Optimizing your Blog for the Search Engines

by Chris Abraham on 23/05/2006 ·

See a “a brief overview of the secrets to SEO success” in “Ten Tips to Help Your Blog Soar in the Search Engines” via Business Blog Consulting


Smart advice includes:

Customize your title tags with keywords

Rewrite your URLs for link gain

Tag clouds and tag pages are your twin secret weapons

Link to related posts

Create a Top 10 Posts list, regardless of posting age, and offer links to these

Lose “permalink??? and “click here??? from your linking vocabulary and instead link with keyword-rich anchor text

Create sticky posts to gain keyword prominence on category or tag pages

Use heading tags to reinforce your keyword theme

Guide the search engines to your key points with bold, strong or emphasis tags within the body of the post

Multiple author blogs need author pages and the links to their sites need to be cleverly done to maximize SEO benefit to them

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