SEO or content?

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The old SEO or great content debate. I fight this one myself all of the time. I will of course post to blogs everyday and let other sites that I have given up on languish for moths without any new content but what is the most important thing to do?

I can spend a couple of hours tweaking the SEO on a blog to see if I can get a few hundred posts to rank better or I can add one more post and see if that post will get me more traffic.

This has always been tough for me as I have no problem at all with the tweaking of the PHP, Perl or HTML code on a site and see instant changes in a look or at the outside wait a month or so to see the efforts of my SEO work to see if it makes the difference. The other thing that I do at times is the external SEO where I will post to forums (with a good signature link) or post to blogs (automated name, email, and website) and just add comments. Here is what I currently look as good valid work.

1. Content - I will add content everyday but from now on I am going to be a bit more focussed. I will do some keyword research using WordTracker and other sites to get good ideas for posts that will sell well in Google, I will also start writing more reviews so that at least the pages views can convert ot something instead of adsense.

2. SEO - I have tweaked my wordpress on another blog and am waiting to see the whole follow, nofollow, index, noindex and how well they will work but I am going to actually implement these changes on all of my sites to see if there will be a big change. I will be posting soon enough about my WordPress plugins that work for SEO and pageviews but for now just know that I am doing some of that.

3. Content fixing - I am going to surf through all of my blogs and improve my internal SEO as well by making sure that all my posts are keyword rich and  that I am using H2 and H3 tags to the best that I can.

4. Site optimization - I have done this on other blogs. Not on this one yet but I will get to that over the Christmas break. This includes making sure that I have good affiliate products and that people can notice the affiliate links, Adsense is optimized and that I can get as many RSS and newsletter subscribers to my posts.

5. External links for traffic - Blog post comments and Forum comments can be good for backlinks but I believe that  most of them are nofollow so Google will not notice them. I will do more of these kinds of posting though for other blog owners to notice my sites as well as for other readers to notice my sites as well.

I think I have kind of captured everything that is in my mind but I have a bunch more stuff in my head that I want to post about mostly around processes and planning that I do well sometimes and badly at other times.

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