This is an article that will teach you to search engine optimize your each blog post so you can enjoy higher levels of traffic. I am a big SEO enthusiast, I love the whole concept of link building, keywords and meta-tags. A good SEO campaign can do wonders for your sites traffic.

Here I have discussed 7 powerful ways to SEO a blog post:

SEO a Blog Post

Divide Your Article Into 3 Basic Parts:

This is something that you learn at grammar school, the same applies to your blog posts as well. Your article should be clearly divided into three parts:

• An introductory paragraph that contains the longtail keywords you are aiming at.
• The main body of your article, which has all the juice.
• A clean conclusion which summarizes the points above.

Keywords In Your Post Title:

Your post title itself should contain the main keyword you are aiming at. Usually, it is a good strategy to include longtail keywords in your post title as it helps you rank well in search engines more easily.

Related Post: 3 Tips To Choose The Correct Keywords For SEO

Limit Your Post Title To 40 Characters:

Limiting your post title to a maximum of 40 characters is important. Long and winding titles hardly catch a readers attention. On the other hand, limiting your post title to 40 characters will also ensure that the whole title shows up in the search engine results.

Internally link To A Previous Post:

This is very important to the overall site SEO. Also, interlinking will allow a reader to understand the article in more depth or perhaps learn more about it. Interlinking will also positively affect the crawling of your site.

Follow The Keyword Pyramid:

I call it the keyword pyramid – this is a basic rule that is followed by professional freelance writers for SEO. There are many people who are confused how many times should a particular keyword be included in the article. The answers is – follow an inverted pyramid. Which means, your keyword density should be high in the beginning of the article and reduce as the article ends.

Fill Out Your Tags Diligently:

Tags and categories need to be filled out by you. Your tag column should contain all the keywords that you have used within your blog post. Also, select an appropriate category. After writing a blog post, many bloggers become lazy to type out the post tags. You should make sure you fill them out diligently.

Add An Image/Flowchart:

It is a great idea to add a properly tagged picture or flowchart within your content. Because, image searches can also be a good source of traffic for you if you tag it correctly and merge into your keyword rich content.

When you write a blog post, try to keep it as natural as possible without forcing keywords into it. Push keywords cleverly into your blog post. Don’t be obsessed with SEO, but always keep it in the back of your mind. Leave your thoughts on this article below.

Some days, the blog posts just keep coming and coming. Others, it feels like a mountain needs to be moved for each word. There are always topics to be discussed, but sometimes it takes your brain a bit of coaxing to free them. If you’re stuck, here are some brainstorming techniques to get you writing again.

1. 101 Thoughts: Place your hands on the keyboard with an open Notepad window and start writing down ideas. The ideas don’t have to be good ideas or bad ideas, just ideas. It will become difficult, but keep striving until you reach 101.

2. Free Writing: Free writing or stream of consciousness writing is another great exercise to get your brain focused on getting some good blog posts. If you’re in front of a keyboard, open a notepad window and just start typing whatever comes to your mind. Don’t be concerned about typos or spelling, just let the thoughts come out.

3. Mind Map: Place your topic in the middle of a sheet of copy paper. From there, start writing things that are related to the center. Keep writing about the topic until you have filled multiple sheets of paper or twenty minutes has passed.

4. Create Unusual Combinations: Think about the topic of your blog and combine it with something that appears to be completely unrelated to that topic. Try to combine motivation with chocolate icing, business cards with hot sauce, dog training with Tarot cards and see where your brain travels.

5. Outlining: If you like organization, this brainstorming technique works well. Take the overall subject of your blog and break it down into its component parts. This is similar to the mind mapping technique, but it is completed in a much more orderly fashion.

6. Be Journalistic: Take your blog’s subject and approach it from a journalistic angle. You want to answer the six questions in journalism (who, what, when, where, why and how) with your topic. Find out who the experts are within your field and write a report about them.

7. Problem Solving: Are your readers repeatedly facing specific problems? Pick one of the problems that your readers might have and start writing down some of the solutions. Create unusual solutions and feel free to combine the solutions from multiple problems to see if something exciting happens.

8. Wordplay: Write silly poetry about your blog’s topic. Start with words that rhyme. Here’s an example: we’re gaining with the raining on dog training. Look at the patterns that emerge after several snippets have been written. Be as outlandish as possible.

9. Questions: Look around the room for twenty common objects. Ask yourself questions about those objects. What is the history of paper? What types of bowls did kings and queens use? What materials are involved in the creation of our household objects? If your topic is a concept, ask why that concept is good or bad.

10. Be prompted: Journal prompts get your brain to solve problems. Look at the questions or situations that are being prompted and see if you can associate it with your chosen topic. Take the unlikely associations and nurture them into blog posts.

Those great blog posts might be eluding you right now, but that doesn’t mean that they are gone forever. Your brain sometimes needs a kick start to get motivated again. Brainstorming adds that extra push to your writing.

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The title of this post is quite self-explanatory- why I do not post more than 2 articles in a day. Since I began blogging on CollegeFallOut I have been able to get a good look of the competition around me and one thing which I have noticed about successful blogs is their number of posts each day. Popular and high-traffic blogs have been posting a minimum of three articles in a day. But I have been posting one post each day and at the maximum I have gone on to post 2 articles in one day. However, the reason for this is not that I am lazy to generate more articles per day. The real point for this is that I am consciously restricting myself to a one to two posts per day.

