A lot of marketers and business online have been using blog as a prime media for sharing ideas, or buzz traffic to websites.If you have a blog and no traffic or do not have anyone visited your blog than no one know about you.Here are four steps you can optimize your blog into search engine optimization and you can easily increase the traffic to your blog by following:

1. Create a blog articles and make sure they are Search Engine Optimized (SEO) or at least search engine compliant. This means adding in Keywords into the Meta Tags for your blog and by writing content rich articles that leave the HTML links.

2. Submit Your blog articles to other blog sites and article sharing websites like zineArticles.com. You will need to make sure your articles conform to their rules, but they will share your article with their high-traffic visitors and you can include a link to your blog in the Resource section of the article.

3. Get your blog blog indexed by search engine! This means having your blog “pinged” and “crawled” by sites that index blog websites. Here are some recommended free Blog Index and Ping sites:

* Blog Digger
* Zimbio
* Ping My Blog
* Ping-o-Matic

Make sure you Register with blog search engines and check your rating on these engines. This will let you try different meta tags and blog postings and get your blog articles listed as high in search result ranking as possible.  Here are some recommended Blog Search Engines:

* Zopto
* Blog Runner
* IceRocket
* Blog Digger

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If you like to jump start by getting google to index your site fast here are few tips you can do

1.Link to social bookmarking site

JumpTags.com, Reddit.com, Shoutwire.com and etc….

2.Link to Classified site

Craigslist.org, USFreeads.com, and Backpages.com

3.Using Web2 site

squidoo.com,hubpages.com and not forgetting blogger too

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When you are doing your keyword research is the good rule of thumb to choose keywords that are frequently searched for and are in high demand, but not being used by to many other websites and competitors. Keyword research can be broken down into a three step process.The first step is the discovery phase. In this step you want to focus on identifying as many keywords or phrases as possible.

Initially you need to sit down and make a list of keyword/keyword phrases that describe the topic of your website. You can do this by jotting down, descriptive words that come to mind, and by using your dictionary. At this point include every word or phrase that you can think of.There are several keyword tools that are available to help you generate a keyword list. This makes the job much easier. Some of these tools are free, like Goodkeywords.com and the Google Adwords Tool while others like Wordtracker.com are fee based. With these tools you will be able to generate hundreds of keywordphrases quickly and easily.

I prefer the Google Keyword Tool. It generates potential keywords for your ad campaign and reports statistics, including search performance, seasonal trends  and the best part is it′s free. https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal

It has some very useful features that include:

- Sorting the results of your desired keyword search by   popularity, past performance history within the AdWords system,   cost, and predicted ad position.

- Easy keyword manipulation where you can select a few   keywords here and there or add them all at once.

- Searches for keywords present even in any webpage URL  specified by your search. It can also expand your keyword search   even further to include those pages that are linked to or from the   original URL page.

- More keyword results are generated based on regularly   updated usage statistics database. This helps you to get new   keywords or phrases.

It also provides you with tips on how to use the tool to get the best results, so that you can easily narrow down your final selection of keyword phases.Of course there are many more options available besides the Google Keyword Tool.Below is a quick list of some that you can try out.

Word tracker
http://freekeywords.wordtracker.com

SEO Book Keyword Suggestion Tool
http://tools.seobook.com/keyword-tools/seobook

Good Keywords
http://www.Goodkeywords.com

Self SEO
http://www.selfseo.com/keyword_suggestion_tool.php

Keyword Discovery
http://www.keyworddiscovery.com/search.html

Global Promoter
http://www.globalpromoter.com/seo-tools/keyword-suggestion-
tool.cfm

Rapid Keyword – software with a free trial
http://www.rapidkeyword.com/

And that is just a few. Ultimately, which tool you decide to use is completely up to you. There are many available. I recommend testing out a few before you make your final decision to find one that works best for you

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Keyword density is an indicator of the number of times the selected keyword appears  on a web page. But mind you, keywords shouldn’t be over used, but should be just sufficient enough to appear at important places.

If you repeat your keywords with every other word on every line, then your site will probably be rejected as an artificial site or spam site. Keyword density is always expressed as a percentage of the total word content on a given web page.Suppose you have 100 words on your webpage (not including HMTL code used for writing the web page), and you use a certain keyword for five times in the content. The keyword density on that page is got by simply dividing the total number of keywords, by the total number of words that appear on your web page. So here it is 5 divided by 100 = .05. Because keyword density is a percentage of the total word count on the page, multiply the above by 100, that is 0.05 x 100 = 5%

The accepted standard for a keyword density is between 3% and 5%, to get recognized by the search engines and you should never exceed it. Remember, that this rule applies to every page on your site.It also applies to not just to one keyword but also a set of keywords that relates to a different product or service. The keyword density should always be between 3% and 5%.here are some simple steps to check the density:

- Copy and paste the content from an individual web page into a word-processing software program like Word or Word Perfect.

- Go to the ‘Edit’ menu and click ‘Select All’. Now go to the ‘Tools’ menu and select ‘Word Count’. Write down the total   number of words in the page.

- Now select the ‘Find’ function on the ‘Edit’ menu. Go to the ‘Replace’ tab and type in the keyword you want to find. ‘Replace’ that word with the same word, so you don’t change the text.

- When you complete the replace function, the system will provide a count of the words you replaced. That gives the number of times you have used the keyword in that page.

- Using the total word count for the page and the total number of keywords you can now calculate the keyword density.

To achieve the best results it is important to have the first 250words of your copy be  keyword rich.A good tip is to write your content first, then choose your keywordsand/or keyword phrases from the content. Rewrite your content as needed, adding keywords and/or keyword phrases that pertain to the theme of the content. This way, you’ve chosen keywords and/or keyword phrases that are relevant to your content, instead of trying to write content to fit your keywords and/or keyword phrases.

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The search engines can play a very important role in the success of your business. They can also provide you with unlimited amounts of free traffic and visitors. Recent studies have shown that the average shopper will go to the search engine and do a search before deciding whether or not they want to make a purchase

When they perform that search the search engine will sift through the millions of pages it has indexed about and present them with ones that match their requests. The matches are ranked so that the most relevant ones come first.It is also good to keep in mind that your prospective customer will probably only look at the first page of listings in the search results. So it does matter where your website appears in the search engine ranking.Statistics show that most people use one of the top 6-7 search engines and these search engines attract more visitors to websites than anything else.

When your businesses competing with hundreds if not thousands of other businesses for the top spot it makes it easy to understand why search engines are so important to the success of  your  business. It all depends on which search engines the customers use and how they rank your site.  It is the keywords and phrases that you choose that play the most important role when it comes to SEO for the online or offline advertising of your website via the search engines.

As I mentioned earlier, when customers want to find a website for information or to buy a product or service, they find what they are looking for in one of the following ways:

- The first option is they find a site through a search engine.

- Secondly they find a site by clicking on a link from another website or page that relates to the topic in which they are interested.

- Or they find a site by hearing about it from a friend or reading in an article.

Thus it’s obvious the most popular way to find a site, by search engine, represents more than 90% of online users. In other words, only 10% of the people looking for a website will use methods other than search engines. Now, I hope you understand how important the search engines can be to the success of your business and why you should learn and use a variety of SEO techniques to get your business website to
rank well in the popular search engines.

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