Ways to optimize your blogs, SEO…(part 1)

There are so many ways to increase your online presence this will also help you to rank good on search engines. Online presence is also important if case you got own website and offering some services or products this will make people to easily search you on search engines and to know you better. Nowadays, There are so many ways of doing this, increasing their online presence and one common way done by almost everybody even others are not aware of it is that by doing blogs help them to achieve this.

But just writing blogs is not enough to easily climb up the rank you want most of all if you are doing Internet marketing. Many of people doing blogs don’t take action essential to optimize their blogs for both readers and search engines. Blogs can be created as business related or either it can be personal where you tackle everything under the sun even simple things or topics you can talk it here. Either your blog is business or personal, you should make sure that you are optimizing your blog for both your readers and the search engines. Nevertheless optimization can be an important step so that many blogs seem to be skipping over even those that have a broad appeal to surfers can have the potential to be on the rank they wanted.

Nonetheless, to optimize a blog is a bit different than your standard website search engine optimization, It is because most blogs run off standard blog platforms, or worse, run as a hosted blog on someone else’s domain name. It will also depends on the issues you discuss and talk on your content of the blogs you make to make people read and open your blog and gain much impact on your rankings.

Here are some advices on how you can optimize your blog for both users and search engines without alienating one or the other.

1. Dump the default template- looks counts! 

You can use and get service of some professional to create a unique look for your blog or you can take advantage of some of the free templates available and customize it a bit with a unique logo or a slight color upgrade.

2. No to bad color schemes 

When choosing a color scheme don’t just chose it according to your preference but you should consider what your readers will be expecting. There are colors that would only look perfect on a teenage gossip site but would be extremely out of place as the corporate blog for a men’s suit company. You should experiment with colors to find a good mix for your blog, keep in mind user preference and their expectation.

3. RSS me! 

Make sure that you have RSS available. Some hosting blogging solutions don’t have it so you need to add RSS. And when you got it already make sure that you have RSS links in an obvious spot and that one user can easily notice it. Place all those handy subscribe links in your sidebar which where people can look easily for them