Nope it’s not about being a mature writer. It’s about the age, performance, and content of your blog. Actually, “blog maturity” per se is not a tip in itself but a characteristic that your blog should have. The tip that we could use here is, perhaps, be patient, consistent, and dedicated in blogging.
Okay, to understand it better let’s just say that search engines would prefer indexing older domains and pages as compared to new ones. Also, they tend to favor sites with more content produced as compared to those who only have a few. It just means that the older and bulkier your site gets, the better it will rank in search engines (unless you’re always fooling around using dirty SEO tricks). Why search engines are employing this technique in their indexing algorithms is to filter out the spam sites that plague our online world today.
Basically, all you have to do here is to wait and persevere in your blogging path for in the long run your efforts will always be rewarded. Equally, there are also a few things you could do, while your blog is still aging to perfection. The first, second, third, and fourth tips in this series are worthwhile techniques that you should use constantly through time. Additionally, here’re the other things you could do:
Write meaty posts
According to some SEO debates going on, pages with more indexable texts can get higher page rank as compared to those that have less. Although, disagreements exist there are proofs that blogs with more comprehensive content get a higher rank as compared to those with usually one or three lines of text per post. If you want your blog to rank better, try to give your posts more meatiness in terms of supporting details with what you’re saying. But always keep it to an optimal level since very long posts always get less attention from readers and focus in the overall keyword density.
Write more posts
This is totally going against what I have written about blogging frequency in “How to Get More Comments to Your Blog”. But if you’re really after getting a higher page rank then, by all means, write lots of content (although you can still achieve this in time without burning yourself out – nothing, just a reminder –). This is because search engines will see your site as a comprehensive one if you have more content. You also better your odds of being found in search engine results pages if you have more pages. Of course, be aware that junk content produced by over eagerness will not perform better like the true comprehensive ones.
There’s also another factor that I think is worth mentioning here. Although it’s only a speculation among SEO experts, there is reason to believe that your site’s historical performance such as the measured time spent by visitors in your page, clickthroughs from SERPs, direct visits, referrals, etc will always play an important role in how the search engines rank you. After a long time, if your stats in these respects are not performing better, even how old your site gets, it’s still not going to rank any higher as compared to a newer site with better stats.
With that said, it’s really stupid to say that; “all you have to do is wait”. That’s why you have to be a more dedicated and effective blogger if you really want success from it. Give it more time and effort; and, like what I said earlier, eventually, there will be no reason for you to not like the rewards afterwards.
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