Today, time for more SEO tips to make money blogging. Actually, this is the second part of the seo tips to make money blogging post series.

If you still don’t know why you need SEO to make money blogging, you better check the first post, as it’s an important factor.

SEO is a must to make money blogging especially when it comes to private ads sales, because if you rank well on Google (I mean within the top 5 for a particular keyword), advertisers will known that they will be getting targeted traffic.

I’m not saying that you won’t be able to get good private ad sales deals unless you rank on top of Search Engines, but I can guarantee you it will be A LOT easier and that you could ask a high price, because of that targeted traffic you’re receiving.

Marketing + content + SEO = Success.

Easy, isn’t it? Let’s first focus on SEO, so let’s start.

SEO tips to make money blogging

Last post finished talking about anchor text, so I’ll start this post talking about something related to it. I’m talking about backlinks.

1) Backlinks: It’s essential to have backlinks pointing to your site to increase your SERP (Search Engine Ranking Position). Forums, blog commenting, killer posts… You should take your time to build backlinks to your site.

As an example, I spend 4-5 hours a week building backlinks to my site. You can get backlinks without moving a finger by posting killer articles, or working pretty hard, commenting on other blogs, submitting your sites, etc.

Since I started with keepblogging I really care about building backlinks, and I can say it’s worth it so far. Still working though. Stay tuned for future posts about how to build backlinks.

2) Title tags: As explained on the previous post, with the current limitations on the on-page optimization side, you need to maximize its benefits. Your page title is the text placed between the title tags ( <title> </title> ), and it’s the text that will show on the top of your browser, as an example:

As you may have figured out by now, it’s important to include keywords on the title tags.

3) Strong tags: You may know them as bold text too. It’s the text you write between the strong tags ( <strong> </strong> ). You use bold on texts because you want to emphasize or give an importance to a particular word, sentence or part of the body text, so readers can quickly see what’s the text’s all about or the important parts of it.

Well, Search Engines see bold text the same way as a person. That’s why it’s important to write keywords within the strong tags to show SE what your blog is about.

4) Directories: Who said directories don’t matter? I reach top of Google for the keyword make money online on spanish with my spanish blog mainly because of submitting my blog to directories, because I didn’t have a clue about SEO at that time, I was just submitting my blog to directories like crazy. It helped me.

Different times, for sure, but still don’t underestimate directories!

You can find some do follow directories list within this blog.

5) No follow: It’s extremely important to use no follow tags because linking to another site which has doubtful content will eventually penalize your site if you use the do follow technique, because you’ll be giving a vote / transferring reputation to that site.

Using no follow tags will prevent you to be penalized. I wrote a post about no follow tags long time ago, you can check it if you want, but to sum up, here’s an example about a no follow link:

<a href=”[insert website url here]” rel=”nofollow”>Make money blogging</a>

6) Permalinks: The permalinks are just links to different pages or posts on your blog. As a default, the permalink structure is this one:

http://www.keepblogging.net/?p=123

To use, let’s say, SEO friendly permalinks, you should use a custom structure, as shown on this example: