Getting your blog into the search engines is important. That’s obvious. I think a lot of beginning bloggers tend to over-think it, though. In this post, I’m going to give you a rapid-fire overview of what I think is important for you to think about moving forward when it comes to getting your stuff into the search engines.

First off, I will admit that am I not an expert SEO person. I will also tell you that I don’t need to be. I will ALSO tell you that YOU don’t need to be. My apologies to people who make their money as SEO experts, but I’m just going to say it like I see it.

Before we move on, here is the big, common sense idea behind SEO:

Use keywords which people will actually type into the search engines which will then point to your post.

So, think about what some “joe blow” out there would type into Google if they were looking for your particular post. And then you purposely try to rank your post for those words.