How To Optimize Your Blog For Search Engines
Blogs are naturally search engine friendly and optimizing your blog for search engines is really no different than optimizing your website.
Here are some suggestions to get you started.
Back Links: Backlinks play a very big role in Google's pagerank algorithm. Backlinks are extremely important to your blog's rankings, so make sure you have a large number of backlinks.
Here is a list of places to submit your feed or blog.
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Make use of the alt description tag: Spider bots cannot read images, so when adding images to your blog it's important to place information within the alt and anchor text of pictures.
Make good use of anchor text: Don't use "click here" or other non-descriptive link text. Always use keywords as your anchor text. Google loves anchor text.
Use relevant keywords: Did you know that in a 48 hour period there was 6138 searches done for game cheats? Wow! It looks like a majority of gamers are cheaters.When creating titles for your blog posts think about the words that web surfers will be typing to find your blog.
'Inventory Overture Keyword Selector Tool' is one of the best-known services for helping you choose the right keywords. Use ?Inventory Overture Keyword Selector Tool? to find what people are actually typing in to the search engines. I also suggest subscribing to Word Tracker. Their report of the most popular searches is published each Tuesday and distributed to over 30,000 subscribers.
Technorati.com , is a blog search engine that also lists the top searched for words. Use keywords in the body of your post as well as in blog tags and the title of your posts. Your keyword rich content will determine how highly you rank in the search engines.
Update frequently: Remember that content is king. The more interesting content a blog has the more successful it will be. Give visitors a reason to return to your blog by updating it often. Blog, blog and then blog some more. Remember too that search engines love content.
Be sure to read my articles "Link Popularity in the Blogosphere, Major Search Engine Submission: How to get listed in Google, Yahoo and Msn and Blogging- Developing a Readership."
Optimize your blog for both search engines and people. Search engine optimization is hard work and an ongoing process. Invest a little time and learn the proper techniques and not only will your traffic come, but you'll increase your page rank too.
Rose DesRochers is the founder of Blogger Talk Blog Community http://www.bloggertalk.net, a friendly fast growing blogging portal, offering bloggers support, advice, tools, tips and information about blogs and blogging.
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