{"id":10085,"date":"2011-01-05T07:45:23","date_gmt":"2011-01-05T06:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=10085"},"modified":"2014-02-25T12:52:17","modified_gmt":"2014-02-25T12:52:17","slug":"how-will-blogs-seo-in-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/webmasters\/how-will-blogs-seo-in-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"How Will Blogs SEO In 2011?"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Ross Hudgens from Burial Insurance<\/a><\/p>\n

5 SEO Tips You Must Use On Your Blog<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Create great content, and let everything else take care of itself. Well, I say to them \u2014 wrong, and thank you. Yes, you can create great content and have an incredibly successful blog \u2014 but you can generate even more traffic<\/a> if you spend just a few minutes extra per blog post. And I\u2019ve got the tips for you to help you do that. <\/p>\n

1.\tCreate your post first, SEO later<\/strong>. This way, you don\u2019t taint user experience in any way. Don\u2019t do keyword research in advance \u2014 if that\u2019s the point of a blog that\u2019s personal\/anyway unique, there\u2019s a strong chance your content can\u2019t really be great<\/a>. Your post will improperly skew one way \u2014 and by doing that, and not truly being unique, you do your users a disservice. <\/p>\n

2.\tCreate two experiences \u2014 one for users, one for search engines<\/strong>. Yes, this can be done, without interfering with one another. Users don\u2019t read title tags once they\u2019re on site \u2014 so deliver a title tag that is optimized for SEO, even if it\u2019s dramatically different from the user-modified title tags. Research shows that headers really don\u2019t matter \u2014 so if the term is relatively uncompetitive (which are terms you should be aiming for), you won\u2019t have problem ranking. Similarly, users don\u2019t care about the URL \u2014 so deliver the URL, matched with the title tag, that is going to give you the best chance of ranking for a certain term.<\/p>\n

3.\tTarget two keywords \u2014 or more<\/strong>. If you have a strong domain and a good thought that a post fits more than one keyword, target multiple KWs. This can be done by having one in the title tag \u2014 the strongest one \u2014 and then having the URL be a separate URL. For example, I could target \/blogging-tips.html with the URL and \u201cHow to Blog\u201d in the title tag. These would both be pretty competitive, so I wouldn\u2019t suggest it unless you have a power domain to back it up (such as Daily Blog Tips<\/a>!). <\/p>\n

4.\tDo long tail research with Google Suggest<\/strong>. These can be the easiest terms to target. For example, when you input \u201cHow to Blog\u201d in the Google search bar, you will automatically get other long tail suggestions \u2014 suggestions searchers will lean towards because of these nudges. Find ways to work these terms into your post, even if once. Also, consider targeting these in the URL\/title tag specifically if the short tail is too specific. <\/p>\n

5.\tMake internal linking easier with the Cross-Linker<\/a><\/strong>. If you have WordPress (why don\u2019t you?), use this plugin to make SEO life easier. Cross-Linker allows you to use certain terms \u2014 like \u201chow to blog\u201d \u2014 and make them auto-link to posts on your site that utilize them. This makes internal linking easy and something that isn\u2019t a reoccurring time suck. <\/p>\n

People can get by, in blogging, without SEO. Many times, they stumble into it. This is because much of blogging search traffic comes from long tail queries, where there is no competition \u2014 and thus, very little SEO skill needed. But real traffic can come from small-to-moderate difficulty queries, and this can get you lots of residual traffic from over time. Those who ignore it suffer the consequences. <\/p>\n

Ross Hudgens is the Online Marketing Manager for Burial Insurance<\/a> and Streamline Refinance<\/a>. He likes blogging and the sweet upward arrow on an Analytics chart. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Ross Hudgens<\/a>
\nCreate great content, and let everything else take care of itself. Well, I say to them \u00e2\u20ac\u201c wrong, and thank you. Yes, you can create great content and have an incredibly successful blog \u00e2\u20ac\u201c but you can generate even more traffic if you spend just a few minutes extra per blog post. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[518],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10085","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-webmasters"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10085\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}