Are you looking for info on how to rank a blog post in the search engines? In this article we will talk about some of the on page search engines optimization stuff that you can do, we will also talk about some off page things that you can do.

So to break it up we will talk about

• On page SEO (search engine optimization) includes everything we do ON our website. The content we write the tags or keywords we use and so on.

• Off page SEO includes everything we do OFF our website. This can be writing an article like this one to link to our website or social bookmarking for example.

On Page SEO

So what are some things we can do on our website to help the search engines find our content?

Keywords - we can use keywords so that the search engines find our content. There are different tools that you can use to tell how many people are searching for a keyword or keyword phrase.

These keyword phrases you can use in your title, url and in your content. You don`t want to over use the keywords in your content, ones in the beginning of the post is usually enough. Sometimes I add it in the end of the article as well.

You do want to write the article in a natural way.

Other places you can add these keywords are in your tags section.

Even though we do help the search engines to find our content we have to remember that there is a person, a real person, that will be reading our post or article. Always make sure that your content is reader friendly and not only search engine friendly.

Off Page SEO

There are many things you can do off page to help with rankings. Here are some suggestions:

Articles – writing articles and pointing them to your blog posts can be very effective not only can you get visitors from the article directories but you also get ”link juice” from the dirctories. Getting a link from an article is almost like getting a ”vote” for your site.

Social media – another way to get a ”vote” is from social media. You can submit your blog post to places like Twitter, Pinterest, Facebook, Linked In and other social media places.

There you have a few ways to help your website content rank in the search engines. Hope it answered your question - How to rank a blog post in the search engines.