If you’re using a niche blog to make income through various revenue streams like affiliate marketing and Google Adsense, make sure your blog is friendly to humans and to search engine spiderbots. Here are a few tips for making it both search engine friendly and reader-friendly.
SEO Tips For Your Blog
On your blog you’ll want to do on-page and off-page search engine optimising. This means that on the blog you do things that make search engines want to crawl you such as having blog tags, categories, using links inside your blog to other blogs posts as well as links to outside sites through your blogroll and your blog entries.
In terms of off-page SEO, you might consider visiting other blogs in your niche and linking back to your blog through blog comments. Also use sites to catalog your blog such as Blog Catalog and MyBlogLog which can draw visitors in from other pages. Being friendly to search engines with SEO will get you more rankings and more visitors.
Visitor Tips
Once the visitors arrive, give them a warm welcome! Talk to your visitors in a friendly tone in your posts and stop by and visit their blogs to return the favour when they’ve been kind enough to comment or to link to you on their blog. When someone leaves a comment that asks a question or compliments your site answer them and consider leaving a comment on their site as well.
Don’t overdo it on the advertisements. You may be in the blogging business for the ad revenue but if your blog doesn’t provide any value, you won’t have many visitors and you definitely won’t get any subscribers. Carefully managing your blog to appeal to the people and the search engines will help increase your chances of online success.
About Sean Rasmussen
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Thanks, Prashant for stopping by. I’ll be happy to check out your article site.
The best way to make a WordPress blog SEO friendly would be to enable permalinks.
Permalinks are easier to follow and provide keyword weightage. In addition to that I would recommend a sitemap.
Great advice, Aditya. Thanks for stopping by!
Hi Sean,
I do some of these but you’ve given me a few things to think about here. There is certainly a lot to learn when you’re trying to be a successful blogger but at least it’s a lot of fun.
I too Jazz are learning very quickly.
Sean has given us some excellent advice which we will be able to implement.
Although it is great advice we have to be mindful of not having information overload and do it at our own pace
The results will be pretty obvious if you don’t treat your visitors friendly. They will just leave again.
Hi Sean,
It makes sense to return the favour and comment on someone’s blog if they have taken the time to comment on mine.
Thanks for the reminder.
After having my blog running for a few months I had a serious look at it and make a few changes that I believed would benefit the visitor. I removed multiple ad’s from the site, including prominent ad’s from sidebars.
I do not know whether this will be the right or wrong move, however it was more about having a visitor return again in future, rather then be turned away by too many ads.
It never hurts to test different things like you are doing Cemil. You will soon see if your changes have an impact or not.
With a background in technical writing I sometimes worry about being too stiff in my writing style. Then I worry that I’m overcompensating too much on the chatty side. So I find that I have to constantly watch how my material is coming across. And that’s only on my personal blogs.
At times I’ve been reluctant to comment on other blogs because I didn’t feel that I could offer a great deal to the discussion. However, with the practice I’ve been getting commenting during the Learn And Earn competition I’ll be prepared to say something about anything no matter where I find myself on the ‘net.
Hi Sean
It is so beneficial to have access to this website and to be able to read all the comments under the articles as there are lot’s of tips in them alone.
I am building a niche site and will continue to do so and as an internet marketer I am constantly geared towards making my site friendly to search engine spider bots. I must not forget to make it friendly towards humans! I took note about what you said to Cemil, to test different things to see what impact they make.
Thankyou
Thanks for the tip to keep the content of your articles human friendly (and the backend bot friendly). A site which is easy to read, friendly and welcoming would encourage [people to come back again.