When you start a blog, especially a for profit blog, you should use simple tools to organize your power blogging efforts. A little organization goes a long way.
Why is this important? Let me tell you, from the perspective of someone who actually doesn’t like to organize things, that being organized in your commercial efforts can save your bacon in the long run. It doesn’t take much time, and if done simply and correctly, can provide lots of return value.
When you are a blogger, especially a power blogger, you have to get your blog links out there and also get some backlinks from domains that have more authority. While this does reach a point of diminishing returns over time, you have to do the minimum amount per post. I like to advise that you link back from several high PR sites like Blogger, WordPress, Hubpages, Tumblr – sites like that. In addition to providing necessary back links that will boost your own standings with the search engines, posts on the large blog sites will naturally rank well for keywords so you can also drive traffic back to your blog, so it can be a double benefit activity. Of course, this is minimal and can’t compare to “real” backlinks that would be granted to you from a site that was independently linking to you.
This post is not intended to be an SEO lesson, but there you have a mini one.
See? Nothing but value on this blog.
Look around my blog and you never know what nuggets you’ll find.
I have a simple tracker spreadsheet that I use. I keep mine in Google Drive because it is available from everywhere, even from my Android phone. I will provide here an Open Document and Excel format, but you can simple copy and paste it into Google Drive, which is actually where I created it. It’s simple but a good tool. Feel free to alter it to fit your specific needs.
Sample Keywords Link Tracker (Excel format)
Sample Keywords Link Tracker (ODS format)
I hope it’s useful. I know that keeping my efforts organized has helped me to avoid running around wondering what I have done or have yet to do.
A good keyword tool that can export results to Excel and other formats is useful… uh.. essential to have.
Get the one I switched to. It works on PC or Mac.