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Everyone knows that SEO is an ongoing task it needs consistency, constant care and attention to increase you blog traffic and rank. As Google algorithm keeps changing on all the time, you need to keep working on the major factors of SEO. There are many ways of doing these things as many newcomers’s always hit the same question on internet, what are the reasons that I am unable to get traffic for my blog?

Many times people spend a lot of money on advertisement and marketing, when you can get a nice handful of free web traffic without paying for any advertisement. In this article I will show you 10 simple steps which are necessary and will help you to boost your blog traffic.

• The very first and important step is while creating the blog one should always do a lot of research on keywords and key phrases relevant to your niche. Use the most popular keyword suggestion tools like Google Adwords, Overture and SEObook.
• Choose a resourceful and well-known blog tool such as WordPress which have their own wide range of plugins and can provide you strong community support that will make your blog very effective.
• The benefit of the WordPress is that you are able to select or create your own themes or download the compatible themes online for free.
• Try to get the domain names based on your niche rather than the hosted blog services that don’t allow using your own domain names.
• Always check your website HTML code with the W3C HTML Validator as it has much more importance to SEO. Check more about Importance of HTML code to SEO.
• Work more on creating appropriate title and description tags as they are important points taken into consideration in SEO.
• Update you blog regularly with fresh and unique contents as they are mainly focused for better traffic. Comment on your friends or on relevant blogs on similar to your niche. Reply to the comments of your blog as much as possible so that visitors will stay active. Also, submit your blog to top most blog directories such as blogcatalog.com, blogtoplist.com and mybloglog.com. This will help you to get a free backlinks for you’re your blog.
• Another popular way of promoting your blog is to submitting you blog to quality social bookmarking sites such as Stumbleupon, Del.icio.us, Blinklist, Technorati, etc. This will definitely give some extra boost to your blog.
• If you have any product promotional videos like “How To”, the use the video site like youtube.com to submit your videos, which will bring you a good traffic if you have captions or watermark of your website on the video.

Remember that SEO is an ongoing process, so work hard and follow these above 10 simple steps to boost the traffic for your blog.

Posted under Blogging, Search Engine Optimization, SEO Tips

There are lots of questions people ask about search engine optimization, but this question caught my attention. Keyword Density is a very important factor in search engine optimization to which people overlook. What is Keyword Density?

Keyword density basically indicates the amount of times that a selected keyword or keyword phrase appears on a web page or in an article on said page. Keywords must be used throughout the web page but you do not want to over use them. If you used them too many times, your web site could be misconstrued as attempting to spam search engines or artificially boost your search engine rankings.

Let’s check out the simple way for calculating the keyword density of your pages.

Every web page has a total number of words. Let’s assume that your web page has total words of 250, without the HTML code say roughly 1/3 to 1/2 of your web page will be the code – so just deduct that number of words from the total.

To find out the total word counts of your page use a Word processing program such as Microsoft Word. Copy and Paste the HTML source code of the page into a blank document, then select File> Properties >Statistics >Word Count.

Let’s get back to the optimization part. If you are optimizing that page for a single keyword, you need to figure out how many times that particular word is repeated within that 250 word total.

Go through that web page and count every repetition of your keyword manually. Your Word program should also have an Edit and replace function. Paste in the code and then type in the keywords in both the edit box and the replace box. The program will replace each occurrence of the word with itself…and produce a total count for the number of repeats.

For Example: Let’s says that you have used that keyword 10 times on your page you want to target. To calculate the keyword density – take that figure and divide it by the total number of words on your page. Thus, in this case 10 divided by 250 = .04. Keyword density is always referred to as a percentage of the total word count for the page. So, multiply .04 by 100 to get the right percentage figure.

Calculations would exactly look like this;
.04 x 100 = 4%
The page has a keyword density of 4%.

For effective optimizing that will boost your pages into the Top 20 spots on the major search engines you are aiming for a keyword density of between 2 – 5%.

To save time, don’t stress too much over exactly matching the density of your page to the Top listed pages on the search engines.

At major search engines, algorithms changes constantly so, it’s much simpler to optimize a few pages for different densities. Remember that the page that has the keyword density of 3% to 5% will rank well on a major search engines.

Posted under Blogging, Search Engine Optimization, SEO Tips