How to advertise your blog

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Promoting your blog is where I see the majority of bloggers fail. There are lots of great bloggers out there that no one has ever heard about, simply because they don’t know how, or just don’t want, to promote their blog.
The most important tip I can give you about promoting your blog is to not be shy about telling people about your blog!
I have heard from many bloggers who tell me that they don’t promote their blog simply because they don’t feel it is worthy of promotion. They say things like “I don’t have enough posts yet” or “I need to work on my site design first”.
Don’t do this to yourself! If you have put in the time to setup a great site and with great content, then you need to tell people about it. Be proud of the work you have put in.
So just how do you promote your blog? Well, it turns out the most effective methods of promotion are free!

1. Email marketing

A lot of the other tips on this list are about getting new readers to your blog. But if you want to build a real following you not only need new readers, you also have to keep first-time readers coming back!
This is where email marketing plays a big role. By collecting the email addresses of your visitors (with their permission of course), you can then notify them when you post something new on your blog. This keeps people coming back to your blog, which not only gives you more readers over time, it also allows you to build a closer relationship with your readers.
Email marketing is too big a topic to cover well here, so I created a separate guide to email marketing for those who are interested (hint: every blogger who wants more readers needs to read this guide).

2. Social networks

Chances are that you already have a Facebook account, and maybe even a Twitter account as well. So when you post something on your blog, make sure that you also post a link to your blog post on your social accounts.
It also helps to connect with other people interested in your topic. Send a friend request to the top bloggers in your niche and make sure to follow them on Twitter as well.
You may be surprised at just how many people will find your post interesting and then share the link with their friends.

3. Commenting on other blogs

On many blogs you can leave a comment along with a link back to your own blog. If you make useful comments on blogs related to your topic you will be putting your blog right in front of people who you know are interested in your topic.
Caution! Do not abuse this method.
If you are leaving terrible comments on posts just to get your name out there this will only hurt your blog. Furthermore, poor quality comments are likely to be deleted by the blog owner anyway.
If you make a useful comment people are more likely to visit your site, since they will want to hear more about what you have to say on the topic.

4. Link to other blogs

One the best ideas for writing a blog post is to write a response to a post from another blog. This could be a blog post you disagree with, or simply a topic that you have something else to add to.
When you do this, make sure to link to the blog you are responding to. On most blogs this creates what is known as a “trackback”.
A trackback simply means that the blog you linked to will also post a link (automatically) to your blog. This means that anyone reading the other person’s blog post will also see the link to your blog, and hopefully click on it to visit your site.

5. Guest posting

Another way to get readers of other blogs to hear about your blog is to write guest posts.
To write a guest post you simply need to contact other blog owners and offer to write a post for their site.
Not all bloggers are open to this idea, but if you can find a few who are it is a great deal for everyone. You provide them with quality content, and in return you put a link to your blog in your post. If people enjoy your guest post then they are likely to visit your blog for more great content.

6. Online forums

If you haven’t already, you should join popular online forums related to your topic. For example, if your blog is about dog training, join a couple of the most popular dog training forums.
Many forums will allow you to post a link to your site in the signature that goes at the bottom of every post you write. Some forums may require you to make a few posts before letting you do this.
Once you have joined a forum, make helpful posts. Just as with blog commenting, the content of your forum posts needs to be high quality and helpful. People are not going to want to read your blog if they don’t find your forum posts to be helpful and interesting.

7. Frequent posting

The promotion methods above all focus on getting new readers to your blog. This is usually the most difficult step for any blog. However, you also need to make sure that once readers find your blog they come back!
Making new posts frequently (at least once a week, but preferably every 1-2 days), is the key to building up and keeping a large following.
Your content may be fantastic, but if you only post once a month people are likely to forget all about your blog. You have to strike a balance between high quality and high quantity. This is a difficult balance for any blogger to achieve, as it is not always easy to write a high quality post once a day or even once a week.
If you are struggling with finding ideas to write about, make sure to re-read the previous step in this guide.

What’s next?

