NLDMedia, Search Engine Solutions

This is a technique I have used to get my posts ranked for long tail keywords on a few of my niche blogs. It works pretty well if your blog already has a decent search engine authority.

Step one is to find a long-tail keyword. This is a keyword that is 3-4+ words long. For example “Using article directories to promote your blog”. T his is a really long one, but it gives you the basic idea. Write your post about this topic, and set the keyword in your post title. It works good to have your blog permalinks setup like www.yourblog.com/this-is-the-post-title/. I have noticed the search engine likes it when the keyword is somewhere in the address bar. So now you have your blog post, keyword in title and relevant content in the post body. Don’t forget to use the keyword and similar ones in the post body and make them bold to make sure the search engine knows what keyword your post is about.

Now to rank for this long-tail keyword is pretty easy. Create yourself an eZineArticles.com account, and while you’re at it create yourself a GoArticles.com account. Now write another article with the same article topic, and the same type of content. It is best to re-write a unique article. Write as many articles as you want, two almost guarantees you first page if you have a decent blog authority already, and the keyword isn’t super competitive. (It’s best to choose long-tail keywords that aren’t really competitive.) Post one article to eZineArticles.com, same idea as the blog post put your long-tail keyword in the title. Now in the resource box of eZineArticles.com write your keyword in a link like so: <a href=”http://blog.com/link-to-post-kwhere” title=”kwhere”>Long-tail Keyword Here</a>. And that will be a good quality link to your blog post thus bringing it up in the search engine.

Now if you use GoArticles.com or many other article directories you can post the link right in the article body, use the same technique and make the link text be the actual long-tail keyword.

I hope this helps some of you bring your traffic to your individual posts up a tid-bit.

Tags: blogging, link building

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