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Search Engines love blogs. And we all know it well, which is the reason why we have blogs either on blogger.com or on self hosted WordPress. But when everyone had a new blog, then wouldn’t the advantages be cancelled out equally ? Probably yes. Only blogs that have managed to gather up some moss..err..the authority would have a clear advantage over others. Stories these blogs publish would most definitely be on the first page, even if they have a not-so-good onsite optimization. This is most likely due to the enviable amount of backlinks they have gathered.
So for comparatively new blogs , what are the chances of ranking high for freshly published stories ? Do they stand a chance to compete against the big boys ?
I’m happy to say that the answer is yes.
With the search engine love and the technical excellence of blogs, its quite possible to get a first page rank on fresh stories no matter what your competition is.
1. Write stories with lot of text and optimize it well
I’ve found that stories that have lot of text with optimized content do well on the SERPS, even when the stories are published minutes earlier. The possible reason is that such articles give search engines a lot to chew on and make out as to what “topic” the article is about. An adequate amount of text would be around 300-500 words in my opinion. However when the competition is tougher, writing even more lengthy stories with headings, titles, images and all possible on site optimization weapons do help.
2. Leverage on the title space
You have around 50 characters. Use that space to write the best titles that are relevant as well as attractive. Most of the times, the title relevancy to the keyword search is a huge factor in getting a top rank. so use it well.
3. If possible get some link backs from the social media
Its probably unfair to say that you need backlinks on a fresh story. Its not a necessary, however if you can manage to get a few, that would be great. And I’m not talking about the regular link back from a normal site, but some high-traffic social media sites. A dofollow is awesome, but even if its a nofollow but on a highly accessed page – great. Don’t ever spam for backlinks please, your story has to be equally interesting, worthy enough for good traffic.
4. Check what’s already there on the SERPS
A good strategy would be to find out if the story you are going to publish has competition already on the SERPS. Try searching for possible related searches on Google. Find out the age of the post, and if the top ten results are saturated with relevant stories. If the stories around the 5-10 results are not directly targeted to the search term (possibly a content match) then you have a higher chance to win.
5. Be clever, use the headers wisely
When writing quick posts, bloggers don’t really make use of the header tags, or that’s what I see. We have a whole range of them starting with H1. A simple H1 is good, but if you use the others, its still a lot of added weight. So use them properly and include your possible keywords in them. Again, no keyword stemming please, but use it a natural looking way.
Having said that, there is no guarantee to a first page rank and a lot depends on your blogs history and general SEO health. But a good research and proper content design will do half the job in getting there. There are lot of young blogs that enjoy a steady and healthy traffic from search engines, due to their consistency in posting well optimized articles. They have very few backlinks, page ranks not exceeding PR 2 and domain ages of around 1 year or so. But almost all their stories are on the front page if not Rank No.1 – which is a good achievement I’d say.
I’m sure you’d have your own tips to share here. Feel free to comment, I’m listening.
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Hi Mani,
Nice to see that I’m the first to comment on this post. I would refer to the term Articles over stories and also KEYWORDS specially when search engines are basically work on keywords used by readers to look for information. Good one though, covering the basic aspects to get visibility in the world of blogging.
Cheers,
Eddie Gear
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A Web Design Company
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As soon as I read this article, I thought what about keywords? I am glad to see that the first comment was about keywords. Of course its not just any keywords that are important, you need terms that people are actually searching for.
Before I post something I use either the free version of Wordtracker, or the Google Keywords Tool. This helps as I can find keywords phrases with lower competition.
Does anyone have any other keyword tool suggestions?
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How can backlinks from ‘nofollow’ sites be useful in generating traffic? Is it just from the fact that people may click the link?
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Mani Karthik
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Well links from nofollow sites in social media like digg/reddit etc are great traffic sources. Nofollow or not they are the social media channels. Its becoming increasingly visible that social media traffic gives you better chances of link possibilities and traffic. Unfortunately lot of guys are seen spamming the system as well. Not good.
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Ruby Web
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Targeting the social media channels and not worrying about Google PR transfer being blocked by the no-follow tag on links is pitching the audsience proper, and not trying to impress an algorithm.
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A must to check post from Mani.The tips are useful for both new and established bloggers.
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Is it a good way to post our own links to digg/reddit? I mean does the site support the cause?
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Traffic Geyser
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Although they are tagged as no follow, it is still advisable to pay attention to social bookmarking sites, these sites can enhance the exposure of your blog post. also it can put your blog entry on the first page of google.. if you had put the right title and tags in it..
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SERPS? what is that? i thought it should be something that requre search engine representative portable system?
serps, i didnt heard about this before. pls guide me more on this.
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Mani Karthik
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SERPS = Search Engine Results Page.
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Nice post Mani. I have also found the even though most links from social media outlets are nofollow, they are still good sources of traffic & visibility (which could eventually lead to links)…
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Hi Mani,
A good one as usual.It sure means a lot for a blogger to have a visitor come from a search engine and has his requirement fulfilled.
Infact,i have been trying to make use of the tips here to optimize the title to fair better in the search engines.I have decent success but i still hav a doubt.
The titles on blogspot blogs are by default i think. makes them too big.Does that mean it hinders the optimization
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amazing post
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i found a new weapon for my blog now. Before i just knew Seo is about backlink,keyword,meta tag,etc..
But actually i just make a big mistakes..
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Why are images in a blog helpful? Is it the alt tag content?
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“Guaranteed Houston SEO” knows one way to get possible first page rankings it seems!
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If you can’t beat ‘em…
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