There are numerous ways out there for Search Engine Optimization (SEO), and they too take some time. The methods and techniques used for SEO are often changing. Using and implementing the below discussed methods you will see an instant grow in your blog's traffic. Just spend your 1 minute to use these methods to increase your chances of having a better SEO.

Writing SEO friendly Blog Posts

 Write Long Posts so they may Rank in Keyword Searches

Neither write too short blog posts nor write an extra long post. Always try to write a blog post with at least 300 words, this is a perfect length for your posts at it gives you a chance to add all your desired keywords plus helping the search engines to collect enough keywords relating to your blog posts and displaying it.


Adding Internal and External links

Adding internal and external links to your blog posts whenever possiable and neccessay is a good idea, as it tells the search engine that your blog is related to high quality websites. 
Suppose if you are giving the example of Wikipedia, adding a link of it is a good idea. Remember, don't add too many links as it may be flagged as spam.


Using keywords in your Title

Adding keywords to your post title is one of the top way to boost traffic of your blog. Title is the first thing that tells the user about the post is all about. So, always try to keep your post title close to your blog post, try to use simple English words that users generally search for on the search engines.


Using keywords in your Posts

Using main keywords in to the body of your blog posts is a good idea and helps the search engine to index your website. Try to use the keywords in the first paragraph of your post itself, always make sure that the use of keywords in the posts is not too much. Don't spam it with your keywords.

What is Black Hat SEO?
According to the Search Engine Optimization (SEO) terminology, Black Hat SEO refers to the tactics, methods and ways which are against the search engine rules, moreover they only focus on search engines rather than human audience. Black Hat SEO can also be called as Unethical SEO, as it works on the methods which are banned or not accepted by the search engines.

Black Hat SEO

Black Hat SEO Techniques

Hidden Text
Hidden text are the texts which are of the same color as the background, or very similar to it. Webmaster places large number of hidden texts with the hope that search engines will read and treat them relevant.

Interlinking
It is a black hat method where the webmaster builds number of websites and links them together to build the overall link popularity. It becomes difficult to detect it when it is done and implement in the 'correct' manner.

Doorway Pages
Doorway pages are added to the website with the intention and with the purpose to target a specific keyword phase or phases. These pages provide no information, they are solely added to promote the phase and once the visitor lands on these doorway pages, 99% chances are there that he will go to the homepage and will continue from there. 

Cloaking
It is a method where different information is shown to the search engine than a human visitor would see.
Wikipedia defines Cloaking as "A search engine optimization (SEO) technique in which the content presented to the search engine spider is different from that presented to the user's browser. This is done by delivering content based on the IP addresses or the User-Agent HTTP header of the user requesting the page. When a user is identified as a search engine spider, a server-side script delivers a different version of the web page, one that contains content not present on the visible page, or that is present but not searchable. The purpose of cloaking is sometimes to deceive search engines so they display the page when it would not otherwise be displayed."

Top 5 SEO Mistakes

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is a must for every blog to be successful. So, in order to get your blog on the top of the list, SEO should be implemented in a right manner. Over the years, SEO has changed alot.
Basically Google uses an algorithm to index websites on the search result based on multiple factors which keeps on changing time to time.

In this post, I will be discussing some of the most common SEO mistakes made by the bloggers and which should strictly be avoided



Copy-Paste a.k.a. Duplicate Content.

This is the most common mistakes made by the newbies, what they do is open a blog, copy the whole article and paste it onto their blog and then they expect traffic through their copy paste posts. Google will consider is as duplicate content which will badly effect your blog/website. Google wants 'value' content, and for Google the definition of 'value' content is that, the content should be 'unique' and original.
So be unique and post original content. Remember, never underestimate the power of Google ;)


Don't sacrific the content of the blog for design.

Many bloggers don't bother about the quality of posts they are posting on their blogs. They just work hard on adding fancy widgets and customizing their blog template. Some of you might think, if the blog is not properly designed, the visitors won' get attracted to the blog, but this thinking is WRONG. I know the blog template, design etc. matters but the content of the post is more important or I must say the most important. 
The design of your blog is not the factor for which Google indexes your blog in it's search result, the factor for which your blog gets indexed is your blog's content which you are posting. So keep your focus more on the quality of blog posts rather than template and all.


Writing little content

It is another mistake made by bloggers, by posting little content under their blog posts. More content means more keywords relating to your post, and more keywords means It will be easy for Google to index your website, and once your blog has been indexed you'll traffic.


Spamming of backlinks

It is a common misconception that more backlinks are ALWAYS better. Spamming of backlinks could force google to block your blog. What you need is quality backlinks. Making backlinks on blogs with PR 0 or 1 won't help you. Search for blogs which have high PR, do a link exchange with them. If you don't have a blog with PR, make guest posts on high PR blogs, because they won't accept your backlink but will accept your guest post.


Lack of maintenance

If you want to be a successful blogger then you need to update your blog on daily basics. Just writing few posts and expecting huge traffic won't work. If you want to drive huge amount of traffic then you need to make frequent posts on your blog, at least 4 posts a week, and should keep your blog updated.

Any doubts? Comment below !

Comments section of a blog is a place where the readers share their thoughts and views about the blog or the blog post, it is also a place which a blog admin can use to build trust relationship with its blog readers. Comments are the easiest way to get feedback from your blog readers and visitors.

But, unfortunately the default commenting system provided by blogspot isn't very good and useful. The main and the most irritating problem with it is of Anonymous Commenting, It is the only reasons which plays a vital role in increase of spammers and trollers. CAPTCHA Verification is also an annoying feature :/

So in this post I will be discussing about Top 3rd Party Commenting Systems which you can install on your blogspot blog. 

