Making Your Blog SEO Friendly - Part 1

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Making Your Blog SEO Friendly - Part 1

This is just one article in a series of articles on how I make my living online by working from my RV anywhere I decide to park it. Read the entire series and you too could be well on your way to living any lifestyle you choose with complete financial independence.

Now that we have our blog monetized, we need to make it palatable to the search engines.  Search Engine Optimization, or SEO, is a huge subject.  There are people that make a very good living specializing in being a search engine expert.  So obviously, this blog isn’t going to even scratch the surface.  But I can get you started and point you at some great products and materials that have helped my tremendously.

Here is a checklist you can use to cover the main points you’ll need to cover in your blog.  These aren’t all-inclusive of course, but they’re a great start.

Optimize Your Web Site for the Search Engines.

This is a complete study all in it’s own. This is a great place to start however because you usually only need to do it once.  Here you can get a lot of information on the Wordpress website and in the documentation to the various SEO modules available for Wordpress.  These have a lot of great tips on making sure your title tags, descriptions, keywords, etc. are all set up correctly.  Of course, if you’re willing to spend a little money and don’t want to go through it all yourself, there are a few commercial themes and blogging systems that I’ve tried in the past and have had great luck with.  One is Blogging to the Bank 3.0 by Rob Benwell.  He has some free themes and a great ebook that is a lot of help.  I learned a lot from his product and system and it was a relatively cheap education.  You can read a review on my Pure411.com site here.

Another great product is Carl Ocab’s Ultimate Blogging Theme.  I recently bought his product and liked it so much I’ve switched this site over to it.  I haven’t even had time to write a review yet, but I will be.  Carl got started at 13 years old and now makes a great living purely as a blogger.  Part of it is his theme.  His site consistently ranks on the first page of Google for the keyword he’s targeted.

Regardless of whether you choose to do it yourself and set up a free theme to be SEO friendly, or if you purchase a proven theme, you need to make sure you make all the correct changed to it.  This takes education.  The best place I’ve found so far for that is Gideon Shalwick and Yaro Starak’s new site.  This is probably the best place I know of to learn exactly how to get it done right so you can maximize your income from your blog.  I personally rely on it and have purchased a lifetime premium membership.  They have a wealth of professionally produced videos, audios and articles that are concise and easy to understand.  If you can only afford 1 training product, get this one.

Focus, Focus, Focus.

Know your keywords and focus on a singe keyword with each article you write or upload.  Writing scattered articles doesn’t get you noticed by the search engines.  Pick the top 5 or so keywords that you want people to locate you by and focus all your blog articles on one of them at a time.

Post, Post, Post.

This is advice I haven’t been to good at taking myself sometimes.  The search engines like dynamic sites.  A dynamic site is one that changes regularly.  You don’t want to post multiple times per day necessarily, but you should post at least a couple of times per week.  There are tricks to help make your site more dynamic, like using RSS feeds.  We’ll cover those in a later article.

Don’t be Mediocre.

Write good articles.  Don’t just throw something on line to keep the site dynamic.  Your readers will appreciate getting REAL and accurate information.  After all, your free information is your service to your readers.  If they don’t take time to stay on your site and read your articles, they won’t come back, and they certainly won’t visit your affiliate links.  Remember: Quality, not just quality.

In the next few posts we’ll continue this theme and present even more ways to get your blog noticed by the search engines and everyone else.  For now, this should keep you busy.