Go up the ranks: the zero spending challenge

SEO is one of my most hated part in being a blogger. In the real world, everyone hates traffic, here in the internet, everyone’s desperate for it. Some persons are just lucky and successful to gain regular visitors and large subscribers. For some, getting a hundred visitors a day could be a miracle. Another thing, the fact that we’re competing with millions of blogs and websites in our respective niches seemed to make the situation pretty demanding, frustrating and mind-blowing. Well, if you got a lot of spare bucks, you could always go for SEO help. What if you don’t?

Zero spending needs some resourcefulness and creativity

If you’re planning to optimize your blog and spend nothing (just like me), then you’re in for some serious challenge. Actually, there are many killer ways to rise up the ranks yet spend nothing. Some are even more effective than shedding bucks from your fat wallet, but we all agree they are all super hard. And I mean hard as hard.

Here are the ways:

1. Unique and high-quality content. Even if you dumped all your money on SEO if you still fail on this one then you probably need to just quit blogging. This one makes the biggest percent to the greatness of your blog. Lose it and you lose it all.

2. Linking to good and related sites. Do I need to explain? If you give your readers access to good sites, they might treat you as a potential blogger worthy of their trust. Plus it’s a good way of participating in the blogosphere.

3. Social Bookmarking. A link gold mine. You must be seriously out of your mind if you don’t have a social-bookmarking widget after your every post. Social Bookmarking is notorious for giving a high traffic chance to a blog or website.

4. Alt tags inside images. Search engine spiders weigh links inside images heavier than ordinary ones. Placing alt tags are another bonus since they are also taken much by SEs (search engines).

5. Submit a sitemap. This one provides better indexing for your blog contents/pages. Sitemaps really help if you want Search Engines to properly and efficiently index your site.

6. Submit your feed, content, blog to directories and search engines. Another form of link building. Effective to creating a wider scope for your blog.

7. Register at Google Webmasters. Gives you more control and optimization for your site. Great help on troubleshooting problems and identifying them. I can say this is a power tool.

8. Love your blog and readers. If you don’t, then what’s the point of blogging?

Try not to overload your sched by doing these things one at a time. The hardest and the most important thing still is on #1. Never take that one for granted. I’m still working on the things listed above, gave me a hard time really. No complaints though. It’s the spend zero challenge and I’m probably gonna succeed if I just keep my mind on it. If only there’s an easier way to have a high rank. Admittedly, tested and proven, there’s none.