Making Blogs Visible

Writing a blog is a good way to have an online presence. But there can be a difference between having an online presence and being visible to your audience. Merely having an online presence may not be enough to make a blog successful in terms of getting readers and online visitors. Bloggers may need to make their blog visible in terms of making it easy for online users to find it.

Making a blog visible may not be as easy as it seems. With thousands upon thousands of blogs found in the Web, it would seem such a task for a blog to become visible among the others. For this, you would need to know the ways to make blogs become more visible. The main method is to try to make it rank high in the search engines.

Search Engines

One way that you can try to make your blog visible is by making it search engine friendly. By being such, you are making your blog easier for search engines to find and categorize, making it also easier for them to make it a part of their search results. This will help quite a lot since most people rely on search engines to find the information they need on the Web. There are many ways in which you can make your blog search engine friendly.

Blog Structure

How your blog is designed and structured may help it become more search engine friendly. Most search engines rely on search "spiders" to find information on the Web. The spiders, on the other, rely on how websites and blogs are designed in order for them to retrieve whatever information they can find and then send it to search engine servers for proper identification and categorized.

There may be a lot of technicalities involved with making a blog or website search engine friendly. Making it "spider friendly" is the simplest way to explain how your blog may become visible to search engines and therefore, to most online users.

Effective Linking

Another way to make your blog visible is to connect with other blogs or websites via links. Links are simply specially coded texts in websites that allows visitors to a page to go to another page or website. You can think of them as a means to lead people to your page if you place them well enough on other sites or blogs that might consider having your links. You can think of it as a doorway that would link visitors from other linked sites or blogs into your own blog. If done effectively, links would greatly help in further making your blog more visible online.

Author:
Dennis Chiu, Writer and Certified Blogster

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