Wouldn’t it be great to have a blueprint that you can follow to get first page rankings in Google? I said the same thing when I was becoming overwhelmed with what to do as far as my SEO efforts go. So I set out to create a checklist of formula.

I will be outlining that formula here in this article so you can copy it and use it to get more traffic and profits for your business. I use this formula every time I start a new website. I simply complete the checklist and move on to the next project. This is online business at its finest. Your SEO Checklist

1. Keyword Research – every action online starts with a keyword. You must make sure that your targeting buyer keywords. You also don’t want to target keywords that everyone is competing for. Go for the low hanging fruit. These are keywords with less competition but also less traffic. You just have to rank for a number of them to get good results.

2. Site Optimization – here you want to make sure you Title tag includes your keyword and that your META description actually describes your site well.

3. Add Unique Content – Google and other search engines simple love unique content. This adds value to their searchers. So by giving them what they want you in turn get the traffic and sales you want.

4. Add a blog – a weblog or WordPress blog does wonders to your rankings. Adding a blog to your site is very easy these days. There is a ton of information online, on how to do this.

5. Start building links – This is where the magic happens! Look for relevant sites that will allow you to leave a link back to your site. The goal is to get as many as possible.

Please keep in mind that these are your basic steps. Each step needs to be explained further. You can do your research on each step to add on to this easy checklist.

By: Donny L Lyons

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Once you begin to set up to promote your blog, here are some SEO tips you can use that will teach you how to blog.

The first thing you want to do is make sure your keyword research is complete. When you start to put your new content on your blog you want to put the keyword in the title once in the first few sentences and the last few sentences. Use a few different ways of words in your keyword research.

When you host the domain name on a server I suggest that you put your blog onto a primary domain where the primary domain name includes the main keyword that you are trying to target. The main page that you use is very important because 50 to 60% of your links over time to point to that page. That landing page has to have a little different strategy than the other promotional strategies that you use for the entire blog.

Make sure if you’re selling a product to have good ad copy. Always attach a blog to your website’s product or services. This will help you in your marketing efforts.

Once you have a few articles on your blog that are optimized for the main keyword, this is where you’ll target the best traffic potential in some of these how to blog tips and tricks. The first step is to social book mark your articles, submit your RSS feed to various RSS directories, aggregators and search engine submission directories.

Now you’ll get some good links over time but the link value is very low. Keep up a good social book marking plan but make sure you stay consistent.

Because the link value is low you’ll want to have articles written up and submitted through article directories. I suggest using other blog networks and get some outbound links that way in your signature. Everything that you do you want to make it as natural as possible so that everything appears quite organic.

That is why book marking is good to use because it drips out these links over a period of time and it’s not an overnight task where you wake up and have thousands of links.

Most people over look these methods when learning how to blog because of the low value but over time the search engine spiders will index your site. It just might take a bit longer. This method on how to blog will take a week or two and sometimes a month or so for the indexing to happen, but he effort is really worth it in the long run. Now that you have learned some of these tips and tricks on how to blog, start applying it and reap the rewards of your success.

By: Reed Slidell

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