SEO Internet Marketing

To set yourself apart from other bloggers you need to do a few things differently. These 50 Blog tips are the results of two years doing intensive blogging.  Some are guidlelines, others are explicit instructions.

1. Be mentored: offer someone backlinks!
   
2. Monitor your inbound links.

3. Don’t link out more than you have inbound links.

4. Write a dynamite “ABOUT” page for your blog.

5. Have a “Best of” page.

6. Guest blog out there.

7. Host guest bloggers on your blog.

8. Write reviews with proper references. (ie; Wikipedia)

9. Optimize use of categories.

10. TAG by idea, not by words used.

11. Write great excerpts, summaries, and introductions.

12. Use search words in your title.

13. Pick a simple theme and then test, test, test.

14. Paragraphs no longer than 10 sentences.

15. Remember your post is not a bestseller in process so write it and move on.

16. Submit your best stuff to social media.

17. NOFOLLOW when you should NOFOLLOW.

18. Outline your post.

19. Use pictures.

20. Get a picture hosting and posting routine you like.

21. Use Google Reader and leave comments.

22. Have a minimal sidebar.  Most the “flair” out there is so distracting and lame.

23. Make subheadings in BOLD.

24. Don’t “create” topics, wait for them to come to you.

25. Use the future posts timestamp feature of WordPress to get more than one post started in one sitting.

26. Schedule deadlines to be mailed to you through Google Calendar.

27. Find your “niche” and become a slave to it.

28. Value SEO and learn things about it.

29. Set goals.

30. Monitor results of goals.

31. Spell check and correct basic grammar.  Try Strunk and White’s “Elements of Style.”

32. Make posts over 100 words, around 200 words and usually not more than 400 words.

33. Get away!  Time off captures ideas.

34. Go to the Library for inspiration.

35. Use RANK then do not pay any attention to it.

36. Value real readers not empty “click-through” traffic.

37. Know your stats.

38. Be entertaining.

39. Regularly post.

40. Be accessible as an author.

41. Blogging is not instant gratification.

42. Spend most your time working on your own blog and smaller amounts commenting and blog hopping.

43. Adjust as necessary, be flexible.

44. Don’t look for advertisers, rather look to be the type of blog that would have advertisers.

45. Check out addons and plugins available to you.

46. Take an official photo.

47. Be a brand.

48. Ask for feedback.

49. Put ideas in your blog as “drafts” for rainy days.

50. Measure success on your own terms.

Follow these tips and your blog will be more popular than you could of thought of.