12 SEO Tips for Blogs
Doug Williams @
5:37 am
This blog entry was posted on April 19, 2007.
Business Blogs should use special search engine optimization techniques to get fast SEO results. Blogs actually have a great advantage over standard websites because of the great amount of new and fresh content that is posted.
- Keyword Research The first step in any website optimization is choosing the correct keyword phrases. This is the foundation that all other strategies are built upon. These keywords should be used in titles, links, category names and even in the domain name.
- Domain Name: There are many factors to keep in mind when selecting a domain name. Using the keyword phrase in the domain is a powerful technique. This also helps make your URL memorable so people can easily return.
- Blog Theme: Blog SEO is no different. If you want higher search engine rankings in Google, MSN, and Yahoo Search, it’s important to stay with a highly focused blog themes and topics. Try not to mix up your topics, it will hurt your rankings.
- Title: Write keyword rich posting titles – it almost goes without saying, but the post title is the most important part of the blog post. The Title entices readers in and Titles are considered very important by the search engines.
- Validate your code – When you set-up your website, use the W3C Markup Validation Service to ensure the code behind your pages is clean and valid. MSN Search places a high value on clean code.
- Keyword Rich Content – Identify a few keywords for your article that you’re hoping will get indexed highly by Google. Use these keywords 1-2 thimes in the first few paragraphs and not in the ending paragraphs. Search engines place more value on phrases in the first part of a posting.
- Quality Content – There are all kinds of link generating systems out there but the best way to get links to your blog is to write quality content that people will want to read.
- Inbound linking: It is generally agreed that the links that point to a website are one of the most powerful way of climbing Search Engines results pages… in fact many argue it is THE most important factor.
- Interlink your Site – This is the way Search Engines index your blog. We recommend that you provide some sort of Site Map that means every page on your blog is just a link or two away from every other one.
- Update regularly – The more often that you update your blog the more often Search Engines will send their crawlers to your site to index it.
- Write optimal length posts – There is some thought going around the Search Engine Optimization community that pages that are too short can get passed over for high rankings. Try to keep posts at least 200 words.
- One topic per post – the more tightly focused the theme of a page the better when Search Engines come to rank it. Sometimes you might find yourself writing long posts that end up covering a number of different topics.
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