I made so much money blogging this month, I was smiling like this too!
In my last post, I covered my “Blogging Keyword Strategy.” If you missed it, here’s a quick overview, but understand that to get the most from my backlinking strategy, you really need to read the full article and have already implemented the described keyword strategy.
Keyword Strategy Overview:
- Create a list of related keywords to target using Micro Niche Finder (aff link)
- Create a category for each keyword
- Create a tag for each keyword
- Write a pillar article for each keyword, using it as the title (no variations)
- Write supporting articles for each keyword (keyword used with variations)
- Link the supporting articles to the pillar articles using a plugin such as KB Linker
The next step: Backlinking for Bloggers.
One of the first things bloggers learn when starting out, is to get backlinks by commenting on other people’s blogs. Particularly with the help of plugins like Commenluv, this is an extremely effective approach with a bonus of being a great way to meet fellow bloggers. Since I know you all know this already, I won’t go into detail about it, and instead will focus on more advanced tactics.
Backlinking Tactic #1: Create your own link love using Twitter
Since every Blogger on the planet uses Twitter (and if you’re not, oi- START NOW) we’ll start here. Twitter is an easy, almost overly useful SEO opportunity. First, start by adding the Twitter Tools plugin by Alex King. Don’t use the tiny url co-plugin that now comes with this. We don’t want to tinyurl the tweets and hide the keywords we’ve so carefully used to name our blog posts. Alex has done a great job simplifying this setup, so just make sure yours is set to automatically tweet blog posts when they are published.
Once you’ve tested and are sure blog posts are showing on your specified Twitter account…
- Set up a facebook account where you’d like your posts to show. I opt to keep my blog posts on a specified fan or business page rather than on my personal fb page but this really depends on your own needs. Using a twitter app (I use Smart Twitter) link your fb and twitter accounts. Remember to test and make sure your tweeted blog posts are showing when you hit that magic publish button.
- Set up a Yahoo profile page (also, personal or one specifically for your site if appropriate.) Link your twitter account here so your twitter feed shows in the profile.
- Do this for as many sites as you would like. The more the better. FriendFeed is the most popular for this. Last I heard, FriendFeed was still “no follow” but we don’t care about that since the url’s will be showing “non tiny” and [BLOGGING TIP:] Google reads urls. (Google is so clever.)
I’ll list more of these sites at the bottom of this post, but feel free to share more in your comments.
For sites that don’t offer an automated Twitter-connect, grab your Twitter RSS and feed that to pages. Many will offer an easy option to add your RSS url. For those that don’t, if they happen to allow html, add your feed using a snippet that displays your RSS. For example, I use autoblogger (aff link) to publish one of a feed from my forums to a separate blog I also own. Not only does this drive traffic to the ad-monetized forums, but the feed pages actually rank higher than the forum pages because of the added SEO features wordpress offers. This works great for RSS exchange too; if you’ve got a blogging buddy with a similar site, you can use autoblogger to post to a specific category on their blog, automatically giving you backlinks for every post you publish and vice versa.
There are dozens of other ways to utilize this tactic but you get the idea. As you can see, using feeds and aggregators can really cut back your efforts of having to go around and place a link on sites individually. Ultimately, you can set this up so you are getting hundreds of keyword rich backlinks for every post you publish, and without an ounce of extra work. Here’s to blogging smarter, and not harder.
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Try this on any of the following: Facebook, Yahoo, MySpace, WordPress, LiveJournal, Blogger, FeedBurner (duh, right?) blogger (you can actually do this from just about any hosted blog site), Friendster, LinkedIn, bebo, hi5, msn live…
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Thanks for the great tips. I can’t wait to start putting some of them to use, especially the tips on using reviews to attract links. People are starving for experts to filter out some of the noise on the web, so if you can convince them you know about a particular subject, they will listen and tell others, as well.
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This must be good tips. I am already used some of these tips and its works. But main feature where is the second part i am just looking for it. Please post it as quick as you can.
Thanks….
It may be especially beneficial to include links in the first few paragraphs of a post, as some bloggers have reported highly increased click-through rates from RSS readers with links high in the content,
Brad, I’ve not tried that, although I think it might be highly effective. It just depends… some people tune out graphics that look like ads and yet seek out text links.
Brian, have you tested putting your cornerstone content into graphic ads vs. the links you have now? I have some cornerstone content I need to post and thought if graphics work better than links I’d start with graphics first.
Thanks Jeni. As someone new to SEO, especially backlinking, I found your article immensely helpful. I must say that I have read a ton of SEO articles before this but found yours to be well above the ordinary. Keep up the good work please!
