Money From Blogging

I have been making many mistakes while trying to be smart or outsmart Google, Yahoo and other search engines. Though I was thinking, I am doing pretty good at outsmarting Google, Yahoo and Bing, I think I forgot about my main target, reader of my blog. That is where I thought I must list my mistakes and prepare my own SEO don’t do list.

1. No keyword stuffing at the cost of article flow
We must never forget that, we actually want readers, who are human being, to read our articles, not search engines like Google, Yahoo and Bing. We need search engines to bring readers to read our articles so that they may consider buying things on our website or blog, may tempt to read further with the links shown on advertisements by Google AdSense. So, the flow of the article should not be compromised in order to stuff more and more relevant keywords. A good article is not where search engines find good number of targeted keywords, but a well written, resourceful document.

2. Spelling Mistakes
Since we find that many people search using words with wrong spelling for our targeted keywords, we tend to use wrong spelling in our article. Even I used wrong spelling in tags, articles and found few visitors for those “incorrect” words, and felt happy! But later, I realised that with spelling mistake I am losing credibility in front my readers. So, now a days, I never use incorrect spelling, little variation in spelling of my keywords.

3. Duplicate Contents
I am not saying SPLOG or spam blog here, neither am I saying auto blogging. We read many sites ourselves, learn many things from those sites. Also, we get impressed by few facts, articles from other blog or website and start writing about the same topic, but changing “their language”. We may be able to escape copyright laws, or outsmart search engines for duplicate contents, but how do we escape from our readers ? Our readers would be intelligent enough to either remember the original article or will be quick to find out that the article is inspired enough by the original one. You may gain from search engines, but you lose respectability from your reader. So, I would say, why not put simply quote few lines and a link back to the original article ? Or better why not ask for permission from the original author for quoting few lines and a link back ?

Presently I have realised these three mistakes I had been doing. I have resolved myself not to do above in my articles.