5 Basic SEO Tips For Every Blogger In 2013

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SEO is a word that every blogger always bothers about.Although some of those bloggers might think building active readership is more important than SEO(I do agree).But we need to give equal importance to SEO as well,because search engines like Google always rolls out algorithm updates like Panda, Penguin, EMD(Exact Matched Domain) and we don't know which one will strike our blog.Another important thing is that if you want to make your blog rank high in SERP,you must implement Basic SEO techniques.

Here are some of those basic SEO tips that every blogger should keep in their mind to make your blog stand out from the those algorithm updates.

Maintain Quality Not Quantity :

No doubt where ever your go,you will surely read the phrase "Quality Content"....

Yes its true...!!

As you know Search Engines are always busy digging the high quality content.So,if you maintain good quality in your blog posts,your blog will be noticed by the Search Engines and will give much importance to your blog in the SERP soon.

Link Building :

Hmm...this is a bit complex issue to discuss,but you have to pay more attention while you are creating back links.Since back links must be niche-based.

For suppose if a technology blog is linked to another technology blog..its fine and no prob..
but the main problem comes when a technology blog is linked to a music or may be a photography blog.since they are not of the same niche and the question rings is like..why should a tech blog link to photography blog..?

Right..!!

Actually backlinks should come naturally,but it is difficult....

So,what to do...?

I suggest you to prefer Guest Blogging on a popular reputed in order to gain maximum exposure to you and your blog.Blog commenting is another good way followed by most of the newbies.

Remember No Paid Links...

Keyword Research :

I know Keyword Research is not an easy task,you need to spend a lot of time on it to spot on the correct keyword.There are a lot of keyword research tools available,but go for Google Adwords Keyword Tool,you will get most of the data there.If you don't know how to use it,just search for the related videos on YouTube.

Optimization (But Not Over) :

Suppose you wrote a blog post and ready to publish it.....

Wait for a moment...

Read it once,place the Keyword which you are targeting in some places like Post title,Permalink,Post description,if possible in the first and last sentence of the blog post.And also don't fill up the entire post with the same keyword again and again which appears like spam.So,once you are ready to publish an article optimize it but not over.Make sure that your readers will understand it after everything done.

Keep an Eye on Search Engines :

As I said Search Engines like Google frequently updates its algorithms in order to uncover the quality content.You need to be updated time to time to escape from those Penguin kicks and Panda slaps.And learn new things in SEO always.

Over to you :

So, i hope this post will help some of you over there.If you have any other SEO Tips to share with us,simply leave your awesome comment.

About The Author

This Awesome Post is written by Krishna Karthick of Btips Zone

Effective tips to increase your blogs pagerank

Do you want to increase your pagerank? Do you want to know how you can increase your pagerank? Increasing your pagerank is much easier than understanding its algorithm.Let me tell about the pagerank algorithm.

As an introduction , pagerank represents the importance of a website in the vast internet, where a higher pagerank means better importance in search engines. Pagerank is scaled from 0 to 10 and becomes interesting when involves traffic, The websites with high ranks will win more traffic from search engines.

Before starting, you should know that pagerank is updated once in 3 months. Therefore, you should not expect any changes soon after you start working on it.

Dofollow inbound links (backlinks) are the most critical aspect in calculating your pagerank. Dofollow means that your link will be crawled by the bots / spiders of search engines, nofollow is the contrary, and both are set using anchor text attributes. If all your pages in your blog are linked each other perfectly, you will get a pagerank of 1 easily.

So, here are some methods that can increase your pagerank, starting from the easy ones:

1. Interlinking post

Good dofollow linking (internal site navigation) inside your website will be helpful in increasing your pagerank, but it can only helps to reach a pagerank of 1 without external links. Interlinking can be easily done using an archive widget which can be placed in your sidebar, or a sitemap. It will render all your posts / pages connected each other handsomely, since your sidebar / sitemap goes to all your posts / pages.

2. Natural DoFollow Linking

When bloggers write something, they usually put some external links as an additional information for their readers. The links inside posts are usually dofollow, unless the bloggers specifically and manually defines nofollow attributes.

Here is how you can apply it: first you need to write good genunine contents. If then people read and get impressed, there is a good chance that they will put your links in their own website / articles without asked (as additional resources). It gains you more dofollow inbound links, gives you more votes, and you grows your pagerank.

More great (not just good) contents means more chance of getting natural dofollow backlinks.

3. Guest post

This is one of the most used and best technique to increase Page Rank for many past years in blogosphere. Most Big Blogs have options of guest posting through which you can post at their blog and get two or three backlinks (Dofollow) in return to your blog this really helps if you are posting on good Page Rank Blog with the same Niche as yours.

4. DoFollow Link Exchange

Link exchange between sites / blogs is a common thing in the blogosphere / internet. If you have some friends who have websites or blogs with good traffic and pagerank, you can request for dofollow link exchanges. When you can get more of this exchanges, you will earn more votes. Thus your pagerank will increase.

Getting some dofollow link exchanges with quality sites (higher ranked and relevant) are even better.To get link Exchanges,One should be friendly with other bloggers.

5. DoFollow Reviews

Asking bloggers to write reviews / advertorial about your site (with your dofollow backlinks inside them) will also help building your pagerank. Some reviewing services gives you dofollow links by default, while in some others, you need to manually state that you require dofollow links in the reviews.

You will need to spend some funds for this method, which is best for products and services.

