So You Finally Got the Attention of the Search Engines...

I can remember the first website I made and the thrill I got when that website actually caught the attention of the search engines.  Fast forwarding to my blogs and I have to tell you I still got a thrill each time one of my blogs got the attention of the search engines, especially Google.  The thing is search engines can bring a considerable amount of traffic to a blog.  Getting the attention of search engines is one thing.  Keeping that attention is another thing.  The reason being search engines change their algorithms all the time so while you were on page one of their search results and simple change could put you on page 10.  From my own searching habits I seldom check further that page 2 and usually stop at page 1 for any search so someone down on page 10 is never going to get a visit from me.  If you don't pander to the search engines you are destined to have a very low traffic blog. 

SEO is simply not something you can do and forget about!  It is imperative that keywords for your blog are constantly updated.  Use some type of keyword generator for this one so you can choose the best keywords to draw attention to your blog.  It is very important that you ping the search engines preferably after each new post but at minimum once a week.  Pinging tells search engins that your blog is indeed live and active so they should be indexing it.  Google is the largest and most influential search engines but smaller search engines can send a fair amount of traffic your way.  Regardless of your feelings about Google you really do need to pander to them to some degree if you want traffic from them.  And don't just cater to Google on this one. Bing is sending some rather good traffic as is Yahoo.  Ideally what you want to do is to formulate your blog so it gets the attention of as many search engines as possible.  This is where effective keywords used in your posts makes a big huge difference and don't forget to ping!

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