SEO Step By Step Guide– 73.SEO fine tuning for your blog

In the past two to three posts we have been looking at how we can get good rankings for our blog. Here are few more points that will help you fine tune your blog and make it more powerful.

Choose the right title for your blog posts. Make sure that your blog post’s title contains your main keywords because the title becomes your blog post’s access URL. Having your keywords in your URL has great bearing in the search engine ranking as well as in attracting traffic. When your blog posts are listed in the search results, your blog post’s link too will be specified in the search results. By having your keywords in the links you can make internet users click on your blog post as your link looks more relevant to the search that is made. There are contrary views regarding the benefits of having your keywords in the domain names and URLs. Some say that there is no real significance in having your keywords as your domain name or in having them in the URLs. Even though you are skeptical about the effectiveness of having the keywords in the URLs, you can still use them because you have nothing to lose. But in case it should work, you can gain a world of advantage.

Secondly, you should link your blog posts internally. You can create your blog posts in such a way that you get a chance to link your blog posts internally. This will enhance the effectiveness of the keywords used as anchor text. However, make sure that every second word in your blog post is a link to another article.

Thirdly, you must add categories to your blog and each blog post should be assigned to a category. This will not only help your visitors to find the related information easily, it will also boost your keywords.

Make blog posts of considerable length. You may not see great results when your blog posts are going to be three lines and 50 words. You should have a minimum of 300 to 400 words per blog post so that you can use the important keywords effectively in each blog post.

Also, place links in your article to third party websites that are resourceful. Make sure that the websites that you choose to link from your blog are authority sites and it should be useful to your blog audience. This will make your blog to an authoritative one because it provides the users with useful information.

Make sure to place a link to your blog in your website’s homepage. Use your blog link wherever possible. You can include it as part of your profile in social networking sites such as Orkut, LinkedIn etc. This will get free back links to your blog and increase your blog’s online visibility.

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