Blog Headlines for SEO

It can be difficult to know how to get traffic from search engines and a good blog headline is one way. If you thought you were the only one having a difficult time getting traffic from search engines then you are mistaken. There are not many blogs and web sites that will give you this information for free. However, over the years I have been a private consultant to many companies creating web sites and blogs.

Search engines never usually tell you how you can get a higher ranking for your blog itself or your blog posts, but during my time as private consultant I learned more than I already knew. The reason for that is because search engine optimization seems to be changing monthly so I had to change with it. I have talked a little about search engine optimization on this blog, but I’m going to talk more in the coming weeks because people are looking to get easy traffic to their blogs and over time search engines can do that for you.

One way to begin is by writing a good blog headline. I try to teach bloggers that it is important to create a striking blog headlines so you can get people’s attention. A striking blog headline gets people to read your posts, get social media users to come to your blog, and will help you get linked to by other bloggers. The main problem is that a striking blog headline may not get your post ranked very high in search engines.

Here’s some tips on how to get your blog posts ranked high in search engines even with a striking blog headline:

• The most important keywords of your blog post should be at the beginning of your post headline. It seems as if Google and other search engines search through the first few words of the post title and then moves down the rest of the blog headline second.
• Make sure the main keywords used at the beginning of your post title are in the first two sentences of your blog post. Again, Google and other search engine’s start from the top and go down.
• When using adjectives to describe what you will be talking about, make sure that it is not part of your permalink. Unless you find that people will type that adjective in with the other keywords of your blog post, don’t use it in your permalink. In your permalink. just use keywords that you are trying to match with your blog headline.
• Use Google keywords to help you find certain keywords that you can use in your blog headline that people search for. Look for ones that do not have a lot of competition. These will be the easiest ones to get your blog post ranked high in search engines.

Those are the simple techniques of writing a good blog post headline that can both be creative, but will also get your blog post ranked higher in search engines. There isn’t really any secret when it comes to writing a blog headline.

Tagged as: Blogs, Google, Keywords, Search Engine Optimization, Seo, Social Media, Traffic