Although optimizing your blog’s content for search engines seems to be a more attractive way to improve its SEO since it is under your complete control, backlinks are the backbone to your websites’ SEO success. While it is true that you have limited control over backlinks, they not only help you to bring in traffic but also help you out tremendously with your Google page rank. More so than custom tailoring your content.
This is somewhat of a technique I accidentally came upon and would like to share it with you. I have another blog called Informant Zone where I write reviews on the latest cars that interest me as well as post any useful automotive resources that I find. After a while of writing reviews with many photos, I started to notice in my analytics that a lot of my traffic was coming in via the search results of my images.
As you all know, posting useful comments on other bloggers’ blogs helps you to increase the number of backlinks to your website increasing your sites’ search engine visibility. Commenting on .Edu blogs are particularly helpful since University students are always researching and on the lookout for good reading material.
Wordpress has many features that take a while to learn and become familiar with. One of these features is the ability to alter your URL’s suffix. Unfortunately, the default suffix is not optimized for good search results and here is how to fix that.
When setting up your own blog there are several considerations to take into account if you have the intention of making money with it. Having your own well thought up domain name plays a large part in the popularity of your blog – not only with people but also with search engines.
