Few SEO tips for bloggers
HowTo, Engines, Blogging December 20th, 2006
Quick update :
I just change my title tag from displaying first my blog’s name and then the entry’s title to entry title and then blog’s name.
Sweet!
There I go… Everyone does it so why shouldn’t I do it too?
Here is the first tip.
Use short URL for your blog instead of a long one. You’ll do better in search engines.
As you know, yesterday I changed the settings on my permanent links from /%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/ to a custom structure url + /%postname%/ .
The reason I did it was simple. I want my web site to do better in search engines and the long url didn’t do any good. In fact it is too long for a search engine.
When submitting to search engines, do it once. Don’t get greedy by submitting your web site too many times. Befriend with the search engines and they’ll befriend you too.
If you didn’t use Seo Studio (Lite version) for your blog submission, then do it now or… you can use the Tecnixindo Submitter .
You probably know this one by now….Use specific words on your entry’s titles and do the same with the tags.
Example : Instead of “Freeware” use “Best freeware” or “Best freeware downloads”.
Tag links in your blog’s entries. For example, using Live Writer makes it easy. If you want you can “tag” a link or set it to “nofollow”.
When linking, try to include your most important keywords or keywords phrases into that link’s title.
Last but not least … Keep it clean!
Well, that’s it for now. If I think of anything else, I will post it up.
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I know where there’s a useful article on Google Sitemaps
My new blog was indexed by google in 6 days, & I think submitting the sitemap really helps.
I’ll also mention the ‘Optimal Title’ plugin - Search engines may not care what order your title is in, but most humans read from left to right - I’ve used it on both my blogs, and it means the post title reads first, before ‘Archive’ and then ‘blog name’.
HTH
Chris, i just did something to my titles and realized that there’s absolutely no need to install that plugin.
You just need to change the order into the title tag.
I will post it as a little update.
Ive never submitted my site to google, it indexes on it’s own somehow…all the three times I changed my url it showed up in google. Wierd.
That’s because Google loves you, Rohit.
Hi Carol,
A better code system for the title is:
<title><?php
if (is_404())
{
_e('Error 404 - Not Found » ');
}
elseif (is_search())
{
_e('Search Results for ');
echo '“'.$s.'” » ';
}
else
wp_title(' ');
if(wp_title(' ', false)) echo ' » ';
bloginfo('name');
?>
</title>
Are you using .htaccess to redirect old links?
It would be a good idea to use mod_rewrite to redirect old links with a 301.
No, i don’t redirect. I just pimped a bit the 404 page to handle dead links because some of my links paths can’t be changed on some web sites like SU.
For the title i wanted first display the entry’s title and then blog’s title to make the google indexing easier.
Nice work Carol, I wouldn’t have had a clue how to do that - that’s why I read your blog!
Thanks for the post on Blog-Op - It’s really appreciated.
If you need help, i can do it for you, Chris.
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