seo

Links are the cream of every website and blog on the net. Without links, you might as well stop right where you are. What many newcomers to the online world don’t realize is that they won’t get traffic just by writing a blog post every now and then.

The whole picture is a lot deeper than that and once you understand this you will look at online marketing in a whole different way.

When I came online I made all the classical mistakes of a newcomer; I joined hundreds of social networks, I spent hours in industry related forums in the hopes of getting a bunch of traffic and bought just about any money making product under the sun. You can probably guess that this didn’t make me any money at all.

Many of you build blogs to launch some type of product website. Most new bloggers try their hands at free blogging platforms before they discover the powers of a self hosted WordPress blog.

Unless you are using WordPress yourself it will be hard to convince you about the SEO juice WordPress blogs carry. Mind you, when I say WordPress, in this instance I’m talking about self hosted all the way.

Search engine rankings are the bread and butter of every webmaster in the world. Unless we are found in search engines, most likely traffic is non existent. Of course, we could have a word of mouth site hoping this will continue to bring traffic, but in reality it is the snippets of your site showing in the SERPS that will get you found.

What many don’t know is they can actually control these snippets to a certain degree. A site display in Google is like a map. Showing all kinds of information, it is helpful to us as webmasters to know what they mean and how and whether we can influence them.

Most bloggers are concerned about SEO and how they can rank on the first page of Google for their chosen keyword. Naturally, when you first come on board as a brand new blogger, you have no clue about all this geek talk, but soon enough you will start to grasp the more finer points of SEO and why it matters so much to your online income.