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4 Invaluable Blog SEO Tactics You Must Not Ignore!

March 30, 2010 - Last Modified: April 1, 2014 by Chadrack Irobogo 1,611

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Every webmaster, blogger, affiliate marketer and indeed all online entrepreneurs understand the importance of generating targeted traffic to your products or services on the net.

It’s for this simple reason that internet marketers do agree that traffic is the holy grail of internet marketing.

Now there are various ways you can generate traffic to your blogs. Some come with a price tag but there are a few that you can employ for free.

SEO is definitely one of these free ways. In this article I want to reveal the top free 4 blog SEO tactics that have produced outstanding results for me thus far.

Let’s be frank here. Blogging itself is one free way of generating traffic. Intergrating a blog in your business webiste could be a great way of attracting traffic to your site. That’s what attracted internet marketers to blogging a few years back. However, today with the proliferation of blogs, getting your blog content into the search engines now demands some extra work on your part.

This is where the blog seo tactics revealed in this article come into play. Maybe the subject of search engine optimization may have looked like rocket science to but that shouldn’t be!

Why pay someone else to do this when you can easily do it? Why try to immerse yourself in all the technical information trying to figure out how to optimize your blog pages to achieve higher rankings when you can look at a few simple items on your pages, make some small adjustments, and most likely see improved rankings quite rapidly?

The truth is you can save money and still achieve some great results!

With SEO You Can Eat Your Cake And Still Have It!

Before I delve right in and reveal my 4 blog seo tactics let me point out a few reasons why you should implement blog search engine optimization.

Give or take at least 85% of people looking for goods and services on the internet find websites through search engines such as Google, Yahoo, and MSN. This means a good number of the traffic that will come to your blog come from the search engines.

Now let’s take this a little further. If you do a search on google.com right now you’ll receive a result in 3 columns. The first column across the top of the page, the second on the right hand corner abd the third just below the first top column but on the left. This column which you’re targeting with your SEO tactics, is called organic search results column.

Now apart from this third column the other two are paid listings. What it means is that for you to be on the top and right column you’ll need to part with some bucks! For example, let’s say it costs an advertiser just $0.5 dollar per click to be on these paid listings. If some 15,000 people click on that ad in a month, that advertiser will be spending close to $7,500 to be on that page.

So what does that mean to you? It simply means if you can securely push your blog or website right on top of that page you’ll be saving some $7,500! Can you now see that with seo you can truly eat your cake and have it?

So how about that? Ready for this?

Let’s begin.

1. Supercharge Your Title and Description Meta Tags:

By default the title and description of your blog are the title and description you enter in the admin general settings page. Leaving these “as is” will be doing a disservice to your blog’s search engine rankings. There is however a few things you can do to effectively enhance your blog’s ranking. You can manually do this by editing your blog theme’s header file. But the quickest and easiest way I’ve found is using the All In One Search Engine Optimization plugin! Using the plugin’s setting page, enter your desired “Title” and “Description” for your blog’s home page.  Besides, before publishing any blog article, use the plugin’s option which appears within your “new post” page to optimize the article by entering a title and description for each post.

One powerful secret to employ here is to craft your title and description as you would a classified ad. Short but appealing and benefit laden. It should also be attention-grabbing so that your target audience will be drawn to it in the midst of the other search results. I must point out here is that the purpose of this tactic is not just about pushing your blog to the top of the search results but to ensure that once your blog is on the first page, people will actually click on your link and visit your blog.

2. Target Keywords/Phrases With Optimized Results:

You should know that optimized search results are simply the results you get whenever you do a search with quotes around your keywords. Search engine placements definitely has to do with keywords. However, just picking any keyword/phrase will not help you. It doesn’t matter how high the search volume for that keyword/phrase may be.  You need a keyword/phrase that will effectively get you on the top of the search results without much ado. A keyword with optimized result will do this for you. First you need to generate a list of possible keywords from which you should select 5 to 10 keyword phrases. Then enter each of them into Google.com search box with quotes.

