SEO: Optimize Your Blog
- Search Engine Optimization Basics #2
- SEO is relevant in all sites, these includes blogs/journals. To help facilitate some SEO knowledge I’d like to point out the fact that Wordpress has built in SEO tools you can use, and a few others you can download.
- 1. SEO Titles & Tags
- 2. SEO Widgets
- 3. SEO Sitemap
- 1. Effective Use of Titles and Tags
- 2. Blog Plugins/Widgets
- 3. SEO Site map
- When blogging it’s important to use your titles, headers(h1/h2), and tags effectively. Your blog post titles and page titles will be indexed out of the meta section of the page source and will be picked up by any search engine crawling software which passes by. Since a blog utilizes many blog titles everyday it’s important to leverage upon key phrases and use relevant keywords within your title. It goes without saying that at the same time you must also link up your title, in text keywords, and tags together. Tags are excellent tools to attribute to a post. Tags are words that specify key points within your blog post. Having tags which emphasize your in text keywords is essential to a better optimized blog.
- Using these free tools provided to you, courtesy of their authors, will help you edit and optimize your blogs better. Some key wordpress widgets which will help SEO your blog better are:
- All in One SEO Pack : Found Here
- Platinum SEO Pack: Found Here
- Having a major search engine compliant site map is critical in achieving a good Page Rank (pr). Without one you may never be as organized as you should be to take advantage of your true SEO potential. In conjunction with a fully working XML compliant site map, the user benefits from having stored cache files which will help major search engines, such as Google, keep records of your site.
- An effective SEO site map plugin you can use is XML Site Maps: Found Here
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