6 Ways to get your Blog Ranked High on Google

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Getting your blog ranked high on Google is a fantastic way to attract potential clients. Here’s how it’s done.

1. Select Your Keywords and Keyword Phrases

Choose the keywords and keyword phrases you want your blog post to rank high for on the Google search engine results page. For example, I want my blog post to rank high for the term, “blog ranked high on Google.” Currently there are approximately 286,000 pages using this term so I’ll have to do everything in my power to compete with these web pages to get my blog post on the first page of the Google results page for that term.

My keyword phrase also includes other keyword phrases like, “ranked high on Google” with about 310,000 competing pages and “high on Google” with over 71 million competing pages. Getting to the first page for these terms would be a bonus.

2. Use Your Keywords in Your Blog Title

Google pays very close attention to the words and phrases you use in your blog title. Notice how I used the term, “blog ranked high on Google” in the title of this article. It’s important to use your keyword phrase in your blog title if you want to rank high for that phrase on the Google results page.

Another reason you want to use your keyword phrase in your blog title is to give your reader an immediate understanding as to what your blog post is about. If your blog is listed at the top of the search engine results page for your keyword phrase but no one reads it, it’s of no value. Use a title that will cause people to click through to your blog post.

The New York Times creates two different titles for their articles. They use a catchy, creative or humorous title for their newspaper, and a keyword specific title for the articles and blogs they post to the Internet. They do this because people looking for jokes about the eating habits of nuns generally go to a search engine and type, “jokes about the eating habits of nuns,” not “Nuns, Buns and Puns.”

3. Use Your Keywords in Your Blog Text

Notice how the keyword phrase, “blog ranked high on Google,” is used throughout this blog post. Google pays attention to the text on a blog in order to understand what the blog post is about. Once Google comprehends the content of the blog post, it will categorize the blog based on that information. By using your keyword phrase in your text, both Google and your readers can quickly understand what your blog post is about, allowing Google to accurately categorize your blog making it easy for your clients to find.

In the past, search engine consultants encouraged writers to use their keyword phrase in the first 25 words of their text and again in the last sentence. Today, the search engines don’t seem to pay as much attention to word placement, but reader’s do.

If your article is about your keyword phrase, it’s a good idea to use it in the first and last sentence because it helps your reader quickly know what your blog post is about. It’s also a good idea to use your keyword phrase in the first sentence because that is the text that is most likely to show in the description text on the search results page.

4. Link To Your Blog With Keyword Rich Anchor Text

Get as many one-way links leading back to your blog post as possible from as many quality blogs and websites as you can. Do your best to insure that the text people click on to get back to your site includes your keywords and keyword phrases. This is known in Internet marketing circles as anchor text.

In this example I want the anchor text leading back to my blog post to have the keyword phrase, “blog ranked high on Google,” as the clickable text. The clickable text is the means by which all of those other web sites and blogs tell Google what your blog post is about.

Google provides far more weight to the theme of your blog post based on the quality and size of the sites linking back to your blog than the text on your blog. For example, if you do a Google search for the term, “click here,” you will be taken to the Adobe Reader download web page. It’s interesting to note the term “click here” doesn’t appear anywhere on that page. The reason the Adobe Reader download page comes up first for this term is because there are millions of other sites that use the anchor text, “click here,” to direct people to the Adobe Reader download page.

There are two wonderful ways to get keyword rich anchor text directing people back to your blog post. The first is to write and submit an article about your blog post to other web site and blog owners who will upload your article to their site. In return those web site and blog owners will provide you with a keyword rich anchor text link from your article back to your blog. They get great content for their web site and you get a valuable one-way link back to your blog post.

The second way is to encourage other blog owners to write about your blog post. In doing so, they are very likely to use your blog title as the anchor text leading readers back to your post. This is another reason why it’s so important to use your keyword phrase in your blog title.

5. Ask Your Readers To Digg Your Blog Post

Ask your readers to tell the rest of the world about your blog post by submitting it to one of the social bookmarking sites. They include DIGG, Stumble, Blink and many others. If the title of your blog post includes your keyword phrase, it is likely that this is how your readers will describe your blog post to the social bookmarking sites. This helps Google decide where to rank your site on the search results page.

6. Blog On A Community Site

Recognized Expert, Active Rain, and Christian Blog are all examples of niche community blog sites. Recognized Expert is a site for marketing experts, Active Rain is for real estate professionals and the Christian blog is for, you guessed it, Christians. These niche sites have tons of traffic along with the undivided attention of Google and the other search engines.

