Search Engine Optimization is a very important and a very effective factor for every serious blogger and webmaster. You should know that I receive more than 80% of all traffic from Google – the most popular search engine on the internet. In this article, I will tell you which are the first and the most important SEO tricks for you.

1. The Most Important Thing – Content

When it comes to Search Engine Optimization on a blog, the quality content is the most important factor. Creating a good and quality article is the most important thing for SEO of your blog.

Quality content that helps people will draw much more visitors than any other developed content. Search engines today are smart enough to recognize is that content is helpful or not.

2. Content Titles

Title tags are very important in SEO. Most search engines (specially Google), pays specific attention when it comes to the content titles in the general. Be sure to include all below elements in your content title:

• Keywords – It is important to place your targeted keywords in your own content title. This is a very important element because most search engines would know how to work with them correctly.
• Quality of Titles – Try to put most effective and descriptive titles for your blog contents. Developing a quality content may draw more readers to your blog from the search engines.
• Do not lie! – Today, search engines are smart enough to discover which titles are not related to the specific content. A very important element here is not to lie to your potential readers!

3. Potential Readers Needs

A very important factor in SEO of your blog is to discover what your potential readers might expect you to write for them on your own blog. Discovering a good and quality needs of your visitors can drastically improve your content and blog quality in general.

Once you know which kind of keywords they tend to search on the internet, you are in the good position to get more and more visitors for that keyword from the search engines.

4. Keywords in the Content

If you want to successfully optimize your article for the Google (and other search engines), you might include your primary keywords in your contents too. It is a very recommended to place your targeted keywords in the sub-heading tags using <h> tags in your post.

Also, you might use a keywords in your image alt tags to improve traffic from search engines. Do not place too much keywords, but use them as you might using them in your natural content.

5. Link Building

Links from other blogs and websites on the internet are very important when it comes to SEO development. One-way links to your blog might be hard to get, but they are very crucial for your SEO quality and overall traffic (ranking) of your blog. Making a better rank, your site may rise on the search engine results page.

Start with connecting your other websites or places on the internet with a link to your blog. You can do that in many places like on Forum boards, Twitter account, MySpace, Facebook… Also, if you tend to comment on other blogs, do not forget to place a link to your blog in the comment.

You should care to place a links only to no-follow places. Unfortunately, most internet websites and services actually have this attribute checked, making your site not-followed by search engines.

6. Link to your Posts

Do not over do with linking to your own posts on your blog pages. Link to your own posts can automatically improve your visitors loyalty and performances on your blog. Making them to browse all way through your blog from the single post. You should keep your links as much related they can get to get the maximum effect.

Include links to your key posts in your sidebar and a blog homepage can improve your post effect. Just make sure not to post too much own links in your contents.

7. Power Plug-ins

There are many plug-ins and third-party software releases that can improve your blog SEO rating in general. These plugins will help you to improve SEO of your blog easily and for free. I have created one good and free e-book that will help you to find the most appropriate SEO plug-ins for WordPress blogging system.

There are some similar plugins and addons for most self-hosted blogging systems on the internet. Unfortunately, they are not available for the Blogspot or similar free-hosted types of blogs.

Advanced Search Engine Techniques

I have spent more than two years of active blogging and I can tell you why SEO is important and what differences it may apply on your blog or a website. Most webmasters and bloggers try to overload search engines with un-necessary information and data, but they do not have a good and quality content to cover all that up.

I have say couple of times on this post that “search engines are smart enough”, well, they really are. Think about Google, the most popular search engine on the internet. They already own a couple of quality services that may help them to discover which contents are quality, and which are not like: FeedBurner, Google Reader, Gmail, Google Analytics, YouTube and other services helping them to gather the most quality data and information.

Today, many traditional SEO methods are much less important then they where a couple of years ago. I can say for sure that today, the most important factor is to create and develop a quality article – there is no better way to get better rankings on search engines other this way.

contributed by, The SEO Guru