On our previous article we have discussed “Why SEO is Important for Your Blog”. In this article we will try to focus on 10 myths and uses of SEO which has the potential to get better your blogging skill as a whole. Focus on each one of them and you would get better results in coming days. Also if you consider that you know much about SEO, below points would help you to provide an additional perspective.
1. SEO is not a Hack
There are two types of SEO. One is White Hat SEO and another is Black Hat SEO. White Hat SEO is something which is accepted by search engines and they publish the guidelines for it also. Black Hat SEO mainly refers a way to cheat search engines. Through Black Hat SEO if you get caught there are huge penalties. Hence SEO (always White Hat in this article) is not a hack but accepted standard. If you able to master it then search engine would be much happy to present you at the top of the results.
2. Traffic
SEO has a potential to draw incredible traffic to your blog. Forget everything, if your pages are at top of search results you need not be concerned about other forms to get traffic. The chance to drive traffic is so huge that people have factually made huge bucks in short amount of time.
3. Search Engine Fodder
It is a term used when your articles are never found in top pages of search page and it seems that search engines has digested and forgotten about it. This is primarily due to contest of specific terms and implementation of poor SEO techniques. Keep in mind; if SEO is done in a right way, the article stands a chance to compete in top results irrespective of contest.
4. Make Straight Your Thinking
Once you start to think from SEO viewpoint, you start to approach an article in terms of keywords searched by users. This provides an interesting viewpoint from the angle of demand in the market. Once you identify the demand in the market, there is every reason to satisfy it by writing SEO enriched articles. Wordtracker, Overture, adwords etc. provide essential tools to help you get feel of the demand.
5. SEO Helps Generating Ideas
Once traffic starts driving to your blog, you can monitor the flow through sites like google analytics, hittail, mybloglog etc. The approaching into what people use in terms of keywords (short and long tail) at times helps you generate lots of ideas. Many times you would discover that title of your next post comes from terms searched by the user, something which you haven’t ever thinking of.
6. Competition
An insight into SEO would help you to look at contest from completely different viewpoint. Not only would you know what approach they are using but also what keywords are bringing them traffic. You would read their articles and would be in a comfortable position to understand their strategy. Moreover there are sites like Alexa, compete.com etc. which lists the keywords that brings them traffic. Once you have knowledge of this you can absolutely eat into their market share.
7. SEO Takes Little Time
SEO takes little time and is not all that difficult. It is a myth blogger have in their mind because no matter what they have heard till now is in terms of business websites and not blogs. Remember, business website needs a dedicated approach in one direction while in blog an approach changes with every post.
8. Validation
The derived results from SEO show up on your face. So if any blog post is not drawing traffic you have a chance to change it. While a minimum of about 4%-5% articles normally contribute to traffic in your blog through search engines but if you not reaching this figure than you should re-look at your SEO strategy. SEO helps to authenticate your efforts in terms of results that show up in form of traffic.
9. Check Mistakes
Every bit of incoming or no traffic provides you a chance to check errors. The steps in SEO can be changed time to time until you get your desired results. The effort spent in first few posts would make you educated enough not to commit the same mistake in following posts.
10. Helps You Grow
SEO has this strange habit to not only make you labor but also make wise with time. Soon you would discover that your way to move toward content and market has changed. You would uncover yourself more aligned to needs of your readers than fictitious thoughts in your mind. This is a crucial step which would help you gain an equitable entry into blogging world (the place which is full of competition).
Are you convinced now that SEO is must for your blog and at any time it should not be overlooked? You must be determined to work hard on it. You should always spend more time in one SEO oriented post than write plenty of posts. The logic – “Your content would be of no use if there are not enough people to welcome it.”
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Dag nabob good stuff you whippersnappers!
Nice Post Tanim.
The myths you have presented is all nice and well. Things you have put up to readers is well to appreciate and great one.
Hey, subtle must be your middle name. Great post!