Simple SEO For Your Blog

Posted on: February 17, 2008 — 6 Comments

Any serious blogger will tell you the importance of SEO (Search Engine Optimization), there’s actually a number of simple things you can do if you want your article to be more search engine friendly .

If you are using WordPress, download the All in One SEO Pack. This is actually my favorite WordPress plugin and it has helped my blog out tremendously. This neat little plugin allows you to modify your blog and current post’s title, description, keywords and title format.

Check your keyword density, make sure the keyword target is not too repetitive or else the search engine will see this as keyword spamming and they will drop you like a bad habit! To verify the density of your keyword go to www.seochat.com, click on Keyword Density on the left hand side, you’ll be prompted to type in your url, then select 1, 2, or 3 keywords depending on your keyword and hit analyze. This will give you a list of keywords found on your page or current post. Under density, a good rule of thumb is to stay between 2.00% – 2.50%. If you are under 2.00% then you need to add more keyword, if you are above 2.50% you will need to decrease your keyword amount.

Make sure your keyword target appears in the title heading of your post, for example if your keyword you are optimizing for is “web development“, then make sure you use the phrase “web development” in your current post title.

Don’t forget your heading tag, use the h2 tag to emphasize your keyword target.

If possible, link to previous posts within your blog. Bloggers fail to realize that these in house links are just as beneficial as outbound links, don’t over do it though, I find that 1 link to a previous post should be enough. The search engines will give you a nice pat on the back for that one!

Find a free site analyzer online, there are thousands of them on Google. The one I like to use is www.creatingonline.com. Their analyzer tool will actually tell you what you need to do to improve your keyword density, and it will also let you know what your current load time is.

Lastly, I’ve been reading up on commenting on blogs that have disabled the “nofollow” function. Now I’m not sure how effective this is but I will sure give it a try to see if it helps out my blog at all.

If you follow these simple steps, your blog post should rank higher than usual within the search engines. If you know any other SEO tips/tricks please share it here.

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6 Comments for "Simple SEO For Your Blog"

I have heard the same thing about the nofollow attribute that in fact it helps you too. But in general, I think internet should be a place where everybody helps each other. I think there is plenty out there for everybody but unfortunately that is not the way it works. Greedy comes in the way many of the times…

I always use H1 Title for my primary keywords and then H2 for secondary keywords.

Thanks for the share…

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Luis Posselt — December 29, 2010

Thanks for the post, and thank you for adding our comment to you blog.

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get ranked number one — November 29, 2008

Thank you … this information very helpful to me. I’m using is also WordPress.

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seoservices26 — July 16, 2008

I liked your idea of using a free tool for web site analysis. I have thought about it earlier too but never really gave much importance but after hearing from you now I think I will surely use one. I will try to use the one you recommended.

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Web Designer — April 25, 2008