If you’re a marketing expert for example, blogging on a site like Recognized Expert will push your blog post to the top of the search results page in a matter of hours. That’s a huge reason to blog on a community site. If you wrote the same content on your own blog, it may take months to be seen by Google, and you may never get close to the first page for your keyword phrase.

Google, Yahoo, MSN, AOL and the other search engines explore busy community sites for new content every few minutes. On the other hand, they visit newer and smaller sites every few months. If you’re serious about generating business from blogging, consider blogging on a topic specific community site.

Apply these six steps to every blog post you write, and you will quickly create a huge following of clients and potential clients. This is how the pro bloggers get their blogs ranked high on Google.

Creation of Blog Has an Extremely High Page Rank

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By now you should at least have heard of or have been influenced by Blogs. You can contribute to the world of blogging in just a few minutes. for more detail go to:www.atoz-about-rss.com.Search Engines love Blogs and if you know what search engines love; then by giving them what they want, your websites are likely to rank higher.

Blogs are simply Internet based journals. There are many hosting sites support Blogs, with one of the most popular places to start is at Blogger

Blogger has an extremely high page rank, which means create a blog by using their service; your blog will likely be quicker indexed by Google, Yahoo, MSN, or other search engines. Another advantage is that you don’t need to worry about the hosting; they will do it for you.

But one disadvantage that I have seen is Blogger dot com may delete your blog without notice and without give reasons. This means if you are making $100/day from your blog that hosted at Blogger dot com, which has been removed, and then your time put forth to promoting that blog is finished. Blogger lacks the ability to view your web statistics.

The first step you will see on the screen is to create an account. You need to select a user name and password that you will be using to access your Blogger account.

It is better to make the password interesting; by doing it, you can include some numbers and mixes the case.

At the same time, you need to think of a display name that will be use to sign all of your posts as well. This name can reflect your blog type, so it should have some consideration toward to creative. Just don’t give your blog display name something like JyxlWz4, which is more like a password rather than a display name.

This is where you will give your blog a name. Example, Tips for Golfers – if your blog is golf related; or, Healthy Explorer – if it is about sell health products. Just create a simple name that people can easily remember. For more help visit to: www.your-own-blog.com.But what you call it is completely up to you.

Actually it can be anything you like as long as it is not already being used by other people. To have an easy remember URL to let people find your blog, you need to be patient in this process because there are thousands of Blogs, and some name may already be in use. It may take you a while to find something that has not been taken.

Okay, now you can click on start posting, you will see there are some other tabs for modifications on the posting screen. The settings tab will allow you to make some changes range from your blog title, some access settings and the deletion of your blog.

In this section, you also can restrict comments; create teams and do lots of other stuff. You can change the color of your navigation bar, use HTML and style sheet knowledge to modify every part of your bog’s appearance by click on the Template tab. But if you are not very familiar with those, better not to play too much in this area otherwise you may messed up your blog.

If you want the view blog tab work, you have to create your first blog first. Therefore you need to go back to the posting tab and enter your blog title and then create some text, add in some links and even some pictures. Then click on preview to check what the final result will look like. If you happy with the display, then you can click on publish, if not, you can modify and edit your post and until you are ready, then publish. After done this, now try the view blog tab and there it is your first blog.

Is There A Way To Track The Google Page Rank Of A Blog?

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I keep hearing everyone suggesting I increase my page rank if I want more traffic, is there a way to track the page rank of my blog?

How to get the best “real-time” stats for your blog or website

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Everyone wants to know how many people are reading their blogs, and there are many many places where you can get “visitor counters” or “how many online” buttons, but the information you get from them is hardly accurate or in-depth.

Everyone, if they have any sense, uses google analytics for the big picture of your visitors, and the information given is truly amazing when you are looking at the global figures relating to your site. Where your visitors were directed to your website from, which country they live in, which pages they looked at, how long they spent on your site, etc. The range of figures is mindboggling, and for corporate reasons you should always have these figures around as they are a trusted medium in the web community.

But, if you want to actual know, right now, how many people are on your site, which pages they are looking at, etc, then i have no hesitation in recommending the little-known stats counter addfreestats.

This site will give you actual real-time facts about how many visitors are reading you blog RIGHT NOW, it will give you a list of which referring pages the last 50 visitors came from, which town in which country they come from, which page they landed on, how many other pages they visited (and which ones!).

