Blog SEO tips for immediate ranking results

Get backlinks; and never pay for your links.

Getting links means putting in some work but it is worth the results. Get many, one way, keywords to your site follow the following tips and traffic will follow. I mean search engine traffic. After writing good content the single most important thing you can to for your blog is getting backlinks. The same applies for every kind of site. Getting backlinks should be where you dedicate most of your blogging time. I cannot stress it enough. Without backlinks your blog or site will be sitting in limbo forever and ever…and ever…till the end of time and then some.

Joking aside, it is very important. Think of backlinks as votes of confidence for your site. The more votes you have the better your pages will rank in search engine result pages. The better your ranking the more visits you will get. I dedicate a good chunk of my free time in getting as many backlinks as I can.

Let’s take things one by one.

The argument

Getting traffic to your blog and or site is not rocket science. Blogging is not rocket science. Making money blogging is not rocket science either. In order to make money with your blog, you need traffic. In order to get traffic you need to make accessing your site or blog easier for your potential visitors. There is a whole debate going on about what kind of traffic is the best kind of traffic. Search engines or social networking? Well this debate rages within the circles of social networking advocates. Anyone else, who is making or has made money online knows that the best way to do so is by driving search engine traffic to your blog. Aside from the specifics and the conversion rates and click through rates, that I don’t know much about, what makes sense is this. How many people do you thing use social networking sites? Then ask yourself, how many people do you think use search engines to find what they are looking for? I’ll let you answer that question. This post is not about debating the effectiveness of either social networking or search engines. It is just about getting backlinks.

Thinks about it like this:

Is it social networking or search engines that people use most to get around the web? When you are looking for something on the web, whether it is advice or a product or whatever, how will you go about finding it?

Under the assumption that search engine optimization will produce better long term results for your site this post will outline three ways of getting more backlinks with anchor text and therefore allow it to rank better in search engine result pages.

Comments

Once you have set up your new site you should immediately start getting a few easy backlinks. Backlinks from other high page rank sites that will allow for quick indexing. The best way of going about doing this is by visiting and commenting on blogs. Don’t comment spam, and do not use your keyword on your name. Your comments will just get turned down. I turn down those kinds of comments all the time. Read the post, and write something relevant, constructive and useful. You are getting a free backlink from this so you should at least offer some decent content for that site.

Dofollow

Some blogs are set up in a way that does not allow search engines to crawl the comments. Other ones are set up in the reverse way. It doesn’t really matter how the blogs you are commenting on are set up. All you need to worry about is getting those links. Make sure that the blogs you are commenting on have some sort of a page rank. If not, make sure they are indexed by Google. How you can do that? Well you can search the web for a page rank calculator and copy/paste the URL and figure it out. Or, you can go download seoquake for a quick overview of a site. Once you get the seoquake firefox toolbar plugin you will be able to see which blogs have PR and which don’t and therefore be able to get the best backlinks for your comments.

Remember, better PR means better links. Dofollow links are better than nofollow, however, links are links. If your site is new, and has not been indexed yet, go write a bunch of comments and indexing will follow. Ten, twenty, fifty….it is just a matter of how fast you want to get indexed.

Article Marketing

Write three articles, then go to as many article submission databases as you can and submit those articles. In order for you article not to be turned down make sure that it is over 500 words, you have a maximum of 2 links with anchor text placed in the resource box. If the particular database you are submitting to allows anchor links in text even better. For best results get as many articles submitted as possible. There is software to help you do this. Google the term free article submission software and you will find a few for sure. Get it, start writing and start submitting. Keep in mind that sometimes it takes up to 3 weeks for each article to get manually reviewed and approved by the database you submit to. Its ok…in the meantime, you should be working to get more links. Do social bookmarking.

Social Bookmarking

Find 10 social bookmarking sites. Create accounts for all of them and get to work. Submit as many links as you can for every post of yours and for every blog. Try to include a few different links, links not from the same site, to avoid getting banned for spamming. For every link you submit, in the title place the keyword you want that particular site, or post to rank well in. In the keywords, write as many keywords as you can. 10-15 should be good. For every keyword that you write the social bookmarking site gives you one more link. So think about it, if you are getting links for, lets say 10 of your posts from 10 social bookmarking sites, with ten keywords each….that’s 10 posts times 10 sites, times 10 keywords, for a grand total of 1000 anchored backlinks to your blog. Be careful, not to push it with your bookmarks. Big social bookmarking sites, are very particular with spamming and they will not give banning you a second thought. Try to fly under the radar by bookmarking other sites as well.

Directory Submission

Don’t forget the directories. Some of them have been lying around for a while and have excellent page rank. You should make a point and submit your URL in as many as you can. Its free, it just takes time.

Blogging is not rocket science. You get links, you rank better, you get traffic and you make money; it is simple.