Quickest Ways to Improve Your Blog Ranking

Webmasters and online marketers now rely heavily on blogging to improve their website’s ranking on search engines. That is because they have come to realize that blogs have become a powerful source for online marketing. However, many newbie bloggers still fail to know that without proper SEO, many blogs never get to rank high in search engines.  The real reason their blogs and websites remain relatively unnoticed by web surfers. Therefore, if you want to utilize your blog for effective marketing of your business, you’ve got to do all you can to improve your blog’s ranking by search engines.

Here are some tips which can help you to quickly have your blog ranking high in search engines:


 
Get Your Blog on Social Media
 
These days, social media is where everyone seems to be. As a result, you get to find social networking sites in almost every corner of the web. Because of the popularity of social media sites, they have become the best places to meet people with the same interests online. That makes them very ideal places where you can get important links. You can easily create a brand name and improve your brand popularity on social media if you regularly post high quality articles which get noticed and attract comments from readers.

Do Blog Commenting
 
This is particularly very helpful when you comment on blogs which are already very popular. The popularity of such blogs somehow helps your comments to be indexed by search engines. That helps your own blog ranking as well. Adding relevant comments to other’s blog posts is another effective way to increase blog traffic. You must be sure your comments are relevant to the topic and informative enough to attract comments. When readers find your comments useful, they naturally get more curious to find out more about you. That consequently attracts clicks on your link back to your own website or blog. That means more traffic!

Give Your Blog Wide Exposure

To boost your blog’s search engine ranking and traffic, you must explore all ways to give it maximum exposure. One of the best ways to do so is by syndicating it with RSS feeds to give it full exposure. With RSS feeds, whenever any modification or addition is made on your blog, your audience gets updated quickly and seamlessly.

Do Social Bookmarking

This is one online activity which only experienced hands in the business can use effectively. When properly done, bookmarking helps immensely to increase both traffic and search engine ranking of your blog. Technically, what social bookmarking does is to allow your blog users to save and create a collection of their favorite bookmarks, categorize them and later share them with other users. These other users can further subscribe the bookmarks to other’s lists and even add bookmarks from other lists to their own. This way, your blog gets further propagation thereby getting exposed more and more. The more bookmarking you do, the more blog traffic you get and that helps your search engines ranking a great deal.

Glossary of Affiliate Marketing Terminologies

Every business has a peculiar vocabulary and terminology, so is affiliate marketing.  For a newbie, some of this lingo may be confusing at first. Not to worry! As you get along in the business, you no doubt become familiar with these terms, clichés, and concepts.

Here are some of such terms you just have to know:

Customer: The name for the end user or purchaser of the merchant’s product or service.

Merchant: The owner or creator of a product or service.

Affiliate: The partner who promotes the merchant’s products for a commission.

Publisher: The name an affiliate is also called if he runs his business from a website or blog.

Affiliate program: A program set up by merchants to pay commissions when affiliates refer people to their products.

Commission: An agreed percentage of the total sale that is paid to the affiliate for referring the sale.

Cookie: A smart web instrument used to assign a unique ID to the buyer in order to tag the purchase as being referred by an affiliate. Cookies usually have a predetermined lifespan. So, even if the buyer doesn’t purchase right away, the affiliate will still get credit for the sale if it occurs within the set time frame, say 24 hours, 7 days or even 60 days or more.

Referral: Credit for a click or a sale that occurs when the affiliate sends traffic to the merchant’s site.

Affiliate agreement: A contract that merchants and affiliates agree on specifying the rules, responsibilities, rates to be paid and other legalities.

Affiliate link: A trackable URL that identifies the affiliate as the source of targeted traffic to a merchant’s site.

Referral: A click on an affiliate link counts as a referral.

Affiliate network: An online marketplace where merchants list their products and where affiliates can find products to sell.