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Search engine optimization for dummies: The secret ways to optimize your blog posts

As you can see, there are lots of blog that respond to calls from search engine result and most times you are often scared, right? Because you believed your blog might not rise to that level. Now your story is changed as long as you’ve found your way down to this blog.

Perhaps you were searching for a particular keyword and you saw a sub domain or a new blog competing with an old and authority blog for that particular keyword. The question that first come to your mind or every other webmaster are how come this is happening. Neither believe me, there are now tweak nor tricks for running the show , but the only trick is the one that has been hidden from you.

I know you are anxious now, but just relax. There is definitely a secret and strategies to use in other for you to be able to challenge authority blogs out there in search engine results.

Today I will share with you the known secrets on how you can make every of your blog posts show in each keyword related to your niche.

1. Write a unique blog posts/ contents

For your information, the journey of your blog post optimization starts from how well written and distinct your blog posts are. This is the major challenge most bloggers face, apart from the normal blog promotion activities.

Also Read: How to write a blog posts that Your readers Would Read

A blogger who doesn’t want to learn the habit of creating a quality content will never find a way out blogging industry. Successful bloggers have to keep their head straight in demand to what visitor want, which high quality contents.

Moreover, Google also love quality content more than quantity. If you’ve decided to publish one single article in a day and you are sure it’s a quality content, it’s far better than publishing 10 articles that aren’t compelling or engaging.

Therefore, your unique content will always caught Google eyes first and get index as fast as you can think of.

2. Add “ALT” tag to your blog post images

I believe if you are a constant reader of this blog, you should have come across a post on adding tag to you blog posts. The issue here is that the “ALT” tag informs the search engine bots of the category in which your images falls.

Also Read: How to Drive Traffic By Using Image Tag

The fact that bots cannot read images, which is why you need to tag it for proper categorization. For instance, if you upload an image and you did not add the ALT tag, bot/ search engine will not discover it but as soon as you add the ALT tag + keywords, search will discover it whenever such keyword is been search for, and this would help get more traffic to your blog.

3. Create Permalink for your blog post.

This has since been working for me; you need to take note that creating permalink for every blog post you write is very important, because this is a very good way for you to get good search result from the search engines.

The tweak behind creating this custom permalink is that you’ll set the permalink with your keyword, and this gives you more control over your blog posts and the blog itself.it provide more information to your visitor when your keywords are been shown from the search results.

4. Use Optimized Blog title (H1- H3)

Header tags are very important when it comes to search engine optimization. A lot of people find it very difficult to get their posts to the first ten searches of the Google result because they couldn’t optimize their blog post title.

Also Read: How to make Post title appear before blog title

This is very essential in that it makes search engine bots to easily crawl and show your post in the keywords that best suit it. If you are a naive in the use of header tag, then let me give you an introduction to it before I make a post on it.

Normally, we use H1 tag for the blog title, H2 and H3 tags are used for blog post titles. But by default, blogger has already assign H3 tags to blog post title which is not too good for search engine query. Therefore, if you want to make your posts visible in search engines, simply change your H3 to H2.

5. Submit your blog to Google Webmaster

I believe this post is now becoming more interesting right? Because I’ve already given virtually everything you need to get your blog post optimized. But we don’t have to leave the services of the great webmasters (Google and Bing).

Also Read: How to submit your blog to Google Webmaster Tool

Google webmaster is a tool which you can use to submit your posts very fast after you publish it. Once you notify Google that you have a fresh content on your blog either by pinging or any other ways, Google will start sending bots to your blog and your blog pages and posts will be crawled.

Also read: Submit Your Blog To Bing Webmaster

I wrote some post on how to get your blog posts indexed on Google very fast, you can check the post.

Conclusively, do you have any other means by which you optimize your blog posts aside the ones above? Feel free to share your views about this post and kindly use the comment box to state your observation and modifications.

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How to Make Your Blogger Blog Compatible with Mobile Phones

The need is fast rising and the prominence of using mobile phones in browsing cannot be left undiscussed. Bloggers are making sure their blogs are mobile friendly these days and also be able to catch the attention of their readers.

Also read : what do you need to Make Money with Adsense

If the desktop view of your blog is what your readers see on their smartphones, then you need to get advance to mobile.

There are some blog views you get on your mobile phones that take longer minutes to load which in turn might frustrate your readers if it’s not optimized for mobile view. When it comes to making your blog mobile friendly, all you need to do is to enable the blogger mobile template from your dashboard.

Also Read: How to optimize your Mobile View

When you enable the mobile template, it will re-sharp your blog for smartphones to enhance reader’s viewing experience. The good thing about this method is that whenever you use a mobile phone to access a blog, it will automatically redirect to the mobile view. It also support ads and allow your readers to leave comments.

Therefore, how can you enable the Mobile view on blogger blog?