DISQUS
So the first 3rd party commenting system in our list is DISQUS, pronounced as "Discuss" is a service used for commenting and online discussions. It can easily be added to your blog or website. It makes commenting really very easy and interactive. It is the most widely used commenting system among the bloggers. According to the survey 75% of the websites using 3rd party commenting system are powered by DISQUS.

DISQUS

Increases the readership.

Helps to drive traffic to your blog.

Easily filters spammers and trollers.

Can easily be monitored through mobile or e-mail.

SEO friendly.

People can like or dislike the comments or page.

Supports media attachment. 

Social Media Tips for Bloggers

These days the craze for blogging and earning online is on peak among teens, so when it comes to earning via blogging, you need traffic on which your online income mainly depends on. 

So, the best way to generate and drive huge amount of traffic to your blog is Social Media or simply you can say to make use of social websites like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, StumbleUpon, Digg etc. to share your blog posts to drive traffic and get visitors on your blog. These websites gives bloggers the opportunities to attract readers.

So here in this post, I will discuss some tips and tricks to use Social Media to get the best out of your blog.


Start a Facebook Fan page for your blog

This is an easy and effective way to create a huge database of visitors, use social plugin by Facebook. The more likes you get on your page, chances to get more traffic increases. The main advantage of using the plugin is that every time you make a post on your blog, it automatically gets posted on your blog fan page therefore bring visitors.

Social Media Share Buttons

Add Social Media share buttons on your blog

Adding the social share buttons helps the visitors to share your blog post on different social media platforms if they find it interesting which ultimately helps you to get more hits on your blog.


Join different blogger groups on facebook

This is also a great way to drive traffic to your blog. Share your blog post links in the group, and share the links of other fellow bloggers too, chances are high that they will share blog post link too. Take part in discussions with other bloggers, this will help you to make your online presence more stronger.


Say bye to default commenting system by BlogSpot

Make use of social powered commenting system like Disqus or IntenseDebate, they help in driving traffic.


Share your blog posts on different social media websites

Sharing your blog posts on different social media platforms helps you a lot to bring huge amount of visitors on to your and making your online appearance more stronger and it can prove a great way to advertise your blog free of cost.


Other Tips

Ask your blog readers to subscribe to your RSS feed.

Be creative and write unique content which forces the user to share your post.

Embed youtube videos which are relevant to your post onto your blog.

Whenever someone starts or plans to start a blog, the first thing that he or she wants is blog visitors. Although it is a difficult task to bring traffic to a newly created blog, so I will be sharing some tips that will be beneficial for your blog. The reason for which most of the bloggers leave their blogging career is because they lack in knowledge, they are not aware about the tips and tricks used to drive traffic, so they give up easily. Following are the tips which are really very easy to implement, therefore will drive huge traffic to your blog. So let's start.

Make the best use of Social Media                

The use of social media and social sharing plays a great role in bringing traffic to your blog. Almost every internet user uses some kind of social media like Facebook, Twitter, Google+ etc. So making the best use of these social media websites by sharing your blog posts on then can help you to get a huge amount of traffic and on the other hand it also helps to improve your social appearance at large.

Guest Posts                                                    

Writing guest posts and allowing guest posts on your blog is also a necessary step to bring traffic to your blog, as it helps you to advertise your blog. Select a blog of your niche, write a guest post on it, it will help you to get more visitors on your blog and on the other hand giving your blog more exposure.

Blog Commenting                                                      
This is one of the best and oldest trick used by the bloggers to generate huge traffic on their blogs. By commenting, other visitors and the owner of the blog gets to know about you and your blog and there are 95% chances that they will visit your blog. 

Blogging on Daily Basics                                     

Making a blog post contently and on daily basics help you to get a high rank on the search engines thus proving you with more visitors. People and Search Engines loves the blog which are updated on regular basics. 

SEO ~ The Main key                                             

It is the most important step to make your blog a big hit and drive a huge amount of traffic. There are many other ways to drive traffic, but SEO is the most important among all. Search Engine Optimization is necessary for each and every blog. Some SEO optimization are listed below:

Creating Backlinks

Use of Metadata and Description

Using keywords in the Title of your blog post

Using keyword in URL

For more SEO tips, refer to the following posts:
How to Optimize your Blog Post for Better Traffic
How To Make SEO Friendly Images in Blogger


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What is Alexa?

According to Alexa.com it is an "web information directory" which ranks blogs and other websites, depending upon the traffic and other factors. Alexa ranking plays an important role when it comes to making money online, as for example when you want to earn via posting reviews on your blog, they consider your Alexa ranking first. Having a good Alexa rank can help you to earn ;)



Use Alexa Widget On Your Blog
Alexa counts only those websites which come under their watch, so installing an Alexa widgets effects the ranking of your blog/website

Giving a Backlink to Alexa
Link back to Alexa by writing about it and making posts on your blog.

Keep Updating Your Blog
Frequently writing posts on your blog greatly affects the way Alexa ranks your blog/website. If you update your blog frequently you'll get a better ranking, because once your Alexa ranking goes down, its hard to bring it back.

Posting Quality Content
This factor also effects the ranking of your blog, posting quality and unique content helps you to get a good Alexa ranking.

Sharing Your Blog Posts
Share your blog posts on social networking websites like Facebook, Digg, Stumbleupon, Twitter etc. They not only bring huge amount of traffic to your blog, but also plays a vital role in increasing your Alexa ranking.


Also Check : How to Optimize your Blog Post for Better Traffic