SEO Basics Of Blogging - Do You Know Them?
In this step, you'll be reading more blogs, but in the process, you'll also be analyzing them, studying them, and learning from them.
Here are some ways to understand the blogs you'll read.
SEO Basics to Types of Blogs As we mentioned before, many people use blogs in many different ways.
Here are just some of the basic types of blogs that are out there: Personal - A very common type, this is where the blogger simply writes about his/her life.
If the blogger is a good storyteller, they can talk about their daily adventures and make them interesting.
Otherwise, these get pretty tedious.
Commentary - If a blogger has an opinion, or an attitude, they can use their blog to share it with the world, or at least the little corner of it that is their audience.
Most political and religious bloggers fall in this category.
Instructional - These blogs teach, from how to promote a website, to how to make a great creme brulee.
News - Within a certain niche, there are often lots of bloggers simply sharing news about their topic.
These don't have to be national or world news.
Links - Some bloggers who don't enjoy writing as much will create link blogs.
In this case, they simply find sites on the web of interest to their audience, make a short description, and create a link.
These kinds of blogs tend to get lots of inbound links from all the sites they'd written about.
Product/Review - Some bloggers review products or items from a particular niche.
Some of these are thinly veiled advertisements, and often get pulled down by Blogger.
com and other blog hosts.
Corporate - Some companies have blogs to help their clients or shareholders keep in touch with them.
SEO Basics to the "Anatomy" of a Blog Almost all blogs will have these elements, even though they might be arranged in different places.
1.
Header/Intro Paragraph - This introduces the topic of the blog, and the reason why the author created it.
2.
Blog Entries (with dates and titles) - Blogs almost always show the most recent blog entry at the top, and older ones below, in reverse-chronological order.
3.
Comments - There will usually be a place to read and leave comments, typically at the bottom of each post.
4.
Archive - Where you can click to find older entries that have scrolled off the main page.
5.
"Blogroll" - These are links to other blogs that the author reads.
These are often reciprocal links.
You'll create your own blogroll, and also try and get your blog listed in other people's blogrolls.
6.
Ads - This is how bloggers make money! Many blogs have some kind of monetization.
SEO Basics for Blogging Terms: Post - These are the individual articles, and writings, that make up a blog.
Permalink - This is a URL that points to a specific blog entry after it has passed from the front page to the archives.
That way, if someone links to it, it won't change, hence the name.
Tags - Also known as "labels," these are clusters of keywords used to help visitors and search engines find relevant posts.
RSS - A method readers use to "subscribe" to a blog, so they can be alerted whenever new content is added.
Good luck with you new blog, which type will you create?
Here are some ways to understand the blogs you'll read.
SEO Basics to Types of Blogs As we mentioned before, many people use blogs in many different ways.
Here are just some of the basic types of blogs that are out there: Personal - A very common type, this is where the blogger simply writes about his/her life.
If the blogger is a good storyteller, they can talk about their daily adventures and make them interesting.
Otherwise, these get pretty tedious.
Commentary - If a blogger has an opinion, or an attitude, they can use their blog to share it with the world, or at least the little corner of it that is their audience.
Most political and religious bloggers fall in this category.
Instructional - These blogs teach, from how to promote a website, to how to make a great creme brulee.
News - Within a certain niche, there are often lots of bloggers simply sharing news about their topic.
These don't have to be national or world news.
Links - Some bloggers who don't enjoy writing as much will create link blogs.
In this case, they simply find sites on the web of interest to their audience, make a short description, and create a link.
These kinds of blogs tend to get lots of inbound links from all the sites they'd written about.
Product/Review - Some bloggers review products or items from a particular niche.
Some of these are thinly veiled advertisements, and often get pulled down by Blogger.
com and other blog hosts.
Corporate - Some companies have blogs to help their clients or shareholders keep in touch with them.
SEO Basics to the "Anatomy" of a Blog Almost all blogs will have these elements, even though they might be arranged in different places.
1.
Header/Intro Paragraph - This introduces the topic of the blog, and the reason why the author created it.
2.
Blog Entries (with dates and titles) - Blogs almost always show the most recent blog entry at the top, and older ones below, in reverse-chronological order.
3.
Comments - There will usually be a place to read and leave comments, typically at the bottom of each post.
4.
Archive - Where you can click to find older entries that have scrolled off the main page.
5.
"Blogroll" - These are links to other blogs that the author reads.
These are often reciprocal links.
You'll create your own blogroll, and also try and get your blog listed in other people's blogrolls.
6.
Ads - This is how bloggers make money! Many blogs have some kind of monetization.
SEO Basics for Blogging Terms: Post - These are the individual articles, and writings, that make up a blog.
Permalink - This is a URL that points to a specific blog entry after it has passed from the front page to the archives.
That way, if someone links to it, it won't change, hence the name.
Tags - Also known as "labels," these are clusters of keywords used to help visitors and search engines find relevant posts.
RSS - A method readers use to "subscribe" to a blog, so they can be alerted whenever new content is added.
Good luck with you new blog, which type will you create?
