Love your articles, although haven't yet figured out how to get readers truly motivated to action, more specically to make a donation, which is the intent of the above website blog submitted. This blog was written, not for myself, but for a friend and her cause, and I would like to load it as much as possible with "keyword strings," but unsure how to
approach it without being too "in your face." Would appreciate any suggestions and recommendations, should you find the time to review. Thank you.
Good article... we are trying the same approach and letting our blog build steam through keyword usage rather then strong direct promotion. Though we are also working to build some self-promoting advertorial units from our main site that slot in well below our paid advertisers.
excellent article, we have been thinking since last few months to do something like this..i guess your artilce has helped us make up our mind to launch a blog..
Way to go Rachelle. We have been doing this very successfully at http://winaresort.com/blog/blog
and are in fact about to open up a second blog.
Takes a lot of time and hard work, but nothing worth while ever came easy.
We don't have a blog yet but we do write lots of articles for our site www.SpottyGiftBoxes.co.uk and add news items.
The best piece of advice which you give - and it is something we do - is to start with the keywords. I usually choose two. First a high traffic keyword which we are targeting long term - even if it is competitive - and then secondly a less competitive keyword which has a lower amount of traffic. This helps to give us some almost instant results.
An example is our Christmas Hyacinth article which you can see if you go to the Spotty Boxes website, Children's Gardening and scroll to the bottom of the page.
We probably won't get any results from the Garden Gifts for Christmas until next year but are already picking up traffic from Christmas Hyacinth Bulbs.
We used Wordtracker setting up our keywords when we started our apartment marketing site for a complex we own in the U.S. The results using this combined with pay per click have been extraordinary - doubling applicants and leases. We immediately achieved clickthrough of over 2%.
Since that time, we've steadily increased the content on our website and increased clickthrough to mid to high 5%.
We now offer a service to other apartment / multifamily owners and managers using the same system at www.occupancy100.com. We also provide industry info focused on apartment marketing using the keyword info and aparment / multifamily issues in general at www.occupancy100.com/blog
We love your articles! We started a blog two months ago, but it hasn't been found in any search. We see it as a good way to advertise our agency, but we also see it as a good way for clients to see us as more than just a web site. When you want to increase your business worldwide, clients need to know you are a responsible business and that they can trust in you to provide the services that you advertise. After reading your article, we see that we really hadn't researched any keywords. We now know that what we want to say in our content must also have keywords to be seen. Thanks!
I have a question. If we would prefer to have a blog that isn't one of our web pages, but can be reached by clicking on a link on our web site, will that benefit our web site? We currently have a blog on blogspot.com, but no one has ever clicked on it. Should we continue to grow it, or is that a waste of time? We are just learning about this area of developing the Internet presence of our business. We want to learn as much as we can by reading such things as this article, then using what we learn. As I said, we are a little reluctant to put the actual blog on our site for fear it might detract from the focus of the actual website.
Thanks for any thoughts on this matter.
This information is great to have. We at insure4cheap.com begin to broaden our online presence. As the health insurance field is a broad one we hope to differentiate us from the others in our field.
The blog is an excellent idea as it will allow us to promote ourselves and really help people in the process. Thanks.
We use keywords research for articles section our websites. We found lot of good keywords start with 'how to'. And today, we generate significant amount of traffic to our clients' websites.
Tony: ideally you blog would be on your main site, linked o from and to your main site. If it is on a different site then do still link to and from it.
Great article and one that really explains more about the importance of keywords in a blog. I thought your article also helped to remind me about some simple things that I've not been incorporating in my blog (business) or have over the months overlooked. I do know that when I first started out with my blog I was more in tune with trying to "write a keyword rich blog". Thanks for the reminder and for the great tool that we can all use.
If any of you use Wordpress to blog, install the Platinum SEO Pack plug-in. (There might be similar plug-ins available for other makes of blog?) Platinum allows you to create a keyword-rich Title tag, but have a reader-friendly post title heading. It also allows you to define META Keywords and Description tags, as well as control the Index and Nofollow tags for each topic page. Remember that the TITLE tag is THE MOST IMPORTANT tag for your topic posts as far as keywords are concerned. And next most important is to link back from your blog to your website using the right keywords in your link. This tells Google and others what your web page is about, and reinforces the theme of your site.
Many website owners still don't realize how effective a Blog can be at bringing in traffic. I get over 50% of visitors from my Blog. And when you add good keywords it can be a really useful traffic builder.
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Love your articles, although haven't yet figured out how to get readers truly motivated to action, more specically to make a donation, which is the intent of the above website blog submitted. This blog was written, not for myself, but for a friend and her cause, and I would like to load it as much as possible with "keyword strings," but unsure how to approach it without being too "in your face." Would appreciate any suggestions and recommendations, should you find the time to review. Thank you.
