Although it may seem to be a little obvious, in order for your blog thrive and you must have visitors, good content and the attention of the search engines.
If you are thinking of your blog visitors as 'traffic' than you are making a fundamental mindset mistake. Your visitors are your readers, they have come to your blog to get a unique point of view to hear what you have to say. These are real people, successful bloggers treat their visitors as such and not as 'traffic'.
Think about inviting a guest into your house, wouldn't you be on your best behavior and show hospitality? If you treat them in a deep personalized way or asked them from for money as soon as they crossed the threshold you would soon have very few friends.
The Content
The Internet is a very fast-paced environment, in order for you to get somebody attention and keep it, you must have some outstanding content. You must be expressing a unique point of view, or providing valuable information. If the only content on your site is old stale warmed over topics that have been discussed 1000 times before people will soon be leaving in droves. The content should also be relevant and of high value to the audience. Find out what your audience wants and proceed to satisfy them.
From the point of view of the search engines, one thing you will never be penalized for is relevant, original and unique content. Many bloggers spent untold time and tons of money trying to beat the system to get search engine rankings by the next new trick. The simple fact of the matter is if they were writing good content that was relevant to their topic and provide it with the reader was looking for, high search engine rankings are almost a guarantee.
Proper Posting Procedure
Some bloggers make the mistake of writing for the search engines, and not for their visitors. This can make for some tough reading, and without visitors your blog is surely not prosper. Likewise to write exclusively for the readers and pay no attention to how the search engines find your content is also not too productive. The solution lies somewhere in between. In order for the search engines to notice your content more readily there are a few simple things you can do that will not affect the readability of your blog.
Here are three tips that can help you out:
1. Make sure your keyword, or main topic is in your title and near the beginning.While the overall concept of blogging is relatively simple, there are many, many, more ways to improve the readership, content, and visibility of your blog. We have just seen the tip of the iceberg.
2. Make sure your keyword, or main topic is at the very beginning of the post.
3. Mention your main topic or keyword as close to the end of the article as possible.
