Blogs will improve search rankings faster than almost any other method. Because of RSS, blogs broadcast new material faster than websites. Blogs are given more importance by the search engines. Links from blogs are given high importance by the search engines. SEO blog writing is a key part of business blog marketing and getting more website traffic.

How you write your blog posting is very important to get the best SEO results. These are the 5 important elements to a good SEO blog posting.

1. Keywords: Create a blogging plan that is highly focused for content and keywords. Choose no more than 5 keyword phrases and it is best if these phrases are selected around a single concept or subject.
2. Blog title: Use one of your phrases within the blog title each day. The search engines give high importance to the words in a blog title. Remember that when you craft a blog title, you want to attract readers and satisfy the search engines.
3. Prominence: Use your targeted keyword phrase at least one time in the first 25 words of your posting. The search engines place a higher value on text used near the beginning of the blog posting. Be careful not to overuse your your keyword phrase. Try not to exceed using it 3 times in the body of the posting.
4. Link text: Use your keyword phrase one time within a hyperlink. Use the exact phrase and link this keyword phrase to the most relevant page on the website you want to boost the rankings for.
5. Posting length: Blog posts should be approximately 250 words. Search engines prefer longer posting, while human readers prefer shorter posting. Blog postings of 200-300 words seem to satisfy both.

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