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Wednesday, May 11th, 2011 at 6:54 pm

SEO for Blogs

If it is a corporate blog, a blog-type news, or even a personal blog, optimizing your blog for search engines is a must. There are some simple changes you can make to WordPress and the type of phone that will make your blog more search engine friendly and make search engines ask for more (more post and content, that is!).

Optimizing a blog is like optimizing any other website. The content and pages (Posts) must be unique, must be the search engines, and needs links from other websites. If it is a new blog, then you first have to make sure the blog software you are using is configured to take advantage of all the possible optimization features. Then announce to the world work on getting some links to it, and start making posts.

WordPress Optimization

If you are using WordPress for your blog software, it is important to ensure that your site is search engine friendly, which means it can be easily indexed by the search engine spiders. Just like optimizing a website, it is important to have good title tags and meta tags. Note that the software blogs usually uses the title of his post as the title tag, so include keywords in the titles as much as possible. It is important to set the software from your blog to the URL does not contain a lot of variables. Instead, use URLs that include the post title or the site name in them. For example, if you are using WordPress permalinks will have to configure to use%% postname in the URL. You can also set a specific category for mail files, and you might consider using a keyword that relates to your blog instead of the default, which is usually the word "file". Fintan Darragh of www.dech.co.uk has a very good blog called "Ultimate WordPress SEO Tips" (http://www.dech.co.uk/2005/11/ultimate-WordPress-seo-tips/). Mr. Darragh talks permalink optimization and says: "The goal: stick more keywords up into the URL and remove the faff which nobody uses, to make the search engine URL and attractive people. Having keywords in the URL is an absolute necessity, especially when it's as easy as WordPress makes. "He also going to talk about getting rid of useless tags like the month, day and year, as well as an important detail: what is stuck with the site structure you choose, otherwise could end up with a bunch of useless links to your site. Other tips that Mr. Darragh mentions are optimizing your page titles and headings your message - and installing some plugins that are useful as the "Related Posts Plugin" and the "Technorati Tag Generator."

There are several other places where you can get specific advice on setting up WordPress in a friendly for search engines, including: * Red Dot Aleeya SEO - Http://www.aleeya.net/category/WordPress/seo/
* Best of WordPress SEO potential - http://WordPress.org/support/topic/49168
* Search Engine Optimization WordPress - http://codex.WordPress.org/Search_Engine_Optimization_for_WordPress
* Blog Search Engine Optimization - http://www.blog-maniac.com/blog-seo.htm
* DIY Search Engine Optimization - http://lorelle.WordPress.com/2006/01/15/dyi-search-engine-optimization/ One of the best tutorials that there is one called "Search Engine DIY Optimization "by Lorelle VanFossen. Specifically, Lorelle (lorelle.WordPress.com) has some good tips, including how to optimize your code, develop strong links within a site, write with a heavy use of keywords using categories and tags, and how to use ping services. Lorelle says that "the objective is to help search engine crawlers move through your website information collected is stored in the database search engine. The key data from your blog by successfully in a database search engine is: 1) Make sure there are no roadblocks in the way of a search crawler.
2) Make sure the crawler can move through your blog, examining all your web pages.
3) Provide adequate keywords and key phrases which clearly help categorize the content.
4) Provide clearly labeled tags and categories recognized by the labeling service tracks and many search engines today.
5) ping services are available. "There are many WordPress plugins available to help you take advantage of internal links (like the Related Posts Plugin) which linking to other posts on his blog that are on the same topic.

Other plugins that may be helpful are plugins that automatically generate a Sitemap file Google, as well as plugins that help classify the site as the WordPress Plugin subdomain (http://www.webguerrilla.com/WordPress-subdomain-plugin/).

