Blogging: Simplest SEO techniques

What basic things does the search engine robots require in a blog to understand it better before reading the contents inside? The answer to this starts up the basic SEO techniques for the modern blogger. The SE robots expect a nameplate sort of thing between the and portion of our blogs. The is often in the codes, but that may need some tweaking for SEO. And then, a is the absolute necessary thing which will not only help the SE robots but but subsequently all search users to get a fair glimpse of what your blog is about.

Chris Pearson, the maker of Thesis wordpress theme, has given a simple code, which you can put between your title tags in header.php file:

if (is_single() || is_page() || is_archive()) { wp_title('',true); } else { bloginfo('description'); } ?> — 'name'); } ?>

If you’re using free wordpress.com blog, it is impossible for you, for blogger users, you can set the title in the following format:











The keyword meta tag is far dead now, so it doesn’t matter if you include any keywords tag or leave it blank or completely erase it off. Thesis theme contains the keyword field, some SEO plugins have this, but since keywords aren’t taken into consideration hence putting some keywords or brainstorming for rich keywords is practically useless.

Next, while composing the post title, use your subject’s best keywords in a meaningful sentence within 60 characters. Inside the post body, use more keywords so that the robots understand what your content is about. Use the keywords cleverly. The word ‘plugin’ might mean plugins for browsers as well as your blog’s plugins, so if you’re writing about wordpress blog plugin, mention it clearly, preferably few time inside the post.

In the process of posting hyperlinks, include alt="some alternate text here" and title="some appropriate title of link" in the process. To improve bounce rate, include a target="_blank" element inside the link field. While posting images, don’t forget to include the alt tag because SE robots cannot read images, it will just attempt to identify what that picture is about, tell that in alt tags.

Follow these simplest SEO techniques and keep creating content to your heart’s desire. You’ll be definitely rewarded.

by kaushik and ria



source : http://kb9.org/blogging/blogging-simplest-seo-techniques/