Easy SEO Tips for Your Erotic Stories Blog

In previous articles, I’ve detailed several ways you can drive traffic to your erotic stories blog (Increase Website Traffic and Get More Website Traffic Part 2). One way that can consistently deliver visitors to your website is search engine marketing. If you have been online for any length of time, you have probably heard of search engine optimization and marketing, otherwise known as SEO and SEM. If not, then review my article Daria Black Explains How Search Engines Work to understand the basis for search engine marketing before delving into these easy SEO tips.

A quick recap: search engines send little robots to your website. Based on the text found on your web page, those robots file that page under different categories (keywords). When someone types a keyword into the search engine that is found on your web page, that page will be included in the search results the user is served.

The goal of search engine marketing and the many SEO tips internet marketing “gurus” try to sell is to rank on the first or second page of the search engine results for relevant keywords. The challenge with erotic stories blogs is that keywords can’t easily be incorporated into your stories.

To help the search engine robots figure out what your page is about, you have to include the targeted keyword in the title of your web page, several times throughout the text on that page, and in any links that point to that page. The reality is, though, storytelling rarely conforms to SEO/SEM best practices because you are not writing for search engines; you are writing for people. The trick, then, is to come up with alternative ways to use easy SEO tips and techniques to rank for keywords and get people visiting your website.

SEO Ranking Tips for Erotica Blogs

Research Relevant Keywords

The first and most important step in my list of easy SEO tips is to create a list of keywords you want to rank for. Basically, these are the words and phrases your readers are using to find erotic stories to read. Generally, you want to rank for keywords related to the type of stories you write. If you write about BDSM, then you want to rank for words and phrases related to that subject like “bondage stories” or “dom sub stories”.

It’s not enough, though, to just brainstorm keyword ideas. You need to make sure people are actually performing searches on the Internet using those words. There are a couple of keyword research tools you can use to determine how popular a keyword is and to help you with your research. Google Keyword Tool is the most well known. WordTracker and Aaron Wall’s Keyword Research Tool are others I’ve heard good things about.

Incorporate Keywords Around the Story

You may not be able to put keywords in the story title or the body of the story but you can put them in other places. Use keywords in the blog category and tags. For example, on my erotic story blog I use keywords for the tags. Another thing you can do is write a short summary before the start of the story that includes the words you are targeting.

Add SEO Optimized Content

Your erotic stories blog doesn’t have to consist entirely of fiction stories. In fact, you can enhance the reader experience by including non-fiction content on topics of interest to your audience. For example, BDSM erotic bloggers can write about the Dom/sub relationship, sex toys, and role-playing games couples can play. This type of content is a lot easier to optimize. Simply include the keyword in the title and several times (about 2-3% saturation) in the body of the article.

Optimize Links to Your Content

When you link to your own stories or you generate external links to your erotic stories blog, make sure the anchor text describing your blog includes your keywords.

Install All in One SEO

If you are using WordPress, I recommend installing the All in One SEO plugin. This plugin allows you to customize the description and keyword Meta tags for your posts. Search engines scan these tags to determine what the page is about. Additionally, they use the description Meta tag in the search results. You can write a summary for the search engines about your stories that include your targeted keywords.

Search engine marketing is vast and intricate, but these easy SEO tips will help you get started. To learn about SEO and SEM, I recommend reading Search Engine Watch, SEO Moz, and Search Engine Land.

About the Article Writer

Daria Black is a fiction writer, gamer, and avid coffee drinker. Visit her website Daria Black - Words By Daria to read fiction stories, talk sex, society, games, and writing, or giggle with her at life's quirkiness

Writing Erotica Blog Content that Makes Readers Stick Around

By far the most common question I see raised in blog forums is how to get people to visit a blog. There are tons of ways you can market your site and drive traffic to your erotica blog. But it’s not getting people to your blog that you should be worried about. It’s keeping them around.

Readers who come to your blog on a regular basis are the ones who will most likely click your affiliate links and buy your books. Therefore, writing content that encourages readers to stick around and come back for more is crucial to your success with your erotica blog. All the traffic generating tips in the world will do you no good if you lack the quality content needed to make your visitors stick around.

Below are a few tips to help you create solid content for your erotica blog that’ll keep your visitors sticking around like fly paper.

Stay On Topic

Before we get to this point, let’s ask the million dollar question. What is your topic? Treat your erotica blog like it is a show on public access television. What are you going to be showing your readers every week? Deciding on the focus of your blog will help you filter out irrelevant content. Readers often luck on to your blog often via a search engine or social media site. They will stick around your erotic blog as long as you continue to provide them the content they want.

Make Sure Your Writing Skills are Up to Par

Your posts should have a beginning, middle, end, and a point firmly planted amidst the whole thing. Unless it is cleverly written, random rambling on a blog is just plain drivel and no one will tune into that for very long. You will also retain more erotica blog readers if your posts are easy to read. Run your writing through a grammar and spell check program. Countless good ideas have been drowned in unreadable writing.

Show Some Personality

I’ve mentioned this before and I will say it again. There is a lot of competition out there in the erotica writing and blogging sphere. You must stand out if you want to develop and maintain your erotica blog readership. One of the best ways to do that is to display your personality in your writing.

Some of the most successful bloggers out there let their brand of quirkiness ooze through with every word. People are attracted to people. Letting your personality shine through is the duct tape that will keep your readership sticking around.

Mix It Up Occasionally

Now I know I said earlier that you should stay on topic when writing your erotic blog but it is okay to mix things up every once in awhile to avoid falling into a monotonous rut. Variety is the spice of life or something equally clever like that. Try adding a few quirky tidbits like a meme, a random quiz, or even a poll to liven things up.

Keep Posts to a Reasonable Length

This is a topic of much debate in the blogging niche. How long should your posts be? Of course, if you are writing fiction stories, then the stories will be as long as they need to be to get the point across.

However, if you are writing blog posts on non-fiction topics I favor keeping posts between 500-1000 words. The average attention span isn’t what it used to be. We’ve become a bunch of surfers and skimmers. Readers are more likely to stick around if you keep your posts at easily digestible words counts. It is best to experiment, though, to find out what works for your erotica blog and your audience.

Link to Other Posts on Your Erotica Blog

If possible, link to other posts on your blog. This benefits your blog in two ways. First, it helps the search engines find and index old posts which improves your site’s overall SEO performance. Second, it keeps your readers on your blog by offering them other stuff to read.

Personally, I like the Yet Another Related Posts Plugin on my WordPress blog which creates a list of blog posts similar to the current post and puts it at the end of the article. There is a similar widget for Blogger. I have not used it so I cannot say whether or not it is good.

Creating quality content for your readers is, by far, the easiest way to attract and keep readers on your erotica blog. If you need help marketing your blog, view my previous tips on generating website traffic.

Daria Black is a fiction writer, gamer, and avid coffee drinker. Visit her website Daria Black - Words By Daria to read fiction stories, talk sex, society, games, and writing, or giggle with her at life's quirkiness.