So, why have you created your blog? Why do you keep writing posts for your blog? If you are like most bloggers, your primary goal is to get free, unlimited amount of traffic and actually make money with your blog. Is that right?
Now, you have to realise that there are thousands of bloggers out there, also with the same objective as yours – to drive free, endless traffic to their blogs and ultimately make money.
Take Your Blog To The Top!
So, you’ll need to optimise your blog for increased rankings and improved search engine results. You can gauge how your blog is doing by checking the PageRank and Alexa ranking of your blog. I have installed the Firefox SearchStatus plugin on my computer to check my stats among other things.
Google uses a PageRank to determine the importance of a site. It’s one of many factors used to determine which pages appear in the search results. It runs from a scale of 1(poor) to 10 (excellent).
If you have a higher PageRank, then you will be seen as an authority and get priority over other sites. And that means more traffic to you! 
Let’s take a look at some effective strategies that you can implement straight away to boost your blog rankings and grab the top spots in the search engines:
[Some of this advice I got from Katie Freiling of www.KatieFreiling.com]
1) Install the WordPress blog optimisation plugins – they make the process easier and can increase your rankings.
2) Related Posts – have you ever wondered about how other bloggers add related post titles at the end of their posts? Well, wonder no more! You can have the related posts show up at the end of your posts by installing the WordPress Related Posts plugin:
This plugin automatically generates a list of the related posts to your new post, using relevant tags. This will encourage your readers to stay on your blog and continue to read your other posts. You can choose a number of related posts you want to show up. Check out the related posts at the end of this post to see what I’m talking about 
3) Use Internal Linking to promote your content. You can link from one post to another. Don’t be afraid to link to your previous posts, using the anchor text for the keywords that you want to get ranked for. This is great as you are in total control to create these links. The more links you use, the better the chances to increase your rankings!
4) Create Backlinks as they are a very important part of your plan to increase your blog rankings and attract more traffic to your blog. The more links to your blog, the more search engines are going to see that your content is popular and see you an authority. Simply put, the links are like votes and more votes will increase your blog rankings.
Encourage your readers to share your content and make it easier for them to do so, by placing the share buttons strategically on your blog.
Here is how to create backlinks to your blog.
5) Provide Value – of course, the above strategies mean nothing if you don’t produce quality content. The key is to be consistent with your blog posts and provide nothing but value. Otherwise you’ll lose your readers, get no votes, no backlinks to your blog and no higher rankings 
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To Your Success,
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Mavis Nong is the creator and author of this blog.
She is passionate about helping others create success online.
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Hi Mavis,
Everyone should subscribe to your blog…great info!
Page rank is really important – don’t let people steal your page rank from you – this happens more often than we realize.
All the best to you.
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Hi Mike,
Thanks for your vote of confidence!
I agree, if you are serious about blogging, you should pay special attention to your page rank.
I appreciate your visit and input.
All the best,
Mavis
Mavis,
This is a very helpful explanation on how to increase your blog rankings. I am going to have to install a couple of those plugins!
You are a great example of a proficient blogger, you consistently supply great blog posts full of content! Thank You!
Mary Thayer
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Hey Mary,
Good to see you here. I’m glad you found this helpful.
I appreciate your compliment.
All the best,
Mavis
Hey Mavis, Great Post.. This is very informative.. I’m going to syndicate this. Thanks again
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Hi Eric,
Welcome to my blog!
Thanks for the visit and for your kind words.
All the best,
Mavis
Neat post Mavis – am i the only Blogspot blogger out there lol!
Fostering reciprocity definitely works and the by product is increased shared knowledge
Cheers Kiaran
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Hi Kiaran,
Look forward to you joining us!
Thanks for stopping by and for commenting.
All the best,
Mavis
Mavis, You are a consistent source of amazing info. I’m going to install the Related Post plugin immediately.
Once again, thank you for sharing.
All the best,
Michael
Hi Michael,
I’m glad you found this helpful.
