Getting high rankings with a blog is child’s play — with the right mentor by your side and tools at hand. With a few hours of SEO training, my 15-year-old daughter cracked the code on making money while she sleeps! How…?
A search engine optimized blog about Neopets, decked out with Google ads, of course!
Every day when she comes home from school, she logs in to AdSense to check how much money she had already made that day. She earns, on average, $10 to $20 per day — which surely beats a paper route or babysitting job! I imagine your stakes are a bit higher. No problem. This stuff works on a much grander scale too.
If you have a blog, here are a sampling of ways to supercharge it for the search engines:
- Add a tag cloud and tag pages to your blog and then optimize those tag pages.
- Offer links to related posts.
- Add a Top 10 Posts list to your home page with text links to those posts that you most want to pass link gain (e.g. PageRank) to.
- Add intro copy rich with keywords to the top of the page through the use of sticky posts.
- Create custom title tags for your permalink pages, category pages, and the home page.
To this end, I’ve authored a WordPress plugin called SEO Title Tag. With it you can define a custom field which will be used as the title tag, reverse the post title and blog name for better keyword prominence within the title, shorten or eliminate the blog name from your title tags, define a custom title tag for your home page, use the category’s description as the title on category pages, and place the tag name into the titles on tag pages. I don’t know if there’s anything similar for Movable Type.
Want more blog SEO tips? Then check out my blog optimization tag page.
Stephen,
If only I were as web savvy as Chloe. Thank you for the tips. I already implemented your suggestions (those that I understand).
help! help! help for a non english-mother-tongue-and-rather-dumb-tech-blogger!
can we have the same written in a more simple way?
Thanks for the note, Lewis. You’re welcome, and I hope my tips work out well for you!
Gianandrea, this article may help you. It expounds on my tips more:
http://www.marketingprofs.com/6/spencer24.asp
no fair! I’m not a premium member. anyway someone could send me a copy of the article? please.
bigstarnow@hotmail.com
The site design looks good, and alot of content too.
Tammy wrote:
“no fair! I’m not a premium member. anyway [sic] someone could send me a copy of the article? please.”
I think it is important that everyone on the Planet grasp that it truly is fair!
When someone goes to the trouble of doing something constructive, the worst thing is for others to expect or wish it could be theirs for free. The originator (be it music, literature, theatre or advertising articles) deserves to be encouraged (with money &/or praise) if he has done a worthy job. If he is not encouraged, why should he do such a thing again? He might, if it were no drain on his resources &/or he could care less. But, *you* lose if it matters to him and there is no repeat performance.
Fail to reward productivity and the thing produced, that you love, will not grow in abundance or quality.
This, above all, is why it is just plain stupid of people to steal music, pass about copyrighted material, and generally avoid paying for the very things they value. It is also why copyright law is so valuable to human progress. Those who oppose it would put us back into the Dark Ages, even as they rationalistically deny copyright. Many secretly hope to get away with the UN-earned, like a common criminal.
Tammy, I don’t want to pick on you, I just wish more people would think things through a little better, and speak out against such destructive ideas.
thank you RnBram for your comment. As the publisher of MarketingProfs I too do not understand why people expect they should get stuff for free. Yet, this seems to be an attitude that pervades the web.
I second that, RnBram. So much of what is here is free that it is concerning that somone would complain about having to subscribe for a nominal fee to get more in depth info. The same people that complain about fee based subscriptions are the same ones that complain that you put ads on a free site. Marketing itself, is about evangelizing the product, priming the cutomer and eventually making money for the companies we work for. This site, too, deserves a revenue channel. The knowledge I have gained form this sites is well worth the cost of the subscription.