Boosting your blog

Anyone who's read any of my recent posts will know that my focus on the moment is optimising my site and doing all I can to improve my ranking with the search engines. It's something I, mistakenly, didn't put as a priority when I first started and now I'm feeling the effects of that. But we live and learn and I'm happy to say I'm learning pretty darn quickly at the moment!
Anyway I've got someone writing a series of blogs for me which are going to help with having regularly updated content, and I've been doing a bit of research on how to boost the ranking if they're just uploaded to my regular Wordpress site. I feel like I've wasted quite a lot of crucial time with this so I'm going hell for leather on it now.

I thought I'd share with you what I've found and see if anyone has anything else to contribute. Seriously I put up a post a few days ago and the feedback and comments were so helpful, I love how supportive everyone is here so thanks in advance for your feedback!!

Optimise your blog:
It's becoming quite obvious that optimisation is where the party's at! Adding keywords (naturally) throughout your copy, in the title, creating meta descriptions that include your keywords and optimising images are all important steps. I'm sure there are more but that might go a bit deeper than my understanding so I'll leave it to someone who's more in the know to add!

Add links.
Add links to external sources (for example if you're quoting a statistic or relevant research).

Create backlinks.
Now I'm not up to scratch with this and I don't think that's something you can do in your own blogs. There are a few ways you can contact sites and forums and ask them to share but you can't actually create your post as a backlink, someone has to do it for you. Please someone jump in if I'm wrong here??

Promote on social media.
Sharing your blog on social media platforms should see a natural increase in people's clicks. It's cool if you can put something in the thumbnail description which will encourage people to share too. Because the more people that share it the more your page will rank etc.

Choose good images.
Images are real important and if you can get images that grab people's attention you're more likely to get click. If you have a killer headline and introduction, people will stay on your site longer which increases your weight with Google.

I'd love anyone else's input on what works for them, what doesn't work and if there's anything in here you disagree with.
Cheers Ads