Do you have a blog that is still not ranking well in the search engines? This article will get your newly keyword researched and optimized blog post into the first page of Google search results today!
You must continue working on building quality content, and inbound links. That is what will get your blog into Google results. Sometimes it can take a long time to build search engine rankings, so keep doing it and your blog tipping point will come. In the meanwhile, you can try these options to get your blog articles on top of Google search engine result pages today:
1. Social media. Join social media and sumbit your articles there.
• Digg.com works best for this purpose. Join Digg.com, create your profile, start digging interesting articles and submit your own blog post. By submitting your blog article into Digg.com, Google will index your Digg.com submission and will rank it. Couple of hours after the submission, your Digg.com article page will be in Google search engine results. Search for your article title and you will be in the top 10!
• FriendFeed.com can do the same as Digg, just with a bit different process. Join FriendFeed and create your profile. Add your StumbleUpon profile, your Digg profile, your Twitter profile into your FriendFeed. Also include your blogs RSS news feed into your profile. Now when you post a new blog article on your blog, it will automatically show in your FriendFeed profile, Google will index it and your FriendFeed profile with a link to your latest blog post will rank high in Google search result pages. Search for your article title and you will be in the top 10!
• StumbleUpon is similar to the first two. Only thing is that your blog article will not show in the top 10 at Google automatically after your submission. You will need some thumbs-up and reviews to make your blog article popular within StumbleUpon before Google indexes it. Here are the simple steps on how to make your blog articles popular in StumbleUpon.
2. Discussion forums. Find relevant discussion forums, create your profile, and start being helpful by writing useful responses to questions relevant to your blog content. When you feel confident enough in the forum, create a whole new thread with your article title as the thread name. Copy/paste your entire article in the thread and let forum visitors read the whole article without leaving the forum. You should include couple of links to your blog before, within, and after the article content.
Google will scan the forum, and will scan your thread and will indexed it fairly quickly. Search for your blog title on Google and you will shop in the top 10. Forums I use personally are DigitalPoint.com and WebmasterTalk.com. Go to Google and search for “10 Simple Steps To Increase Blog Traffic Via StumbleUpon” to see this in action.
This strategy will not send you lots of traffic, and it is very short term, but it will give you motivation to continue working on your blog content and building of quality inbound links. Let me know if this works for you. Please post a screenshot link in the comments if it does.
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Another good post.
Thanks.
Nice article, keep it up!
Thanks for comments guys, I appreciate it!
Very helpful tips. I always look for additional sites and networks.
Thanks.
I also just got down signing up to FriendFeed, http://friendfeed.com/geoserv
Thanks for the tip.
Aren’t some of these social platforms no follow? For example I use digg but not really all that much I think I was told that it’s no follow. Of course my reason for using SU, and other social platforms is not so much link building as it is other things but I’m pretty sure most of these platforms are no follow. I’m sold on StumbleUpon for sure however I’m not so sure about dig. Have you had any success with digg? Thanks.
This article was not written focusing on building inbound links. It is a motivational article for new bloggers to get them to see their blog article on front page of Google, as new bloggers rarely get to see that in first several months of their blog life. Not much success with Digg but it has notorious reputation for bad traffic, so I decided not to try too hard yet.
Nice, that friendfeed tip is great for getting visibility for new articles.
Meta tags while yes google does not pay them to much heed you must sacrifice them all together as the other big SE’s do, especially MSN/Live and Yahoo
Thank you helpful informations
its not that easy to do, i am always struggling with thing bring my fresh articles on top
Getting on the first page of search engine results can be very difficult. One way links and quality content definitely help improve search engine rankings, as do social media sites. Thanks for your insights and I'll keep working at it.
Nice article pal..keep em coming
thanks for great yet simple instructions.
I will apply it for my next post and see result for this!
Glad to help, let me know how it works for you!
I never focus on keywords and description in the meta tags on articles personally. Google seems to take whatever inside your content is related to the search and puts it as the description anyway. I recommend focusing on the title only from the meta tags.
The tags I mentioned in the article is the tags that WordPress supports directly in their interface. Technorati and search engines seem to find them much more relevant than meta tags.