They will also give you the usual total figures of how many visitors, how many unique visitors, how many pages visited, etc, but it such a good layout that i find i will write a story and then spend the next half-hour just looking at the visitors arrive!

There are thousands of other statistics available, probably too many to mention here, but i will highlight; The amount of visitors that clicked on your ads (exit pages), the most popular (no, not the most popular, ALL) the search terms that were typed into search engines to point them to your site, the average amount of time spent on-site and how many visitors in each hour.

I can see that i could go on for ages, but suffice to say that i highly recommend AddFreeStats to anyone who owns a website or blog. The best thing about addfreestats is that it is available via a small button on your home-page and of course it is totally FREE! The only downside is that you have to put up with a silly pop-up when you log-on, but that is a small price to pay for the information at your fingertips.

And just to clarify, i am NOT being paid to write this!

5 Steps For Blog Posts go Viral on Twitter

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When it comes to increasing your blog reader base and driving more traffic to your posts, there are few platforms more effective than Twitter. Twitter is an excellent tool for connecting with your readers and building a rapport. All businesses should use Twitter as a part of their marketing and branding strategy. For bloggers, knowing how to use Twitter effectively can lead to unbeatable exposure. Here are 5 steps any blogger can take to get his posts to go viral on Twitter.

1. Increase Your Followers

Obviously it’s going to be challenging to get your tweeted posts seen by a lot of people if there are only 20 people following you. Your first strategy should be to increase the number of people that are following you. The easiest way to do this is to follow lots of new people. Newbies tend to follow you right back. You can also look up the target keywords in your niche and follow the people who are talking about those keywords on Twitter. It’s particularly helpful to find the users who have a big following in your niche and then try to get them to follow you because they are the ones that will help your content go viral. Avoid following too many people who don’t follow you back because this can make your account look spammy and give you a bad image. Make sure the number of followers you have and the number of people you follow are about the same or at least not drastically different.

2. Become an Expert in Your Niche

Be consistent with your tweets. Regularly link to interesting articles that you think would be of interest to your followers and provide them with value every time. By regularly linking to informative articles in your niche, your followers will begin to look to you as a great source of information. This is an effective way to build your brand and it will pave the way for you to tweet your own posts. Your followers will be expecting valuable content since you have already positioned yourself as an expert in your niche.

3. Promote Your Blog

Don’t expect people to find your Twitter page and click on your link. Make the most of Twitter by tweeting your own posts! Treat your tweets as if they were your headline. Make them attention-grabbing and interesting so more people click through. Try posting the same tweet twice at different times of day to make sure you reach all your readers who didn’t see your first tweet. When you post a tweet multiple times, make sure to delete the first tweet so you don’t look like a spammer.

4. Write Interesting Articles for Your Blog

This might sound obvious but sometimes the more obsessed people get with promoting their blog and social networking, the less they pay attention to writing posts of good quality on a consistent basis. When you are just writing to fill up your blog, it shows. Make sure your posts are very informative, well-written, and that they provide unique information your readers won’t be able to find elsewhere.

5. Make It Easy for Your Followers to Re-Tweet Your Articles

After you’ve done all of the above, you have to leave it to your followers to do the rest. To make it easier for your followers to repost your tweets, add a “tweet this” link at the bottom of your tweets. How do you do it? Simply go to http://addthis.com/ and place the bookmarking plugin in your html.

If you aren’t already using Twitter, you’re missing an immense opportunity to give your website/blog good exposure. If you’re looking for a strategy to increase subscribers, traffic to your site, and a loyal reader base, Twitter is an indispensable tool that should play a prominent role in your master plan.

Why Google Blog Search Matters to Your Business

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Copyright 2005 Tinu AbayomiPaul

According to Google, Google’s Blog Search is “Google search
technology focused on blogs”. It includes search engine results
specific to blogs not just in the Blogger.com community, but
across the blogosphere at large. You can access it at

http://www.blogsearch.google.com/

What the Big Deal Is

A lot of people have probably heard about this extra version of
search Google has added and are greeting it with a big yawn,
particularly since it’s still in Beta. So what is the big deal,
anyway?

The big deal is that the top search engine in the world, which
was already paying particular attention to blogs in regular
search results, seems to make a subtle statement with the
introduction of blog-specific searches.

Blogs are important enough to warrant their own special level of
search, and not just as an advanced search option, but in their
own search engine.

If search engines are paying attention to blogging that closely,
you should be too — if you want better search engine results.

