I Am Offering A Little Piece Of My Professional Self To You… And No, You Can’t Return It!
So, I am going to do something that I have never done before. I am going to mix business with pleasure. You all know I write for b5media on 2 sites, Diabetes Notes and A Hearty Life, and serve as the Science and Health Channel editor, so I am going to share with you an interesting newsletter that Darren Rowse sent us this AM as our Tuesday Training. He wrote about SEO techniques and tips, as well as the importance of knowing what and who your readers are. You have to know what traffic comes to your site if you want to increase the hits, pageviews, exposure, readers and ultimately $$$ of your blog.
Now, I know that a lot of you are not out there to make a buck, but it is very interesting reading, even if you just pass it along to someone that could use the ideas. I have no ads on my Gaga site and make no money off of it, but I do need to know the basics of SEO on a professional level for my other blogs and job duties. Tell me what you think? Do you have any SEO secrets that you want to share?
Below are the highlights that I thought were worth mentioning…
Ideally Speaking - The best inbound links have three main qualities to them:
- they are from higher ranked sites than your own
they are relevant to the topic you are writing about
- they link to you using relevant keywords to your page
This will do two things for you:
- it’ll help your search engine ranking over time
- it’ll help you bring direct traffic from the other sites that link to you
Guest Post on Someone’s Blog
One great way to get incoming links is to get yourself a guest posting job on someone else’s blog. Keep an eye out for when bloggers in your niche are going to take a vacation and when they do offer to write some posts for them. The general rule when you guest post is that you get a little link in your byline.
via Tuesday’s training with Darren, b5media