By now you have learned what you need to know about getting your blog started and getting readers to your site. For some bloggers this is the end goal. They simply want people to read their ideas and have the opportunity to participate in a community of like-minded people.
However, once you have developed a decent following, you can start to make some money from your blog if you so choose. Check out the next, and final, step now to learn how to make money blogging.

How to add backlink to blogger

If you've set up a Blogspot -- more commonly referred to as a Blogger -- blog for your business, you need to create good content and promote that content to see more traffic come to your blog. One of the ways to get more traffic is through "backlinks," which are links from someone else's blog back to yours. Change your Blogger settings to make those backlinks visible under your blog's posts, then encourage people to link back to your blog.

1. Log in to Blogger with your username and password, then click on the title of your blog from the blog list.

2. Click "Settings," then "Posts and comments." Scroll down to "Show Backlinks" and select "Show."

3. Click "Save Settings" near the top of the page. Your blog is now enabled to show backlinks, when you get them.

4. Comment on other people's sites and include the URL for your blog. You likely read blogs that have a focus similar to your own which you use for reference or to browse for fun. When you show these blog owners that you are an active member of their sites, they're more likely to visit yours -- which in turn can lead them to mention you in one of their future posts.

5. Link back to others' sites. If you want linkbacks, start out by giving some. Visit those sites with similar missions or interests, locate some good content, then refer to that content when you're blogging about a particular topic. If those bloggers have backlink notifications enabled, they'll get an alert when you backlink to them -- which may encourage them to do the same for you.

6. Create valuable content. Your blog -- and your business -- is likely focused on a niche market or a particular subject matter, which attracts a certain type of person. Try to think of ways to appeal to those people and make your content something they'd want to share with others. Create timely posts about holidays, write top-10 lists, or start a weekly feature such as the "recipe of the week" to give readers something authoritative and valuable to share with their own readers.

7. Ask directly. If you have colleagues or associates in your field, ask them up front to put a link to your site on theirs, and offer a link to their site in return. It may seem strange to go begging for a linkback, but it's not uncommon -- in fact, some people pay a lot of money to do it in another way -- it's called advertising.

How to add Audio and Mp3 to blogger post

You have the option to enhance your Blogger site with all kinds of content, including audio clips. With audio, your visitor can hear the sounds that help support the content of your page. If you're a musician, for instance, you can publish your latest song. Blogger gives you access to the "HTML/JavaScript" gadget, which makes it convenient to add the code that publishes your media. After you upload your file to a free Internet host, use the "Layout" page on Blogger to put the audio clip where you want it.

Uploading the Audio Clip

1. You will have to Point your browser to a free online file host such as File Dropper, WikiUpload or zShare (links in Resources).

2. Click the "Choose File" or "Browse" button, and select your audio file from the dialog window that opens. Click the "Upload Now," "Start Upload" or "Upload Images" button to perform the upload.

3. Copy the code that appears in the Link or URL text field.

How to enable Ads between post

This very post will teach you how to but ADS between your post pages that will enable you to showcase your ads and moreover get clicks by customers and also advertise people's products efficiently and get paid.
Step 1: Enable ads between posts.

• Go to “Design → Page Elements” and edit “Blog Posts”. There, you have to enable “Show Ads Between Posts”.
• Check out how your blog looks now. If you are already happy with it, you are done.
• Note, though, that ads will appear after all comments when single posts are shown. This might not be what you want.
• Google will show at most 3 ads on each page which includes ads in the sidebars. Thus, if you have 3 ads in the sidebars, none will ever appear between posts.

Step 2: Change the location of the ads.

• Go to “Design → Edit HTML”.
• Under “Edit Template” you have to “Expand Widget Templates”.

How to add keywords to blog

 

1. Sign in to your Blogger account.

2. Click on your blog’s title and click “Template.”

3. Click “Edit Html" and a pop-up window will appear.

4. Click the “Proceed” button.

5. Locate the “head” tag, which is usually found in the first several lines of HTML code.

6. Insert under the “head” tag to define your keywords. In the “content” attribute, type your keywords between the quotation marks and separate them with commas followed by a single space. Keywords can be single words, or a short phrase of two or three words. Include three to five keywords that are relevant to your blog.

