While making my commenting rounds for the three linkups that I co-host, I came across a blog post that made my fingers ITCH to type out a LONG response. Right, there I knew I had to write a blog post about it NOW! Rebecca from Best Blogging Business wrote her post filled with important things to do prior to hitting publish. I won’t repeat the things she listed on her post just so that when you’re finished reading my list of suggestions you’ll be sure to check out her blog post. However, in my years of blogging, I’ve found these to be equal important items to add to her list.
My Blogging Tips You Should Do BEFORE You Hit Publish
Check Pinterest for Keywords to Use
Many people make their posts SEO friendly based around Google’s search engine, and I do that as well that’s why a good quarter of my traffic comes from Google alone! However, when you do a search on Pinterest and YouTube, you’ll see a list of suggested searches try to use to find what you’re looking for. Those are prime words to add to your SEO sections as well. It may not LOOK pretty, but it does get traffic to your site! Just be sure you’re delivering what you’re advertising. There’s nothing worse than false advertising!!
[Tweet “Gain more traffic to your #blog with this sneaky trick! #bloggingtips”]
Link to Quality Outside Sources
Just like I’m doing in this post, I strive to find quality sources OUTSIDE of my blog to link too. This also helps with SEO and also increasing your credibility PROVIDED you actually use QUALITY sources. (Think of it like you did when you wrote research papers, you had to make sure your sources were credible. Do the same thing for your blog.)
Add Affiliate Links
Adding affiliate links helps generate a nice chunk of money when done correctly. Make sure you naturally add in links to things that you are familiar with. I also personally started adding in search boxes with suggestions based on my keywords from Amazon too. That has increased my making money from home income.
Add Images to Related Posts/Landing Pages
I’ve learned from the bigger bloggers to add images to posts or landing pages to things related to the topic you’re writing about when a post gains a lot of traction. I’m it in this post to show how it looks. Granted, it does look like a lot to a post, but that is how you keep people clicking your site to find more things to learn about or gain from visiting you.
Be sure to check out Rebecca’s post Don’t Go Near That Publish Button Until You Read This!!!! to get the rest of the checklist of important things to do BEFORE you hit publish!
What else would you add to this list?
Wow, what great ideas to further my post – Don’t Go Near That Publish Button Until You Read This. These are needed ideas to make those search engines so happy with you !!!! I’ve been working on SEO on my blog and these tips are right on the money !!! Your blog is awesome, Crystal and I’m signing up for your Newsletter so I don’t miss a posts. Thanks so much for featuring my post – Happy Blogging.
Rebecca,
Your post was well worth featuring. You definitely got my fingers moving. 🙂 Thank you for sharing your blogging tips too. Thank you for signing up for my newsletter.
I hope to see you again soon. Thanks for stopping by and commenting.
Great tips!! I love having people share their advice for the newbies coming in, it really helps a lot! 🙂 #HomeMattersParty
I hope to help newbie bloggers as much as possible. I remember how lost I felt when I first started blogging.
Thank you for stopping by and commenting. I hope to see you again soon.
Thanks for the tips! I definitely need to up my SEO game, so now I’ve got good motivation!
I’m glad I was able to provide you with some extra motivation.
Thank you so much for stopping by and commenting. I hope to see you again soon.
Love the check Pinterest for SEO tip! Thanks for sharing!
You’re welcome for sharing that tip. It certainly makes a positive difference.
Thank you for stopping by and commenting. I hope to see you again soon.
Hi Crystal! I’d love to know how to add the little boxes from Amazon. I wanted to add a box about books I”m reading on my sidebar. Or I could do it at the end of the post like you have here. Thanks for the tips!
I’ve just started reading about SEO and did not think to look at Pinterest.. funny since I am on it ALL the time!
These are some excellent tips. It is amazing how much work goes on behind the scenes. Thanks for sharing and co-hosting at the #HomeMattersParty – we appreciate you! 🙂
~Lorelai
Life With Lorelai
Wow I never would have thought of finding keywords on Pinterest. Thanks for that tip. Love having you as a cohost on #HomeMattersParty
Great tips! I am so glad you shared this post with us at the Hearth and Soul Hop. Pinned and tweeted. Hope to ‘see’ you again this week – the hop is open now!
These are such great tips and all bloggers should follow them! Thanks for sharing these and for co-hosting the #SmallVictoriesSundayLinkup with me!
Ever since I’ve been more conscience of keywords and SEO, my search traffic has increased too.
Awesome tips, one’s I had not considered. Thanks, pinned both pictures for later 🙂 and sharing!