Bloggers love to share what they know and their experience.
And moreover, you want your blog to be found in the first place!
There are search engine optimisation techniques for making it more likely your blog will be found within Google search. Within the rest of the blog post, we will have a look at some methods to help drive more traffic to your blog and to build your online visibility.
(Click for a SUPER useful "Guide on SEO Techniques" Ebook made by Google; most of the techniques I have talked about underneath were included within this booklet)
And moreover, you want your blog to be found in the first place!
There are search engine optimisation techniques for making it more likely your blog will be found within Google search. Within the rest of the blog post, we will have a look at some methods to help drive more traffic to your blog and to build your online visibility.
(Click for a SUPER useful "Guide on SEO Techniques" Ebook made by Google; most of the techniques I have talked about underneath were included within this booklet)
Online networking
The more people visit and the more pages they visit on your blog, the more popular your blog becomes because search engine algorithm uses visitor counts and pages views to rank webpages.Hence please try to encourage readers to comment on posts, link your posts from their sites, share the post and subscribe to your blog. Visit other blogs, invite others to check out your blog posts and link back to increase the number of links back to your blog.
Visit
and post you blog’s link on other sites or online group and blogs would also be
very helpful. Why not join groups such
as Google plus communities in your specialty, comment regularly on related
social networking sites and use your blog’s address as the signature.
Update new content regularly
Post on a regular basis has proven to increase popularity and traffic to the blog; the secret here is post as frequently as you can!Using keywords
Post about relevant content found on web and ensure to include keywords in the post; label each post with keywords; create hyperlink for post keywords to link to useful and relevant resources. And don’t forget to include keywords in the post title.Use meta tags
Metatag is a line of HTML code that describes your blog; although many search engines have stopped using meta codes in their algorithms anymore because so many people abused meta keywords; but it won’t hurt to include them in the code.Install share buttons
Be sure to have share
buttons on your blog, under the posts.
There is also a short video to help you to better understand share buttons.
8 Ways to Use Social Share Buttons on Your Blog
Use Google Submit
There
are many great google applications out there to help to increase online
presence of your blog; one of them is Google Submit.
This
is a fantastic tool to increase your visibility by submitting and optimising
blogs for Google search. What is even better, it is a quick, easy and free tool
to get your site listed within Google’s index.
Consider to use paid SEO tools
SEO
involves many techniques and does not happen overnight; so please bear in mind
to be consistent, patient and realistic about your blogging outcomes.
But
if you are really serious about blogging, you can even consider purchasing
online advertisement service to help to promote your blog; such as FacebookAds, Google AdWords and etc.
Thank you for reading my blog post :) Hopefully you have found something useful.
Please leave comments and tell me your thought about the post, or recommend me some more SEO techniques because I really want to hear from you!
Thank you for reading my blog post :) Hopefully you have found something useful.
Please leave comments and tell me your thought about the post, or recommend me some more SEO techniques because I really want to hear from you!
Very helpful information! Thanks Jiabao
ReplyDeleteMy pleasure! I am really happy that you have enjoyed my post :)
DeleteAdding share buttons to your website is something that is a little controversial lately. The concept of adding sharing buttons is fine, it all depends on the implementation.
ReplyDeleteMost of us (myself included), just use the widgets that Facebook, Twitter etc provide, because they look nice and have some nice features.
There are a couple of disadvantages though:
1. Facebook, Twitter etc can track websites that a particular user of that service visits if sites they visit have share button code on them, thanks to 3rd party cookies.
2. They take longer to load.
Scott Hanselman discusses this here: http://www.hanselman.com/blog/AddSocialSharingLinksToYourBlogWithoutWidgetJavaScript.aspx
Thank you for sharing that information! I haven't heard about the concern of share buttons yet; it is definitely something we should all think about.
DeleteBut although implementing Facebook and Twitter share buttons has its disadvantages, I still would think its benefit will overcome its risks; simply because there are millions of people utilising these platforms and we really want to encourage and make it easy for them to spread the post around in those communities.