You can write your heart out on a blog, but if no one visits it, does it really matter? Sure, your content should be enough to draw your readers in, but how do you get them there the first time? There are 10′s of thousands of new blog created every day, how do you not get lost in the shuffle? Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is the first line in that battle.
One of the first steps you can take is trying to cram as many keywords as you can in to an article, but try to do it in a natural fashion, you don’t want to be too obvious. How do you know what keywords you should aim for though? Luckily there are two good free tools out there for you to get started with.
First up is the SEO Book Keyword Suggestion Tool. This one uses Yahoo’s results and tries to predict what is going on at Google and MSN. Not 100% accurate, but will give you a good general over view.
Then you also have Google Trends which will allow you to enter up to five words and compare them to each other. This one will only let you look at Google’s results, but in this day and age, the others are just nice add-ons compared to the king of the search engines.
So I’m not saying go nuts and put in every keyword you can think of, but try to get a coupe in to each post if you can.
