A ridiculous number of books have been written about it, but there are few things on the Web as arcane as Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)—you never know exactly what is going to boost your search engine ranking and when. Neverthless there are certain things that can be said as truely important. SEO-ing your blog works better if you are using your own hosting and content management system (CMS)— the options available to you are far more comprehensive than free blog hosting. However, there are a few things you can do to enhance your free blog’s search ranking.SEO-ing YOUR FREE BLOG
Firstly, let go of any illusions you might have that Blogger users are at an advantage just because Google owns Blogger. The following tips apply almost universally too:1. Choose your blog and post titles appropriately. It should be something catchy to grab potential readers, but search engines would prefer that you include at least one keyword indicative of the post’s content in every post title.2. Stick to a general theme for your blog. By their very nature, blogs are riddled with search keywords, and themed blogs more so.3. Update your blog regularly. Search engines love the “live” Websites that are updated with new content on a regular basis.4. Register yourself on every possible blog listing.5. Exploit the power of being linked to—make comments on high-traffic blogs (not the I-like-your-site-you-might-like-mine kind, mind you), start discussions, and get yourself blogrolled on as many people’s blogs as possible.6. Wherever available, always make sure that you have a permalink for each post—this helps search engines index them better.7. Add your blog feed to your My Yahoo! and My MSN accounts. This will get you listed on Yahoo! and MSN.YOUR OWN HOSTED BLOG
If you are using your own hosting, SEO becomes much easier thanks to the number of options you have. WordPress, for one, offers you its own CMS which you can deploy on your server, and
there are a lot of things you can do with it.
Firstly, let go of any illusions you might have that Blogger users are at an advantage just because Google owns Blogger. The following tips apply almost universally too:1. Choose your blog and post titles appropriately. It should be something catchy to grab potential readers, but search engines would prefer that you include at least one keyword indicative of the post’s content in every post title.2. Stick to a general theme for your blog. By their very nature, blogs are riddled with search keywords, and themed blogs more so.3. Update your blog regularly. Search engines love the “live” Websites that are updated with new content on a regular basis.4. Register yourself on every possible blog listing.5. Exploit the power of being linked to—make comments on high-traffic blogs (not the I-like-your-site-you-might-like-mine kind, mind you), start discussions, and get yourself blogrolled on as many people’s blogs as possible.6. Wherever available, always make sure that you have a permalink for each post—this helps search engines index them better.7. Add your blog feed to your My Yahoo! and My MSN accounts. This will get you listed on Yahoo! and MSN.YOUR OWN HOSTED BLOG
If you are using your own hosting, SEO becomes much easier thanks to the number of options you have. WordPress, for one, offers you its own CMS which you can deploy on your server, and
there are a lot of things you can do with it.
And lastly, DO NOT get obsessed about SEOing, remember once again “CONTENT IS THE KING”
Read more about SEO in this Wikipedia Entry…………to be continued
ADDING GOOGLE AND YAHOO VERIFICATION META TAGS TO BLOG
SEOing YOUR BLOG – OPTIMIZING FOR SEARCH ENGINES
AUTOMATICALLY TWEET YOUR BLOG POSTS TO TWITTER VIA FEEDBURNER
EDITING THE TEMPLATE OF BLOGGER BLOG – STEP BY STEP FOR BEGINNERS
ADD YOUR BLOG/SITE URL TO GOOGLE, YAHOO AND BING SEARCH INDEX
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