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The key to good blogging
In truth, there are countless ways you can best benefit from your blogging efforts. These range from the types of posts you make, your blog setup and the categories you use. While these types of small changes (which i will be discussing in the coming weeks) are great for your blog, there are 3 essential steps you should take each time you blog to ensure (often immediate) results.
- Blog Title / Key Words
The very first, and often the most ignored or forgotten thing to do is be very selective about what key words and phrases you use for your post. These key phrases should also be your blog post headline, or at least included in it. If, for example, you are blogging about a movie review for the movie "Twilight", your headline should besure to include the words "Twilight" and "Review", preferably as a single phrase. Your blog post itself should include this, and similar key phrases a number of times. When search engines spider your site and find your blog post, you want them to recognise which phrases are the most important; which this step does.
- Tagging
Whether you use Blogger, Wordpress or any other type of blog system you should ALWAYS tag your posts. Tagging is an extension to your blog post itself and assists the search engines in listing your blog post in their systems. Not only that, but tagging will also provide your blog with extra links within its sitemap for the search engines to pick up and list. These extra tag pages further provide "page rank" opportunities for your site. Tagging also plays a key role in the 3rd step, below.
- Social Submissions
This step is the most un-used of all of them, simply because many still do not know the true power in social bookmarking. to best explain this, you must first understand what a social bookmark is. We all use favorites or bookmarks in our web browsers to store important or useful pages. Social Bookmark sites are essentially online bookmark services where you can save a page, along with it's details (tags, description) for future reference. With Social Bookmarks however, OTHER people can also find your bookmark, as can the search engines. Each time you bookmark your blog posts, you create more links for search engines to find linking back to your blog. It's really all about numbers, because these types of high page rank Social websites help increase your QUALITY backlinks and therefor your own page rank.
Social Bookmark and similar websites include:
Del.icio.us, Digg.com, Fark.com, Google.com/Bookmarks, Mixx.com, Propeller.com, Reddit.com, Stumbleupon.com, Technorati.com, Twitter.com
