First off, let me say if you are using WordPress, read the must have WordPress Plugins for 2008 that Gnet wrote about in an earlier post, I spent some time today working on a new WordPress Blog and I found these plugins very easy to implement, thanks Gnet for telling where to get all of them!
Okay and now on to the SEO Tips to optimize your website. I know that there are more experienced SEO people out there, but these are the tips I’ve found that are most overlooked by webmasters and bloggers today.
Link Building should be done on a regular basis. No matter how you go about getting links to point to your site, keep adding them. Regular new links will always be more appealing to Google and other Search Engines if you acquire them over time instead of all at one time. Building Links is often thought about in the beginning of websites and blogs but tends to drop off after some success has been seen. Don’t forget to keep building your links to keep your site the most optimized it can be.
Anchoring text is often done using the same word over and over again. Google likes your site better if you can link to different variations of the keyword you are using. If your linking to other pages and articles in your blog, practice anchoring to many forms of the keyword you are actually targeting. This will always help you to rank better with search engines. A good example of this was used above, where I linked up “Building Links” to a post previously written on BlueVerse instead of using “Link Building” as the anchor text.
Don’t forget to go bold! You don’t have to go crazy with it, but adding the <b></b> tags around the keywords you are trying to rank for whenever you can will play a big part in the optimization of your site.
Like I said, these are just the tips on what I think is most often overlooked as you get more involved with your website or blog. For a more in depth look at SEO and strategies you can use to optimize your site, download the Free SEO Book.
January 23rd, 2008 at 8:31 pm
go bold! that’s it! i thought bold-ing a word doesn’t matter but it really can affect seo? new tips for me, thumbs up for you =)
January 24th, 2008 at 9:42 pm
Great post. I found you through Twitter and have subscribed to your feed.
January 24th, 2008 at 9:47 pm
@Koka thanks alot, you just gave me an idea for a post
January 31st, 2008 at 12:59 pm
February 9th, 2008 at 1:54 pm
Actually optimization is an important step that far too many blogs seem to be skipping over, even those that have a broad appeal to surfers and have the potential to be monetizable.
But optimizing a blog is a bit different than your standard website search engine optimization (SEO), particularly because most blogs run off standard blog platforms, or worse, run as a hosted blog on someone else’s domain name. And there are design issues that can be unique to blogs which can impact your rankings.
February 10th, 2008 at 5:00 am
Another great article. A lot of great information in this article. I didn’t know putting keywords in bold did anything.