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What makes a good blog for SEO?

by livemusic
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I have a blogspot blog and I have noticed pretty good SERP (page 1) on many occasions for certain keywords. I think I have it configured such that people cannot comment; I suppose I did that because of the spam. I have occasionally placed a link to one of my money sites on there.

But... are they ways to improve my blog to get more leads? I just write articles that are about my industry.

How do people use blogs best?

What is guest blogging?

One thing I wondered about was to put a blog on my main money site and actually invite people to make comments. However, I do not want to get bogged down moderating a burdensome number of comments. Althought, I am not sure exactly how that helps. I am very busy talking to leads for the product I sell; these people call in from my various websites. I have also thought of putting a forum on there and branding myself as an industry "expert," which I already do on one of my main sites.
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  • Profile picture of the author Daones
    It doesnt take too long to delete comments, usually you can look at them and immediately deem what is spam and what is genuine. Also I hate bloggers commenting system you should look into disqus or im not sure how good google+ new commenting system is. But one thing I hated you cant edit comments.

    Guest blogging is simply writing a post that will be used on another blog owned by someone else, the benefit is the traffic you will get back to your own site or blog. Generally you have to place more importance in the content you are writing for a guest blog because by what you publish is going to determine how much traffic you can get.
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  • Profile picture of the author Lori Kelly
    When I blog on my sites, the first thing I do is get keywords that are low in competition yet have enough monthly searches that generate traffic.

    Then when I find the Golden Keywords, I write content at 2.0-2.5% keyword density. That is working for me. At least for now it's working.
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    • Profile picture of the author livemusic
      Originally Posted by Lori Kelly View Post

      When I blog on my sites, the first thing I do is get keywords that are low in competition yet have enough monthly searches that generate traffic.

      Then when I find the Golden Keywords, I write content at 2.0-2.5% keyword density. That is working for me. At least for now it's working.
      What do you mean, "Golden Keywords?" And for "regular" keywords, as in the first part of your post, are you writing content at any different density?

      Speaking of that... suppose I am listing a bunch of counties, is there anything wrong with putting the state abbreviation after each county? (And the state abbreviation is a keyword.) Like, a bulleted list of, say, 30 counties in New York, and after each county, "NY."
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      • Profile picture of the author Lori Kelly
        Hi livemusic.

        The Golden Keywords are the ones that meet my criteria.

        I look for keywords with LOW competition and between 400-3,000 global monthly searches.

        I use the free Google keyword tool for this research.

        When I find the keywords, then I look at the competition.

        If there's 1 million or more websites in the results for my keywords, I don't usually go for it. But it depends on the websites on page 1.

        If the sites on page 1 are crap, and many of them are, I might go for it. But I'd rather compete against a few thousand sites than 1 million + sites.

        I find keywords I know I can beat the competition.

        I always use the "exact" search in Google's keyword tool and then I write good content.

        I hope this helps.
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        • Profile picture of the author mrright
          Originally Posted by Lori Kelly View Post

          Hi livemusic.

          The Golden Keywords are the ones that meet my criteria.

          I look for keywords with LOW competition and between 400-3,000 global monthly searches.

          I use the free Google keyword tool for this research.

          When I find the keywords, then I look at the competition.

          If there's 1 million or more websites in the results for my keywords, I don't usually go for it. But it depends on the websites on page 1.

          If the sites on page 1 are crap, and many of them are, I might go for it. But I'd rather compete against a few thousand sites than 1 million + sites.

          I find keywords I know I can beat the competition.

          I always use the "exact" search in Google's keyword tool and then I write good content.

          I hope this helps.
          Great advice. It's just hard to find keywords with low competition and a good search volume, but they do exist.
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    • Profile picture of the author fiehatran
      Originally Posted by Lori Kelly View Post

      When I blog on my sites, the first thing I do is get keywords that are low in competition yet have enough monthly searches that generate traffic.

      Then when I find the Golden Keywords, I write content at 2.0-2.5% keyword density. That is working for me. At least for now it's working.
      I think keyword density should less than 2% , and article aim to at least 700 words
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  • Profile picture of the author Hansons
    What I have found is content from blogspot.com is ranking good these days, but it was not so few years before.
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  • Profile picture of the author livemusic
    If I make it so people can comment, what good does that do from an SEO standpoint?
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  • Profile picture of the author affilorama-portal
    Hi,

    You can get more leads by participating in related niche sites like commenting on other blogs and also joining in forums. These sites may help you get direct visits. Also, being active in social media sites help too.
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  • Profile picture of the author wpseoguy
    Mrright, you can use squirrly seo for that. it shows you the competition, trends and exact searches for that keyword.
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    • Profile picture of the author mrright
      wpseoguy, thanks for your suggestion, I will try that
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