Proven SEO Tricks – Make Google to love your blog!
Now, that we have a blog and we know how to get the traffic to the blog using various ways but there is another source of traffic and that accounts to the most of the traffic you can ever get on your blogs and that is Search Engines and in that also, we can specifically talk about Google. Most of the bloggers will agree that their major portion of traffic comes from search engines (for some it goes up to 50 % too) and it will be foolish to let that traffic go away.
In this post we’ll talk about some Search Engine Optimization (SEO) (the practice which helps in bringing the posts to the top of the queries run on search engines) tricks, so that you can get the maximum traffic like others from various search engines.
Before we start I would like to drag your attention towards this post where, I got my blog indexed in just 1 day by Google using simple tricks. I’m sure you’ll find that useful too, if you don’t follow any of those tips, then do it right now and it will surely help. Now, lets look at other simple tips which will help you for sure :
1. Meta information : I know this accounts to nothing these days but still there is no harm in providing the information. It gives the search engine bots the idea of what exactly the blog or website is all about. Don’t try to game as there will be no use as search engines are too smart these days. This small little web tool will be able to help you in generating the Meta tags and will guide you on how you can add the Meta information in your blog or web pages.
2. Blog or website design : There is a major role of blog design in the search engine optimization. Well, what more I can say that Wendy from emoms at home has shared her own experience in a guest post @ problogger. So, don’t forget to make use of the themes which are Search engine optimized. If at all you go for a custom theme then you must ensure that the designer of theme works on the SEO points too.
3. Keyword stuffed posts : When I say Keyword stuffed by that I mean, just write normally as you do but don’t forget to include the keywords where you can. Don’t over do it otherwise that will trigger the alarm of the search engine bots. Also, highlight the keywords, for e.g. I’ve made “Search engine Optimization (SEO)” bold to ensure that it gets the importance and believe me search engine bots understand that you’ve made this text bold, so it is important. This thing is applicable in theme design as well, so if you have headline as H1 tag then it will get importance.
4. Keyword stuffed Titles and URLs : Keywords are important for SEO and bots pay importance to the URLs and Titles of the posts. So, if you are using WordPress then you may use All in one SEO plug-in. If you are using WordPress then you can always use Post-Slug option and have relevant keywords in the URL.
5. Read lots of SEO blogs : There are many blogs who provide you some valuable SEO tricks. Don’t forget to read these blogs, here’s the list of some good SEO blogs :
1. Matt Cutts
2. SEO blackhat
3. SEO Moz
Daily Blog Tips has listed the Top 25 blogs in the SEO category and each blog is stuffed with some really useful information. So go ahead and check out each and every blog.
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Nirmal
August 14th, 2007 at 9:10 pm #
Great post for all bloggers!
Haris
August 14th, 2007 at 10:56 pm #
A very helpful post. Thanks for sharing.
Ashok Arora
August 15th, 2007 at 1:46 am #
Useful info, I found that blogs are easy to optimized then other sites.
ram
August 15th, 2007 at 1:48 am #
Nice tips buddy. I will add one more to your list, specifying “alt” tags to all images to receive traffic from google images.
Melanie Prough
August 15th, 2007 at 4:10 am #
Nice summary, I would only caution one thing. You make the mention that “”I know this accounts to nothing these days but still there is no harm in providing the information. “”, but that is not accurate….You title Meta tag for example is the most important element on the entire page. The description Meta tag is also highly necessary and importance…these tags are jusdged by thier relevance and when the relevance score is high you will gian serious organic SERP ground. This is a link to Search Ranking Factors V2, which was a collaborativeeffort of 37 SEO geniuses from all over the world. http://www.seomoz.org/article/search-ranking-factors Including Rand Fishkin and Aaron Wall….Really a great document. The only tags relly not utilizedanymore are robots follow, because it spells out a default behavior, abstract descritpion is no longer used, and the keyword tag is not used by most engines…but I caution you some smaller Meta engines still use it…So as you said it is still good to have.
Later
–Melanie
TipsoSaurus
August 15th, 2007 at 4:27 am #
@ Melanie : Thanks for dropping by and sharing such wonderful piece of information. I’m sure this is going to certainly help many of us and including me too. I was aware of the relevance but I only started making use of the meta keywords recently. But, now I’ll go ahead and concentrate more on this after reading what you’ve just said :)
Shankar Ganesh
August 15th, 2007 at 4:31 am #
Very well written, yet simple, Mayank.
I’m reading too much about SEO these days from those blogs ;) Atleast I won’t stuff my blog with keywords :D
eches
August 15th, 2007 at 8:22 am #
Great tips especially when some of those tips slips away from your mind :)
TipsoSaurus
August 15th, 2007 at 8:13 pm #
@ Eches : Yeah, You may call it a good reminder :)
Stanley
August 16th, 2007 at 6:51 am #
Thanks for great info – although it’s commonly known – but it’s well categorized and written.
Simon
May 11th, 2008 at 2:56 am #
Lovely jubbly info , thanks a lot.
Would having all you text content as bold make it less seo savvy?