7. Click “Save Template” to apply the changes and click “Close.”

How to add Keywords to your blogspot

To attract more readers and potential clients, your business blog needs to appear in search results when Internet users enter appropriate keywords. Blogspot blogs offer HTML editing so you can insert a “meta” keyword tag directly into the blog’s code. Adding a keyword tag is one way to help search engines categorize your blog’s content and can be part of your search engine optimization strategy. The keyword tag tells search engine robots the words and phrases that are relevant to your blog, so include search terms that match your business’s products and services.

1. Sign in to your Blogger account.

2. Click on your blog’s title and click “Template.”3. Click edit Html
4. Click the proceed button

5. Locate the “head” tag, which is usually found in the first several lines of HTML code.

6. Insert under the “head” tag to define your keywords. In the “content” attribute, type your keywords between the quotation marks and separate them with commas followed by a single space. Keywords can be single words or a short phrase of two or three words. Include three to five keywords that are relevant to your blog.

7. Click “Save Template” to apply the changes and click “Close.”

How to post on blogger account

1.  You will have to sign in to the gmail in which you have a blogger account with for instance when you are blogging you already have a gmail account accustomed to the blog.It is really compulsory that your gmail account is logged in.
2.  In your browser you now sign in your blogger account with blogger.com.Where you will be directed to your main page

How to sign up for a twitter account for your blog

 

How to sign up for a Twitter account

Follow these steps to set up a Twitter account:

1. Point your web browser to Twitter.
   The Twitter home page opens.
2. Enter your first and last name in the Full Name field.
   You’re limited to 20 characters in this field.
3. Provide an e-mail address to use with your Twitter account in the Email field.
4. Create a password in the Password field.
5. Click Sign up for Twitter.
   Twitter loads the Create an Account page, which confirms the information you already provided.
6. Choose a Twitter username and type it in the Username field.
   

   Unlike some social networks, you can change your username later.
   Your username is limited to 15 characters, and while you type in your desired username, Twitter checks to see whether it’s available. If you don’t get a green OK message, try again until you find an available username.
   
   
   7. Click Create My Account.
      Twitter creates your new account and loads the Who to Follow page. You also receive an e-mail that contains your new account information at the address you used to sign up.

   How to find friends to follow on Twitter

   After you set up your account, you can let Twitter help you find friends, family, and colleagues who are also Twitter users by giving the service access to your contact lists in Gmail, Yahoo!, or AOL. If you don’t have contact lists with any of these tools, click the Skip This Step link at the bottom of this screen.
   To let Twitter access your contact list in an online e-mail tool and find people to follow, follow these steps:
   
7. On the Find Friends page, click Search Contacts beside the name of the service that you use to keep track of your contacts, such as Gmail.
   Twitter loads a login information screen.
8. Provide your login information for the service to which you want to give Twitter access, such as your e-mail address and password.
   Twitter doesn’t keep this information; you’re granting the company only one-time access to your contact list.
   If you are already logged into the service you use for contacts, Twitter gives you a screen requesting access to the service.
9. Review the provided list of contacts who have Twitter accounts and follow the provided instructions to select those you want to follow.
   Twitter connects to the service and loads your contact information, matching the e-mail addresses from your list against the e-mail addresses of other Twitter users.
   

Social networks to use for your blogs to get traffic.

Social Media websites can drive insanely great traffic to your blog if you have a good social media marketing strategy. But it can drive fair amount of traffic if you just submit blog posts regularly to your social media profiles.

Social media traffic is as important as organic traffic from search engines as we can’t rely on Google alone. They continue to push algorithmic updates like Panda, Penguin and who knows the next could be Giraffe.

It means that we must diversify the way we get traffic. I’m going to list the top social media and other websites that you shouldn’t ignore or must use as part of your social media marketing strategy.

I’m NOT going to list all the stupid social media or the so called web 2.0 sites out there as I’m going to focus only on sites that can drive traffic to our websites in one way or the other and not for building backlinks.

Though the traffic quality of social media can’t be matched with that of organic traffic, it is still important. It helps us to keep the bounce rate low which is assumed to be one of the many ranking signals used by Google.

