs are a multi-dimensional communication channel that can be used for a variety of purposes. Whether you need to draw traffic to your site, gather customer feedback, generate awareness, communicate with customers or those within your own organization, blogs are a quick, easy, and effective way to create an online presence without knowing even a single line of code. Blogs are information sharing tools for connecting users to businesses and it is a powerful tool for Search Engine Optimization.
SEO nothing but optimizing a website for better views and customers with the help of google algorithms. By optimizing a website or a blog post we making the website more visible to the users or customers.Proper SEO will help the beginners to create more traffic to their site.
Key points to be noted
- As a beginner you should find your own domain for which you are writing or creating the blog. Above all content is the king in SEO and hence the quality and genuine contents should be created.
- Blogs should be frequently updated (optimized) so that the traffic wont decrease. It is the perfect platform for users for communication and inquiries.
- Choosing good keywords is another important part in making a blog more SEO friendly. It is always better to use long tail keywords for this purpose.
- While setting up a blog and uploading to it your website, also host few of them on other free blogging platforms.
- It may be easiest to create individual accounts for each blog you're writing (as opposed to signing up with the same username and password for all), in that way you'll have control and have administrative access to each individual blog.
- Free platforms such as Blogger, WordPress, Type Pad, LiveJournal can be used by the beginners.
- Your title, description, and URL should feature the keywords specific to the content of the blog to capitalize on search engine indexing and visibility.
SEO friendly Blogging
Once you've completed the process of creating a blog it is important to include most competitive keywords in your title and content. While it may be tempting to simply combine all of your keywords, make sure that your title remains both condensed and descriptive. Major search engines uses keywords for finding the perfect site or page for the user.Be creative while creating the content and do not forget to tag proper keywords and give relevant description. Always remember to link other posts to your own blog and add backlinks in good websites.Clear navigation to your blog will increase the traffic to your site and there by ranking higher in SERP.