For example:

“blog marketing tutorials”

“free blog marketing tutorials”

“personal blog marketing tutorial free”

When you enter these phrases into google.com look at the search results. Are they within the range of 1000 to 5000? If the results are way too high, in the thousands or millions then it’s not the right phrase to target. Do this for all the keyword phrases you’ve selected until you get a keyword phrase that has anything between 1,000 and possibly 7,000 optimized results. Now target this keyword phrase and your blog post will make it on the first page of Google in time at all. The problem however is that this could be tasking and strenuous. But there is a solution. Here is a free tool that will remove the hard work and stress. Download here.

3. Help The Search Bots To Better Understand Your Content!

You definitely should know that search engines read your blog content differently from the way humans reads them. To help your blog on the search engines you need to guide the search bots a little in understanding the focus of your blog content by drawing their attention to specific words and phrases in your content. You can do this by using tags like <h2></h2> for your subheadings and also bolding your target keywords using <b></b>. As the bots reads your blog’s source code they will pick up these keywords and phrases as most important in your content. You can see how I’ve done this throughout this article! This simple tactic will help your posts rank high in the search engines for your target keywords/phrases.

4. Individually Submit Your Blog Posts To The Search Engines!

It’s true that with blogs you can easily ping update services once you publish a new post. As much as this is good you can also help your blog on the search engines by submitting every post you publish using a site like http://www.submitexpress.com. This site will submit your blog article to over 40+ different search engines and directories and over 35 different meta search engines! Take advantage of this with every post you publish and very soon your articles will be individually indexed in various search engines all over the net.

Bonus Tip

Just thought of adding this as a bonus 🙂 Probably you’re already using it, but if not go and implement it right now. What is that? Install the Google sitemap generator plugin. This plugin is a must for any wordpress blog. With this you can literally pull in the search engines and they will come rushing to index your every posts minutes after you publish them. The Google Sitemap Generator plugin is a must if you want to win with the seo battle! You can definitely use this in conjunction with #4 above!

There you have it my 4 invaluable blog SEO tactics. Step out today and try these simple tactics and see if you can’t boost your rankings yourself. You don’t have to hire a search engine optimization company or consultant. Save your money but get the results you’ve always wanted!

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About Chadrack Irobogo

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Chadrack Irobogo is a freelance content writer , a Blogger, SEO and an evangelist of content marketing. He has worked with various clients to create exceptional start to finish brand marketing and publicity campaigns using innovative content marketing solutions and direct response techniques that work. He runs the Web Income Journal blog.

