seo

We all use images on our blogs to make our content more readable for our audience. If you are not doing that already, you should start now. Most bloggers are obsessed with their search engine rankings. While adding alt tags to your images won’t increase your chances of getting ranked higher in the search engines, [...]

Drops in search engine rankings are a major part of the blogging business. No matter how great your blog, there is a good chance you will have to worry about major drops in your rankings once in a while. Companies such as Google make tweaks to their ranking algorithms all the time. As a result [...]

New blogs do not often get that many link requests. But once your site starts getting ranked high in the search engines, people will e-mail you, asking you to link back to them. The majority of these requests are not even worth checking out. Nobody wants to link to a spammy site anyway. But once [...]

There is a difference between blogging for the sake of doing it and having a plan to get your blog some major traffic from the top search engines. Many SEO professionals understand what it takes to optimize sites, their content, links, and structure for the search engines. As a blogger, you may not have the [...]

Every blogger needs to be concerned about optimizing his/her blog for the search engines to maximize traffic and build a larger community of loyal readers. Optimizing on-page factors and getting links from third-party websites is one way to make sure more people find your website through the search engines. I am often surprised to see [...]

Optimizing your blog for the search engines is one of the best ways to increase your traffic without having to go broke spending all your money on ads or fancy promotional campaigns. SEO is a slow process and can take a bit of time for you to see real results. But there are areas on [...]

Nothing is more heart-breaking than working on your blog posts for hours and days only to see others get all the exposure on Google and other search engines. That’s a reality of life for many bloggers. Having the best content around does count, but it is not everything. Many lesser bloggers get their blog posts [...]

If you are blogger, you love traffic. The more traffic you get to your site, the better chance you have of making it as a full-time blogger. Besides, it’s always nice to get recognition for your work. That wouldn’t be possible if only 2 people are visiting your website per week. One of the best [...]

Are you a Google junkie? I know I was a few years ago when one of my first blogs was doing so great on Google. It’s quite addictive when you think about it. If you are pulling in 3000+ visitors a day just from Google, you know your content is getting some decent exposure without [...]

Whether you are a professional blogger or just getting started with blogging, you are going to need a tangible amount of traffic if you want to make it in this business. Getting more traffic to your blog not only gets your more exposure and more opportunities, it will also give you a better chance of [...]