Ask HN: How important is SEO for a blogger?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4913074

by njoglekar • 14 years ago

10 8 14 years ago

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For those of you that write blogs, how much do you optimize or care about SEO?

147• 14 years ago

Since I just started the blog for my new startup about a week or two ago, I'm focusing on targeting some long tail keywords to get initial traffic. I don't optimize the blog for SEO though, I let Wordpress handle all of that for me.

alinachao• 14 years ago

How to target the long tail keywords to get initial traffic?

WillyF2• 14 years ago

What are you trying to achieve with the blog?

njoglekar2• 14 years ago

We are trying to gauge whether bloggers that embed videos in their blog care about how much SEO bump they get from those videos

WillyF2• 14 years ago

What kind of bloggers? Bloggers in general is a huge category. I am a blogger. My blog is my business. SEO drives a lot of revenue. I sometimes embed videos from 3rd parties in my posts. What questions can I answer for you?

fidanov• 14 years ago

Not too much. The content of your posts is much more critical to the success of your blog.

shiftpgdn• 14 years ago

Here is a really great HN post about SEO from 2 years ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1676091

Ask HN: How important is SEO for a blogger?

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