Here are a few reasons why I do not post more than 2 articles per day:

This Is Not a Tech Blog, CollegeFallOut deals with posts that are related to Internet Entrepreneurs, Blogging/SEO tips. The articles related to such a niche are a little more difficult to digest and are much more heavier on the readers. Although a reader would always like as much content as possible; an overflow of content in a single day can cause them to leave your site prematurely because of all that information your giving them in one go. It is always better to take it slow and easy when it comes to provding content to your readers. If you post one article in a day, here are a few advantages:

• It has higher viraling potential
• You are providing your readers time to chew on what you wrote thereby enhancing reader experience
• You make sure each of your article is read

The last point is particularly important because if you have three to four articles in one day, you can be sure that your readers are either skimming through your content or have not read all the articles which you have posted. You cannot blame the reader as no one wants to read so much in one go.

If you are saying that blogs like TechCrunch and Mashable post almost 6 to 10 articles in a day, well to reply to this I would like to say that they are technology sites. Technology evolves fast- there is a lot happening in a single day itself. Moreover, content related to technology does not really require the reader to introspect – it is just reading and updating yourself.

So what is the number of article you post in a day? Do let me know below.

Every bloggers has an ultimate aim of building up lots of readers and a loyal subscriber base. But to achieve that pinnacle is not easy, there are many things that you need to do in order to reach it. But at the same time you should also remember that things which you should not do or avoid when you blog.

Here are some thing that you should not do in your blog:

Excess Advertisements

The number one turn off in most blogs, not only beginner blogs but also those of pro-bloggers are the ads. I personally find ads very intrusive and they highly degrade the reading quality. An organized separate section for ads is the best option. Pop-up ads are one of the most intrusive kind of advertisement.

Don’t Write Essays

When you write for a blog, make sure you don’t write essays. Make your posts crispy and informative. An ideal number of words in a blog post should be 250-400 words. Unfortunately, some blogger end up writing articles of 1000 words – such length of articles will not be suitable for keeping your readers attention.

Don’t Look Desperate

Promote your RSS feed and do encourage your visitors to subscribe to your blog. But do not come across too desperate as that will repel your readers from doing so. The same also applies to Social bookmarking – do not end up begging readers to bookmark your content, they will almost surely not do it. Instead write such good content that your readers will bookmark it themselves.

Don’t Ignore

When a reader comments on your blog, respect the time he has taken out to visit and comment on your blog. Blogging is all about networking and you should keep the spirit in the same way. You should always socialize and reply to comments which you receive.

So ensure that a few poor blogging habits end up damaging the potential which you can achieve.

Enjoy your blogging!

There are many key points that a successful blogger employs when he frames a title for his post. For he knows that no matter how exquisite his post may be or how life-altering it may be for the reader, a poor title will ensure only one thing – that his post remains unread.

Simplicity: This is one of the key points of any successful post. Suppose if this post which you are reading was kept the following title – “Secrets of Optimality Conditions for a Blog Article under the Title”. Obviously, you would be totally put off. A simple title will also help you in search engines. If you keep your title under 40-words then you ensure that the whole title appears when it turns up in the search engine results.

Magnetism: The title should be so magnetic that it forces a reader to click on the title to read what it is all about. This can be done by some controversial topic, a shocking claim or humor.  These things add to the magnetism of a title.

Satisfy a Need: The most successful posts on Digg and other book marking sites are “How to” posts. These posts meet a need of a reader. Tutorial posts teach a person something new which they can apply. So invariably, most bloggers will find the topic quite attractive.A title which suggests that it will  help in solving some of the readers problems are quite popular.

Describe: Don’t try to be extra smart and create an element of suspense in your post by not letting your readers what it is about. Most will end up ignoring it. Best title is one which informs the reader what they will get out of it when they read it.

Key Word: Be sure not to forget including a key word into your title. Your title is SEO gold. So if you do not enter any key word in post then you will find that your post will fail to be optimally placed in search engine results.

The final tip is to tell you that take your time when you keep a title. First impression is the last impression. Most readers unfortunately judge a book by its cover, so make sure that your title is attractive for a readers. This will also help in enhancing his reading experience.

The blinking cursor on the blank screen can be a nightmare for most bloggers. They struggle to come up with topics to write for their blog. It is a mind block which forces them to waste a lot of time thinking of topics on which they can write about on their blog.

Here are some ways in which you can come up with ideas to write on your blog:

Your Need: The first place where you need to look is within yourself. Is there a post that you would like to read? I am sure that there must be something that you wanted to know about in your niche, and then if you yourself answer to that question after a research then you have come up with an idea for a great original post. That is not only helping you but helping many other bloggers who have the same doubts as yours.

Trending Topics: You can check out the Trending Topics column on Twitter. That is indicative of what the latest buzz on the internet is. If you are smart you can get a trending topic to become a nice keyword for new post and then write an article on it. Then not only have you got an idea for a post but now you can also be sure about readers for that post.

Blog Subscription Emails: It is always a good idea if you have subscribed to email updates from other blogs of your own niche. Then when they post their articles you can get ideas for your new articles. It need not be on the same topic, your post can explore a different angle of the same topic. This is what most internet-savvy bloggers do for ideas on what to write.

Google News: You can subscribe to updates on all the latest news. You can edit settings such that only news for a particular keyword(s) be sent to your email. The keywords can be something to relate to your niche. This way whenever there is news on the internet about something related to your niche, you can be notified Google. You can adjust it to be sent weekly, daily or hourly – depending on your need.

These are some ways that many bloggers come up with great topics to write about on their blog. Hope you to will implement them to write even more interesting posts on your blog.

Do you use any more ways to come up with topics? Let me know below.