By : Nidhi Gupta

You started a blog, have some readers, and are continuing in some great work. But are you making consistent use of old content? Even if your current article isn’t catching a new reader’s attention, you can often redeem yourself by mentioning a few of your older posts within the first half of the article.

5 Ways to Linkbait Your Posts:

1. Bring up old topics by relating a past story, experience, or event to a new one.

2. Identify your current article as a step in a process. This will allow you to drop a link or possibly several to identify initial steps.

3. If your blog has grown a bit advanced, link back to a universal tutorial on the topic. This is particularly useful if you’re losing a new readers attention when they are not quite knowledgeable for the current article to pertain to them.

4. Enhance an old post. I frequently forget to include things in my original articles. Instead of editing or updating the old post, I save the idea to be included as part of another idea down the road.

5. Respond to related comments in old posts. Make a note to include your response in a new post you might be working on. Then link back to the original article where then comment was posted.

You should start noticing a few improvements from using these tactics:

Bounce rate - Bounce rate should decrease as people will have a direct reason to continue looking at your site without having to look through your archives or sidebar links.

Time on site - Since visitors will be reading more, it’s obvious they will be spending more time on your site.

New user subscriptions - You will gain subscribers when you refer them to something they liked better. Not every post is going to appeal to everyone. Just because the other 70% of your content relates to them, doesn’t mean they’ll know that unless you offer it up to them.

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By : Admin

Gone are the days when getting high ranking with the Search Engines was an easy task. Now-a-days Search Engines have gotten smarter and it has become impossible to get a high ranking in the search engines with gimmicks. Now the only way is to have one of the best pages about your topic and lots of people agreeing that it is one of the best by linking to it. It is important to understand some basics about search engines to get high rankings in the search engines.

Accuracy:

Search Engines are now more accurate in terms of results. The reason Google became number one Search Engine was that for several years they had provided the most accurate results. So if you want to get a high ranking in a search engine for the terms your pages are about, then you must give the search engine what it is looking for.

The search engines became more accurate because now they look primarily for content. The only way for a search engine to find out what a page is about is to scan the page and see what it is about. If you want to rank high in the search engines, you must make a great page specifically about the topic that page is about.

Content:

It also matters how you put your content on the page. One of the things search engines look at now is natural language. You cannot just put a search term a bunch of times on the page. Search engines look at how many times a term shows up in a sentence and how many times it shows up in a paragraph. When a search engine sees higher frequency it counts against you and not for you. The same is true about sentences. So be careful how you word your content. Try not to put the same term multiple times in a sentence or several times in a paragraph.

Some things to consider about content are:

• The content of your page is not just limited to the words written on the page. Search engines also look at how you present your content and what you say about it.

• Every page in your site should have a title. This is the first thing written on the page such as the title to an article. When you present a title you place it as a heading. Heading tags are a way to tell the search engines this is what my page is about.

• Make your heading relevant to the content of your page. You can also put sub headings on the page. You can title different sections of the page with heading 2 or heading 3 tags.

• Do not overlook the importance of Meta title and description tags. These are the only two Meta tags that most search engines look at so far as determining how they are going to rank your page. The Meta title is the place where you tell the search engine what your page is about. Your description tag gives you the opportunity to describe the content of the page to the search engine.

• Keep the description short and to the point. It should be no more than two sentences but preferably only one sentence.

• Last but not least is the overall content of the page. Make each page about one thing. The more topics your page talks about the less credit you get for each topic.

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