Current fans of blogs will be able to search the freshest
results so that they can see what is being discussed right now -
information that is often as fresh as the news, and draws upon
sources that the media-at-large either doesn’t have ready access
to, or interest in.

So to those with even the most obscure interests or hobbies, a
blog search powered by a top search engine gives ready access to
fresh information on any subject that someone can blog about.

And if a blog doesn’t yet exist on these narrow themes? You can
be the one to start the discussion.

Why It Matters to Your Business

Speaking of the media, this is likely to become one of the many
tools that a journalist in the know would use in order to
research a story, or to find out more information about a
company, directly from the people who use its products or
services.

Technorati, is at present, arguably a better tool, but it’s just
not as well known as the Google brand. If you’re a power
searcher, you already know what Technorati is. But the key thing
to understand is that most consumers – even B2B consumers -
aren’t as deeply involved in the internet.

But even those folks know what Google is.

There’s an even more obvious advantage to this specialized
search.

Google Blog search has the unprecedented potential to bring the
mainstream surfer into blogging, even more than Yahoo’s RSS
Headlines pioneered the start of making RSS mainstream about a
year ago. Why?

While many of your clients will fall instantly in love with RSS,
it’s more fair to them to present its possibilities in a format
that’s easier for them to digest. It’s not as hard to explain a
blog – and if you can’t you can simply tell them it’s a more
frequently updated part of your existing site.

When Google’s Blog Search is brought more to the front in coming
months, if your site gets into position to be visible when more
of the internet population becomes blog-happy, then the traffic
potential for your site may prove to be enormous.

The proper use of one RSS feed in one of my content management
systems doubled my traffic, with most of the new users coming
from Yahoo, this time last year. Another feed increased my daily
traffic another 75%, and brought me additional return traffic as
well.

At the time the margin between Yahoo and Google was wider than
it is today — so the potential increase from being in Google
boggles the mind.

How to Get Listed

According to the Blog Search Help Page:

“If your blog publishes a site feed in any format and
automatically pings an updating service (such as Weblogs.com),
we should be able to find and list it. Also, we will soon be
providing a form that you can use to manually add your blog to
our index, in case we haven’t picked it up automatically. Stay
tuned for more information on this.”

This means that if you’re already blogging – and responsibly
pinging, you’re probably already listed.

If you haven’t been blogging, you’re in luck. This special brand
of Google search is still in Beta, so if you get moving now, you
still have enough time to start getting into position. And since
the search currently seems to be focused on freshness and
relevance, if you keep up the blogging once you start, and you
keep your theme narrow, you could still dominate your niche.

Do It Today

The mantra for blogging before was that, proper blogging is a
sure fire way to increase traffic, as well as build stronger
ties to your end users or clients, not to mention that it is the
simplest of the many implementations of RSS.

Now, with all three major search engines paying more attention
to both RSS and Blogging, you can get spidered more frequently,
get more of your pages indexed more deeply, and be included in
more searches.

You have absolutely no time to waste – if you’re not blogging
already, you need to get started quickly. Many webmasters are
hesitating because they haven’t been able to find a blog system
that fits well with their site, or find the most popular tools
too sophisticated for their needs.

There are literally dozens of free resources to help you decide
between the standard systems that were originally built for the
personal blogger, and the more robust solutions that are aimed
at the medium-sized or corporate company – but that’s another
article.

Whatever you chose, the important thing is to get started
blogging today. You’ll be missing out on targeted traffic from
the most dominant search engine, from the most sophisticated
surfers today, and sooner than you know it, the mainstream web.

Google Search Engine Optimization (seo) Tips For Blog

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If you want your blog to do well, you cannot ignore Google. On the Internet, there are 3 major search engines – Yahoo, Bing (used to be MSN Live) and Google. Among the three search engines, Google owns the lion’s share of web traffic. Therefore, if your site is not going well in Google, you may be losing 50% of your visitors. so how do you get your blog to rank well in Google?

1) Unique content.

Don’t republish content that have been published on other sites. Keep the content on your own blog unique. If you publish duplicate content, the web pages may get caught in Google duplicate content filter, and you will never get to rank well in the search results. If your content is unique, you can be assured that your content will be indexed.

Generating unique content takes time, but it’s not really that hard. Just write what comes to your head. If the blog post is still lacking in content, you can always save it as a draft and work on it later. As long as you don’t copy and paste from other web pages, you will do fine.

2) Network with other bloggers.

