Tips to Search Engine Optimizatize Your Active Rain Blog

Blogs are just like web pages and are read by the search engine according to these factors. Your text should include the following:

1. Keep you text length around 100 to 250 words to make it easy to read by both your audience and search engine robots.

2. Use Bold, Italics, Upper Case, and links to point out to search engines the importance of those specific keywords.

3. Put Keywords in a bulleted list somewhere on the page to stress the importance of those words.

4. Find out what keywords are being used most often in peoples searches and make a point to follow item #2 above. A free Keyword Tool tool like Word Tracker will be helpful to find out what people are searching for.

5. Try to do one content or text page or blog per day.

Using Directories for Website More Traffic!!

Using directories to help optimizing your website. (edit/delete)
I'm now reading Search Engine Optimization for Dummies and what a great book for realtors with websites. I learned the value of directories.

For one, I learned how to find out if your site is recognized by the major search engine. All you have to do is go the search window for the site. For example my website is www.jasonhector.com. I go to www.google.com and in the search box type the following: site:jasonhector.com. This will tell you how many pages Google has their directory.

Try the other major websites too.

1. www.yahoo.com

2. www.msn.com

3. www.ask.com

4. www.dmoz.org

If you are not recognized by these search engines, submit your site so that people can find you on the internet. Good luck and happy blogging.