In my last post, I covered my “Blogging Keyword Strategy.” If you missed it, here’s a quick overview,
Very interesting post. It couldn’t have come at a better time too. I have just recently “persuaded” my manager (SEO Dept Head) to allow me to implement a blog into our sites.
Those are helpful tips my friend. But I wonder how great the impact is in writing as guest with same niche with you.
Wher3 have you gone?
Brian, have you tested putting your cornerstone content into graphic ads vs. the links you have now? I have some cornerstone content I need to post and thought if graphics work better than links I’d start with graphics first.
There are millions of websites out there. Each craves to be found. Each yearns for top search engine rankings. But only a few reach the first page.
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Part one was pretty good, hoping you will come back to do more strategies, I think we could all benefit a great deal from it
Till then,
Jean
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I hope you do the same thing. I hope for more good things will happen:)
This is naturally the post that everyone must read on and nurture the young minds with it.
These are the issues that I’ve just been struggling myself. Thanks for all the pointers! You really need to get the vision and organization done before you start the blog and keep it going.
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This is a great first part of a series, cant wait to read more of it.
Hi! Thanks for this great sharing with have nice info.I think that The first thing to do is to ensure that your blogs URL contains the primary keyword you want to optimize for. Using the targeted keyword in subdomains also helps……
I think this is a great idea of Leveraging Twitter for getting more backlinks. Thanks a lot bro
I have been experimenting with longtails keywords for a while. I generally concentrate on one or two strong longtails and several small keywords and I have had good success. Recently one of my longtails is sending me a lot of traffic. I noticed it went from page 3 of the search engines to page 1 in several hours after posting.
A lot of people ask how i do my hair up and stuff, so i just thought perhaps i could start a blog with all the little tips and tricks i have picked up
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I think they key was 1) knowing the niche we were going to fill and 2) not being afraid to promote the site to listservs, other websites, etc.
This is a great first part of a series, cant wait to read more of it.
Very interesting post. It couldn’t have come at a better time too. I have just recently “persuaded” my manager (SEO Dept Head) to allow me to implement a blog into our sites. Thanks.
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Very useful insights indeed! Excellent posts and ideas to share.
Great tips!
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Good stuff as alway, guys. Link bait is important and the message you send in your article, press release, or other web content needs to be “linkable” and “link worthy”.
Getting links to your site is very like building good old fashioned publicity.
I’ll get some cupcakes ready.
I am looking for this tip and found this on your blog. Thank you. I hope you will cover about editing layout structure of blogspot to make it more SEO friendly.
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I really enjoyed the points that you brought up about blogging. However, if you don’t really enjoy the subject that you are blogging on the blogging is a real chore.
Great blog, I am new to blogging and am reading up on seo for my business, so i hope to be a regular here
Awesome post Jeni
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Hi congratulations for great sharing all is really very fantastic thanks for it.
Nice tips man…that’s what i do !
first make sure that the way you set your blog up puts the title of your post in the ‘title tags’ on the back end of your blog. This is really important.
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Good thoughts here. I’ve seen, for example, very little traffic from the hundreds of backlinking comments I’ve left at other blogs. But I have seen a great benefit in terms of human connection.
I think that here a good platform for seo tips for blogger.I think that The first thing to do is to ensure that your blogs URL contains the primary keyword you want to optimize for. Using the targeted keyword in subdomains also helps.
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Analyse your existing links and try and improve on the relevance and ‘anchor text’ for these links. i.e. It is better to have a link using your keywords as the link text than something like “click here”..
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Very interesting post. It couldn’t have come at a better time too. I have just recently “persuaded” my manager (SEO Dept Head) to allow me to implement a blog into our sites.
I think tips are very useful as they are also new for some bloggers who really try to do somthing new. I think set up facebook account for the posts and making yahoo profile are really nice ways for promoting your blog posts.
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Great tips. Sometimes we need to be reminded of things we once forgot.
This should be good tips. I’m already familiar with some tips and work. A main feature in the second part, but I’m just looking. You can put quick as possible please.
S C O tips for blogger its a great article .Thanks for good information.I hope in future we find some more useful info.
I love to read such type of informative post. This must be good tips. I am already used some of these tips and its works. But main feature where is the second part i am just looking for it. Please post it as quick as you can.
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The first thing to do is to ensure that your blogs URL contains the primary keyword you want to optimize for.thanks..
I also think that having nice thoughts/comments on other weblogs can bring a lot of people to you website. Because they think you are a person that can be trusted and know a lot.
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