Top 30 Social Networking (& Web 2.0) Sites To Drive Traffic To Your Blog

1. Facebook

Facebook has not only transformed the way people the world over connect, communicate and share ideas, pictures, videos and news, it’s made it possible for businesses to get their products across to a mass audience in a sensational win-win manner.

With over a billion active users it’s the largest social networking website. Leverage your Facebook friends and share your blog posts regularly with your Facebook friends and fan base.

2. Twitter

Twitter is the second most popular social network (microblogging platform to be more specific). If our content is viral in nature then it can bring instant massive traffic to our blog/website in no time.

3. LinkedIn

LinkedIn is web’s favorite professional networking website with over 100 million active users. LinkedIn’s traffic quality is better than that of Facebook and Twitter as it is mostly used by professionals who are looking for job or business opportunities.

Also try,

• LinkedIn Groups — to discover like-minded professionals and join discussions.

4. Pinterest

Pinterest is the biggest thing that happened to social media after Twitter. According to a TechCrunch article Pinterest drives more traffic than Google+, YouTube and LinkedIn combined.

If your blog posts have quality images then you shouldn’t ignore Pinterest. Just pin those images to Pinterest under the right category and it can send quality traffic to you as Pinterest users are known to spend more money than Facebook or Twitter.

5. Google+

Google+ is Google’s answer to Facebook. Though they call it a social network I wouldn’t call it a social networking website. But that said, it is important to share your blog posts on Google+ as social signals are now used to rank web pages.

And that’s not all! As you probably know Google now gives importance to authors (dubbed as AuthorRank). For that they use data from your Google+ profiles. It means that if you’re popular on Google+ then your blog posts are more likely to be on top.

6. Reddit

Reddit succeeded where Digg failed. It’s not the Facebook or a Twitter that killed Digg, Reddit killed Digg. If you write content that’s viral in nature then Reddit can send you instant massive traffic. Just make sure that you use social media timing signals to share the right content at the right time.

7. StumbleUpon

StumbleUpon is more or less a social bookmarking platform. It used to send good traffic during my initial days of blogging. I’m not sure about how many active users are there on StumbleUpon but according to Wikipedia they have over 20 million users.

It won’t take more than 5 minutes to share your web page on StumbleUpon and hence it is worth the try. You definitely don’t want to miss even a single opportunity that can send traffic.

8. MySpace

MySpace. I’m not sure why this site still exists but I decided to include the same in this list as it was once the most popular social networking site in the world. It even surpassed Google as the most visited website in the United States in 2006.

9. Hacker News

Hacker News is a community of programmers, entrepreneurs, and digital ninjas who share “anything that gratifies one’s intellectual curiosity”.
So you can share your content (or from across the web) and can comment on popular Hacker News threads to promote your blog.
Hacker News is a lot more like Inbound.org except that Inbound.org is all about marketing whereas Hacker News is all about technology.

10. Inbound.org

Inbound.org is not a social networking website but it can send high quality traffic to your website if you got interesting blog posts that are original.

Inbound.org is a great community of bloggers, marketers and other professionals who love to read and share interesting content.

11. Scoop.it

Scoop.it is one of the most popular content curation tools. It helps you discover new content based on your interest and you’ll also be able to create your own Scoop.it boards to add content from your own blog. The Scoop.it community will be able to follow your boards and you’ll be able to follow boards by others.

12. Delicious

How to add a buy and sell widget on blogger

You may already have a Blogspot blog, powered by Google, and want to expanblogger.comd its possibilities through a webstore. (Blogspot is the domain name for Google's Blogspot blog hosting service.) Or perhaps you would like to launch a blog, and see no reason not to jump into selling products while you're at it. Unlike a website that you design for the purpose of e-commerce, your Blogspot store keeps the focus on blogging as you add e-commerce functionality to it. Google has some internal tools and programs to assist you, or you can turn to third parties to start you off as a merchant.

