Once bloggers decide to rank their blogs for keywords, most will quickly rush to directories and grab some links. Link building helps a lot in blog SEO and get blog traffic for sure. However, if you are NOT doing well at ‘On-Blog’ Optimization, you are going to double or tripple your link building time and effort.
I’m serious…
I used to have a blog that rank on the second page of a keyword result. Once I changed some of the internal settings, it immediately drop to the fifth page.
Since the day I’ve learned the secret to optimize my blog for the search engines, ranking for keywords became really easy. Let’s discover these secrets.
Before start, please remember that this is on-blog optimization. Don’t over do it or else you’ll get your blog thrown into the ‘Google Jail’.
1. Do You Have Keywords In Your Domain Name?
Domain name will definitely give you lots of advantage in ranking. You can believe me on that because I’ve did keyword research for thousands of words. Everytime I do a competition analysis for keywords, I see sites with low page rank and little backlinks yet rank higher than other sites. One of my hobby is to discover why. Out of all these ‘unbelievable’ sites, most of them got that position because they have keywords in their domain name.
