Introduction
Write more and post your article consistently. It is best to do 1 post daily, or even one post weekly. The key is consistency and the article content. Stick with a lot of information and nicely presented do matter in gaining the attention of the search engines. e.g., Google, Bing, Youtube, Yahoo. Studies show that the more often you update your blog, the more traffic it will receive. Posts too short or duplication are not welcome at all. If you want attention from these big players, your article must be rich in content and long size.
Write Better Titles Utilizing SEO Keywords Tools
Blog titles and post titles are signboards of your blog and posts. Readers' first attention is of utmost importance.
Their stay and leave are at this very moment.
The same applies to search engines.
Therefore, we first pay attention to keyword research
for the blog title and post titles
then we proceed to the actual writing of
these titles and content.
This act is a sure win in the long run.
It provides both Google search keywords and
Youtube search keywords, but separately.
I am thrilled with it.
Focus on Your Niche
The word niche is nowadays used in the marketing arena. It means a small subset of the prominent market that is unique and small but with many potentials. The market niche defines the product features to satisfy specific market needs, price range, product quality, and demographics. It is highly specialized, aiming to survive among the competition from the big companies.
As regards my niche, it goes with my passion for an online business. Hence, I am working on my computer, communicating with friends with a similar passion. Socializing with people in the internet world while selling affiliate products online to prospective clients. I am inclined to sell digital products and educational programs partly due to my passion. The other reason is they are recurring passive income.
Add Keywords to the Blog (Google Blogger)
Now we are at the Blogger dashboard, do the following:
- scroll down the left sidebar menu to 'Setting',
- then scroll to privacy. ..enable visible to Search engines, and allow the search engines to crawl on the blog
- then scroll down to Meta tags add the blog title
- add blog description up to 150 characters, click save
- continue scroll to Crawlers and indexing enable custom robots.txt to enable custom robots.txt to enable custom robots header tags
- then go to the posts - the page with thumbnails add short description
- scroll down to find the search description and fill in the search description, with keywords -150 characters then click update
- go back to the blogger dashboard left sidebar menu scroll to 'Setting' ...
- at Google search console add your URL to Google search console
Now it is done.
There is another way to add keywords to your blog as follows:
At the left side is a sidebar; scroll down to 'Theme.'
- Click at customizing, then choose HTML edit.
- Then Insert under the "head" tag to define your keywords. In the "content" attribute, type your keywords between the quotation marks and separate them with space.
Add Videos or Photos
In today's marketing, videos are better than photos, and photos are better than words. So, go video, video, and video. That is the trend. Visit me on Youtube.
Add Links to Your Post
Add links to your post, such as your favorite link that is inspiring to you, and you like to share it with your readers, or a link to your affiliate program/product introducing it to people following your blog. I would suggest linking with influential sites such as Linkedin, Quora, Digg, etc.
Add Social Sharing Buttons.
Google Blogger has plenty of gadgets that I like. one of them is the social sharing buttons situated at the foot of every post you make. The position can be shared via Facebook, Twitter, Blogger, Email, and Pinterest with a click of the mouse. If you need one, here is an excellent tool for free social sharing buttons, Addthis.
My Reminder to the Readers
Make sure that your blog is mobile responsive, for it may adversely affect the traffic to the blog due to the following issues.
- The text is too small to read
- Clickable elements too close together
- Viewport not set to device-width
- Use incompatible plug-in
Smartphone users are much more than desktop users, and the trend is growing. You would agree that we cannot afford to lose these potential customers.