To create a mobile friendly blog, simply login in to your dashboard,

Go to template.

Click on “settings icon” below the mobile template preview.

A box will pop up, then select the “yes, show a mobile template on mobile devices”.

Finally chose a desire mobile template and then click save settings.

Now your blog readers will be seeing the blogger mobile view of your blog whenever they access your blog with a smartphone.

How to customize the Mobile View of Your BlogSpot Blog

You’re wondering I added this? Actually this post came on request, but I believed my readers can definitely gain more from it. Now, you can also customize your mobile view to your blog template wherein your AdSense will be able to show.

You can always add the “custom” mobile template. Looking at it, by default blogger have provided like 8 mobile template which are not editable, but for you to edit you have to activate the custom template.

Note:The good side of the custom mobile template is that AdSense mobile ads shows on it if you’ve embedded the Google ad unit in your blog, probably by configuring your blog to display inline ads.

Over to You

Have you in one way or the other having challenges on how to set up your blogger mobile views that display AdSense? What is your take about this post?

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My Readers and My Blogger Friends: This Is How I’d Love to Say MERRY XMAS

I really want to use this medium to appreciate all my Readers, Friends and Colleagues. All the post i had published this year wouldn’t have been a success without you reading them, even with this one you are reading. You people are just too amazing that i couldn’t find enough words to appreciate you all.

There are many times this year that i couldn’t just find passion and the zeal to write posts and publish, but because i knew that Very important readers like you will always come around this blog to learn one or two things, that alone keeps me going that i have a responsibility to take.

i just want to say a big thank you to my readers who has always supported me, also those that had left wonderful comments on this blog so far, this is just a concentrated truth that without readers, blogging will be boring.

i wouldn’t just leave like that without appreciating my mentor, the person of Mr Joseph Efeghor Ezie. He is a professional nurse that turned a veteran business blogger(bizsuccessguide), over and over again, i’ll keep saying this that he was the one that gave me the reasons to blog again, when i was drowning… he appeared like “JESUS” to pull me up.

Also, i will like to acknowledge Harleena Singh for the time she gave me when i was putting together “How to get social media shares like Pro’s Do- Harleena Singh as a case study“. Though it wasn’t easy getting her but she gave me the time. It wasn’t only her time she gave me, remember i said that there are times when i felt so depressed to write, what i did was to run to her blog and read up one or two amazing posts and i’ll be charge to write again.

And for other blogger friends that i ran to their blogs to learn new things when i’m in need of blogging literacy, like Theodore wrote, i love you all.

Tunde Fapo of Justnaira

Nwangene Theodore of topbloggingcoach

Tirobert (The Seo Rebel) of Tirobertsdotcom

Babanature of Onenaijablog

Erik Emanuelli of nopassiveincome

Enstin Muki of Enstinemuki

Adeyemi of Adetechblog

Joseph Josylad of Blogging tips Today

Shamsudeen Adeshokan of Cybernaira

Obasi Miracle of obasimvilla

Sagar Desai of Addictedme

Doncaprio

Ammar Ali of Allbloggingtips

The below Mentioned guys are wonderful friends of mine that i met on a Facebook Group named Cast off Blog Syndication.. they are just too wonderful.

Jeanne Malanson of jeannemelanson

Nate Leung of nateleung

Vince Mazzie of workwithmazzie

Esha Gupta of wellnessandvanity

Joan Harrington of Successwithjoan

I still have so many blogger friends that i couldn’t remember now, but for those names that are not here, you all mean so much to me.

Over to you

Do you have anything to say about my posts, services and responses to comments. In any other ways you want me to change or add anything to this blog, kindly do that through the comment blog box.

MERRY XMAS & HAPPY NEW YEAR IN ADVANCE!!!

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Guide to blogging- 10 Effective tips new beginner should know

When we talk about effective and successful blogging, then we make mention of these following things: Good traffic, Number of comments, People’s response to your blog. These are what we all see as someone having a successful blog.

Well, on another instance, being a successful blogger also depend on how well you’ve built a wonderful relationship with other bloggers in your niche, and also outside your niche. Your readers are not left behind in this case, because your success as a blogger also counts on your relationship with the readers, by the amount and the quality of content you often provide for them.

Running a good race of driving tons of traffic to your blog is also an evidence of you building a successful blog. But this actually is capped with all the stated points above. For you to be a successful blogger as a starter there are some basic things you need to know and understand in blogging world. Therefore today, I will be discussing the basic guide lines all new bloggers need, to become a better and a successful blogger.

1. Be Passionate about Blogging:

This invariably is my first rule of blogging. Whenever you are passionate about what you do, you will always succeed in it. Are you passionate about blogging? Are you a kind of person that’s more concern about the health status of your blog? Are you always responding to your readers comment? If yes, then you are on the verge of succeeding with blogging.

