Writing a blog means writing about what you know and then making sure it is keyword analyzed. None of these tips cost me money, only time. If you’ve got the time, you can optimize your blog into a substantial income generating machine. The following tactics are what I do to give the search engines something to crawl about as well as to make money. Here are 20 Free SEO Tools that will increase your traffic, give you higher page rankings in the search engines and convert readers into customers.
1. ARTICLE MARKETING: There are hundreds of article directories that need articles on almost any subject you can think of. In addition, article writing is a great way to drive targeted, highly responsive traffic to your blog. I turn every blog post into a keyword dense, promotional information piece guaranteed to create traffic. Doing this will not only strengthen your search engine visibility, it has been known to increase sales. But, best of all, it’s absolutely free.
2. BACK-LINKS: These are links that link back to your blog. I make it a practice of reading at least 1-2 blogs a day that my peers create. When I read something I’m interested in, I comment on it then follow up on the comment with an email to the Blogger requesting a link exchange. The theory is, if a blog has enough relevant links linking back to it, your search engine page rank will increase, therefore causing more traffic sent your way, as well as it boosts credibility to your blog.
3. SIGNATURE ON EMAILS: I know this is old, but it works. Each time I send an email, I include my blog link under my name. Most email programs allow you to include signatures. Great promotional tool to use when you are forwarding those wacky emails to all your friends.
4. PUBLISH A NEWSLETTER: Your subscribers are loyal to you and will be more likely to buy the things you recommend to them because they trust you. Use your built in list to market your favorite products and services.
5. SOCIAL BOOKMARKING: DIGG, SPIN, SCOOP, DE.LICIO.US, TWITTER, DROPJACK, REDDIT, SIMPY, etc.
Social Bookmarking is becoming the new method for surfers to find information on the internet. Make your blog posts easy to find by submitting your posts to as many social bookmarking sites as you can and watch your traffic grow.
6. FORUMS: Answer questions in forums and discussion groups. Yahoo! Answers has a wonderful method to publicize your blog by allowing you to present your advice to people posing serious (and not so serious) questions on a variety of topics. They even allow you to include your link in your answer.
7. LINK REFERRAL: A traffic magnet that I use daily. I review other business websites, give honest opinions, and in turn I receive targeted traffic. Tip: Use your forum to post and respond to questions. This gives you an added bonus.
8. MY BLOGLOG: Kind of a social bookmarking-blog-traffic enhancer site. I just signed up yesterday and I received 20 visitors in the first 30 minutes. Join Inforids on MyBlogLog
9. SEARCH ENGINE SUBMISSION: Using Web CEO, I submit my site to all the major and minor search engines. There is a free version as well as a paid version. However, I find that the free version suits my professional needs.
- Submit your blog to Google, Yahoo plus 100+ Search Engines for free
- Submit your blog to Microsoft Bing Search Engine for free
10. BLOG OPTIMIZATION: Again, Web CEO comes in handy. I use it to correct errors that my eyes can not see. It is the program to use that will remedy the nuts and bolts of any website or blog.
11. KEYWORD DENSITY: Should be at least 3% in order for the search engines to crawl your site.
12. BLOG DESIGN: Having a clean site design that is uncluttered and easy to navigate doesn’t hurt. Don’t ‘crowd’ your site with an over abundance of advertising, the search engine spiders might consider your blog to be spam if you do.
13. CONSISTENT BLOG POSTING: The recommendation is to post at least 3-4 times per week. Personally, I post Monday – Friday, treating my blog like a job. It helps cure any procrastination urgings I might feel.
14. RELEVANT CONTENT: It is imperative that you create relevant content. Don’t mix a potpourri of information on a blog that is supposed to be about digital cameras. Resist that temptation to step outside of the box, instead contain your flow of information as it relates to your niche subject.
15. RELEVANT ADS: This is also true for the type of advertising you allow on your blog. Health and vitamin supplements don’t belong on a blog about video email software.
16. DEEP LINKING: Create strong internal links to other blog articles in other postings. The search engine spiders love this. It allows them and your readers to crawl around your blog longer and deeper.
17. RSS FEEDS: Use FeedBurner to help distribute your blog to the rest of the blog reading world. RSS Feeds are like hungry virtual Venus fly traps waiting for your information to satisfy its information craving. Use it to your advantage and create strong backlinks as well as free distribution of all your content.
18. USE KEYWORDS, TAGS AND LABELS: Tagging creates a point of reference for your reader as well as the search engines. Remember when we were children and we played the game of tag? Getting tagged then was bad; however having tags for your blog posting helps to categorize your work; it helps readers find what they are looking for.
19. BLOG POPULAR: Give your audience what they are looking for. There are times when I go to what’s popular on Yahoo! or I will just use Web CEO to tell me what all the search engines are showing as popular for the day and write an article or blog about that (I keep the topic relevant to my content though.)
20. COMMENTING: Yes, Comments are the great source of traffic to your blog. So, comment on high page rank blogs like mad, also pay some attention on your comment writing style & its relevancy to the topic.
Ok, these are just 20 Free SEO Link Building Tips (by LaTease Rikard). Let us know if you have more, put comments below, the list is always free to grow!
Nice info dude. Keep posting more. but post them in an order. It will be so nice if u have done that
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Nice post, but i have a question. I am working on on a site name http://www.finder6.com it has some competitive keywords. I am doing free link building for last 6 months, but i can not see good improvement. please suggest. I do both relevant and not relevant link building.
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I am really feel pleasure to read the information given for seo. It is very much useful for the fresher like me.expecting more ideas and techniques about the search engine optimization .
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Some great tips, and yes, I love backlinks. Backlinks are a wonderful thing!
Thanks, Rob. They are wonderful really, as they form the nice part of the traffic that arrive to any blog.
Great help. Love this list. Some I already knew some new.
Thanks, Sally.
Thanks Friend, i am new in seo so i do not think that these factors are also important in the flied of link building.
I like this blog because i follow your rule and at this time i have get the good ranking in the search engine . I am happy to follow your rule.
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Enjoyed reading this. You have covered many useful things from blog design to SEO elements. Thanks.
Very good tips for any blogger. Thanks. There is also good option to get more traffic. It is RSS feed exchange. Especcialy if your site is social. Don`t expect that people come to social or personal blogs from Google. Becuase relevance of content on such sites is hardly definable. Most of traffic is from related blogs and services.
Yes, RSS feed Exchange. I missed to include that. Thanks, Mikely
great post..could i post this post to my blog ?
i will write you are the original poster.
Yes, you can but, only an excerpt of the post with the original article backlink with it.
Thank you for this great tips, i will try to use all of them. Hope that will increae my traffic fast.
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Very informative post. I have previously only used one twitter account to reach a few different markets. Any buzz I have created has only lead to inbound links with my brand name as the anchor text. I am going to take your advice and see if I can produce some more SEO friendly links.
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Unfortunately, most people forget the importance of internal link structure; if done properly can become a great booster for other pages rather than homepage. Best for deep linking!
I always like to recommend mixing up the PR sites you use to utilize getting different links from authority wire services. You also stand the chance of having your release picked up across a multitude of related news sites within their network.
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Normally I wouldn’t comment on posts but I felt that I had to as your writing style is actually good. You have broken down a tough area so that it easy to understand.
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Great tips, making it personal is important, as is content and keywords.
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Thanks for those SEO tips.Well Relevant content is really important and looks like you really doing a great job on seo,Reall thanks for sharing it.
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