One of the most important things when it comes to blogging is search engine optimization. Without it your blog is not going to go very far in the search engines which means your traffic is going to be drastically reduced because of it.

The following 8 SEO suggestions can and will help you place better in the search engines and as a result will bring you that extra traffic you are craving.

1) Your Main Keywords in The Posts Title.

This is a must in SEO and already setup with most blogging platforms. As you can see in the browser this post is titled `Improve Your Blogs SEO in 8 Steps - General Marketing Blog`

2) SEO Blog Categories.

It is important that you put your keywords in your categories Title. If your post is relevant to more than one category on your blog then post it to multiple categories this will increase your search rankings with more keywords.

3) RSS Feed Your Blog.

Sign up to FeedBurner and place a link on your blog for people to receive your RSS feeds..

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Well its competition time again on the General Marketing Blog. This month we have what i consider to be an excellent prize up for grabs as well some some other great prizes. Many of you will be aware that Darren Rowse from Problogger.net has just released a blogging Book you can find out more about the book at Probloggerbook.com.

The prizes available are as follows.

1st Place

• Problogger Book
• 2 Beer Stock Pages
• 1 Submission to Nobledirectory.com
• 1 Submission to Blurbblogdirectory.info
• 1000 Entrecard credits
• 468×60 Banner on Generalmarketingblog.om

2nd Place

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Its contest time again on the General Marketing Blog. Last months was a huge success and i would like to thank every one that took part in it. This month we are offering 1 years free hosting plus a .com domain name.

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Well for the first time we have decided to post our blog stats for the previous month as this tends to be the trend on most other blogs.

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Today the general marketing blog has launched our very own banner exchange website. Choice Banner Exchange is purely for bloggers that wish to get extra exposure for their blogs.

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