4 Basic Blogging Tips and Tricks for newbies
By PinoyBlogTips on Apr 17, 2010 with Comments 33
In this post, I will share to you how to optimize your blog for search engines and quality visitors in basic ways. Just keep these in mind everytime you start a new blog.
It helps to apply these basic optimization guide.
1. Pick a good blog domain
It is very important you pick a suitable and smart blog url. Try to include atleast one keyword in your blog url. This maximizes your search engine traffic, and quality of those visitors.
When you write a blog about Cheap Iphones for example, you should try to get a blog name that has “Iphones” in it. “CheapIhones.com” would be the best blog name.
Of course but most of the time someone has beaten you to it and you will have to pick a less obvious url.
Try to keep your domain as short as possible.
2. Keyword Rich Title
Think of a catchy, keyword rich introduction title. This again maximizes your search engine traffic and quality.Titles are important factors to calculate your rank for a certain keyword on search engines. So don’t pick a title like “Cool browsers” but rather, “The best browsers and plugins!”.
3. Blog tags and keywords (very important)
Take a piece of paper and write down the most important keywords and tags for your blog. Keep in mind that your blog url and title should also have one of those keywords in them. Upon writing a new blog post, take your piece of paper with keywords and try to add them in your post title, and repeat them a couple of times in your posting. Afterwards fill in your tag box with the most used keywords in your post.
You should not add too many tags, about 5 or 6 important ones are far better than 15 tags that are somewhat related. The more times a search engine finds a certain keyword on your blog, the more value the search engine will give you for that keyword. In other words, you’ll increase your ranking for that keyword.
Make sure you do not create a blog that could be “about anything” if you understand. It is far better to target a couple of keywords and write less posts than to write about anything to have your blog filled. You could set up multiple blogs that target related keywords than one blog that targets a big number of keywords.
4. Remember, “Content is King”
Of course you should try to work on keywords in your pages and posts, but do not overdo it. Write a decent article with resources and a rich use of words. I myself have some trouble doing this because English is not my mother language .
Do not make long boring posts. Try to create an interesting smart read that’s also understandable for the less knowing. Explain certain terms you use. Try to make a post of minimum 250 words and don’t try to overdo it. A 3000 word article is probably not a good idea. You’d be better of splitting it up in multiple posts so every piece of content gets read, not just “parts” in your posting.
When you are promoting something, do not over do it. A smart little link on the bottom of your posting will do just fine and the ones that get interested will click trough.
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Very nice post Nimwey I think my problem is still on 2 and 3 on my blog since I am still fixing it hopefully everything will work quite well
Hi Fred,
I’ve visited your site. Glad you have nice content there. #2 and #3 is an on-page optimization and I know you can do that easily. Looking forward to it.
Thanks for visiting the site and for your all your emails regarding the online PTC Tips, hopefully when I get my internet at home I can start working on PTC again.
Sure no problem. Looking forward to your own success.
Thanks for the opportunity to read your article. Hope this help me promoting my site. My problem is how to monetize my site by using google do you have any tips?By the way I used gmail for my web social network. You can send also a message to this email.
Hi Imman,
Thanks for reading. Sure I will post an article here about monetizing our site. Be sure to watch out for that
Nice post thanks. Actually we should say quality content is king of your blog. But only write quality content won’t help much since people don’t know about your blog. So commenting on other blog really help a lot.
Hi Alamin,
Yes blog commenting is just one way of building links to your blog. Content is King but we should never forget to market our blog. Great content is useless if only you are reading it.
I am a newbie interested in learning how to blog, some terms I can’t understand like for example the following; blog domain, keyword, tag and others. is there something that can teach me the basics? I hope that I am not a bother, thanks
romantz
Hi Romeo,
Blog domain is the name or URL of your blog. In your case, your blog domain is “romantz-1044″. Keywords are words you aim to rank for. Let say you want to rank for “Weight loss” then weight loss is the keyword you’d want to rank for.
Regards
Hi,romeo, you may visits my site there i have written a post on some basic word should know every newbie Blogger. Thanks.
Romeo that post may help you
http://www.earnbyblog.com/2010/04/make-blog-and-start-blogging.html
thank you everybody,
romantz
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Hi,
Thanks a lot for your blog tips. Surely this can help me write an effective blog. I can’t wait to apply it.
More power to you and hope you’ll post more of this.
Orly
Hi Orlando,
Glad You that like it. I’m looking forward to your own blog.
it’s really difficult for a blog to be read even with rich content, due to increasing number of blogs out there.
being active and writting comments on other person’s blogs (comments not spam) is a great way to be noticed (plus backlinks)
Hi Angeljme
You’re right there. Rich conten will be useless if only you are the only one reading it.Marketing your blog is one way to gain readers and rankings also.
very informative. hope i will be able to apply this on my blog. thanks!
Hi Nino,
Glad that you like it. Valuable informations will be useless if you won’t apply it to your blog. Will look forward to your blog soon.
Hi! I just started my own blog. Thank you for your blog tips. I find them very useful. Hopefully, there could be more people who would be inspired to start their own blog.
Here’s my blogsite: http://rozmary30.blogspot.com.
Thank you again! Keep those blog tips coming.
Hi Rose,
Glad that you’ve started to blog already. Thanks for your kind words. Sure I will post more blog tips here.
hi,thank to every one,imoa new here inpinoy blog and i want to know and to lear more about this tips
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hello! i am new to this please..give me some advice on how can i earn from clickbank..i heard a lot about it and i need your help..please try to visit my site and i hope you can give me an advice on how to earn from it..thanks
Hi Alain,
Just visited your site, that’s a good but not well optimized. Be sure to have a clear theme for your site so Google won’t confused of what’s your site is all about.
As a person just starting into the blogging adventure, I always make it it a point to come to different successful blogs especially that of my fellow Pinoy.
My blog is still in infancy stage and I find your posts to be helpful and educational.
I hope to also reach the online success you are having right now.
Hi thanks for dropping by. Just visited your blog and hope to read your own success story soon.
Great article, thanks for sharing this. I have subscribed to your RSS feed and am looking forward to reading more from you.
Keep up the good work and don’t stop posting please.
Hi,
Thanks for subscribing! Sure I’ll keep on posting.
Have a nice day to you.
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Thanks Jun,
I am more honored to serve you guys.