Launching a blog and waiting for people to arrive is not as easy as it might seem. You could find yourself writing for months and even years without mass amounts of traffic. Often times it takes much more than just writing to market your blog, even though that is the most important part of owning a blog.
You will run into many mental battles when you start writing. You will want to put nice short witty titles and use creative verbiage in the post but you know that you run the risk of having a harder time to be found by search engines. You will definitely want to always write for humans first but search engines should also be a close second. At the end of the day you have to ask yourself what the goal of your blog is. Do you want people to find it? Or do you want to just write for the sake of writing? Sure you always want to the flow of words and language to have a natural feel so when people read it does not sound foreign. You also want to write so search engines find you. Before every blog post do some quick keyword research on whatever topic you are writing. Take two or three words or phrases and naturally incorporate them into the blog post. Don’t forget to add some keywords into the blog post titles as well. Will this work to get your post ranking every single time? Probably not but if you don’t apply any type of SEO efforts to your blog than you can guarantee no search engine traffic. if you are a blog that is just starting out and you don’t really have a following to back yourself you will have to apply some of these techniques to your daily or weekly writing.
