Blog Content Prison

Everybody is always saying that they don’t know what to write about for their blog hopefully this will change that and improve your search engine rankings at the same time.

When you created your blog you should have done some keyword research to find the keywords that you want your blog to rank for. If you didn’t do any keyword research then now is the time to do it.

Now I am going to assume you have done your keyword research and have a list of keywords that you want to rank for in the search engines. Hopefully you have a list of at least 10 keyword phrases if not go back to your keyword research and dig up some more.

List your ten best keyword phrases and this will be the first part of the title of your post.

For example, some of my keywords are:

Blogging Instructions
How To Blog
Blog Site
Blog Themes
Blog Hosting
Blog Content
WordPress

Now look at my posts. You will see that I have a post with a title that starts with almost all of these keyword phrases. (The How To Blog and Blog site are actually taken care of by the domain name and an html insert I have at the beginning of the page.)

What does this do?

Simple it gets my keywords in a prominent position on the website and I since I have all my post titles set to H1 this gives them as much weight as you can for on site optimization.

Now go to one of the pages, here is a link to the blog theme page Blog Themes it will open in a new window.

By the way the post above is a post on the theme that let’s me easily change my post titles to H1 without editing the CSS files, just a couple of clicks of the mouse.

Look at the URL in the address bar of your browser you will see that the URL contains the term Blog Theme twice.

Now look at title for the page again I have my main keywords first in the title to give them more weight.

This is what you want to do with your keyword phrases. Now take those ten keyword phrases you have and you have ideas for ten posts to write or to have written for you.

Once you have these ten articles done that doesn’t mean you have to stop using that keyword phrase at the beginning of your post titles. You can write as many post as you can think of on that topic, in fact I recommend you write numerous post on the topic to get more coverage in your longtail keyword phrases.

If you have been setting the correct way you should now have a place to start when it comes to writing an article. Keywords are the soul of your blog, use them, use them often and try to get them in positions that will help you with your search engine optimization (SEO).

As far as the rest of the blog configuration goes that is way too much to put in one post, you can get complete instructions at Blogging Beginners with the benefit of being able to ask the questions you want the answer to. Or you can search through the post here because sooner or later almost everything will be addressed.