6. DoFollow Text Link Ads

There are lot of websites that provide services in text link ads such as Infolinks, Chitka, Clicksor,etc,. Some of them provide dofollow text link ads, which can help you to increase your pagerank. These type of ads will make the websites (where they are located) vote for your site and increase your pagerank.

Text link ads are usually not free and you should spend dollars for it!

Group Discussion and Questions - Answers:

1. How high can my pagerank will grow?

 The persons who blog as a hobby can easily attain a pagerank of 1 and 2.Some full time blogger like Mustaffa of mybloggertricks , Paul crowe of spiceupyourblog.com and Harish of way2blogging.org can attain a pagerank of 3 to 5 .Super successful and famous bloggers like Darren Rowse of Problogger.net and Brian Clark of Copyblogger.com can get 6-7 in scale.Traffic audit sites like alexa.com can attain a pagerank of 8. Search engines like google,Yahoo and Bing can attain a pagerank as high as 9.And Social Medias like facebook and twitter can get the ultimate 9-10.

If a blogger wants to attain a pagerank of 8 and above, he's dreaming.



2. Can leaving comments in other blogs / websites increase my pagerank?

Yes,sometimes .Only if the blogs comment are dofollow, which allows the search engine bots/ spiders to crawl your links inside the comments sections. Most blogs in the web are Nofollow in their comments section to avoid abuse and spam and not to leave their link juice. Leaving comments in nofollow sites will increase your link popularity, but not pagerank.You need dofollow backlinks to increase your pagerank.If found any dofollow blog, always try to become a top commentors of that blog.

(True Blogger Tricks is a dofollow and dont forget to comment in this blog!!)

3. Can social media websites increase my pagerank?

No, absolutely they cannot. All social medias automatically add nofollow attributes to all links inside them to avoid spam or abuse.It is Same like nofollow commenting, it will increases your link popularity but not your pagerank.

4. Black Hat pagerank building may work, why don't you mention it here?

Search engines actively fight black hat pagerank building (like keywords spamming, hidden link, etc), because they want to ensure that high ranked sites are really valuable to online society, not just because they can hack things using their techie knowledge.
It's like getting money, you can get money from providing satisfying services to others, or by robbing or stealing from others. Both give you money, just which methods you want to use. Natural and black hat methods can increase pagerank, your purpose defines which one you will choose.

Besides, using black hat methods can result in ban or penalty from search engines.

Its all friends.Feel free to try and don't hesitate to let me know if I missed something.

5 Best Link building tips for getting high page rank and traffic

 Link popularity represents the popularity of your website in the internet, enabling you to have a better credibility and bargaining position especially in monetizing your site. It is also a nice thing to watch your site grow in term of link popularity, knowing that all your hard work is blooming. If you are interested in increasing your link popularity, feel free to read this article further. We will discuss this matter in more details.

Link popularity tools usually define the level of popularity based on the indexing of at least five major search engines, with Google and Yahoo and Bing as the big players as always. Therefore, before trying to gain your link popularity, make sure you have adequate SEO (search engine optimization) right there. And one more thing, link popularity usually updates once a week, so if you actively leave backlinks, you will see the results after a week.

OK, increasing link popularity is easy to do because all types of link, both dofollow and nofollow, contribute positively. Let’s start then, here are some methods that you can use to build your link popularity, starting from the easiest and most effective:

1. Commenting in blogs

 Actively commenting on other blogs / websites and leaving backlinks at the same time is the easiest method to build your link popularity. All you need to do is visiting other related blogs / websites, read their articles / contents, share your thoughts, and finally leave your name / URL as signature / identity.Always Try to come in top commentators of that blog.

However, you have to keep it positive and contributive to the discussion in each blog. Otherwise, you may hurt your won brand. You don’t want to look like a spammer, do you?

2. Social Media

Leaving backlinks in social media / forums is also useful in increasing your link popularity. It is also a common thing for bloggers to share their posts in social media like StumbleUpon, Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, Digg, etc, especially when they have new posts.

Some social media like Twitter automatically shorten your long links using free URL shortening service like TinyURL.com or Bit.ly. Bad news, it is not good for your link popularity because though those shorter URLs redirect to your site, it is literally not yours there. It does not count in the algorithm.

For a better result, always try to leave your links in full length.

3. Link Exchange

Link exchanges also help you increase your link popularity. The best link exchange for your link popularity is the blogroll type, where your link is located in the sidebar / footer of other blog / website. Why is it good? Simple, because the sidebar / footer goes to all the pages / posts. If the website have 400 posts / pages, then you will gain yourself one link in each of them.

Some other websites have special pages for link exchanges, where they put all the exchanged links in one place. It is not too good for your link popularity, since you will get only one link per exchange.

Link exchange needs hard work and patience, but if done right, it is very rewarding.

4. Guest post

Guest post will also give you more inbound links, if your articles accepted. However, this method requires more effort than those above. You have to find the right carnivals that suit your topic first and then submit your posts there. If the host likes your article, you will get more links. If not, you know what will happen.

5. Linking post

 
Linking all post are a passive technique to gain link popularity. The impact of this method is quite difficult to predict. However, all you need to do is focusing to produce contents as good as you can, and the rest will take care of itself.

Tips from Author:

If you seek to raise your level of link popularity, I personally suggest the first method: commenting. Reading other articles will improve your knowledge, and responding to them will exercise your brain. Social media comes afterward, because it will keep you up to date to the trends of the internet, while socializing with your friends. If you still have time to kill after those two, go for the rest.

Ok folks, any question or comment? You are more than welcomed to use the comment box.