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How To Be SEO Friendly As A Blog!

2 October 2009 13 Comments

Most bloggers desire that various search engines should themselves locate their blogs and also their posts through various keywords but these keywords change from post to post. This is the most common problem with blogs and search engine optimization.Thus, there may be days when a particular keyword would help the search engine locate your blog and post while on another day it may not because the posts on you rblog may or may not contain the keyword on that day. So What is the solution to this problem?

Well I don’t know how with other blogs but with wordpress blogs there is an easy way. Wordpress allows you to have a different home page from the page your posts are on. This means you can have a static front page and still each of your posts will be found on the
search engines!

Now to set this up first you must log on your administration dashboard and create two new pages. Name one of the pages , blog, and the other ,home!. We can change this later but for now they are good defaults. Neither of the pages have to say anything at this point. We are just setting it up so we can edit it later. After you have the blank pages go to your reading settings. You should see two options, front page, and posts page.

Change both settings, the posts page should be set to the page you created called ,blog, the front page should be set to ,home. Save your settings and go view your blog. You should have your blank home page, and then a page called blog containing all your posts!

Now you want to create a home page that explains exactly why you are their and what users can expect to find on your blog. It is very helpful to open your page source and view your keywords so you can use them in your page.

You want to use your keywords as often as you can without appearing them to look like spam. Each time you use your keywords surround them with either [strong] or [b] html tags. You want to use some of your keywords at both the top and the bottom of your page. Using keywords about 3 times each is a good practice.

You also want to make sure your front page has 113 words or more.  I will say trust me in the fact that you want at least 113. Also when spreading out your keywords you want a ratio of 1:13. For every thirteen words on your page one should be a keyword. This means your text should have at the very least 9 keywords for 113 word page.

When I say keywords I am not just referring to the words. I am referring to key phrases as well. Anything in your [meta keywords] tags.

Now you also want to make sure of one thing. If you are still logged into your dashboard, go to your appearance editor. Find the file called ,header and open it. You should see a bunch of source code that may or may not make sense to you.

You want to make sure you find your [title] ? [/title] tags and make sure they are placed directly after your [head] tag. This is very important for certain search engines! If they are not you want to move them there!

One last piece of advise I have is when adding links to your front page, if at all possible, add links with keywords as text! This also helps your rankings a lot but is very hard to achieve.

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13 Comments »

  • Simon | Teenius said:

    Another great post, AbleBlogger is looking really good, nice work!

    Personally this post helped me loads as I’m not really that good at SEO :p

  • Amar said:

    @simon Hey thanks for the compliment and I am glad that this article helped you. May be I will write more such articles in future. Thanks

  • sham said:

    Nice post buddy ..Thanks for the share :)

  • Amar said:

    @Sham I am glad that you liked the post. Welcome to ableblogger Hope to see you around in future

  • Een Rockstar said:

    Nice post anyway..hmmm..a lot of talking about this..I love the way you perform your keyword ratio..

  • Michael said:

    Hey thanks a ton for this, I will certainly use some of the tips for my blog

  • Amar said:

    @Een Rockstar Thanks for joining us here at ableblogger. I am looking forward to see you around.

    @Michael, I am glad that you are going to implement this tips on your blog

  • Tech-Freak Stuff said:

    Very True! The title matters the most in SEO. Optimizing it should be of utmost importance.

  • Amar said:

    @tech-freak I agree, Seo is very important for any site

  • Surender Sharma said:

    Yes Amar.
    Your words are really true.Search engine works on the SEO techniques which are more important to get noticed on search engines.
    Even some plugins help to solve SEO work.

  • Amar said:

    @Surender Yes i agree there are some plugins but its unfortunate that we can use those plugins only with wordpress not with simple sites

  • Rajesh Kanuri said:

    Seems that you going to be very competitive with your articles.. anyways nice contribution..

  • Amar said:

    @Rajesh Glad you liked the post, Check out more such posts in future

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