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{ 43 Responses }

  1. Sagar says:
    Use of the h2 and h3 tag is very important as it increases the on page SEO, thanks for the valuable tips Chadrack.
    • Chadrack says:
      It's my pleasure Sagar. Thanks for the comment.
  2. Stephane says:
    You're spot on about writing a powerful attention-grabbing title. Lists and how tos work well, however, alternatives exist! Cheers, Stephane
  3. jilianne says:
    Hi Chad, I just want to know what is the favorable length of a keyword phrase? Thanks!
  4. Prince Zermic says:
    Search robots look at the title tag on a webpage to find out what the page is all about as well as to determine its relevance. The title tag also tells your readers why they should read the page. The description tag is a follow-through on your title tag. It gives more information to the search robots about the content of the page. Think of it as a teaser tag.
  5. Jason Jumat says:
    Number 3 should take the crown as it basically is the most important. Keywords, keywords and keywords. Any internet marketer or blogger should analyze this even before starting with his internet ventures of making money online. Doing keyword optimization and applying just that is fundamental.
  6. Brendan says:
    and this is why I read posts like this. While I did know numbers one through three, I didn't know anything about number four. That seems to be a very valuable resource towards the SEO of my site. Thank you very much for sharing. .-= NEW from Brendan @ Online Marketing Consultant´s last blog ..Main Street Marketing Machines =-.
  7. Tom says:
    one additional way to help search engines understand what your content is about is to use optimised link anchor, so instead of using "neutral" words like click here, read more etc... use the target keywords itself. .-= NEW from Tom@NetAccountant´s last blog ..Twitter do’s and don’ts: 16 DO’s to get the most out of Twitter =-.
  8. KS Chen says:
    I have implemented all the tactics you have mentioned above except the submit express to search engine. I will do this now. Thanks for your sharing! :) .-= KS Chen @ Google Adsense Tips´s last blog ..Win the Prizes for SEO =-.
    • Chadrack says:
      It's indeed my pleasure and I wish you the best of results! .-= Chadrack@Home Business Marketing´s last blog ..Marketing With Free Reports? You Should… Seriously! =-.
  9. love moneymaker says:
    thank god to SEO, and i agree not many people fully utilizes the potential of great SEO. I think everyone should try to get a natural flow of traffic and try not to get bad traffic to start with. I totally Dig most of Chad articles as it can be a real eye-opener even for the most experiences Marketeers out there. Just remember not all that glitters is gold sometimes you just have to look a little deeper and i am sure we will find what we are looking for . But have anyone ever imagine Blogs and website without SEO, What i mean is what if there never was such a thing like SEO. What are the tactics that we can use to actually get traffic.? .-= love moneymaker´s last blog ..Well the response was bad..........maybe people don't want free money?? =-.
    • Chadrack says:
      Thanks for the kind words. Of course there are many other ways of driving traffic to your blogs and websites. SEO is just one of them and a powerful one indeed! .-= Chadrack@Home Business Marketing´s last blog ..How To Monetize Your Free Report! =-.
  10. Robert Bravery says:
    Altho Google does not put as much emphasis on meta tags, and the fact that they do not carry as much weight in the Search algorithm, does not mean you must ignore it. Google uses this to help best describe your site. But by far the best SEO is natural quality content. Focus on content first. The SEO would follow that naturally. Do not focus on SEO first, otherwise your content will be rubbish .-= Robert Bravery´s last blog ..Why should I visit your blog? 21 Questions I would ask. =-.
    • Chadrack says:
      Of course quality content in itself is a SEO tactic! Just know how to handle it and you'd be pleasing the search engines and your human readers!:)
  11. Harsh Agrawal says:
    That's indeed a useful tip. I personally optimize my blog posts for search engine and regular readers.... Thanks to plugins like all in one SEO and Theme like Thesis Wordpress theme .-= Harsh Agrawal @Blogging Tips´s last blog ..19 Best and Free Thesis Skins For Your Thesis Wordpress Theme =-.
    • Chadrack says:
      Optimization must take care of those two areas, the search engines and your readers. Thanks for the interest.
  12. Chadrack says:
    @Jeremy, glad you love the post. On your question, I'll advice simply install the All In One Search Engine Optimization plugin. The plugin will automatically work on all your blog titles and descriptions depending on your setting. But for the keywords I think you'll need to re-do a few. But nothing stops you from doing all if you have the time!:) .-= Chadrack@Home Business Marketing´s last blog ..How To Customize Your Twitter Background In Just 2 mins! =-.