Good article... we are trying the same approach and letting our blog build steam through keyword usage rather then strong direct promotion. Though we are also working to build some self-promoting advertorial units from our main site that slot in well below our paid advertisers.
excellent article, we have been thinking since last few months to do something like this..i guess your artilce has helped us make up our mind to launch a blog..
wow
Way to go Rachelle. We have been doing this very successfully at http://winaresort.com/blog/blog and are in fact about to open up a second blog. Takes a lot of time and hard work, but nothing worth while ever came easy.
Fascinating read.
We don't have a blog yet but we do write lots of articles for our site www.SpottyGiftBoxes.co.uk and add news items.
The best piece of advice which you give - and it is something we do - is to start with the keywords. I usually choose two. First a high traffic keyword which we are targeting long term - even if it is competitive - and then secondly a less competitive keyword which has a lower amount of traffic. This helps to give us some almost instant results.
An example is our Christmas Hyacinth article which you can see if you go to the Spotty Boxes website, Children's Gardening and scroll to the bottom of the page.
We probably won't get any results from the Garden Gifts for Christmas until next year but are already picking up traffic from Christmas Hyacinth Bulbs.
Next stop for us - a blog!
Thanks for the advice.
We used Wordtracker setting up our keywords when we started our apartment marketing site for a complex we own in the U.S. The results using this combined with pay per click have been extraordinary - doubling applicants and leases. We immediately achieved clickthrough of over 2%.
Since that time, we've steadily increased the content on our website and increased clickthrough to mid to high 5%.
We now offer a service to other apartment / multifamily owners and managers using the same system at www.occupancy100.com. We also provide industry info focused on apartment marketing using the keyword info and aparment / multifamily issues in general at www.occupancy100.com/blog
The Apartment Guy www.occupancy100.com
We love your articles! We started a blog two months ago, but it hasn't been found in any search. We see it as a good way to advertise our agency, but we also see it as a good way for clients to see us as more than just a web site. When you want to increase your business worldwide, clients need to know you are a responsible business and that they can trust in you to provide the services that you advertise. After reading your article, we see that we really hadn't researched any keywords. We now know that what we want to say in our content must also have keywords to be seen. Thanks!
I have a question. If we would prefer to have a blog that isn't one of our web pages, but can be reached by clicking on a link on our web site, will that benefit our web site? We currently have a blog on blogspot.com, but no one has ever clicked on it. Should we continue to grow it, or is that a waste of time? We are just learning about this area of developing the Internet presence of our business. We want to learn as much as we can by reading such things as this article, then using what we learn. As I said, we are a little reluctant to put the actual blog on our site for fear it might detract from the focus of the actual website. Thanks for any thoughts on this matter.
This information is great to have. We at insure4cheap.com begin to broaden our online presence. As the health insurance field is a broad one we hope to differentiate us from the others in our field.
The blog is an excellent idea as it will allow us to promote ourselves and really help people in the process. Thanks.
Excellent article!
We use keywords research for articles section our websites. We found lot of good keywords start with 'how to'. And today, we generate significant amount of traffic to our clients' websites.
Tony: ideally you blog would be on your main site, linked o from and to your main site. If it is on a different site then do still link to and from it.
This article is a great learning tool and guide line to all who read and absorb!! Mark
www.highheeledart.blogspot.com
You've convinced me after months without any ideas on what to write on a blog.thanks
i am so glad to have like this..hope they can help me to start it..
As always your article helped me understand how wordtracker works. I hope this also works for my website. Thanks a bunch Rachelle!
Great article and one that really explains more about the importance of keywords in a blog. I thought your article also helped to remind me about some simple things that I've not been incorporating in my blog (business) or have over the months overlooked. I do know that when I first started out with my blog I was more in tune with trying to "write a keyword rich blog". Thanks for the reminder and for the great tool that we can all use.
If any of you use Wordpress to blog, install the Platinum SEO Pack plug-in. (There might be similar plug-ins available for other makes of blog?) Platinum allows you to create a keyword-rich Title tag, but have a reader-friendly post title heading. It also allows you to define META Keywords and Description tags, as well as control the Index and Nofollow tags for each topic page. Remember that the TITLE tag is THE MOST IMPORTANT tag for your topic posts as far as keywords are concerned. And next most important is to link back from your blog to your website using the right keywords in your link. This tells Google and others what your web page is about, and reinforces the theme of your site.
Many website owners still don't realize how effective a Blog can be at bringing in traffic. I get over 50% of visitors from my Blog. And when you add good keywords it can be a really useful traffic builder.
Great article and really good advice, especially as I am in this field. I already use wordtracker but will use the questions side more from now on