After alot of changes i have what i like to think of as the perfect money blogging SEO for blogs, since i am in the business of selling sponsored reviews and banners i need to make sure my sites are up to the standard where i can charge the best price for it and my advertisers can get the most out of it as well, so here are my steps to seo your blog.
First of all, you will need a few plugins to make sure your blog is ready for the rest of the setup.
- *WP-Digg Style Paginator - Adds page numbers to the pages
- All in One SEO Pack – The simplest seo pack out there
- AutoMeta – Great meta tag generator.
- Related Posts – Relevant content for relevant articles
All of the above mentioned widgets have a one click setup but ALL in one seo pack requires some extra settings that you might want to take a look over, here is my recommended setup :
Its good to have some kind of keywords at the end of tag or category archives, it gives the blog a better look but it doesn’t matter SE wise because i’ve added a no-index tag, you should know that getting your categories and tag pages indexed is a really bad move, it creates alot of indexable pages with the same content on almost all pages so in act of good faith no-index them then your posts and pages will be the only indexed pages from your site which will eliminate any spam flags on your site.
Permalinks are always an issue with people but the way i see it, it really doesn’t matter if you have a SE friendly url with the keywords and everything or those mysql query urls with the IDs, they are both given a SERP judging by their quality and strength not url structure, but if you still want to get a good structure try one of the following but remember i am not saying that these structures will give your blog anymore value then it already has, its just fancy urls so try to make it as short as possible.
- /post-title
- /date/post-title
- /category/post-title
- /category/post-title.html
- /post-id/post-name
No-following links is a good move but make sure that the comments on every post are nofollowed not the post links, if you are in the money blogging business you can not be controlling the flow of link juice from your site, google sees this as “gaming” pr and selling links, you do not want to be caught doing that, so just take the no-follow off all the links – regular posts & sponsored reviews.
Registering your blog at technorati is a seriously good move, only the registered blogs are ranked on their authority system and it does give out alot of good links too so make sure you are registered at technorati before you start pro active blogging.
Choosing keywords is something most bloggers get stuck on so like i always suggest “don’t get star struck” if others are earning good on a particular keyword doesn’t mean anyone could conquer it with little or less work, every successful blogger knows the hardwork it takes to make a niche work for him or her. Break down your blog’s main topics and go with the most relevant keyword/title you can come up with, the more relevant the better, being an authority in the niche is done easily, I’ll make a follow up post about being an authority figure in a certain niche soon after this post subscribe to me for the upcoming updates.
Linking to authority sites from relevant articles is a tactic most SEOs use to get higher rankings, I personally don’t really support this because you are getting leverage from someone else’s content and sending most of your traffic to them, that might get you a good SERP but it will drain a good amount of visitors from your blog, If you are just starting out make sure to not link to any bigger blogs or sites rather just send them a trackback if you have used their content and/or your content is relevant to their’s 
that way you get a free link! and its relevant as ever!
Selling traffic/exposure and not SEO value is my aim, who ever aims to sell links in order to give their advertisers better SERPs and such is going to get penalized one day or the other the better approach to money blogging is to get a really good reader base and giving them info that they want to know, in other words relevant ads , doesn’t matter if its a review or a banner if its irrelevant to your site, your advertisers won’t get any exposure.
Deep links can help you in so many ways, specially if you have the right title structure on your inner posts and pages that helps alot in getting a decent serp, for example i removed the blogname from all posts and pages to make my posts that much more relevant and its fairly easier to rank for a serp then before!
For example; Make Money Online Wallpapers (run query) :
Although there isn’t that much competition on that keyword but still i wanted to show you just how much better SERPs look without the blogname in them. There are more follow up posts that discuss this matter further/deeper so subscribe to me to stay updated on this
February 16th, 2008 at 9:28 pm
I learned a lot from this post. I was looking for informative articles, and this is it!
Thanks.
February 16th, 2008 at 11:59 pm
Thanks for laying out what utilties are good to put together a money blogging site. Always appreciate you sharing your experiences with us. Really helps.
February 18th, 2008 at 12:53 pm
Thanks for this informative article. Thanks alot!
February 19th, 2008 at 7:05 pm
Thank you very much, lots of stuff worth keeping here. SEO seems to always get deeper and deeper! x)
February 20th, 2008 at 9:54 pm
OMG !! Is it just a coincidence that I should have come up on your blog when I’m just starting to expand my blog? There is so much info on your website!! I’m learning new ways to improve my blog. Thanks for the plugins, and thanks for the technorati blog claiming tip. Never knew about it till now.
March 3rd, 2008 at 7:43 pm
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