  13. Chadrak says:
    At the moment I don't know of any automatic ways of doing keyword research. But there are good keyword tools out there that make things really simple! .-= Chadrak@Home Business Marketing´s last blog ..How To Customize Your Twitter Background In Just 2 mins! =-.
  14. Dana says:
    One question from me: Can we do keyword choice automatically? .-= Dana @ Blogging Tips Blog´s last blog ..How To Create Blog Logo Easily by Using GIMP #1 =-.
  15. Jeremy Johnson says:
    This is good advice. One question about the title, description, and keywords. What would you recommend if you've done over 50 posts and just now realized you should be doing this - would you go back and re-do them for every post, or just a select number of posts? .-= Jeremy Johnson´s last blog ..Video – Garden Of Life Series Part 1 =-.
  16. Dragon Blogger says:
    Most wordpress blogs auto ping when you post or there timeframes, if you post more than 1x per day you shouldn't ping search engines more than 1x per day. SiteMap generator is essential but adds overhead, and when it runs it can bring your blog down for short term due to memory usage so don't set it to run more than 1x per day. Keyword optimization is key, 78% of my blog traffic comes from search engines because I use All in One SEO pack and heavily keyword optimize all of my articles. .-= Dragon Blogger´s last blog ..What Are the Easiest Ways To Monetize Blog Traffic? =-.
    • Chadrack says:
      78% traffic from search engines? That's heavy optimization! If you work on your content to truly appeal to your blog visitors you could be making a killing. And one more thing, package a system of "sucking" in those visitors in order to turn them into "regulars" .-= Chadrack@Home Business Marketing´s last blog ..Our Top Commentator For March – Link Reward! =-.
  17. Latief says:
    Agree with you bro. Keywords is all about if you want to save your money. I have few articles on Google SERPs, the hottest one is my latest article, less than 24 hours the article is on first page Google SERPs for Facebook Fan Page Report. You can check it out :D Thanks for this awesome article. .-= Latief@AnotherBlogger´s last blog ..Facebook Fan Page Report =-.
  18. Evelyn says:
    Very helpful post! I'm new with using Wordpress and just re-launched my blog after being with blogger for a while. I do have the SEO plugin that you speak about, but I was unclear about how it all worked. Your explanation about this cleared up some questions that I had. .-= Evelyn´s last blog ..16 Reasons Why You Should Eat A Plant-Based Diet =-.
    • Chadrack says:
      Evelyn, it's my greatest pleasure that this was helpful! .-= Chadrack@Home Business Marketing´s last blog ..Our Top Commentator For March – Link Reward! =-.
  19. Dennis Edell says:
    If you already ping like a madman, wouldn't submitting, yet again, just get them miffed...similar to multiple pings. .-= Dennis Edell @ Direct Sales Marketing´s last blog ..Attention Readers of all Kinds! – Multiple Articles Comin’ Atcha!! =-.
    • Chadrack says:
      Submitting to your post the search engines is a little different from pinging. Search engines will not penalize you for multiple submissions and subitting with submitexpress dot com will get your articles easily into some Search engines. .-= Chadrack@Home Business Marketing´s last blog ..How To Customize Your Twitter Background In Just 2 mins! =-.
  20. Kiesha says:
    Wow! I never thought of submitting my individual posts to search engines. I'm going to give this a try and see if it helps. Thanks! .-= Kiesha @ WeBlogBetter´s last blog ..Win a Twitter Identity Package $125 Value =-.
    • Chadrack says:
      Yea, that's the spirit. There are a 101 tactics out there. Work on a few and when it helps build on it! .-= Chadrack@Home Business Marketing´s last blog ..Are You Using This Innovative CommentLuv Link Tactics? =-.
  21. Arijit Das says:
    "Bonus Tip" of this article is much valuable for me because Google sitemap is very essential for every blogger's growth and it sometimes gifts the blog - "Search Engine" featured links.... I really inspire the new quality bloggers to put sitemap in their blog... But it's very funny to say that i still didn't installed it . lol! :D .-= Arijit Das´s last blog ..Do you read other Bloggers’ blog for gathering content ideas? =-.
    • Chadrack says:
      What are you waiting for to implement the sitemap generator plugin? Seeing the usefulness I think you better do it now! .-= Chadrack@Home Business Marketing´s last blog ..Are You Using This Innovative CommentLuv Link Tactics? =-.
  22. Fazreen says:
    Thanks for the info especially on submitexpress dot com. First time hard about it. Will try it
    • Chadrack says:
      It's my pleasure! .-= Chadrack@Home Business Marketing´s last blog ..A Dozen Helpful Tips For A Successful Business Blog Marketing! =-.

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