Before the whole Google PR debacle, we were averaging around 100+ visitors a day here at The Rundown; after it, we went through a several-month period where we were lucky to draw as few as 30! I spent many, many days trying different things - joining new "hot posts" sites, making sure we were locatable in directories and engines across the web, commenting on others' blogs to help build a reputation and link back to the blog - but none of it seemed to help much.
That's when I elected to put my original plan of attack into action, and that plan of attack was simple: quit treating The Rundown like a "blog" and start treating it like any other webpage. Because that's what a blog really is: just another webpage or site.
I had been under the impression that "tags" worked as keywords and I actually thought that's what the blogging software did: entered the tags for each post as the keywords for that specific entry's page - but it doesn't. In fact, the most popular blogging packages do not provide any sort of metadata for your pages at all! But that's easy enough to rectify: simply edit your source info and add this information yourself. And a few specific plug-ins can help, if you are using WordPress.
Keywords suggestions plug-ins help by analyzing your page(s) and helping you choose not only the best keywords to include in your header, but keywords with the least amount of competitors, as well. If you run a WP blog, you need to check this out today!
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