How to Do Your Own SEO For Your Blog or Website
These days, everyone has a blog or website. Wouldn't we all love to have a top ranking when it comes to Google and other Internet search engines? If you own a website called "Grandma's Apple Pie," it would behoove you to rank as highly as possible for the keywords "apple pie." The question is, how do you improve your search engine optimization? You can pay a fortune to get an SEO specialist to try to boost your rankings, or you can do a little SEO yourself.
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Use keywords. Place your target keywords throughout the body of your text on your blog or website. It is a good idea to have 6 keywords for every 100 words, or a 6 percent keyword ratio. Make sure all keywords that you want the search engines to rank appear somewhere on your website.
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Trade links. Find other people online who are looking to trade links. The more links pointing to your website, the higher your ranking will be in the search engines. Always use anchored text links, which attach URLs to actual words on your web page. Use your target keywords as the text and use your homepage as the link. You can start with colleagues whose websites provide related services or even find aggregate websites created specifically for people who want to trade links.
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Buy inbound links. There is one kind of link that will really boost your search engine rankings: a one-way inbound link from a website that has a higher Google ranking. Google ranks websites using a 0-to-10 page ranking, with a 10 as the top rank. Typically, if you can get inbound links from a site ranked between 3 and 5 you may get a boost in rankings. Programs like LinkVana and 1WayLinks let you buy inbound links. You pay these programs to have articles created and posted on other websites and blogs. These articles link to your website in the body of the text.
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