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Submit your blog into blog directories
It is a great way to get one-way links to your blog and to your site.

• http://www.blogcatalog.com/
• http://www.blogarama.com/
• http://www.bloggapedia.com/
• http://www.masternewmedia.org/rss/top55/

How to use keywords
One of the biggest mistakes is using high traffic keywords. High traffic keywords do not rank well and, in return, receive little traffic. There is no direct correlation between high traffic and high sales.

Instead, use keywords that receive a moderate level of traffic. Many of the most lucrative sites only have a moderate level of traffic because their profitable keywords. This results in more subscribers and more profit.

Know where to place your keywords:

• Use your primary key phrase in the title of your blog or blogposts.
• Use secondary keywords throughout the body of your post. Be careful not to use these too frequently to avoid sound unnatural.
• Use your primary keyword in your blog domain.
• Use your primary keywords in the anchor text of links.

Search Query
The length of your search query is extremely important. Four word queries form the highest conversion rates from search engine traffic. Because blogs are so well indexed, it has the potential to appear in any number of four word phrases relevant to your industry.

Also use two and three word phrases that target your industry. Try to use a phrase that will attract high traffic, yet with little competition. With constant new trends, developments, products and services, this should not be difficult to do.

Update Frequently
The more frequently content is updated, the more your site will be spidered. After consistent and habitual updating, the spider will eventually add you to a frequent schedule of returns. Your new pages will then show up faster in searches. This will be extremely advantageous to your new product or service.

Posting
You do not have to worry all day everyday about updating your blog. The best way to frequent new content is to write a number of blogs in advance and set up your blog software to post one each day. This will give your site new information each day, and you only set aside one day for blogging.

SEO vs SEM

SEO is essentially the beginnings of SEM. To effectively market a Website it must first be optimized. The SEO process involves stocking the Website with relevant content that is specific to the audience the Website is intended for.  Relevant components such as titles, keywords and Meta Tags are embedded into the underlying code of the Website pages.

The second part of the a SEO/SEM campaign is to start marketing the Website around the internet. The most effective way to do so is to keep producing content.

Contrary to popular belief, Search Engines are so advanced that they understand basic language skills and are able to decipher proper linguistics, so the general content of the pages is fine tuned to utilizing specific verbiage and enticing phrases. Press releases, news articles, reviews, events and of course blogs are all pieces of SEM that boost rankings among the Search Engines. Search Engines love new and fresh content. The Search Engines will come back to a site more often, if in fact, content is added on a frequent basis. The Search Engines collect the information in these articles and compare the data to the content of the Website as a whole. As the amount of content on the Website grows, the amount of data stored for searchability by end users on Search Engines grows.

Overall, this is most effective when done as an ongoing process. SEM should be part of any Website’s perpetual marketing budget. When SEM is done once or  for short periods of time, the content gets stale and the Search Engines pass over it.

Fresh Content

Utilizing a tool like a blogging platform (WordPress) is the best way to keep a website and its content relevant. Blogging is not only used to express opinions and interests, but it is the perfect way to distribute news, upcoming events and press releases. By adding content to a blog on a regular basis, it will keep readers interested.

Adding a blog component is a simple setup and should not be overlooked. WordPress itself can be added to a Website in a folder and the appearance of the blog can be easily skinned to fully and seamlessly integrated with the rest of the Website. The backend of the WordPress platform is easy to learn and simple to use.

The other great thing about WordPress is the fact that it has been built from the ground up with SEO as a priority. Search Engines frequent WordPress sites because of the way it has Pingbacks and Clean URLs built right in. These are features that will help Websites climb the ranks of Search Engines when content is added on a regular basis.

Third Party Content

Search Engines also compare relevant content across all Websites. If there is content about a specific topic on a company’s website, the Search Engines will compare that to a review on the company and the search results will show up next to each other in the search results presented to the end user.

This information is important because in today’s market everyone has an opinion and it can be voiced. Not everyone likes the same things or views experiences the same. If someone utilizes a review site to voice an opinion about a company or experience, it may not be what the provider had in mind for a review to be. Websites like CitySearch and Yelp are open to anyone. People can register and post a review or opinion on an experience they had. While everyone has the right to do this, it may not be what the business owner was looking for as a favorable review.

To combat this, it is important to be active in submitting content and being a part of these third party Websites. With tactful responses, these reviews and opinions can be counteracted with subjective content that is in favor or the business or organization. This also servers a humanistic approach that someone knowledgeable is taking the time to actively respond to another person’s opinion and tends to boost the reputation of the entity begin reviewed.

Closing

All in all, SEM is an ongoing aspect of a successful marketing plan. As time goes by, the nature of writing content for a Website becomes second nature and the thought of putting new information out for the world to indulge in is exciting. Expressing thoughts, news and keeping others abreast with the happenings is very satisfying and leads to constant exposure across the largest information medium in the world.

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