Your "Merch"

You can sell virtually anything on your Blogspot store, provided that the products you sell are relevant to your blog. If you write a yoga blog, you could sell yoga classes through your store; if you have written a cookbook companion to your food blog, you can make e-book downloads available through your e-commerce-enabled blog. Bloggers can feature all kinds of tangible items on their blogs, such as scrapbook supplies, skincare products, T-shirts or jewelry -- whatever represents you or your specialty.

Use Google Checkout Gadget

How to earn with google adsense

Google AdSense is a advertising program that allows you to run ads on your website or blog, or YouTube videos, and get paid when when visitors click on them. The ads are generated from businesses that use Google's AdWords program.

For new websites or blogs, the AdSense program can be one of the fastest ways to generate income, which is why it's so popular.

But while AdSense is free and easy to use, there are aspects you need to understand about it, and things you can do to maximize your success with it.
Pros and Cons to Making Money with Google AdSense

The Google AdSense program has several great advantages including:

    It's free to join.
    Eligibility requirements are easy, which means you can monetize your website or blog even when it's new.
    There are a variety of ad options and several you can customize to fit the look and feel of your site.
    Google pays monthly (if you meet the $100 threshold) by direct deposit.
    You can run ads on several websites from one AdSense account.
    There are options to run ads on mobile devices and RSS feeds.
    You can easily add it to your YouTube and Blogger accounts.

With that said, there are a few drawbacks to AdSense as well:

How to configure blog post in blogger

You can customize the text used in your "Read More" links on the blog pages (home page, archive and label pages).

Customize the Read More Text

1. In the Layout Configuration page, click on the Edit link at the bottom right-hand corner of the Blog box.

 2. The Configure Blog Posts box will open.

Add Meta Tag to Blogger : Make Blogger Blog Fully Search Engine Optimize!

Most of us use Blogger.com to start their free blog which may be for making money or sharing your knowledge, voice through blogging. But if your blog is not Search Engine Friendly than you can not archive your goal. For this purpose you need to make your blog fully Search Engine Optimized and add meta tag to blogger so that people searching their keywords will easily knows your site. Just follow following simple steps to add meta tag to blogger.

How to add Add Meta Tag to Blogger? (Updated)

Step 1:
Go to Blogger Dashboard > Design > Edit Html and search for <head>
Step 2:
Delete Every Thing From <head> to <b:skin><![CDATA[
Step 3:
Place following code just after <head>

How to Change the Default Language of Blogger Dashboard

Everyone has their own preferences for what they would be using and what they would not. By default, Blogger dashboards come up with the English language (either United Kingdom or United States) which can be changed easily to any other languages like Spanish, French and etc. Recently, one of our users asked us How to Change The Default Language of Blogger Dashboard? Blogger is available in more than 100 languages so it might help users to understand Blogger more easily though their native language. In this article, we will show you How to Change the Default Language of Blogger Dashboard.

The first thing you need to do to change the language of your Blogger dashboard is to login into your Google Account. After logging into your account, head over to http://www.blogger.com/ where you will notice written English (United Kingdom) on the top right corner of your screen just above the list of your blogs.

Now on pressing the Language button a list drop down list would appear consisting on the languages that you can use. It entirely depends on a person that which language he is willing to use. After choosing a language, reload the page and enjoy blogger dashboard in your native language.

Alternative Method:

Adding youtube videos to your gadget using Blogger.

So many have being faced with the challenge of creating YouTube gadget on their blogger.This is a very simple way of uploading your YouTube videos and be able to get people to watch it.

Step 1

Open your browser and navigate to YouTube.com. Choose from a list of recommended videos or do a search for a specific video. Click the video and it begins to play. Click "Pause" to pause the video.

Step 2

Click the "Share" button beneath the video, then click "Embed." A text box containing HTML code appears. Click the text box to highlight the text, then right-click the highlighted text and click "Copy." Windows copies the HTML to the system clipboard.

Step 3

Visit your Blogger account page. This page contains a list of your current blogs. Each blog name appears in a separate section. Each section contains a "Design" link associated with that blog.

