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If you don’t SEO optimize your blog from the biggining you may miss the chance and lose targeted traffic that costs nothing you can receive from search engines. SEOing your blog is very important so that in future you have targeted traffic coming from search engines while you don’t need to pay a dime for it! The first steps to optimizing are easy. I also assume you have a blog running on wordpress.

All In One SEO Pack Plugin

This plugin is what I can say GOLD for wordpress blogs. It will change the title so that search engines read it easily and will give you higher rankings. Also it allows a feature where you can SEO every single post of your blog. The best thing is that All In One SEO Pack is all free and you can download it from http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/all-in-one-seo-pack/

Create a robots.txt

Web Robots (also known as Web Wanderers, Crawlers, or Spiders), are programs that traverse the Web automatically. Search engines such as Google use them to index the web content, spammers use them to scan for email addresses, and they have many other uses. Learn everything about it at http://www.robotstxt.org/ It’ll help you in rankings.

Update Permalinks.

SE’s will know better about what you are writing if they notice yourdomain.com/post-title than yourdomain.com/1254 Do you agree? There’s an option in wordpress to edit permalinks. Don’t ever let them be numbers.

Use a sitemap

You could use google sitemap creator. It’ll be easier for search engines to index all the pages of your website which will bring in some more traffic. It won’t take long to setup a simple sitemap. Web users also look for them to easily read your content

Backlinks

70% of the game is backlinks. You’ll need them to rank for special keywords. But notice that you’ll also need them linked with the right anchor text. Don’t just use the url. Ask the ones that link to your site to include keywords.

SEO Your Titles

It’ll be easier for google if you provide them keywords in the title itself. It’s better to Use “Keyword | Title With Keywords than, “Welcome to Our Site”.

The <h1> and <b> tags

Place <h1> tags at the top of the page. Also use <b> tags to bold text where your keywords are in posts. If you don’t know html just don’t touch anything.
Apply all these! …Unless you want to be the latest in the row for the keyword you are trying to rank