Monday, January 28, 2008

How to optimize for SEO

Optimizing your blog for Search engines, especially google is effing hard. Expect it to take months, maybe even a year depending on your keyword to see it actually appear within the top five pages of google. If you want to start doing this easily, start with terms that get searched maybe just a few – 20 times a day. If you can rank number 1 for that, you get 20 more visitors a day. Then start ranking for bigger and better terms. Soon you will see tons of users pouring into your blog from google. Don’t over do it with your keywords, you have to be careful. Keyword scientists… yeah, scientists, figures you should make up 1 – 7% of your website. That means use it every once every hundred words or up to 1 per 15-ish words. Well you don’t want to get obnoxious so when I do this I use 2 – 3% on my blogs. I see nice traffic from google due to this and it is improving everyday I add to that keyword. Of course there are other Search engines, but they all suck. I haven’t had one hit from google, even if I have ranked number 1 for some searches. Just shows yo how much google owns the web now a days.