Does Search Engine Optimization Benefit Your Visitors?

by Kristi Hines on August 30, 2010 · 23 comments · Blogging


Whether you like SEO or not, I hope you will enjoy my latest guest post “9 Search Optimization Tips with Benefits for Your Visitors.”

These 9 tips are geared toward simple ways to optimize your site for your visitors, not just for search engines, although these techniques might help you get better rankings as well. Included with these 9 suggestions are 35 resources and tools on implementing each of the on and offsite optimization recommendations.

This guest post is also an entry to the Bad Ass SEO Guest Blogging Contest. All support in the way of comments and tweets is greatly appreciated!

Blogging Contest

Now, as you know, there would be no contest with out the sponsors. Here are the awesome people, bloggers, and businesses that are supporting this contest.

$200 Prize Sponsors

$150 Prize Sponsors

$100 Prize Sponsors

$50 Prize Sponsors

Other prizes: Non-Cash Sponsors

  • Hostgator.com is offering a 1 year Business Web Hosting plan. Includes toll free phone number and SSL, a $179.40 value.
  • David Harry is offering a full years membership at SEO Training Dojo, a value of $250.
  • Link-Assistant.Com is offering SEO tools – SEO PowerSuite Enterprise (max. functionality license) $599 worth with a life-time LIVE! plan subscription.
  • Special thanks to the contest media partner My Blog Guest, the free guest post exchange community by Ann Smarty where users meet to exchange guest posts and network.

By the way, you can submit posts until September 2nd, so if you haven’t already, definitely jump in with a guest post about your best advice on SEO!

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Sajib August 30, 2010 at 11:29 am

Despite the opportunity, I got a number of cool links to follow. :D Thanks, Kristi, for posting this.
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Hector Cuevas August 30, 2010 at 11:53 am

Kristi..

Just read your article on SEO – not really big on SEO but there were some really good tips..

thanks for sharing
talk soon
Hector
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Andreas
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August 30, 2010 at 10:49 pm

Search engine optimization surely benefits the visitors, otherwise why google would come up with all those webmaster guidelines and rules for ‘ideal websites’ ;)

JR from Internet Marketing August 31, 2010 at 12:10 am

Well it seemed like a good contest, but I really have a problem with being told that I have to post about the contest once my submission is published with these guidelines:
“you must write a post on your blog about the contest that contains a link to the official contest post and links to all of the sponsors using the correct anchor text. Also these links must remain do-follow.”

So basically this contest is a link scheme to get anchor text links for the sponsors.
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Carlton September 1, 2010 at 2:27 am

Thanks for the nice SEO articles Kristi. Guest blogging is really going awesome these days and it benefits both sites.

Colleen from Kennewick Homes September 1, 2010 at 7:31 am

SEO benefits the website owner, but the landing pages the visitors land on should benefit the visitor. Or at least that is the way is should work. ;)
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Daniel Sharkov from Reviewz 'n' Tips
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September 1, 2010 at 11:08 am

The article is pretty good. I especially liked the internal linking part. Matt Cuts’ (one of the resource links) video was definitely worth checking out. The second link on the link building section also had some nice insights. Thanks for sharing!
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brian speer September 1, 2010 at 11:47 am

Great topic. Most people don’t understand how important SEO is and how to Incorporated it correctly. I live the tools you listed as well. Very nice.

used tires September 1, 2010 at 1:39 pm

Well to answer the topic on the post, I think it does benefit the users for sure! Because with out proper optimization, it’s not likely the readers are gonna be able to find your content/site without word of mouth or some other form of promotion. Hope you do good with your guest post Kristi! :D

Till then,

Jean
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Andrew from Blogging Guide
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September 1, 2010 at 5:27 pm

You always write the best of posts Kristi. Wishing you all the best in this contest.
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Melvin
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September 1, 2010 at 8:38 pm

Again Kristi, you’re the favorite one to win this out! :)

Good luck
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Brian from Charleston Marketing September 2, 2010 at 2:40 pm

I was just actually reading about this contest. Thanks for the information. I’ll jump right over to your post and make sure to leave a comment and send out a tweet.
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Ching Ya
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September 2, 2010 at 7:50 pm

Impressive article on the 9 SEO tips post. This can be a wonderful checklist prior to posting for each blogger. Interesting point about the header tags as well, font formatting can have so many advantages aside from tidying up our post presence. It’s true, effort ensures results. We just need to make them work.

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Annabel Candy, Get In the Hot Spot
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September 3, 2010 at 5:37 am

Hi Kristi, do you need the comments here or there?! Either way I hope you win:) SEO isn’t my favourite thing but it needs to be done so thanks for sharing your tips.
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Anne Moss September 7, 2010 at 10:27 am

I’m sure you’ll do well. You’re one of the best bloggers out there, IMHO.

One thing though, that looks like a bad ass horse in the picture to me, not a bad ass ass ;)
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Udegbunam Chukwudi from Blog Setup Services September 8, 2010 at 7:34 am

Best of luck with the contest ;-)
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car battery September 9, 2010 at 7:17 am

SEO definitely has its benefits, atleast I hope so. And I hope you win, Kristi.
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Robin
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September 9, 2010 at 2:07 pm

I strongly believe in SEO. My recent monthly revenue and traffic report proves the worth of SEO. You can check that in my blogs recent articles list.

Cheers.
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computer support September 10, 2010 at 12:14 am

I fully trust on Seo and doing for most of my projects. Seo is really beneficial for any kind of business. With few tactics, anyone can drive huge amount of traffic and get benefit.

Computer Tips Tricks September 21, 2010 at 4:31 am

SEO and quality have to be balanced. Thanks for sharing this piece of info, that’s really useful for most of us.
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Patrick from Reverse Phone Lookup September 29, 2010 at 10:34 pm

Hi Kristi! First of all this is a great topic you have chosen.We all know that SEO help Search Engines understand your website properly and most often than not it is the Search Engines that expose your website to your readers.So either directly or in directly it is the Search Engine Optimization that is helping visitors find all the good content on your website.
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Bill from Framingham MA Real Estate October 2, 2010 at 3:47 pm

Great job with your article Kristi! SEO is huge in the Real Estate industry. The great part about SEO is that most Realtors don’t know a thing about it. It leaves someone like me to be in a very advantageous position. I love learning everything I can:)
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Brainpulse December 28, 2011 at 2:28 pm

Cool Kristi,
No Doubt Search engine optimization is beneficial for our site, and you share nice tips with us just to get rank blog, thanks for such a nice post ….
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