Tuesday, December 17, 2013

Tips to increase the SEO value of your blog

Nowadays, SEO strategy is often shifting its gears. Google is moving forward with its algorithm, and so is the market and practice. It is not the same old game for people who were optimizing a single perfect keyword. Even though, SEO skill remains very effective if you do it in a proper way. Search Engines criteria has just changed a bit to give users a better outcome against their query.

Online marketers need to be precise on creating content for their prospective. They should produce content that are valuable, and entice users to engage in the subject. Rather, SEO has now formed more uncomplicated. Involve yourself with your niche market and present the thing in a straightforward way. Google will definitely repay your efforts in the end.

Here is a basic guideline of important things for business bloggers to increase SEO value for their blog. This is not a thorough list at all. However, these tips will help business bloggers to get desired result for their effort.



Submit your blog to webmaster tools and get frequent SEO analysis. 

Google webmaster tool keeps tracks of linking activity and you will not miss any malware report of your website. Moreover, you can easily download your website statistics anytime you want to know how well your website is performing on search engines. You can visualize how often Google bot crawl your site, if there any unnatural links pointing to your site and structured data found on your website.

Keep your buyer in mind when creating content. 

Make sure you execute a little training before you decide to start running a blog. Create clear and concise content for buyer personas. Hang out to analyze sales opportunities from the market, try to fulfill their interest, give the answers that experts are trying to find on the internet, draw attentions by understanding their worries. Grab their point of view and keep their quest in mind. Know your users better and invest some more time to understand your business leads. Write down enough detail to make the personas know your target market well; create an affecting content that resembles their thoughts, concern and answers to queries. Nevertheless, some people will hesitate to call this as SEO process. However, in the present scenario, you should only do SEO in the described way. User oriented content will increase visibility in search engines for your website and as a result your business revenue increases. Therefore, you will enjoy your reward of your marketing efforts. Once your target market engage with your content they will automatically do marketing on your behalf by sharing, saving, liking and discussing about it. Hence, Engagement is the most crucial word in today's SEO.

Keep track of your SEO data. 

Many free and paid tools can help you get track of your website marketing data. It is always good to see the exact number of your website performance as you can then work to improve them. You are always keen for a better performance of your website and that is good thing, but executing the process and let allow search engines to understand your website better is always a difficult thing. Therefore, start keeping track your website performances by using some the internet tools like MOZ, Google Analytic, and MySEOTool etc.

Identify best keywords for your traffic source. Just mentioning your brand name in keywords cannot do much, rather use hot search term with your keywords and check their ranking on search results. Search for investigative phrases like "BRAND NAME + SERVICE NAME" or "BRAND NAME + NEWS TITLE" and check whether you have already created content against these searches.

# If your Brand ranks poorly then you cannot expect a good rank for your top keywords.
# Take a close look at your organic traffic for the past few months or event for the last year or so. Do you see any changes in the graphs?
# Year-to-Year and Month-to-Month comparison will give a better idea about your website progress.
# Which landing pages are performing better and acquiring more traffic for your blog?

Improve Visual Qualities of Your Blog

Fine-tune your blog layout by fixing all the small issues such format, font etc. that may interrupt user or cut readability. Judge the book by its cover. Therefore, try to make an attractive landing page. It will lure the user at their first glance to the blog. You have to make content pages more attractive upon first glance. Explore your design ideas at blog cover page.

What are you aiming for? 

Job Responsibility is the foremost thing for any business bloggers. Set new targets that you can meet. Try to figure out the consequences of your hard work. The amount of site visitors your blog get. The number of qualified prospects turns up after your SEO work. Attainable and relevant targets to your business are easier to make. Such as, if the blog produces 500 visitors a month, try to raise the traffic to 550 the following month, by improving content quality and your social connections associated with that content.