Nigerian Bloggers, What You Should Know About SEO

When I started blogging a year ago, I wonder as well what SEO really meant and I really wish I did before blogging at first. Several people out there who want to start blogging and may not actually know what SEO means, this article is for you. My advice would be know SEO first, it will help in choosing the niche you desire and how you can grow quickly.

Today I will be sharing the meaning of SEO and the 10 most useful benefits of SEO.

SEO stands for “search engine optimization.” It is the process of getting traffic from the “free,” “organic,” “editorial” or “natural” listings on search engines. All major search engines such as Google, Yahoo and Bing have such results, where web pages and other content such as videos or local listings are shown and ranked based on what the search engine considers most relevant to users. Payment isn’t involved.

NOTE: Just to inform you, do not let some people decieved you that they can make your website ranked well on first page in just one month. Search engine optimization takes time and is a continous practices.

Let me share the 10 of the most useful benefits of blogging for search engine optimisation that a blogger should aim at!

1. It can create #1 search rankings for odd phrases we have not considered
2.  It allows traffic from social networks such as Twitter, Facebook
3.  A blog is ideal for long tail search terms and long tail rankings
4.  The category features of a blog allow the aggregation of content according to themes. This makes it easier for search engines to understand your content and consequently rank you well.
5. They usually have uncomplicated URL structure, making it fairly easy for search engine spiders to find and crawl blog content.
6. Blogs that post product or service related information can deep link anchor text to product information or purchase pages deep within the web site.
7.  Links to RSS feed URLs that use the blog domain name will help in building link popularity and increase traffic.
8. Fresh content is rewarded by search engines! That means your site will be crawled more often by search engines and your content will be seen as having a higher quality as well
9. Comments and trackback in blogs encourage interaction. 
10.  Blogs allow you to generate substantial amounts of traffic via RSS and links.

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