Many successful bloggers are also social bloggers. In other words, they spend a lot of time networking with others. The more they network, the more back links they acquire. If you are already familiar with SEO, you know that you need back links to succeed.

Participate in other bloggers’ discussions. Leave comments on their blog entries. Alternatively, you can exchange content with other bloggers.

Always approach other bloggers with something to offer. Don’t just ask others to link back to you without having anything to offer. If you already own a popular blog, offer to link to your friends from that blog. The more you can give, the more likely others will respond to you.

3) Pick popular keywords to target.

Always spend some time to do your keyword research. You can spend hours creating unique content but that content is not going to bring you any traffic if you are not using the right keywords. Web visitors type in keywords into Google to search for information. If your web pages contain those keywords, they will surface in the search results.

Once you have your keyword list, you can create content that is based around those keywords. Never try to keyword stuff your articles with too many repeated keywords. Just write naturally, like you are writing for human readers. Trust the search engines to be able to pick up the context of your content. Apparently, the search engines have proven to be very effective at that. So there is no need for you to try to manipulate the search engines into “thinking” that your content deserves a higher ranking.

Quality of content and back links are what matter most. If you keep the above tips in mind, your blog will become more successful than you have ever imagined.

Blog Marketing: The #1 Source Of New Content For Business Blogs

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Blog marketing or Blog advertising describes internet marketing using web blogs. Blogs have become the next generation marketing tool. Marketing blogs are basically websites that allow you to instantly publish content and act as a news source for prospects.

Blogging has grown exponentially in the last few years. New Media Lab in Austin, Texas reports that 356,000,000 people worldwide read blogs and 77% of active web users read blogs. Can you see the potential?

Blogging is the act of publishing content on your marketing blog, but publishing content with a blog and publishing with your regular website are as different as night and day because blogs are dynamic and allow two-way communication between you and your prospects. That’s why blog marketing and blog advertising should be completed on a regular basis and with a specific marketing strategy.

While no one knows what’s included in a search engine’s algorithms, everyone can agree that a site needs to have quality content in order to rank high; and one of the easiest ways to add that quality content on a consistent basis is by starting a marketing blog.

With the recent advancements and the growing popularity of social media sites, as well as the importance of back links to your website for search engine optimization (SEO) purposes, adding your social media profile links to your blog will also increase its popularity. Two of the most popular social media sites for businesses are Facebook and Twitter (visit our page on social media marketing here).

You may be asking yourself, “How can I constantly come up with new content for my blog…It’s going to take a lot of work.” Don’t worry, here’s a quick list to get you going:

– Create a top 10 list about your industry: Thanks to David Letterman, people love top 10 lists. They capture the readers attention and hold their interest..

– Ask a question and solve the problem: You know your prospects biggest problems, so ask it in a question form and answer it with good content.

– Take a poll: Polls are always a good source for unique and interesting content

– Post about growing trends in your industry: Prospects interested in your industry will most certainly be interested in new and emerging trends, so this is a great source of new content.

Blog marketing can be very difficult to set up, but very exciting at the same time. You should be committed to adding new and fresh content at least weekly, but the more you can blog, the better. It’s just like being on a diet, if you’re consistent, it’s less difficult. But if you take a break and stop blogging for a week or so, you’ll lose your momentum and often your followers.

3 SEO Tips to Optimize Your Blog For Bing

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BING, the new search engine from Microsoft, has come blasting on the search engine scene and taken the Internet by storm. However, many Internet Marketers and Bloggers are unsure of how to optimize their blogs for it. Here are 3 tips to help you optimize your blog to get the huge amount of traffic that is using BING.

Tip #1 – Use your keywords in the domain name. I’ve had some new sites rank very well in BING simply because they have their keywords in the domain. This is something you want to keep in mind when registering new domains.

Tip #2 – BING loves backlinks. Just like Google and the old MSN search engine, BING loves anchored backlinks pointing back to your site. It seems they may have taken a few pages out of Google’s page book about ranking websites.

Tip #3 – Lot’s of text. From my experience, the blogs that are doing the best have very long post. It seems that BING puts a lot of importance on the amount of text on each page. While I do have pages ranking well that have the average amount of text on a page, the ones that are really doing well have more than 600 words of text on them.

So there you have it. My top 3 tips on getting your blog ranked in the first page of BING search engine. To my surprise, the traffic that BING is delivering has converted really well. It’s too early to tell yet whether they will be a real contender to Google, but I’ll take every bit of traffic they’ll send me.