Every blogger knows the importance of SEO in the field of blogging. How important optimization is to drive traffic to the blog and also to get indexed in the search results. The whole process involves a lot of daily tasks that are needed to performed on the daily basis. Here is a checklist of all such tasks, which you don’t want to miss out on any of them .
1. Using H1 H2 and H3 Tags
Make sure that all your important keywords and key phrases are in H1, H2 and H3 tags. These tags are identified by the search engines as the most important part of your article or in other words text in these tags tell the search engine’s robot, what the article is all about, so obviously you would love to stuff keywords/keyphrases in these tags.
2. Bold and Italic Tags
Well same goes with these tags, so do put in your keywords and key phrases in these tags as well. According to a research done by SeoMoz , Google gives slightly more priority to Italic tags than Bold tags, so in case you don’t want to irritate your readers with bold texts you can opt Italic tags.
3. Alt Attribute of Images
Images speak thousand words, but for search engine robots they don’t, until you have written something in the image’s Alt attribute, because that’s what tells the robot what the image is about. So do stuff the keywords in Alt attributes of all images that you use in the article.
4. Share on Social Media
First three steps are the processes of basic optimization and making your article SEO ready. But after that you need to promote your article as well. The best means of doing it is perhaps sharing your article on Social Media like Twitter, Facebook etc. If you have a strong network then your article is bound to get viral.
Do Read :-
- 7 Best Useful Social Media Tools To Increase Network
- Useful Tips To Use Twitter Effectively
- How to Increase Digg Followers? [Some Tips]
5. Article Submissions
Submit your article to sites like Digg, StumbleUpon, Delicious, Reddit etc. There are many article directories where you can submit your article and get it linked back to your blog like Ezine, ArticleBase etc. In my later posts I will come out with a list of such directories soon.
6. Commenting
Make it a habit of commenting to atleast 5 same niche blogs everyday. Look out for some do follow blogs and comment on them regularly. It helps in getting noticed by fellow bloggers and also by the reader community.
Well in case I have missed out on any of the points, feel free to add them via commenting
