Top Blog SEO Techniques to Use
Blog posts have been all the craze for quite some time and they have many internet marketing benefits but they have to be approached correctly. There are many search engine optimization elements that should be present with each blog post and it is important to realize this if you want your blog posts to go the extra mile.
Here are several top blog SEO techniques to use:
URL Structures: Often times a blog post will use programming language that looks like a string of characters or the entire title of your blog post. Either one really doesn’t do much for your SEO. The entire title is better than the random characters but ultimately you want to pull out your most important words from your title or even use keywords tastefully if they apply to your post and use those for your URL structure.
Internal Linking: If your blog is located on the URL or domain as your main website you can gain a great advantage by hyper linking keywords and linking them to some of you main product or service pages.
Plugins: Most of the blogging platforms have a large variety of SEO related plugins that will complete some of the SEO work for you so you don’t have to think about it.
Images: Images have a variety of advantages, everything from user experience to search engine marketing. Image search is a popular place to be visible in as well and by utilizing images in your posts and tagging them with keyword rich phrases in the alt tags you increase your chances of being visible in the photo search area.
Meta Info: Many blogging platforms out there now allow you to write custom meta information for individual blog posts which is just another area you can entice the search engines to ping you into the search result space.
Blogging every week for all businesses is important but it is also important to blog correctly so you are always maximizing your efforts online. Take the time to go the extra step with your blog posts and over time you will see much more activity happening from your hard work.
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Thanks for the tips. My blogging can use all the help it can get.
Oversized footer with linking opportunity also support for SEO optimization, You can add your categories, popular post on this section. It is another good way of internal linking mention above on the article. thanks for sharing
Thanks for reading Rob, I am glad that this post helped you!
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Nick
As Webdesign Melbourne already said, what about the footer in a blog? There is also much space for optimization, like recent posts (if it’s not already in the sidebar), recent comments and so on.
With a nicely optimized footer you have a better internal linking.
Why not adding the part to the article above?
Thanks for sharing.
Greets from Snowy Bavaria Germany
Daniel
Thanks Daniel for reading and sharing your thoughts!
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Nick
A few point here. Watch your plugin’s for conflicts, particularly on WordPress. All-in-one SEO, for instance, is popular and useful, but I’ve seen it installed and uninstalled on various shared hostings over the years. (And I’ve had WordPress blogs kicked off two different web hosts just due to plug-in conflicts.)
Even on Blogger (where you can’t put in meta description tags) if you watch your keywords carefully, you can get a similar response.
A point on blogs is to ensure you put your keywords in the blog-post file name. This is known variously, but is available on both blogger and WP platforms, as well as most others. This is known as “SEO-friendly URLs”.
On images, rename them using your keywords if you can. That’s in addition to your ALT tag. So it’s a double-dip of SEO in one swell foop.
Hope this helps.
I would like to know more about the footer and SEO.
Rob
Thanks for the tips. I changed the URL structure from the ugly wordpress default to a custom structure and it made a big difference.
Thanks again
Tim
Keywords, combined with the right article content, are used in order to help companies claim a stronger presence on Google, Yahoo and other main search engines. When a potential client types certain keywords in the search engine, this brings up millions of results and everyone wants to appear first. There are millions of competing websites; however, the correct content with specific, well-researched keywords will make yours stand out.