Blogging tips and tricks

Picking a good blog url
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 internet browsers for example, you should try to get a blogname that has "browsers" in it. "InternetBrowsers" would be the best blogname ofcourse. but most of the time someone has beaten you too it and you will have to pick a less obvious url! Try to keep your name as short as possible!

Example of a Bad url name : earnfastmoneyonline
Example of a good url name : MoneyOnline

Your blogs introduction 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!".

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 to 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... your rise in rank! 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! Better set up multiple blogs that target related keywords than one blog that targets a big number of keywords.

Remember, content is king
Try to work in 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, a smart little link on the bottom of your posting will do just fine and the ones interested will click trough. Exactly what you want!

Advertising on your blog
It's okay to advertise on your blogging site. Placing your blog full of ads ofcourse, does not work! To get a maximum revenue on a low number of advertisements is a tricky business. First of all you should only place ad's related to your blog subject. Try to have the advertisements somewhere near the top of the page, if you can try to implement the advertisements into your actual content. A little article and below the article an adsense link unit for example! Open your blog, check where your attention gets focused on the second it's done loading. That place probably is a good one to place some ads!

Keeping your blog alive
It is important to add new content on a steady rate. New posts you make on your blog notifies search engines of updates on your blog. It will crawl trough your blog again and updates your ranking data again. Remember that consistent traffic is hard to reach if not impossible. Most blog post's you make start to get visited a while before you wrote them. And that's why you need to keep fresh content coming! But always remember to stay on topic! Make small keyword based posts. Try to figure out search phrases people might be typing in and work it in your title.
Rememberthat it takes time to get search engine traffic flowing and don't expect it to keep doing so without putting any more effort in it! Some days a specific post on your blog will get many visits, the other day it might get zero! It's just the way it goes when you are trying to get to the top. If you do not give up you will one time get there!

Better then creating one blog that targets multiple keywords is to create a series of blogs that all target separate but related keywords. A little example. Supose I want to create a blog about advertising websites. Think of some main keywords first

Keywords for advertising websites
-strategies
-paid advertising
-free advertising

These three keywords can again be split in a series of new keywords and categories! far better is to create three blogs that each target these main keywords separately and link them together! this will help your three blogs to generate traffic and rise in search engine ranks. Google also sees that these blogs link to each other and also notices that they have related keywords. thus giving all of your blogs more value. it should be your goal to hold a visitor in your network of content/blogs as long as possible. do you see how a visitor could be interested in "free advertising" and see a couple of posts about "paid advertising", thus leaving your blog when you only create one BIG blog about advertising? However the other way around a interested visitor that found your free advertising blog trough a search engine, looking for "ways to advertise your site for free" reads a post on your blog and afterwards might be interested in paid advertising, thus clicking the link to your paid advertising blog and reading even more of your content? I hope you understand what I am talking about now ;)

Networking is interesting in every concept! I wrote an article about content networking which might be enjoyable to read Here!

There are thousands of blogging sites trying to catch you to blog in their network. Important is you pick a good blogging site. I personally prefer Wordpress over any other blogging community. Of course I have my reasons. Blogger for example is easy to use, but far to basic! You don't even have visitor statistics! Wordpress provides countless widgets and smart SEO implementations plus cool visitor statistics! Not to mention that the wordpress community is big, and countless people search through it's search engine every day. I Used the Alexa site to get a graphical image of the quality of both wordpress and blogger. Cause my main goal is to attract visitors, I found that wordpress and Blogger have similar traffic statistics but wordpress has a higher % of search engine generated traffic. Meaning it has better implemented SEO! Wordpress also has more CTR(clicktroughrate) and More pageviews per visit. My choice was made quickly!

Wordpress.org

Still don't really get it? check an example!

AdvertiseCommunity

As you can see I can link to the actual name of the blog and you can instantly figure out what it is about! I created a blog with Two keywords, Advertise and Community Logical it talks about communities you can use to advertise your websites!

When you first arrive at the blog, the blog title confirms the name and holds major keywords! communities to advertise and promote I added 7 categories, one being "News" the others being a couple of major keywords and terms to post in. I could actually do a bit better and separate each of those categories again. other than that, it is a top notch blog! optimized for search engine traffic and click trough rate!