Some Basic Search Engine Optimization Tips for Bloggers
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I still remember the days when I was newbie in blogging. Search Engine Optimization, SEO for short was a puzzling word for me and it's now one year passed in my blogging career and still I am struggling to learn the full myths of SEO.
Well, I just can one thing that SEO
is an endless sea that no one can swim completely. But still some basic SEO
tips can help the newbies to get the right direction in their blogging career.
So here I am posting the basic SEO tips for bloggers
Choose
Blogging Platform Wisely
Yeah, it matters a lot in blogging. The very first step in
the blogging is to decide the platform that you are going to use.
The most
popular blogging platforms are WordPress and Blogger. Most of the newbies
choose to go with the blogger as it is easily manageable. But from the SEO
point of view, the best blogging platform is WordPress.
In fact, you can go
with any platform according to your ease, but selecting the WordPress will be a
wise thing to do. No doubts, it's tough to maintain, but not too tough, that
you can't learn it with a bit of research.
Constant Blogging
Readers define the success of your blogging. If your blog is
getting good no. of visitors, then you are touching success in blogging.
Readers like to visit the blog which provides the quality and informative
content and that also in the daily routine. No one will like to visit a blog
with old posts or better we can say, a dead blog.
Use
Plugins
Considering that you select the WordPress as your blogging
platform, you can use plugins to ease the SEO tasks. WordPress plugins database
has got thousands of plugins related to SEO.
These plugins can do the SEO work,
very easy for you. Many awesome plugins like 'All in One SEO' and 'SEO by
Yoast' are the recommendations of every SEO expert for other bloggers.
Link
Building
You can't take your blog on the first page of search
results, for your targeted keywords, until you are not doing the link building
for it.
In fact, quality link building is required for higher ranking of your
blog. You should focus on getting links from the blogs having the same niche as
of yours.
Commenting and guest posting are the best methods to make quality
backlinks for your blog.
Social Media Promotion
Social media is an important part of blogging and is a good
source of traffic as well. The social shares of your blog posts also play a
role in defining the rank for it on the search engines. You should not miss the
social media promotion part of your blog.
Also using the social share plugins
is recommended as it allows the visitors to share your posts on their social
networking profiles.
SEO was puzzling, is puzzling and will always be. But you
can cut the curtains of puzzle a little bit, by following the above mentioned
basic SEO tips.
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