Keywords

The term keyword refers to words that relate to your topic, words that are ‘keys’ for getting to your blog. If you need to find flowers then you type “flowers” in Google and you are presented with relative results. If you have a blog about flowers then you have to write about flowers, have the word appear at least a few times, so Google or other search engines, can assume that your blog is about flowers. In my case, my blog is about how to make money blogging, so you will see these words appear over and over in my posts, titles, links and so on. It is advised that your keywords should be 5% of the words in every article or post. You can also use your keywords in your tags; use them to label your categories and widgets.

There is also an argument to be made on how more content helps your blog rank better in searches. The more content search engines have to crawl the more pages you will end up having featured for a particular search. More content means more keywords and so on…

In a nutshell, fill your blog with desired keywords, have links from other sites/blogs pointing to your blog with the desired keywords, search engines crawl and search engine visitors will follow.

Links

I want this blog to rank higher for Make Money Blogging searches, so when I do a link-trade, or buy a link on another website or blog, I ask too have make money blogging as the keywords.

The link looks something like this in html,

<*a href="http://www.ideasandmoney.info”/>Make Money Blogging <*/a>

Replace the ideasandmoney.info with your address and “Make Money Blogging” with your keyword and you are good to go. Don’t forget to take the * in the begging and in the end. I placed them so the code shows up as code and not as a link.

It is recommended that you do your own linking as well, link to older posts of your in your archives. Links to your achieved posts will help get more of your pages indexed. As search engines crawl your site, they will inevitably visit your older posts and consequently have these pages indexed.

Since blogs are free to set up and it is relatively easy to do so you should set up other blogs yourself and have keywords pointing back to your main blog. I have done this by setting up one through blogger. I haven’t been posting much, but it is there and there is a link pointing to this one. I won’t bother linking to it because I want to keep the link as a one way link.

You can also find sound advice on building back links at jtpratt.com

I found this tool to check your link popularity at this Adsense blog

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