How to put tags to your blogger

Getting your blog to the highest peek requires that your blogs is been found in search engines like google. Blogspot blogs offer HTML editing so you can insert a  keyword tag directly into the blog’s code. Adding a keyword tag is one way to help search engines categorize your blog’s content and can be part of your search engine optimization strategy. The keyword tag tells search engine robots the words and phrases that are relevant to your blog, so include search terms that match your business’s products and services.

1.

Sign in to your Blogger account.

2.

Click on your blog’s title and click “Template.”

3.

Click “Edit Html" and a pop-up window will appear.

4. 

Click the “Proceed” button.

5.

Locate the “head” tag, which is usually found in the first several lines of HTML code.

6.

Insert under the “head” tag to define your keywords. In the “content” attribute, type your keywords between the quotation marks and separate them with commas followed by a single space. Keywords can be single words, or a short phrase of two or three words. Include three to five keywords that are relevant to your blog.

7.

Click “Save Template” to apply the changes and click “Close.”

Make sure your tags are not doubled. It should be a phrase or sentence that explains what your blog is all about.Before editing your template HTML ensure you back it up incase the HTML code was not placed  rightly you can just restore your previous template.

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6 Ways to Optimize Your Blog Posts for SEO

Skazyupdate

If you have a blog, chances are you already understand the importance of business blogging. But do you know how to optimize your blog posts to make them more search engine friendly?
The truth is, many bloggers fail to take advantage of the enormous marketing potential of their blogs. In fact, a recent study by blogger.com shows that although roughly 60% of businesses have blogs, 65% of those blog owners haven’t even updated in the past year! By providing fresh, relevant content and performing basic blog post optimization, you can take advantage of the many benefit

s blogging offers
Here are six easy search engine optimization (SEO) tips to help get your blog noticed.

1. Do your research. Keyword research is essential for on page optimization. Chances are you are naturally including keywords without realizing it simply by providing valuable content on a topic. However, there are a variety of tools and techniques for finding related keywords relevant to your blog post that you may not have considered. The Google Adwords Keyword Tool and semrush.com both offer great tools that allow you to find keywords related to your topic and even spy on your competition to see what words and phrases they are targeting to bring traffic to their sites.


2. Utilize keywords throughout your post. Once you have targeted a couple of valuable, relevant keywords, it is important to place them where they will have the most impact for humans and search engine crawlers indexing your content. Try to include them in the following places:
   • Title
   • Headings and subheadings
   • Introductory sentence
   • Concluding paragraph
   • Anchor text (text you hyperlink to other related pages on your site)
   • Title tags and meta descriptions
   A word of caution: Don’t engage in keyword stuffing, which is the act of filling your content with so many keywords that it becomes difficult to read. Not only will this irritate your blog followers, it will also get you penalized by Google. A couple of strategically placed keywords will do the trick.
   
3. Optimize your images. Whenever you upload a photo to your blog, be sure to include keywords in the file name and fill out the alternate text field with a brief, keyword rich description of the photo.


4. Reference others with links. When you mention another blogger or article in your blog post, include a link to the information you are referencing. Not only is it good blogging etiquette, but you may also get lucky and receive a link back. Quality links are a valuable commodity for any site looking to rank higher in search engine results pages.


5. Give readers the opportunity to subscribe to your blog. Include prominently placed RSS or Feed Subscription Buttons and offer viewers the ability to subscribe to your posts via email when possible. This allows your blog followers to have instant notification of your latest posts without having to periodically check your site for new content.


6. Use social media to broaden the reach of your blog posts. As a small business, you may be utilizing Facebook, Twitter, Google+, or other social media sites to create connections with potential and current customers. Why not promote your blog content on these sites for even more web exposure? Free programs like Hootsuite make it easy to post links to your latest blog post on all of your social media sites with just a couple of clicks. You can even schedule your posts ahead of time!

By following these simple SEO tips, you can encourage higher rankings in SERPS, increased web traffic, and higher customer conversion rates.
Too busy to keep up with your blog optimization? We’ve got you covered. OpenVine’s search engine optimization experts can help you get more prominent positioning on search engine results pages.

