Author: Jara
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) will continue to be a big part of writing as long as search engines continue to be so popular. It’s a never ending dance trying to balance writing articles that readers will enjoy as well as the search engines. There are some things that you need to know about SEO in order to be successful in 2011.
The last couple of years anyone who has dabbled in writing for money online will understand the control search engines have had over writers. Traffic is the most important thing to anyone who writes for money online and it seemed at one point writers were willing to sell their souls to be ranked number one for their keywords. The result was a flood of writing that was crafted to please spiders and robots instead of humans.
But there is a new kid on the block that promises to break up the reign of search engines: social media. I’m not saying that you should just through SEO out the window. Search will still give writers the most traffic, but maybe it’s time we prepare to change our writing styles again just like we did when Google blow up. Facebook has recently passed Google to become the most visited site in the world, and at the moment Facebook is said to be worth around $50 billion. As social media continues to mature articles built only for robots just won’t cut it anymore.
A lot of young writers have the fear that the internet is just getting to saturated. They believe that it is near impossible to make money online because there are just so many people doing the same thing. I’d have to respectfully say, that is ludicrous. That’s the beauty about the internet: there is no such thing as monopolies or over saturation. Consider the fact that new niches are born each and every day. The only thing holding us back from making money online is our own imagination.
I get the question often “How can I get my blog on the first page of Google?” If I had a dime for every time I’ve heard that question… I’d be writing this from my private jet as I fly to my private yacht on my private island. But I digress. I have been preaching the same message now for years and it will still hold true in 2011, if you want to get your site to rank well then get backlinks. Of course, other “gurus” and “experts” have whole eBooks on what it takes to get ranked and no doubt some of their advice works. But nothing has shown to be even as close to effective as backlinks are.
2011 is the year of the rabbit according to the Chinese Zodiac. I’m not sure how that affects article writing, blogging, freelance writing, etc. but I do know that 2011 will be much of the same SEOwise. However, keep an eye on social media. It has the potential to really change the whole writing scene as writing writers try to tap into its explosive viralness.
Jara Johnson has over 5 years experience writing blogs for money.
You can read his original article here: SEO 2011
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Just as we don’t spend a lot of time worrying about how all those poets out there are going to monetize their poetry, the same is true for most bloggers.
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