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Blogging & RSS InformationHow To Boost Traffic To Your Blog: SEO for Bloggers
by:
Ryen Kim
Let search engine index your journal
and let folk move to your fresh blog. Although you're in Earth Wide Web, common person knows you're there. You need to pull kindly those who are possibly
waiting for you but don't cognize wherever
your are. This objective is related to generally better-known as search engine optimisation (SEO). It's too broad to address all. But the most important things wish I talk about. Although they're not all but more than enough wish be covered. They are about...
How to use keywords as a SEO technique
What to consider once
you choose journal
templates
How to construct your journal
search engine friendly
Ping your blog
How to use keywords as a SEO technique?
As long as SEO is concerned, the keyword comes at front line. You have to find the target keyword/keywords or niche keywords.
What to do with the keyword/keywords? Please see on.....
Enter keywords in your journal
name: If you named your journal
for example, "Ryen's blog", it's not a nice idea in the view of SEO. Instead name your journal
thing
like "keyword blog". You need to substitute "keyword" with your "target keyword", for example "mountain bike blog", if your journal
is simply about mountain bike.
Enter keywords of your post in title tag: Really most of bloggers don't need to concern simply about "title tag" because most of journal
hosting applications such as blogger, typepad, wordpress, movable type, drupal, etc... care this for you. But you have to use the keyword in your title and then they wish include it in the title tag for you.
Enter keywords in meta description tag, if possible: This may be difficult for most of bloggers because most of journal
hosting system don't keep this. If this is your case, don't bother with this. To do it possible is simply about impossible for the folk like me who are not tekki at all. But don't worry there is else solution: care your 1st sentence of the 1st paragraph.
Enter keywords in the 1st sentence: Nowadays many an SEO experts say that most of search engines don't look meta description tag. Instead they look for the few words in the 1st sentence. So care your 1st sentence to include the keywords, do it fit to describe your whole post and attractive.
Repeat your keywords in your post: With this an English synchronic linguistics teacher may not be happy. But as long as SEO is concerned, it's necessary: honestly to say, you have to. General rule says the keyword density should be simply about 2-3% of whole words in your post.
You may complain "heck, how do I cognize keyword density." Well, you don't need to count it manually. There is a free tool to check the keyword density. And really I don't even as check it all the time. I simply keep in mind 2-3% and check only for several posts that I think worth checking. Having this in mind, the free tool is here. Type the URL of your post, keyword and click "analyze" button. It'll return you the keyword density of your post. If the keyword density is too low, consider repeat the keyword more but don't repeat too more (more than 3%)
Use your keyword in your journal
domain: This improves the ranking of your journal
and thus
more traffic move to you. If your journal
is simply about "anniversary gift", for example, include it in your domain name so that your journal
domain looks like "anniversary-gift.yourhost.com"
Use your keyword in the link title: Many an blogger don't cognize simply about this!
Which one do you think better, "anniversary gift" or "anniversary-gift.your host.com" as your link title? The former is better. The reason? Because search engines value more. So keep in mind that whenever you get link try to enter your keywords in the link title.
Enter keywords in your file name: Once
you save your blog, use your keyword.
Which one is better, "mypost98.html" or "anniversary-gift-how-to-choose.html"? This time the latter is better because it includes keywords and thus
get better chance to be listed in high rating in search engine.
Enter keyword in alt tag: If you use pictures in your post, don't forget to put your keyword in alt tag. A 2 cent-tip related to this is that if your Google Adsense doesn't seem to show matching ads with your content, check your alt tag. Peradventure it's because you put unrelated words in alt tag.
What to consider once
you choose journal
templates?
Certainly there is a search engine friendly journal
templates. To cognize whether your journal
guide is search engine friendly designed, go to Crawler simulation (It's free.) Enter your journal
URL and then it'll show you how it looks like once
a search engine spider visits your journal
site. If you see a lot of mark up
code or java scripts before you see main content, it means your journal
is not well designed in the point of search engine optimization. There is a way to hide gratuitous code from spiders, victimisation CSS or div class "hide". Try to do your title tag directly after head tag and to show up your body content as near to head tag as possible.
How to construct your journal
search engine friendly?
Make your journal
site structure as simple as possible. This may not be a big issue for bloggers because unless a blogger can design her/his journal
system, they have to use a default system. What I mean by this is that most of journal
system do permalink be for example, "www.blogcom.com/user/archive/year/month/date/apost.html". See how far the final "apost.html" is from root. It's 5 step further. This is not so nice in terms of search engine optimization. You can reduce those steps but you only can do so one or two step because information recognition is concerned behind this story. So the bottom line is that try to do your journal
simple but if it's not possible, focus on writing nice content. I discovered
many an top bloggers have a bit complex
permalink system yet have lots of traffic.
But if you can do your journal
structure simpler without problem, please do so because it is more better for the reader and search engine as well.
Ping your blog
Do you ping? Many an pongs wish come,then. :-) This may not be an issue if you're victimisation Movable Type, WordPress, Typepad, or Drupal 4.6.0. But consider pinging to Ping-o-Matic!, if your system is not designed to do so. Because it pings to most of important journal
search engines and directories in one spot. If your journal
application doesn't keep to ping mechanically
to "Ping-o-Matic!", you can do so manually by visiting Ping-o-Matic! Once you type your journal
name, journal
URL, check wherever
to ping and click "submit ping" button, and don't forget to bookmark. It gives you a convenience because you don't need to type journal
name, URL and check wherever
to ping again.
By pinging you do search engine spider crawl you more oft-times and do your reader notified faster.
So far you have the most important SEO techniques for your blog. Say, how to use your keywords and wherever
to enter, search engine friendly journal
guide design, structure and finally ping to "Ping-o-Matic!"
But one thing is missing!
Get inward
links!
Probably it is as important as your journal
itself! You can see simply about this at Traffic to Blog: Part 4
Just simply about the Author
Ryen Kim is an MBA, specialized in marketing research and analysis. His current focus is blogging and house based affiliate business as a work-at-home scheme. He is a founder of Blog Sites and running Hom Based Affiliate Business web site.
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