The one part of creating a website that we all hate and love at the same time: Search Engine Optimization or SEO for short is more or less the most important aspect of owning your own site. Lets face it without visitors your site is just going to site around in cyberspace collecting cyberdust. How do you get traffic, well just ask yourself, how did you find this blog, or anything else you visited in the last few weeks. Unless you already knew the site and are a loyal visitor the answer is probably one word Google, and if you didn't find it from the google search results then you stumbled upon the link while surfing the endless world wide web.
When it come to getting on the first page of Google, because nobody goes past the first page, let alone the top half of the first page, keywords, content, and backlinks are king. When used together they can really help you reach the top of the SERPs. So, what do you need to do? Its been said time and time again. You need relevant links from high quality pages. Everyone says it like its the easiest thing to do, but in reality it is really hard and that is why there is an entire enterprise known as SEO.
Now, another pearl of wisdom is BLOG for Better Listing On Google. What does this mean. Does Google just love bloggers so much that they just ferry their results to the top of page one. I don't know all of Google's algorithms, but I'm pretty sure that is not one of them. What it does mean is that the more content that you have on the web the more likely people are to find it and the higher chance that someone will naturally link to it. But, besides just having more content on for people to find on the web their are other ways that blogs can help you, getting backlinks.
Probably the easiest way to get a link from a high quality and relevant blog is to comment a dofollow blog. The only thing you have to worry about is that many blogs have spam filters and use nofollow tags on the links. The easiest way see for yourself is just check the source code of the blog you want to comment on. If you see other comments do not have the nofollnks with almost no effort on your part, does not require a reciprocal link, and can be from relevant and high qualitow tag, it is probably a good place to leave your comment. The benefits of this approach is that it gives you liy sources.
The other approach that you can use is to create your own blog post on the multitude of free blogging software that is available on the Internet. This method is great in that you can completely control the links coming into your site. You get to chose the anchor text, you chose just how relevent the site is, and you know that it will give you good links that will not be deleted by some webmaster in the future. The only downside to this approach is that it will take a little more effort than just commenting on other blogs and the blogs themselves will start out with no pagerank to give.
What I suggest is use blogs, and use them in every way possible. Blog for content, blog for keywords, comment on blogs for backlinks, and even blog about your site using free blogging software and free subdomains. Remember, a site without visitors is a waste for everyone. Let people know you exist on the web, blog for backlinks!