A few SEO tips for bloggers

Dec 20 2006

Posted by Carol in Blogging, Engines, HowTo |

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.

title tag optimization

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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11 Responses

Chris

December 20th, 2006 at 1:09 pm
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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
carol

December 20th, 2006 at 1:15 pm
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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.
Rohit

December 20th, 2006 at 2:33 pm
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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.
carol

December 20th, 2006 at 3:19 pm
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That’s because Google loves you, Rohit.
Ajay D'Souza

December 20th, 2006 at 4:57 pm
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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>
Ajay D'Souza

December 20th, 2006 at 4:59 pm
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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.
carol

December 20th, 2006 at 5:21 pm
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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.
Chris

December 20th, 2006 at 9:32 pm
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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.
carol

December 21st, 2006 at 12:41 pm
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If you need help, i can do it for you, Chris.
Optimize Your Blog - Thursday Thirteen » Blog-Op

January 11th, 2007 at 11:38 am
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teofilo calle

September 5th, 2007 at 11:46 pm
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Hello carol your article is helpful thank you for giving ideas and exchange links with others readers.