Mobile Type Optimization
If you're using Movable Type for your blog software, then it is important to ensure that your site is search engine friendly and can be indexed by search engines. Just like optimizing a website, it is important to have good title tags and meta tags. Note that the blog software usually uses the title of your post title tag, so include keywords in the titles of the measure possible. Miles Evans (TypeSEO.html http://www.webpronews.com/expertarticles/expertarticles/wpn-62-20060310Movable) says that "Movable Type has been optimized quite well out of the box, but there are a few quick tricks to provide ease of spiders with some dynamic content. "He goes on to say that you need to optimize staff. "To my home page and category pages I coded index most of the data from my goal. Meta tags will be at the top template within the tag. You can get fancy on your index pages, but I can see why. Optimize these two templates by hand for any words are addressed to the entire site. "Mr. Evans has another article entitled," Best of Movable Type plugins "(TypePlugins.html http://www.webpronews.com/expertarticles/expertarticles/wpn-62-20060310BestMovable) talking about his favorite plugins that help you get great search engine rankings. Her favorite accessories for Movable Type Dashify SEO, MTPaginate, Blogroll MT, InlineEditor MT, MT-Textile, BigPAPI and Ajaxify (a set of plugins that adds several AJAX / javascript widgets into the Movable Type interface), checklinks, v1.0 FormatList and Best File Uploader to upload files. Nicholas Carver (http://www.nicholascaravan.com) has a great article about optimizing Movable Type called "Optimization your Movable Type blog for Google "(Type_blog_for_google.html http://www.nicholascarvan.com/blog/optimizing_your_Movable). He talks about PageRank (and how related to the internal linking on your blog), with keywords in the URL (which is important to optimize all the blog) and blogrolling. He defines the term blogrolling well, saying: "Blogrolling: Inbound links are gold, but in the eyes of Google, not all links are equal. In particular, Google is not crazy about the links contained within JavaScript - apparently can index, but that does not mean they always want. "

Once you have installed and configured your blog software is important to ensure that leave you alone if you change the URL of the page then links that we have received from other bloggers may not be valid. If you need to change the structure of your site (perhaps you've been writing already and want to use the tips in this article to optimize your blog), then you may want to take a look at the Objection Redirection WordPress Plugin (http://WordPress-plugins.biggnuts.com/objection-redirection-WordPress-plugin/) if you are using WordPress. Redirection Objection Plugin that provides a simple interface to redirect users (and bots of search engines) to the right page, especially if you have changed the structure of your site.

Start Blogging
The best thing to do is start blogging. Go ahead and then to your taste and write write, write about it. The more content you can provide the best and it seems like adding content on a regular basis helps a lot, too. Feel free to link to other blog posts that are related to the subject you are writing about. For example, before posting a message, go to your favorite search engine Blog and find another recent post on the subject, and the same link to the message. Link to other bloggers will get their attention, and I hope it will end up linking to you too. If other bloggers have trackbacks turned on then your blog will link back to your post. Some links are moderated so it might take some time before your link appears on the other blog. And some bloggers have trackbacks turned off, so that a link to your site can have some kind of manual intervention. Categorize your messages as much as possible, and feel free to add categories such as blogs, which will help the internal linking structure of your site, and help search engines and users find the subject of the messages.

Promoting Your Blog
Every time you make a post on his blog, blog software will attempt to ping certain sites to let them know you just updated your blog. There are many blog ping services out there, including Ping-O-Matic Pingoat. The software of your blog can be configured to ping sites automatically, and have published a list of WordPress services to ping blog (Http: / / www.corporatewebsitemarketing.info / cwm / WordPress-ping-list). If your blog is new or you would like to get some more links you can submit your blog to blog directories and other sites that list your blog (do not forget send DMOZ.org, Yahoo Directory, and the best blog directories on the web). About.com has a great article about promoting a blog (http://weblogs.about.com/cs/blogpromotions/a/promoteblog.htm) and even Biz Stone has a great tutorial about promoting your blog (http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py? answer = 1060). Finally, do not forget to activate the RSS feed your blog. And if you're looking to promote your RSS feed, try to find a search engine to "promote rss" to find plenty of good tutorials.

Promoting your blog is like promoting a website, you need good content spiderable, links to your content, and configuration is required to make blog software advantage of all the great features. There are also plugins that will help make blogging easier for us all.

About the Author

Bill Hartzer manages the Search Engine Marketing and Social Media Marketing team at Vizion Interactive, a leading search engine optimization company, social media marketing, and web design firm based in the Dallas, Texas area.

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