Also Read: How do you know if your blog is making a difference?

When I talk about passion for blogging, I’m talking from the stand of the blogging that is convenient for you. When you love to teach people tips, trick and secret of blogging without making money yet with blogging, then you can consider yourself been passionate.

However, a lot of bloggers have dropped blogging all because they weren’t passionate about blogging when they started. And looking from the basis of why they started which was “make money”. But when they started for some time and couldn’t make anything, they faded. Be passionate about anything you do and you will succeed.

2. Get a good and professionally created Blog:

From a saying that “The way you are dressed, is the way people will address you”. It has been a very great and important thing to check when you venture into blogging, that you blog must be professionally designed. In fact, for you to apply for adsense this day, blog design is one of the things Google look out for.

Also Read: 8 Common Features of a Blog

How well can your reader navigate their ways on your blog, you privacy policy etc. looking at the aspect of your readers, we all know that people love blogs that are readable with good combination of colors and the ones that are very fast in loading.

An advice has been given on color selection on blogs, that it is very good to use a white background blog, so as to make you words come out plain and clear on your blog. Blog design is very important as a beginner to blogging.

3. Write Attractive Blog title:

This is a very important aspect of blogging that a new beginner should learn. Most times your blog title makes or breaks a particular post. What do I mean by this? When you write a captivating and an optimized blog post, then people are bond to read it heavily, but when you blog title is dull, you know opposite will be the case.

It is of paramount importance to know the issues about the topic you are discussing, and you content should focus more on your title. The title must not be too long, but must be optimized so it can meet with what your visitors are searching for on the web. Titles draw traffic for blogs; therefore your blog title must be very attractive so as to draw people to reading your blog. Remember, first impression last longer than anything.

4. Add Values with your content

Do you know that readers love blogs that add one or two things to their knowledge. I find it very interesting when I visit a blog, and I was able to find solutions to the challenge I came with. I keep telling people that for you to create a blog that will become evergreen; you need to learn how to write evergreen articles, solution articles.

Also Read: How to Write a Blog posts that you readers will want to read

What I mean by every green articles are post that in the next 10 years when a new bloggers come looking for “how to” solve a particular blogging issue; your blog will still be relevant. I believe you get my point? Solution blogs get massive traffic because they provide solutions to masses blogging problem.

The values you carry on your blog will determine how far and how strong it will become in the next 2-5 years. Therefore, add values with your blogs, provide solutions with your blog then your blog will be the next highly rated and sorted blog.

5. Update your blog regularly

The success of a blog depends strongly on how regular you update your blog with a high quality content. Blogging is all about providing useful information to your blog readers, which invariably help you to drive traffic to your blog.

Also Read: can Publishing Many Post Per Day, Boost Traffic?

I wrote an article sometimes ago, “Write more to get more- the secret of targeted traffic.” I’ll advice you should read it or open it in a new tab before you proceed to the next point.

6. Active and Reply Comments:

It is very important to give response to any comment made on your blog. Do you know why? It makes your reader build more trust in you. Imagine you having comment on a post for more than 2 weeks in which you needed an answer to one particular challenge, and nobody could reply your comment.

Most times, this is very frustrating and it makes any blogger who engage in that act to lose more readers than he/she can imagine. Therefore, I’ll employ you to pay more attention to you comments, and give necessary response to them.

7. Take cognizance of Keywords

This is a word you can do without in blogging, or when writing your blog post. It’s so effective and relevant that it makes and breaks a blog. The use of keywords are very important , when you use an irrelevant keywords for your blog just to rank high in search engines, then you are in for trouble and this may warrant penalty from Google. Therefore when you want to use keywords, make sure you use the ones your readers are searching for on your blog.

8. Use Social Media

No blogger of today can do away with social medial marketing. Social media has been one of the greatest means of increasing blog’s visibility, and when it comes to the question “How do I make my blog popular?”, social media is the best answer to that.

Also Read: 5 Revealed secrets of using social media

Facebook, twitter and Linkedin is another way of making blog popular this day. Not only will they increase your blog visibility, they also get more targeted traffic to your blog globally.

9. Enjoy Blogging:

You only succeed in what you enjoy often. This is one of the secrets I share with new beginners, when you love your blog and blogging then success awaits you. A friend of mine told me that “You cannot enjoy what you are not passionate about”, which is absolutely true. You need to enjoy blogging, so as to enjoy the success coming.

10. Wait for success:

A very important aspect of blogging which every new blogger should know is that, blogging needs a lot of patience. In blogging, success is not overnight… but over time and the reward is over night.

A lot of people lose focus when they are not getting as much traffic and encouragement as they expected. But you need to be patient to build authority and relationship that will fetch you the success you want in blogging. There is a lot of hard work that is required in blogging.

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