A lot of people still ask me how they can come into the search engines like yahoo or Google with their blogs. A lot of people complaining that they even submitted their URL several times but Google/ Yahoo/ Live search is not reacting and they can do what they want they are not in the index or if then they get found only a few times a week with long term searches witch nobody normal would search for.

Search engines work with a algorithm who says which page is how relevant for getting found. And the most important thing to show the engine that your page is relevant is that a lot of people think the page is relevant. This they show by linking to you. Links are the relevance signs of the Internet. So if you haven’t any links to your blog, how Google should know that it even exists, or if it knows this why should it let you into the index if nobody gives you link credits?

You need links and the best links are links from pages who write about similar stuff like you. But how to get this links?

It is not that hard. Nearly every blog has some comment function and there you can leave your name and your blog URL. So just go around, find some blogs you like and comment there. This are your first links and maybe you have luck and the author likes your blog and links to you some times. But please notice that writing a comment like “Good article, nice pictures” is spam. Comment only if you would say something to this in real life too. I would never go to somebody I don’t know and say “Hey good speech and nice wife!” But to discuss with somebody is allowed and even the most blogger are happy discussing with you.

S o from this you have some links and if you wait some time you will see, that the traffic from the search angines will grow. Maybe you know some friends how have a blog too and ask them if they don’t want to give you a link. Or you are in a social community like myspace ore something? Usually there is some place to spread your blog url too. Be a bit creative and then if you want to know a bit more how to optimize your page for search engines read this article: The Basics of Search Engine Optimization.

If you want to test getting into the index by writing comments, feel free to test it here in this article:)

I really can not have a blog or webpage witch doesn’t look like I like it. It is of course the most important that is works fine for my needings. But a ugly page is breathtaking. It takes away my fun, my motivation. I don’t know why. Now i worked more then 2 hours on this design and i start to like this blog. First I thought really not to do here anything. Take some standard theme, write about standard topics and really just increase my language.

But i wrote now a few articles and of course I really appologize for them. A native speaker have to role his fingernails but i like it. Not the result, even not the meaning of this articles. But to write and to see that it works. Not fine, even not ok. But i can feel motivation to improve and increase my language. And this is at the beginning more worth then to have wonderful ideas for highly digged articles and then you don’t write them because everything is more important this moment, this time. The end for a blog.

I don’t say that you can not have a plan for your blog. But you have to have fun with this.

Usually this is the first question I give people who ask me to do them a blog. What do you want to write about? Where do you see your blog in a half year, in one year? I tell them not to go a strict business way, but all the blogs started by some friends without a aim got quite empty after a while.

You need a concept and it can be only as small as mine: Writing an English blog to improve my language. And my wallet maybe too.

I do web design. I ask the people what they want to write about because i think a web design should have something out of the author and something from the theme it will be about. But how to design a for a blog just written to write? I want to improve my language without thinking about some special topic. I will write what is in my mind. Because of that this blog looks quite boring. This is the concept.

Huh, wtf is he writing, he has to be a fool. If I am writing about Paris Hiltons scandals or Britney Spears underwear my traffic increases directly and all the time I am getting visitors for the porno-keywords. He’s calling him self a SEO and has no clue what he’s talking about.

This you will think, when you read the headline to this article. But you are wrong. The traffic you get from youporn and redtube, tims tube free porn nude stuff is worthless. Maybe it will be 50% of your search engine traffic. But anybody stays? Would anybody be after wanking of getting interested in your blog, your direct visitors would increase. Bur this is not the reality.

Of course you could try to get some money out of this. Place some ads there in the text or let some layers in your blog. But how much visitors this keywords can reach? You will maybe get 6$ for 1000 Visits. How long you will need for this?

Ok, what i want to say is that it has not any sense to optimise your normal blog for this. Start a celebrity blog and maybe you will get rich. Maybe not. But for a normal blog it is just crap and will let your normal visitors run away. Belief me.

My biggest success have been the nude scandal pic from Vanessa Hudgens, taken by Zac Efron. I had something around 3000 visitors every day, still coming 2000 visitors a day. But I am in the third position for “Vanessa Hudgens” in the German Google. I got quite good money out of this, but still i say you, it hasn’t sense to write about this crap. Or if you do, do it right. Be the first, if you will find more then ten blogs writing about this, forget it. I have been the first, writing about Vanessa Hudgens, because of that even my new blog could rank perfect. But if you are not the first, don’t go to the nerves of your visitors and spam the Internet.