Day 6: Finding Keywords
Keywords are well, the key to everything. Yes I wrote that and I’ll even admit that it is lame, but keywords are important. They are the entire structure for your blog. As simple as possible, search engines like keywords, and we like search engines. How do you find what keywords you should use? Overture is your new best friend. It will tell you how many searches were done on each word per month. You will want to use these keywords in your technorati tags, titles, and posts. Plus they tell you what to write about.
What should you write about? I keep a notebook of all my keywords for each blog. Then I have what I call command central, which is really just a bulletin board with sticky notes on it. So whenever I have a brainstorm I write down future posts ideas so I don’t forget. When I’m stumped, I just look at command central and there are my topics. So the next step in starting your own business is to make your first post. You should post at least a few times a day, if not several times a day. Post as much as you can without compromising your content, which will differ for every blog. Feel free to post a permalink to your first ever post in the comments.