15 Steps To Optimize Blogs For Search Engine Optimization
by Alex LiuBlog SEO is one of the cheapest way to build automated traffic to your blog. You might have learn some SEO basics, but have you heard that blog has a very powerful way that allows you to rank on the first page super fast and easy.
Most blogger will immediately go for link building, but they will discover ranking is tough and struggling because they have forgotten to do some “On-Blog Optimization” that could help them to rank 2 - 3 times quicker. These On-Blog Optimization are:
1. Use Domain Name That Contain Keywords
Using domain name that contain keywords gives your blog a huge advantage to rank on the search engines. I've seen websites that have only a couple of backlinks that are higher than sites which have much more backlinks. The difference is just these sites domain name contain their keywords. This makes Google thinks that this domain name is dedicated to show only contents about the keyword.
2. Use
Blog Title That Contain Keywords
Type keywords in your blog title. When the blog title is changed to your keywords, the title tag and h1 tag on your blog will become your keywords. Each page of your blog will link back to your main page with your keywords too. All of these gives you extra SEO benefits to your blog.
3. Having Keywords In Your Tagline
Every Wordpress blog's general setting, you'll realize something right below the blog title called 'Tagline' or description in other blog platform. This is another important place to type your keywords. Make sure you have your keywords in.
4. Do You Miss Out Ping?
Ping is a essenttial function of each wordpress blog have. Whenever you create a new article, your blog will automatically ping to inform few websites you've published new content on your blog. Ping also helps to inform Google and other search engines your blog have something new. Search engines love websites and blogs that keep updating new information often because they provide their users latest and quality information. Search engine will usually rank your blog high if you ping often. Remember to use more ping services in your blog's setting.
5. Do You Have Duplicated Contents?
Avoid duplicated content or articles on the blog. Try not to republish your own or others' content on the blog. Reusing content doesn't help in seo because search engines don't index many pages that have the same content because it might annoy their users and it might be a way to avoid spammers to increase their page by duplicating same contents.
6. Using Keyword Density
Are you using your keywords in your blog posts? Repeat your keywords frequent. Try to keep your keyword density above 2% and below 7%. This also means you got to repeat keyword you aim for 3 to 6 times in every 100 words you wrote. The more frequent you mention the keywords in your post, the more search engines thinking your blog is relevant to the keywords. Lots of people know about this technique, so some internet marketer overuse keywords in their websites. Google penalize page that overuse this method. Try to keep it below 7%.
7. Use More Relevant Keywords
Since many people discover the keyword density method, Google created a new algorithm that can judge content on the website by the amount of keywords that are relevant to the main keyword. If you are using Wordtracker or Google Keyword Tool, this tool can show you other keywords that are highly to the keywords you aim for. Use as many of those keywords in your blog content too. For example, the keyword tool will show you “blackhead” and “pimple” as related keywords when you search for acne.
8. Blog Often
If you post a new articleon your blog 3 times a day or more, search engines think that you have the latest information about a topic and always offer new contents. As a result, you'll rank easier. If your blog is a new one, try to post once every 3 days and increase your post to once a day after 1 month. If your blog is there for certain period, it's up to you.
9. Quantity Of Pages
Another technique lots of Black Hat SEO trick users know is increasing the vloume of blog pages. Don't use it aggressively or else it could become a black hat technique that get your blog penalized
Alex Liu is a full time blogger who specialize in Blog SEO to increase blog traffic. He shares tips and strategies to get traffic to your blog at his blog-http://blogtrafficgeek.com