Thanks for the visit and for your kind words.
All the best,
Mavis
Mavis – great post
Creating backlinks is great for SEO purposes but also great for keeping people on your blog. The more they have to click on the more they’ll browse around..
thanks for sharing
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Hi Hector,
Good backlinks are very important for your blog.
Thanks for stopping by and for your input.
All the best,
Mavis
Great post, well explain. I have to follow these tips because I really need to increase my blog ranking. Thanks a lot.
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Hi Ngozi,
Welcome to my blog!
I’m glad you found this helpful.
I appreciate your visit and comment.
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Mavis
Hi Mavis
page rank is important and I did not realise it till a short while ago! It is very satisfying when you see your Alexa rank improving steadily.
regards
Charlie Holles
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Hi Charlie,
So true. It’s very important to pay close attention to your page rank.
Thanks for the visit and comment.
All the best,
Mavis
Hi Mavis,
You did a really great job of linking within your blog on this one.
This is good, solid value. Thanks!
Susanna
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Thanks Susanna.
I really appreciate your compliment and visit.
All the best,
Mavis
Awesome tips Mavis! I really liked the way you stressed that “The key is to be consistent with your blog posts and provide nothing but value.” This is so important.
~Marcus
Absolutely, Marcus!
Thanks for stopping by and for commenting.
All the best,
Mavis
Hey Mavis,
These are some great tips to follow. I’m finding out how beneficial they are to getting high page rankings and getting a good alexa score. Thanks for sharing!!
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I’m glad you found this helpful, Sherman.
Thanks for stopping by and for commenting.
All the best,
Mavis
Hey Mavis,
Thanks for sharing those two plugins. I have YARPP installed and it stop working. So I’ll go ahead and install Related Post.
Have a great weekend…
Josh
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I’m glad you found this helpful, Josh.
Have a great weekend too.
Thanks for the visit and comment.
All the best,
Mavis
Mavis,
Great list and great minds think alike I use those plug ins as well and find they do a magnificent job. Now if they just had a plug in for writing the content I would have it made.
Steve Shoemaker
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Very funny, Steve!
I love these plugins too.
Thanks for the visit and comment.
All the best,
Mavis
Hi Mavis,
great advice, thanks for sharing. The good thing is that I’m already using most of these plugins. Your conclusion is definitely correct: The best SEO is worthless if no valuable content is provided.
Take care
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Absolutely! Great plugins to use.
Thanks for the visit and comment, Oliver.
All the best,
Mavis
Hi Mavis, very nice post I love your backlinking tips. Your blog Rocks. Keep up the Great Work.
Thanks,
Michael
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Thanks very much for your kind words, Michael.
I appreciate your visit and compliment.
All the best,
Mavis
Nice tips Mavis, as well as your optimization tips
I realize that for some it might seem a bit overwhelming at first, but all they have to do is take an hour out of their day and just implement everything you suggest.
After that it becomes a piece of cake
Peter
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You’re so right, Peter. Rome wasn’t built overnight
I appreciate your visit and input.
All the best,
Mavis
This is such a great post and a lot to learn from. One of those posts i love to print and keep for further revisions.
Thanks.
Thanks for your kind words.
Hi Mavis,
Your content is always incredibly valuable and this one is no exception. Thanks for sharing your time and content.
Regards
Midge
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My pleasure, Midge.
All the best,
Mavis
PageRank is an algorithim google invented that assesses the strength of a website. The algorithim evaluates a site on a scale of n/a to 10 with 0 being the lowest/weakest and 10 being the highest/strongest. We can check our site’s rank by using a checker pagerank tool.
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That’s true, Sonia. Welcome to my blog!
Thanks for stopping by and for your input.
All the best,
Mavis
I’m glad to see your post. It’s very basic for beginer. I think all people even not still new on blogging can understand your article. thanks.
regards
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That’s great to hear, Ery. Welcome to my blog! Hope to see more of you here
Thanks for the visit and comment.
All the best,
Mavis
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