I have had a few emails concerning my recent post about blog titles and implementing search engine optimization techniques. People have been asking for more info on how I go about optimizing my blog and each of my blog posts. The simple answer to the question “how exactly do you optimize each blog post?” is;
- Do a little research 
Remember each post of your blog can be used to target niche keywords, as your blog grows and gains authority you can target more competitive keywords and drive even more traffic to your site/blog. As I have said before if your not a “blogger” this still applies as your site or business should be utilizing a blog to drive relevant traffic your way.
What I want to do today is take you through what I do before I write 90% of my posts (some posts are just me moaning and rambling . This step by step guide, should I hope help you to drive more traffic to your site.
OK here we go……
Step 1
Decide what your going to write about, what topic is it going to be on? How are you going to structure it? Throw up a few graphics/videos, whatever you think is relevant and interesting.
Step 2
You will need to find a good keyword tool. I am sure many of you will have your favourites, if not check these suggestions out but to be completely honest I simply like using the google keyword tool. Type in the main theme of your blog post like so…
Author: Tim (227 Articles)
Tim Grice is the owner and editor of SEO wizz and has been involved in the search engine marketing industry for nearly 7 years. Tim currently heads the Search Team at Branded3 Search, one of the biggest Digital Marketing companies in the UK working with major brands across Europe and the US.
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This is helpful Thanks for the info!
good job… I tried this method before and increased my traffic dramatically
the keywords in the post title is very important to make the page ranking
Ghada
http://www.doubleurincome.com
It’s a great way to build traffic to your blog, target posts towards low competition keywords, make sure everything in the post is optimised, even try to create a few backilinks to it and bam, you have a first page post.
It’s the way I have built up search traffic so fast. 3 month old blog 100 – 150 search visitors a day
hey this is a very interesting article!
Thanks Kevin
Tim,
Thanks for these 4 steps. I look forward to seeing some results from them.
@Shaun,
Glad you liked it, thanks for dropping in
This is a great post that is simple and easy to understand for lay people. I wish I had the opportunity to read this a long time ago. It would have helped me tremendously. Anyone who is interested in Blogging should definately use this information.
Hi Jennifer,
Thanks a lot for your comments,
There are a lot of misconceptions online, the longer you try to understand what it really takes the better you get at finding the quality information