Today blogging has become the most hot activity on the Internet. There are millions of blogs on the Internet and also it has become a source of bread and butter for many bloggers. So Search Engine Optimization is the most important activity for such bloggers and web-masters. Also most of the quality traffic that comes to our site or blog is through popular search engines. So one must know how to make the search engines happy to get higher search engine ranking and higher page rank.

Below I am listing some of the techniques and ways in which bloggers can take care of search engine optimization :

1. Content is the King : The most important thing for the blogs to help with search engine optimization is unique content. You must create a unique, quality, and good content for SEO on the blog.

Quality content helps to draw large number of visitors to the site than other developed content. It also helps in achieving higher search engine ranking and higher page rank. And the search engines are also smart enough to make out whether the content is useful or not, so you need to be active and careful regarding the content on the site.

2. Content Titles : Other important thing for SEO is title tags. When it comes to the title tags, majority of the search engine pays special attention to it. You must see that the below mentioned items are included in the content.

• Keywords : It is most important thing to place the targeted keywords in the content as most of the search engines knows how to deal with those keywords and thus ranks the site or the blog on the basis of the keywords selected and how much they are related with the content.

• Quality of Titles : Try to choose most effective, informative and descriptive title for the blog. Unique information will help to drag more visitors to the site.

• Do not Lie : Search engines today have become more smarter and they can easily figure out whether the title is related to the particular content or not, so never ever lie to the search engines.

3. Potential Readers Need : You must be aware of what you readers are expecting from you. If you tend to provide them with the information they desire then it will help to improve the quality of your blog too.

Writing quality articles for the readers will help to drive more traffic to the blog and also it helps to improve the quality of you blog. Once you are aware what keywords are used by your readers on the web, you can write unique, good and quality articles for them and provide them with the best information. Thus this will help to retain the customers to the site and also help in improving search engine and page ranking.

4. Keywords in the Content : To optimize the article for the Google we must include the keywords in the content. It is in your beneficial interest to add your targeted keywords in the sub-heading tags and the image alt tags. This would surely be helpful in driving more traffic to the blog. Don’t place large number of keywords, but you might use it in the way as natural content.

5. Link Building : Links from the outside website or blogs to your blog are of most important for SEO. Its difficult to find one-way link for the site, but they are of crucial importance. So to build up links you must start connecting with other websites like twitter, facebook, myspace, forums etc. Also do lot of blog commenting, and don’t ever forget t place the link of you blog in the comment.

Just take care of no-follow links. This would prevent the search engine from searching your blog.

6. Links to your post : No need to do large number of links within the posts of your blog. Just take care that you do linking to the posts within your blog, that are related with each other. It helps to increase the customer loyalty, trust, drive traffic to your blog and thus ultimately increase the performance of your blog. So keep the links as much related as they can have maximum impact on SEO of the blog.

Include links of the key posts on the side bar and the homepage of the blog, to improve your post effect and SEO.

7. Power Plug-ins : There are many plug-ins and third party softwares available to increase the performance of the blogs. They helps to increase the SEO of the blog in a simple way and for free. You can easily find them on the Internet and can easily use them at your convenience.

Thus I thinks if the bloggers take care of the list that I have mentioned above then then they can easily improve the performance of their blogs and earn handsomely well. Thus best of lick to all the bloggers who implements the above mentioned tips and gets benefited. Happy blogging to all of you.