How important is SEO for a blog?

I would like to speculate a little about seo blog promotion.
Do it or not? Should I spend money on it? Whether it is necessary to understand and delve into the basics of SEO and try yourself to promote your blog?
Everything, as always, and in fact, depends on the purposes for which you conduct your own blog.
If it is just "a hobby" for the sake of communication, you can not steamed.
Continue to write your posts and have fun! Good luck to you)))
The same thing seems to me, and for the "glamor" of personalities ... just a very well known. I believe that if you are mega cool Steve Jobs and Sergey Brin , the Plain you any page on the World Wide - it will be mega-visited in a few days ... And no matter how optimized
Your posts, which designs and other stuff ... your fans do not care!
But if you are a regular webmaster, who chose a niche for doing my blog, bought a hosting and domain name, set everything as it should, and wrote a few articles, SEO-promotion is a must!
I know some experienced SEO specialist who recently teamed up and opened his own office. So they are still at the stage of creating the site seo-studio-olimp.ru already engaged in its promotion seo-online.
To monetize the site is very important to have high rates of attendance, PR, etc.
All this is achieved much faster with proper seo-promotion. After all, seo - website optimization is to search engines. As you know, it is from them is the most traffic. It was from there comes the lion's share of visitors.
So do not ignore this.
From my own experience: my blog for more than 2 years but I am not engaged in his promotion. Just write a post, some announced in the social sphere, etc.
Hoped that the reference weight will grow naturally. But, in total, it grows veryyyyy slowly. And attendance has increased over the last year not as much as we would like ... (~ 78%) ...
After analyzing their actions and mistakes, I have come to the conclusion that necessarily need to pay attention to seo!!!
Who would not say that there ...
The only question is: to buy a seo professional or very prosharivatsya? ...
I think if you have money - in the battle (it will be enough, and $ 100 per month, you can, of course, more or less - depends on the optimizer)
If, for example, you have got a blog for extra money and do not expect to spend on search engine optimization, it is possible and very little understanding.
I myself act through the second.
In the network a lot of SEO-blogging, seo-communities, seo-forums. By the way, a couple of days ago, my friend, and by the way, the author of seo-blog, hurry up my invite to the biggest and in my opinion the best forum for webmasters. After reviewing this forum only possible to do high-quality seo-promotion and monetization of your blog!
I'm actually very happy that I can communicate in this forum. ))
In general, I continue to promote your blog to gain subscribers, and share their knowledge and experiences on blogging, investing, and manimeykingu on the Internet. And do not lose optimism.

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Update Penguin (Penguin) from Google: 5 types of problems that are harmful for websites

If you own a website, then surely you have been surprised to see that the position of your site dramatically decreased immediately after the release of Google Pack, codenamed Penguin? As shown earlier analysis, one of the main factors is the links leading to your website.
The main objective was to freeze the upgrade Penguin Web spam in search results Google. In addition to being a great piece of web spam, and links were with low-quality sites.

Natural links

First of all, Google considers links as "votes". So, in theory, the sites that get the most "votes" should be given the highest rating on Google, as more people find this a valuable resource.
Google analyzes the quantity, quality and relevance of the sites that link to your site. When Google looks at your profile link, it looks at what type of websites link to you how fast you are accumulating these links and anchor text (the combination of words to which you link), used referring website. When the algorithm of Google determines such things as a huge number of new options or as a disparity in the anchor text, he thinks of the sanctions.
How Google and many SEO-experts for many years taught us, you can get more options by creating a unique, authentic content, to which other people naturally want to refer.

Unnatural links

Sites that fall under the "punishment" after upgrading Penguin unites them is the lack of natural links. 5 major problems that are present in all sites in this category:

1. Paid up links with anchor text exactly match the key : the wish to promote your site on a particular key, there is only one way to move - buying links on other websites using the key exact match. Google determines that it is paid up links created just for the fraud-rated PR, rather than to provide valuable information to visitors.
   
2. Spam in the comments : The following two problems for sites that are trying to accumulate unnatural links on specific keywords crafty ways, are the captions in the comments, which contain the text of an exact match key, as well as in people who used the logins with the exact key.
   
3. Guest posts on questionable websites: guest posts, and although the permissible manner of use are the links to the site, updating Penguin subjected to punishment, even those sites that are referred to other sites with low quality content, which are more focused on the use of anchor text, rather than the provision of important information.
   
4. Catalogues Articles : lean content, containing links to the key as an exact match is another common factor.
   
5. Links to unsafe websites : if you have any incoming links from sites that were identified as malicious, sites with endless pop-up ads or sending out spam? This is another factor that led to the loss of the websites rankings in Google, so that links to and from spammers or "bad neighbors" are also dangerous.

Overall, the Penguin does not update brings changes that Google could be regarded as inappropriate. Google has implemented this algorithm just to catch hackers attempting tricky ways to get into the search results. If any (or all) items fit your case, you probably applied your efforts to obtain the rating is no longer enough.

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