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Weโre thrilled to have Angie from The Work at Home Wife joining us as our featured blogger today.ย Not only is she a Virtual Assistant and Freelance Writer, but she also has much to teach us about internet marketing techniques , such as Search Engine Optimization, aka SEO.
When Angie first started her blog, she found that she was getting very little traffic from search engines, such as Google.ย In fact, because her traffic was for keyword phrases that had nothing to do with her blog, she was forced to continually market her blog manuallyโฆ
When I first started my blog, I was living the โif you build it, they will comeโ dream. ย Like most beginner bloggers, I thought if I started posting regularly and marketing through social media, somehow search engines would start sending me traffic. I didnโt know anything about SEO blogging, and it all sounded far too confusing to learn.
Once I did finally resign to learn SEO, I spent a lot of time trying different methods until I found one that worked and was easy to incorporate. ย I was so excited when I started seeing measurable results that I had to share what I was doing. ย I wrote my free report, The Beginnerโs Search Engine Optimization Strategy.
Here are two methods I describe in my report that Iโve used to improve my search engine ranking:
Post Titles
Post titles are one of the easiest places to start incorporating SEO. ย Rather than being vague in your titles, start adding keywords. ย When constructing your next blog title, take a moment to plug your topic into the Google Keyword Tool.
If your blog relates to recipes, instead of using โHow We Eat at Home Every Night,โ use a title like โFast, Easy Meals for Weeknights.โ ย โFast easy mealsโ is a keyword phrase that people searching for information are using. ย By using this alternate title, youโll be able to reap the rewards of this organic traffic.
Post Categories
Most blogs will use the category name for the URL when archiving posts. ย URLs that optimize keywords show up in search results. ย Instead of having 100 different categories, use the Google Keyword Tool to select 10 to 12 keyword phrases that relate to your blog topics. ย When a web surfer searches for one of the keyword phrases you selected for your categories, they will not only receive one post, they will be directed to all of those posts archived under that topic.
If youโre interested in reading more from Angie, such as a step by step guide to affiliate marketing, home business solutions, or how to make money online, then be sure to stop by her blog!
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Until “how to keep your house clean without ever actually cleaning” becomes a popular search phrase, my blog’s SOL.
Excellent tips..Thanks for highlighting the importance of categories.. I’ve been wanting to get around to adding them for like forever and didn’t know where to start.
Great instructions for growing blog biz. Thank you for posting!
Wow! What great tips!
This Wednesday I am really looking forward to this weekend. After 10 days of being Mommy’s helper I’m happy to be home and understand fully why only young women get to be Mommy and I am a grandmother.
Great advice!!
Great info! Thanks!
Hope you ladies are doing fine!!
SunieDawn
Dysfunction In The Heartland
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What great advice. Thanks for this : )
Wine. And that’s all I have to say about that.
Such great information.
howdy!
Really helpful stuff, thank you so much!
great tutes and posts, will be researching this. I love the if you build it they will come analogy. I was also under that delusion ๐
The first hit off of keywords I ever got was “Jello Baby Poop” the part I was amazed at was that someone typed that into the search bar LOL!
This is wonderful! I’ve been working hard to improve my titles. I’ll definitely check out her site for more information.
Great advice! Thanks for the tips!
WoW! Great tip just in the intro! Can’t wait to read more!
Great Tips, as always!
I LOVE learning how to do this – I have had no training (as w/most of us) so when people freely share info like this – wow!
I’m heading over to check her out.
Oooh great tips!!!
Happy Hump Day! Gonna go visit Angie’s blog, that’s exactly what I’ve been wanting to learn more of, it just gets so confusing sometimes.
Ohhhhh,,,that helped a lot. I really had no idea what SEO search optimization meant. Now. NOW, I get it, very cool! ๐
Great information!! Especially for newbies like me. =)
Hope everyone is having a wonderful day!!!
Oh man could I use some help in this area!!
Happy late hello on Wednesday!
This is exactly what I need to read and figure out in making my blog better. Thanks for sharing ladies.
Love a tech savvy woman!
Don’t love it when my kids use swear words….
its been ages since I stopped by. last weekend my girlfriend dragged me out: Mom danced in a mosh pit, and guess what! the world did NOT come to an end!
Great tips! The SEO thing has always baffled me but this was easy to understand. Thanks!
Very helpful. Thank you!
This great advice! I struggle with keywords all the time..sometimes I even forget to add them. Can’t wait to read more. Thanks!!
OMG, I love this woman and her tips. SEO is something I definitely do not get. I think I do it all wrong, so I will def check Angie and her blog out!
My post today is a review of The Social Network. I really hope Justin Timberlake doesn’t read it.
More great tips from Angie! ๐
Finally! A post on SEO that didn’t leave me in a fog! Thanks!
Thanks for the advice!
Thanks for the posting…very informative!
Oh, wonderful tips from Angie!
happy humpday!
WOW. That is so helpful!
I have bookmarked this post and will be checking out her other tips.
thanks so much for this. Brilliant.
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What great info, thanks for featuring Angie, I need to spend a few days on her blog!!
Great information!
I’ve been missing this week – I am drowning with an important “impress the boss” dinner this Friday night, missing a deadline for my daughter’s Bat Mitzvah invitations, and a teenage son that is driving me crazy. Not to mention that my computer is missing in action. But that’s another story all together.
Great FB today with such helpful content.
I have so many things to deal with re: blogging that SEO optimization is really low on my list. Maybe someday…
I could learn a thing or 10 from this blogger!
Hope all of you are having a wonderful Wednesday!!
I need a weekend!!!!
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I’m screwed…my last post title was “Next Time I’m Driving With Hannibal Lecter.” I’ll have to revise to “Family Road Trips and Crisis Management”
Wow…so much information. I will be all over her blog checking it out. Thanks!
Love it! It’s amazing what searches can drive people to your site.
great tips!
Agree! ๐ Thanks!!