Blogs and blog posts are naturally search engine friendly because they are text-rich, link-rich, frequently-updated webpages that use stylesheets or CSS, and have very little extraneous HTML.
Optimizing a blog is very similar to optimizing a website, and optimizing a blog post similar to optimizing a web page.
But depending on the blogging service or software you use, the results may look somewhat different.
If you follow some simple rules for search engine optimization, your blog can rank much higher than static website pages in the search engine results pages.
Here are the most important rules to follow to get your posts listed for keywords of your choice.
If your primary key phrase is "business blogging" make sure that the word business, or blogging, or both, appear in your blog headers (the H1 or H2 tags) as well as the title of each of your posts.
Most blogging software will take the keywords in your post title and put them into the file name of the permalink posts it creates.
For example, if you have a blog on Blogger and title your post "Search Engine Optimization For Blogs", Blogger will automatically create a page with your post and name the file "search-engine-optimization-for-blogs.html" or something similar.
With other server-side software like Wordpress and Movable Type, you may require the mod_rewrite command to save the title of your entries as a permalink.
When you get through with the body/content of the blog and you reach the box that you put your keywords in, put as many matching and related keywords to your blog in the keyword box. The more matching keywords you put in, the higher your search engine ranking will be.
Links pointing to your blog or posts are essential to build pagerank and make your blog rank higher in the search engine listings.
As far as search engine rankings go, this method of linking is of little use, because spiders can't read external javascript code.
Instead I recommend that you focus your linking efforts on the methods here.
Submitting to Blog Search Engines and Directories:
Submitting your blog and RSS feed to blog search engines and directories is essential for getting high-quality links back to your blog.
Here is the best list I've found of places to submit your blog.
Best Blog Directory And RSS Submission Sites
Submit your blog to all of the free search engine submission services and submit your blog to the Trafficseeker.com service. Trafficseeker.com will submit your blog to hundreds and hundredfs of search engines, websites and online directories. You can literally get thousands of blog visitors by using the trafficseeker.com software.
Submit your blog to all of the free search engine submission services and submit your blog to the Trafficseeker.com service. Trafficseeker.com will submit your blog to hundreds and hundredfs of search engines, websites and online directories. You can literally get thousands of blog visitors by using the trafficseeker.com software.