If you’ve been wondering why your blog hasn’t ranked high or why your readership has declined, it may be due to a lack of SEO optimization. Sure, you may have quality content and eye-catching titles, but unless you’ve taken the necessary steps to choose the right keywords for your articles, you may not see much improvement. Keywords have an extremely important role in search engine optimization and the success of your blog. Along with having current, quality content, bloggers also want to have specific keywords that draw in readers and, hopefully, earn you some money. Here are some helpful tips to choosing and implementing the right keywords for your blog:

Brainstorm a Few Keywords

Before or after your article has been published online, you’ll want to spend some quality time brainstorming a few keywords that will get your blog indexed in major search engines. While you’re brainstorming, it’s a good idea to go to a popular search engine, such as Google or Yahoo, and type in keywords that relate to the topic you’re writing about. This will help you see what results come up and what other keywords your competitors are using. The best way for bloggers to choose their keywords is to think like their potential readers and search as they would.

Use Two or Three Keyword Combinations

Now that you know what keywords are popular, you’ve got to tweak your keywords to make them stand out among your competitors. It’s highly unlikely that single-word keywords will get you high rankings for very long, or at all. Non-specific one-word keywords are used by thousands of bloggers every day, and using them will only make it harder for your blog to get ranked high. The most effective keywords typically contain two to three words. You should think about common and highly specific words or phrases that readers are most likely to type into a search engine. In other words, don’t simply choose “cooking” as one of your keywords; try “cooking for one” or “organic cooking” to narrow your focus.

Utilize Online SEO Tools

In your pursuit to find the best keywords for your blog, it’s a good idea to take advantage of the awesome SEO tools that are right at your fingertips. Google AdWords is a terrific tool for researching the competition and global and local monthly searches for certain words or phrases. This keyword tool will help you tweak your current keywords to include less competitive words and better word arrangements. While on this site, check out the price of individual keywords. If you have a Google Adsense campaign, this will give you a better understanding of how much or how little you’ll earn. It can be enticing to choose keywords that are worth more money, but you may not notice a difference in your ranks if the keyword competition is high. Niche subjects with less competitive keywords are still a better bet for your blog.

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Mariana Ashley is a freelance writer who particularly enjoys writing about online college. She loves receiving reader feedback, which can be directed to mariana.ashley031 @gmail.com.

Did you ever think about this? Your comments are actually extensions of your blog’s content. In other words, sure, you’re not posting that content on your own blog, but any reader who sees your comment in the comment thread at another blog could click your name and immediately navigate to your blog via one of your comments.

Know what that means? That means your comments are your content!

Because of this, we have to be careful with the kinds of comments we leave at other blogs. We can’t simply dash off comments in the comments sections to get a DoFollow link, unless we add some sort of valuable content to that comment thread. So, keep the following ideas for good commenting practice in mind as you sit down to type a comment. Happy commenting!

Ask a Question

This kind of comment can help spark more discussion in the comments section. It can also serve to help you get some clarification from the blog post author or from other commenters regarding something that maybe you are confused about or interested in. It’s a good way to encourage more discussion.

Weigh In Smartly

When you weigh in, you essentially position yourself as another expert in the discussion and offer your opinion on the issue. Of course, you don’t want to come across as a know-it-all, so be humble with your opinion. Show some self-awareness in your comment. If someone offers an intelligent response, be sure to thank them!

Use Your Real Name

This is important because it helps you build your brand online. Always use a real sign-in handle that automatically links back to your blog. That way, people can connect your comment to your blog. As they read more of your comments around on other blogs, they’ll begin to create an idea of who you are and what your brand represents. You want this to connect with the ‘real’ you, not some pseudonym. Furthermore, commenting under you real name will keep you from posting anonymously critical comments. If you have something critical to say, you should own up to it and responsibly voice your opinion.

Write ‘Good’

When you comment, use proper language. Write in complete sentences. Use proper punctuation and spelling. Proofread your comments. You’re comments will be easier to read that way, and they will allow you to write complex, well-conceived thoughts instead of fragmentary phrases like ‘love this!’ Using proper grammar allows you to write complete and complex thoughts that others can understand.

Interact With Other Bloggers

Finally, do your best to join a conversation when you make a comment. This means that after you make one comment, you’ll want to visit that comment thread often (or subscribe to it via email) so that you can follow-up on any comments in response to yours. Making a comment then leaving the thread is like joining a discussion, then excusing yourself after you say three words so that you can take a phone call. It’s not very polite! Plus you might miss out on some good discussion later on.

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Alvina Lopez is a freelance writer and blog junkie, who blogs about accredited online colleges.  She welcomes your comments at her email Id: alvina.lopez @gmail.com.

Google has introduced new feature in Gmail lab.You can drag images into Gmail and Google buzz from your computer directly.

This wonderful feature is auto enabled in your Gmail account,it doesn’t need any system setting in Gmail lab.

Only drag the images from your computer and drop in your message composing box,if you want to change the size of any image,you can resize easily and send in a message.

This awesome feature works in Google’s own web browser chrome.So use Google Chrome for fast speed and better web browsing experience.

It’s really big problem to manage contacts in your address book,but thanks to Google because it has added a new feature in Gmail which was most wanted feature of Gmail users.

Now you can manage your address book in your Gmail.You can merge all duplicate contacts in your Gmail address book with a single click.

“We’ve added a single button that merges all your duplicate contacts at once. To clean up your contact list in one fell swoop, just click the "Find duplicates" button in the contact manager, review the merge suggestions (and uncheck any suggestions you don’t want merged), and hit the "Merge" button.”

How is the feature ? Would you like it to manage your address book and duplicate contacts ?

Your feedback is more important to us.

Gmail is one of the best online email service.It is innovative step of Google taken 5 years  back.It has improved day by day.If your connection is slow or you want to read your important mail,you can read offline using offline Gmail.

Google has announced Offline Gmail Graduation.It was in Labs earlier but now it has become the regular part of Gmail.

Now you can turn it on or off from the offline tab under setting.Follow the steps to get started with Offline Gmail on your computer.

1. Click the “Settings” link in the top-right corner of Gmail.
2. Click the “Offline” tab.
3. Select “Enable Offline Mail for this computer.”
4. Click “Save Changes” and follow the directions from there.

So don’t wait,go and set your offline Gmail.

Old days are over now when Email system was not innovative like today.Old mails sending system was so simple.But over the time emailing system improved with many new features.You can send your email as you like.

Recently Google added new feature in Gmail.You can set the specific style for your message.
If you like to use a specific text style for your messages, you’ve had to change the font every time you’re about to start typing out an email. Now, you can turn on default text styling from the Labs tab, then go to Settings and set your preferences just once.

If you live and breathe code, now you can set your default text style to a monospace font. If your life is purple, your email can be, too. But remember: whatever you see is what your recipients will see, so be nice to them and try not to clog the intertubes with ginormous bold italicized red script.