Why Bloggers Don’t Need SEO

“If you write a great blog, and make an effort to network your niche and gain those all important regular deep links to your posts from other bloggers, you’ll rank, your archives will be monetized, particularly if you pay attention to such things as Time Sensitive Adsense, and your blog will be in Better Health.”

Well said, in his article - Why Bloggers Don’t Need SEO, Nick Wilson, from Performance.com clearly pointed out “What and Why”, he said,

For the most part, bloggers just shouldn’t be worrying about SEO.

That doesn’t mean that your pages shouldn’t be Search engine friendly, or that you shouldn’t use good anchor-text when linking out. It doesn’t mean that actively promoting your blog to other blogs in your topic area isn’t a good idea. What it does mean, is that bloggers shouldn’t be worrying about shitty directory listings, useless reciprocal link schemes or any of these “snake oil” ranking recipes.

The most valuable link you will ever get is a positive recommendation from an authority blog in your niche - mostly. This means a link in the body of a post, not on a links page, or in a blogroll, but a genuine recommendation, or positive reference to your blog — preferably to a single post, not the homepage.

It is a very interesting read, especially,

If you’re under the impression that joining some snake oil scheme, swapping links or stuffing your page titles’ with keywords is going to make you rich then you’re either an idiot, or woefully misinformed.

Here is the full article, I highly recommended you spend bit of your time read it even you are not a Blogger.

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