For the last few months I’ve been working on the SEO part of my blog. Search optimizing a blog can get you better search rankings and organic visitors. That means the free and targeted traffic from search engines such as google, yahoo or msn.
Website grader is a free online tool that helped me to understand about the most important aspects of website SEO. You can see the website grade badge which is showing the seo score of my blog. Few months ago when I checked it for the first time, it was 88, now I opted my site and the score is around 98.8. Website grader does not do anything for your blog SEO but it’s a great tool for web masters to optimize their sites. Here are some other things that I did for my blog’s SEO,
Meta tags
Meta tags are the most important elements in blog SEO. I opted my Meta title, description and keyword. I changed the title from “BlogKori” to “Make money online with a better blog | BlogKori” I added a relevant description within 150 characters and added no more than 6 keywords as the Meta keywords. Some people will say to stuff keywords in your Meta, and I’ve told this before too! But I was wrong. Put less than 10 Meta keywords for better results.
Domain age
How long the domain is online determines the importance of the website. Another new factor which is been talked about is how long the domain will be active. I bought another year’s registration for BlogKori and I hope google will give more importance to my site.
All in one SEO pack plugin
The wordpress plugin called All in one SEO pack is yet most powerful SEO plugin ever made. This tool helped me to create meta tags and removing some URL’s from the search engines. It helped me to over write the titles of my page and the Meta tags of each post and page can be changed too.
Web master tools
Sign up for google webmasters, yahoo site explorer and live webmaster tool and submit your site to their engine. Webmaster tools are great ways to make your site indexed faster. The tools offer some features and options to make your blog search optimized.
Google XML sitemaps
Another great wordpress SEO plugin. This plugin can generate XML sitemaps for your blog which is crawler friendly. Once you create the sitemap, submit it on webmaster tools and see your post gets indexed faster.
Image tags
Most people ignore image tags/ alter tags. When you use images in your post, you can use this for getting more image search results. Instead of labeling an image as: Image-1, try to add the keywords as the image label. This will bring some more search traffic.
Internal keyword linking
When you write a new post, add internal links on your post to an older post. This is called internal linking/ deep linking/ anchor texts. Don’t just link; add the link with a keyword. This will increase the backlinks of your internal pages and bring more SEO juice.
Is your blog search optimized?
Are you working on your blog SEO? Share some of your interesting SEO tips with us. Are you ignorring search traffic?
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This is a great article on starting to make your Blog more SEO friendly. You are right when you suggested to not use too many meta keywords, as keyword stuffing was an old way of doing and no longer works for SEO, especially on Blogs.
The tags you choose for each article you post to your Blog will help with SEO as well.
On “keyword linking”, whether internal or external should be linked from keyword or keyword phrase to the SAME keyword or keyword phrase in the Title of the article for best SEO.
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Edward Moore
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@Edward Moore, Thanks Edward, I appreciate you valuable comment.
I’ve been keeping an eye on the keywords that bring people to my site the most. Oddly enough, “haiku examples” is one of my top phrases. Based on that, I make sure some new posts reference those posts as well. I’ve been focusing a lot on internal linking recently as well, which has definitely boosted the traffic towards my older posts. We’ll see the SEO benefits of it soon. :)
~ Kristi
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@Kikolani | Blogging, Poetry, Photography, Your tips are most important to focus on, I’ll keep up with my keywords.
Excellent tips. I did the same thing with my blog.
I put the name of my blog after my keyword phrases.
That is really important.
The other thing is that many people try to optimize several domains.
SEO- wise it’s better to concentrate on optimizing one domain for sure.
The Allinone SEO plugin is also a definite must.
Thanks for these tips,
Eren
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@Eren- homemaking encouragement, I’m sure you’ll gete a better rank with the tips.
Thank you for the link and the info on Website Grader. I got a much lower grade than I wanted! But what a great learning tool! Just reading the grading information showed me so many things I can work on!
Thank you!
@earthmom22, Some of my other sites got a grade of 24! I have to work on them too!
Hi Tamal, well the most important factor of SEO is actually getting as many backlinks that are relevant to your site using the targeted keywords in the incoming links.
META keywords these days doesn’t help since Google ignore it completely and some one still think it is the strategy today. I can tell you for sure a “nope”.
Proson
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@proson, Read what @InternetMarketing ABC, said on this.
I disagree with proson – Google does care about meta keywords. Not the way it used to – not nearly as much. But if Google sees that you don’t have meta keywords, that’s just gonna weaken you a little bit. If you read Google’s own guidelines, you will see that they still recommend using meta keywords and meta description.
I just wrote about a similar topic and shared some additional tips for SEO specifically using Google image search, you can check it out here
http://internetmarketingabc.com/?p=206
I think you’ll find some interesting tips there.
@InternetMarketing ABC, META is important, some platforms don’t have built in meta data, so we have to add it manually.
As a webdesigner myself , I’m truely glad to see that someone thought to post this topic.
Quite a few people don’t grasp the concept of what all is involved in our field, and I think also we are all too often underrated
or taken for granted. Never the less I’m immensely glad to see that you may feel the same way I do , thanks so much for your blog!
Tamal,
Tumi amar blog ke optimize korte paro.
Jadi haan tahole ki charge nibe.
You have really great taste on catch article titles, even when you are not interested in this topic you push to read it
Thank you very much, titles are the key to attracting the reader’s attention