I sometimes get people asking me – “Hey Kian Ann, it surely looks good to have a blog standing well in the search engine rankings… but what is the secret?”
You know – the fact is…
There is NO SECRET.
When it comes to SEO, there is really no secret! What I do is just find out what Google likes, and just GIVE it to them! And where do you find what Google wants? No, you do not have to buy a $997 package… you can get it for free at the Google Webmasters Central.
Seriously.
The marketing methods for I use for my blog is dead boring. All I do on a regular basis is this:
- Add new content to the blog
- Comment on people’s blogs
- Write articles to be submitted to EzineArticles.com and
- Submit my blog to directories
Yeah yeah, I know you’ve heard of them… the question is ARE YOU DOING IT?
Do you want your blog to be up the ranks? Try this. Create a “blog marketing daily habit” chart for yourself, and stick it for 3 months. Just 90 days. You will see the difference.
And this applies not only to blogs, but to all websites too! 
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Excellent points, and I would have to agree with you 100%. Just look at what Google wants and follow it. There are a few tricks with header tags, meta tags, anchor text, and the like, but there is no $947 secret.
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Very simple guideline to understand SEO.
I based in Malaysia and I also help other in Wordpress creation. I also help my friend in KL to promote Joomla as well.
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Nice to know SEO secrets. I am used to submit my blog or articles to directories.