SEO optimization tips.

On site SEO techniques.

Search engine optimization is a big topic and no one can cover the entire topic of search engine optimization in a single post. So let me try to float your boat with the posts.

Keyword Rich Content

Before you plan to post about anything you like, identify the keywords for the article. Try to figure how people can find this post on search engines. Guess the keywords they will type on search box. If you have the answers you already have the keywords. Repeat the keywords throughout your article a number of times say 3-4 times. Don’t repeat too many times or you might kill your readers. Keep your keyword density upto between 5%-20%. No jumping of the seat, 20% is enough to make a mess on your content and to kill your readers. Keyword rich content might kick start your SEO but it will give your blog a cheap, spammy look. So forget about sacrificing your readers experience of your blog for the sake of SEO.

SEO on your URL and page title

The keywords that you have in your mind will need to be the most common words in your article. Type the keywords in post title which will automatically be your page title and URL if you are using wordpress blog and have the permalink setup like this: http://barefly.com/2007/12/05/sample-post/

Try to do at least one bold tag.

Since there is a big confusion about whether all the heading tags make any difference i recommand you to check this post.

Focus on blog niche

Having substantial amount of articles on a similar or same topic will boost your chance to rank higher than others competing you for the same topic. If you have a blog with 50-100 pages of content on the same topic, search engines will start to think you are the authority of the topic and might show your blog on the first page.

Seo friendly blog templates

Search engines love easy to navigate sites. Make sure your blog is easily accessible to the search engines. Search engines tend to hate too much Frames, Flash and Java script. Keep your blog template simple and clean which will help search engine robots to well index your site. If you do it right, search engine robots will index your site a lot faster and more accurately.

Keep your blog free from dead links and not found pages.

Interlink you blog

Search engines index your blog by sending robot crawlers to track your posts and follow the links. Try to make it easier for the robots to get around. Interlinking wisely will do the trick. Having a sitemap ready for the robots will help them index faster. Keep your category pages in your sidebar and make sure every page links back to the main page. If you are writing a new post and any of your previous post relates to this post, consider linking to the older post.

Update on a regular basis

Content is king. The more you update your blog the more often search engine spiders will crawl your posts and faster you will get indexed. If you are regular on blogging, search engines will index your article within days or even hours rather than weeks or months! Search engines love blogs because they update regularly.

Domain name

I was never a search engine expert neither right now but what I figured is if you have a domain that is your keyword, its only a matter of time that your domain will climb the first place for the keyword. That’s why business.com is that much costly. Don’t worry if business.com is way to much costly, you can choose domains like businessblogging.com instead of emptying your bank account for business.com. Before you buy your domain do a little research to see if the domain is banned by Google.

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