Well in my opinion seo changes along with trends and we have to adapt to new tactics and strategies to rank higher then before, so i will try my best to add as many up to date seo tips as possible every week. This week we’ll be focusing on indexation and avoiding any kind of penalties that may occur in the future, prevention steps in other words. Here we go.

Link Building

If you are building links for a site remember to get both nofollow and dofollow links its good to have a good amount of both to avoid any suspicious robots from search engines, although it may seem paranoid to do so but it does help, having a good amount of both nofollow and dofollow places your blog in the gray area were you won’t be suspected upon as much.

The no follow links have to be from relevant sites as well as the do follow links, if you are focused on mentions and blog by just focusing on linkbaiting then it won’t hurt to buy a high pr link once in a while at a good directory, spoiling yourself once in a while doesn’t hurt, as a matter of fact recently i thought of treating myblog to another link, this time i submitted it to idk since i know its owner and he keeps the site in really good shape so it seemed like a great deal to me.

Content

While its good to stay fully relevant it doesn’t hurt to go slightly off topic but still on the same subject to further explain the topic at hand, personal life examples are  a big example for this, this is one of the best link bait tactics you can ever use, people love to blog about other people’s life problems to explain their own subjects. Keep in mind that you will have to link to authoritative sources for the same topic to get higher rankings.

A point to remember, if you are going to include flash into your articles then either just include a video that explains it all or have the article long and interesting enough for the people so that they have to watch the
video to see how much more there is to the article, curiousity is a major tactic in linkbaiting, it makes people talk about your content.

Link Love posts are good, they get you trackback links and extra traffic from other sites while giving your site extra relevance since you are not just forcing your own content into search engines but you are linked to and from bigger sources to that is a huge sign of trust for google, it shows that your site can be trusted with higher rankings so don’t hold back on the link love, let loose search your feed reader for more links.

Image Titles and Alt text

I tried a little experiment with a few posts which were ranking high for certain keywords then they suddenly dropped to the bottom (no.10) so to further push the envelope here i added (changed) new meta tags and a better description but it didn’t seem enough so i started bolding keywords and adding h1/h2 tags within the article then when i reached the images i saw that there was no alt text for it so i added it, within 9 hours i got my high rankings back.

Alt text might seem the smallest seo tactic ever but its worth the effort, i learned that when doing seo every little bit matters.

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