Thursday, 7 April 2011

Search Engine Tips To Rank Well

By Reed Slidell


Tell me, how can your blog be different among others who are just discussing about the same topics online? It is the situation where everyone is just like talking about the same favorite celebrity, movie or even cuisine, how can you get ahead with these guys in the search results? Here are some search engine tips that you can apply now to your site to have a better chance of getting in the first few results on of Google when someone looks for your subject online.

Know your current position online. This means that you have to do a simple search of your site from they topics that you have posted recently. Go to Google, type one topic that you have popularly covered on your site and check the results. Does your site appear on the top spot of the first page? If not, how about the second page? Are you even on the third page? You have to record these on a spreadsheet to monitor your current situation. You can use this later as a basis to evaluate the progress of applying these SEO tips to your blog.

Next is to sit down and decide which topic to focus on. Now that you already have your spreadsheet, check out which topics bring you the most traffic to your blog. Are you comfortable to write and publish more articles around that subject? You have to decide on this one because you have to keep your website with updated content from time to time, as this will increase search engine ranking far, from the ones that you have already posted.

After that then you need to use these concentrated topics to write your articles. Make sure to keep it original and high quality so you can bring so much value to the positive user experience. After that, You can then present your tips, insights and comments about these specific topics, concerns and issues and concerns regarding your focused subject. Please take note that you should use the keywords on the following parts of the article: title, first paragraph, middle and last paragraphs. Make it a point to keep your articles entertaining, interesting and really offers value to readers in order for the search engines to be alerted that your blog is indeed, a central source of information regarding your theme.

Please check your blog as well if it can be crawled by search engine spiders daily. It is indeed importa nt to watch out if you really want to check for yourself if articles are indeed indexed by the search engines. If you use WordPress check it as you log on your dashboard and then look for the privacy settings on that page. You need to choose the option that gives out permission to be seen by the search engines and share your published content to the public. If not, whatever you post in it will only be seen by you and the people who already knows the URL of your blog.

You also have to take note of your linking structure if you are just doing it right for your blog. This simply means that you will really need to build links from your published articles to other pages of your blog, especially if they obviously cover somewhat related topics. You also need to encourage positive energy as a lot of people appreciates your content dearly and keeps on checking out other pages everyday.

Lastly, you have to remember to promote some helpful interaction just for your blog to get some natural links and mentions from other authority bloggers within your niche. Go to their blogs and leave helpful comments, and you will get reciprocal visits and comments if you do this. You need to have a list of contacts and ask them for some guest posting opportunities. Ask for their valuable comments and feedback for you to improve your blogging style as well. Just remember that interacting with other bloggers of the same niche is equally good since you are just establishing some authority within your niche while you are working on improving your site ranking as well.

So there you have these search engine tips that will really make your websites and web pages rank better, as well as working well to establish yourself as an authority within your chosen niche. Just do this all the time so that your blog will be seen higher in the search results soon.




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