SEO Tips for Your Blog, Part 4

If you’re looking for ways to promote your blog and increase readership, it’s easy and inexpensive to incorporate a few SEO strategies so that more people can find you online. In yesterday’s post I talked about why high quality content is so important in SEO. Today I want to share a few natural link building tips that can expose more readers to your well written content.

Make no mistake; link building remains one of the best ways to increase traffic to your blog.. The search engines take notice when authority sites have links pointing to your blog.

It can take time to build those links naturally, but in the end they can also help get you where you want to be in the search engine results.

Commenting on Blogs

This is one of the easiest ways of creating natural back links. Visit other blogs in your industry and leave meaningful comments contributing to the post. When you sign up to leave a comment, you get to establish a link back to your blog. This makes it easy for others to visit your blog with just one click of the mouse.

Social Media Sites and Forums

Setting up profiles at social media sites like Facebook and Twitter are another easy way to build back links to your blog. When you include your url in your profile, visitors that land on your page can easily access your blog.

Industry and niche forums provide another back linking opportunity. Most forums allow members to include urls in their signature. Make sure the url is hyperlinked if possible. Whenever you engage in forum discussions, members and anyone else who comes across your comments will have access to your blog.

Guest Blog Posting

This is a great way to get some positive exposure for your blog. Start by choosing an authority blog in your industry or niche that you follow and contact the owner about submitting a guest blog post. If the owner agrees to your request, make sure to include a one or two line bio at the end of your post including your own blog’s url. A guest post gives you immediate access to a well-known blogger’s larger audience which could end up sending quite a bit of traffic your way.

Utilize Social Bookmarking Sites

Submitting an article or post to social bookmarking sites like StumbleUpon or Digg can expose your blog to thousands of visitors; especially if it makes the first page. Make sure you submit high quality content and ask several of your friends to tag it for you.

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