For those of you who are interested in search engine optimization, probably you have already heard “onsite” and “offsite” SEO for blogs. You might be confused, that is why I decided to clarify the issue.

Onsite SEO refers to the steps that you can take to optimize the content on your blog to increase your search engine rankings. Onsite SEO is active, and involves factors that are completely in your control to optimize. Inversely , offsite SEO refers to all the other methodologies that don’t involve your own content that you can undertake to enhance your blog’s ranking in the search engines.

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If there is one thing common in top bloggers is that their blogs are well ranked for some specific keywords in main search engines Google and Yahoo. It does not make sense at all to compete with them at those keywords. However, you can still apply some basic Search Engine Optimization (SEO) techniques to skyrocket incoming traffic to your blog. Here are the 5 easy and applicable basic steps of SEO for your blog:

Permalink Structure:

This is one of the most important factors on SEO for blogs. I have recently updated my WP blog’s permalink structure as below, and organic traffic growth was remarkable:

Traffic from search engines is very important for bloggers. For professional bloggers it is like bread and butter. You need to master on Search Engine Optimization (SEO) so that your blog rank better in search engines. Luckily the biggest search engine Google has released Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide where you can find serious information about SEO.

Google’s SEO Starter Guide (PDF format) is 22 pages long, and focuses on below topics:

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is a popular term in the Internet marketing world. SEO creates massive source of traffic for blogs and websites. If the major search engines, like Google and Yahoo, accept that your website provides a good answer to a specific keyword phrase that people regularly search for, then your site will receive tons of free traffic.

You can clearly understand from above why some people spend serious amount of their time on SEO. Most of the popular blogs derive a very large portion of their traffic just from ranking well in Google for some very specific keywords. This, in other words, can be translated into thousands of dollars in revenue.

The Long Tail

These days I have seen quite a lot of bloggers who are trying to dominate popular search phrases to pull traffic to their blogs. Frankly speaking, most bloggers will never dominate popular search phrases. Top five blogs dominated those keywords already. Thus, you should not expect your blog to rank on the first page of search engine results for those specific keywords.

Yet, the game is not over for the small and mid-sized bloggers. Thanks to a concept called the Long Tail, we can still drive good traffic from search engines without dominating the top keywords. You can manually do this with HitTail. Please read How To Track Your Keywords with HitTail for more details.

SEO Elite – Traffic Monster

Having said above, there is one magic software where you can still compete against top bloggers for some specific keywords without spending your valuable time. It is called SEO Elite.

If there is one software you should invest money for the sake of ranking well for specific keywords related to your niche, it is definitely SEO Elite

With SEO Elite you can view your competitor’s linking strategy which includes the ability to see the page your link is located on, the Google and Alexa ranking of their website, the total number of times a keyword appears on specified pages etc.

If you are new to SEO concept, you are so lucky! This software also teaches you how to optimize your website for search engines which in turn creates 100% free targeted traffic to your website. Well, what more can i expect from a SEO software?

In addition to above, it teaches you how to create your website pages for top ranking by using keyword density which is how many times your keywords should be repeated on your pages, keyword prominence which explains where your keywords should be placed etc.

Even though SEO Elite is a little expensive and sold at $167, I am glad that I invested my money on it.

Frankly speaking it took one whole week for me to decide buying SEO Elite. I checked with my trusted friends in the Internet Marketing business before I bought the software.

I have seen the positive benefits a few weeks later. It seems like a miracle that I am getting tons of free traffic from the search engines with SEO Elite. However, I must also tell you that you need to spend sometime on SEO Elite everyday. Do not expect miracles from the software. It is helpful when you regularly use it in conjunction with your daily blogging.

• Have you watched Search Engine Optimization Video Tutorial before? Blogging Mix has done a great job by providing such a great free resource on SEO. Do not forget to Stumble or Digg his post, he deserved that already. If you know any other free resource on SEO, or should you have any problems regarding SEO, please post a new thread to SEO & Traffic Tips section of  Search For Blogging forum. Together we can find a solution to your SEO related problems.
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