This is the improved version of 11 Secrets To Optimize Your Blog For SEO. Hope you enjoy reading it. I’m going to edit this to make it look better.

1. Domain Name

Does the domain name of your blog have the keywords you are aiming for? If you have them in it, it will be very easy for your to rank high for that keyword. I’ve seen many websites who rank high for certain keywords with very little backlinks. These websites and blogs simply have the keywords in their domain name. If you don’t have keywords in your domain name, that’s not the end of the world because the next secret is as important as this.

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Ya, I know this is a very bold statement. I’m a blogger that loves white hat SEO. However, I realize that I’ve achieve very little success in SEO until a meet a guy.

Many months ago, I met up with a guy who is an expert in Black Hat SEO (sorry that I can’t mention his name). I enjoyed the conversation with him. From the conversation, I get to know that he has a PR7 site by applying the techniques and he no longer doing Black Hat SEO anymore.

I asked recommendations that helps me increase blog traffic too. He actually shared with me some useful Black Hat SEO Techniques. I don’t mean to scare you. All the techniques are extremely powerful.

After that meeting, this is what I think:

All bloggers should learn Black Hat SEO Techniques because White Hat Gurus only teaches you how to insert keywords, use meta tags and build links. Learn it to understand the fine line between the white and black. And, of course avoid getting penalized by Google. When I first started using SEO, my site got banned many times. I wasted money, time and effort that brings no results.

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