6 Useful Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Tips For Blogs

Optimizing a blog is very similar to optimizing a website, and optimizing a blog post similar to optimizing a web page. But depending on the blogging service or software you use, the results may look somewhat different.

If you follow some simple rules for search engine optimization, your blog will rank much higher than static website pages in the search engine results pages.

1. Use your primary keyword in your blog domain

Whether you purchase a separate domain (recommended) for your blog, or host it on a blogging service or a sub-domain of your own site, try to ensure that your URL contains the primary keyword you want to optimize for.

For example, if you want your blog to get found for the keyword “seo” get a domain with the keyword “seo”, or use the keyword in a sub-domain as in http://www.yoursite.com/seo/.

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2. Optimize your permalinks

If your primary key phrase is “blog seo” make sure that the word blog, or seo, or both, appear in your blog headers (the H1 or H2 tags) as well as the title of each of your posts.

Most blogging software will take the keywords in your post title and put them into the file name of the permalink it creates.

3. Use your long-tail keywords in the body of your post

If you want to get listed for long-tail keywords use them infrequently in the body of your post and pepper your blog titles or links with them as appropriate.

4. Mobilize your blog

With Google’s recent “Mobilegeddon” update, you must ensure that your blog is easily accessible and readable on all mobile devices. The best way to do this is by using a responsive theme that adapts your blog design to the device it is being viewed on.

5.Get backlinks from other blogs or websites

The best way to get backlinks from other blogs and from social media sites is to write posts that are engaging and worth sharing. 

6. Grow your social media community

Social shares are a huge SEO ranking factor in 2015, so getting more shares and Retweets on social media networks is never a bad thing for your SEO efforts.

Build communities on the big three networks – Facebook, Twitter (the best networks for content sharing) and LinkedIn.Also share you's content on sites like Reddit too they will help to get more traffic

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