6 Ways to Optimize Your Blog Posts for SEO

Skazyupdate

If you have a blog, chances are you already understand the importance of business blogging. But do you know how to optimize your blog posts to make them more search engine friendly?
The truth is, many bloggers fail to take advantage of the enormous marketing potential of their blogs. In fact, a recent study by blogger.com shows that although roughly 60% of businesses have blogs, 65% of those blog owners haven’t even updated in the past year! By providing fresh, relevant content and performing basic blog post optimization, you can take advantage of the many benefit

s blogging offers
Here are six easy search engine optimization (SEO) tips to help get your blog noticed.

1. Do your research. Keyword research is essential for on page optimization. Chances are you are naturally including keywords without realizing it simply by providing valuable content on a topic. However, there are a variety of tools and techniques for finding related keywords relevant to your blog post that you may not have considered. The Google Adwords Keyword Tool and semrush.com both offer great tools that allow you to find keywords related to your topic and even spy on your competition to see what words and phrases they are targeting to bring traffic to their sites.


2. Utilize keywords throughout your post. Once you have targeted a couple of valuable, relevant keywords, it is important to place them where they will have the most impact for humans and search engine crawlers indexing your content. Try to include them in the following places:
   • Title
   • Headings and subheadings
   • Introductory sentence
   • Concluding paragraph
   • Anchor text (text you hyperlink to other related pages on your site)
   • Title tags and meta descriptions
   A word of caution: Don’t engage in keyword stuffing, which is the act of filling your content with so many keywords that it becomes difficult to read. Not only will this irritate your blog followers, it will also get you penalized by Google. A couple of strategically placed keywords will do the trick.
   
3. Optimize your images. Whenever you upload a photo to your blog, be sure to include keywords in the file name and fill out the alternate text field with a brief, keyword rich description of the photo.


4. Reference others with links. When you mention another blogger or article in your blog post, include a link to the information you are referencing. Not only is it good blogging etiquette, but you may also get lucky and receive a link back. Quality links are a valuable commodity for any site looking to rank higher in search engine results pages.


5. Give readers the opportunity to subscribe to your blog. Include prominently placed RSS or Feed Subscription Buttons and offer viewers the ability to subscribe to your posts via email when possible. This allows your blog followers to have instant notification of your latest posts without having to periodically check your site for new content.


6. Use social media to broaden the reach of your blog posts. As a small business, you may be utilizing Facebook, Twitter, Google+, or other social media sites to create connections with potential and current customers. Why not promote your blog content on these sites for even more web exposure? Free programs like Hootsuite make it easy to post links to your latest blog post on all of your social media sites with just a couple of clicks. You can even schedule your posts ahead of time!

By following these simple SEO tips, you can encourage higher rankings in SERPS, increased web traffic, and higher customer conversion rates.
Too busy to keep up with your blog optimization? We’ve got you covered. OpenVine’s search engine optimization experts can help you get more prominent positioning on search engine results pages.

Blogging Succcess Story from Ian Cleary

 

Ian Cleary

Ian Cleary is quickly making a name for himself and his blog at RazorSocial.com, as being an

expert in the social media space. However, what Ian has mastered is being able to distinguish himself from the crowd as an expert. While everyone is talking about social media, Ian is talking about social media tools and how to use them to your full advantage.

The result?… His blog being named a “Top 10” blog by Social Media Examiner in both 2013 and 2014.

How to Find Success in the World of Blogging

Blogging isn’t for everyone, and to find financial success with it… well, it isn’t easy!

All of the top bloggers highlighted in this post each have their own story and how they found success, but in the beginning it was something that they were passionate about, but also knew how to monetize in the process.

Too many people are blogging and podcasting for PASSION, instead of PROFIT. As much as everyone would like to say “follow your passion and the money will follow“, more times than not, this isn’t the case. Want to learn more about how to setup a blog or podcast that has the potential to turn into a full fledged business? Shoot me an email and let’s talk.

Listen to these interviews and stories so you can learn from the best and scale your blog, brand and business 

in new directions that you’ve never thought possible.

Copy from Zac Johnsons blog

Blogging Succcess Story from Ian Cleary

 

Ian Cleary

Ian Cleary is quickly making a name for himself and his blog at RazorSocial.com, as being an