Search engine optimization is the most common term we came across and every one should considering their blog for search engine optimization.
Search engine optimization can be categorized in 2 categories:
On site optimization and off site optimization
When I started this blog (shoutmeloud) , I never considered SEO optimization. After a while I started reading about SEO and understand the importance of Search engine optimization. Even your blog has more then 10,000 subscriber but after a while, Organic traffic (traffic from search engines) will be the major traffic source for your blog. Right now we get almost 1200-1300 unique visits daily and most of the traffic is from search engines.
I’m using wordpress as my blogging platform on Dreamhost server and by default wordpress is SEO friendly. To give an extra edge to make my blog SEO friendly, I started using plugins and other on site optimization trick.
# To make your blog post and blog title, meta tag SEO friendly, you can use any one of this two Plugin. (Click on the link to read the review of plugin).
Platinum SEO pack plugin
At Shoutmeloud, we are using all in one SEO plugin.
You can analyze your meta tag using free meta tag analyzer.
# Later on I realize the importance of traffic from Image search engines and I started using Alt text in my images using a simple plugin.
# Though If you never bothered about Keywords, you should read the article on
“Importance of Keyword for Search engine optimization
Keywords plays a great role to get traffic from search engines for long and have better ranking in search result.
When I was new with wordpress, I was unaware of usage of categories and I started using lots of categories and useless categories name for every post. Another big mistake which I did with categories was : using more then 1 category for single post. This increased the chance of post duplication. After realizing the importance of category, I wrote an article on
Importance of categories for SEO
Though I have already made mistakes by putting more then one category for single post, and the best way to get out of it is making my categories Noindex, I edited my robots.txt file to make bots not to index my categories , as well as tag pages.
Use robots.txt file to avoid post duplication issue.
Above post is useful for many, but I edited my robots.txt file after that. You can check shoutmeloud Robots.txt file. My new robots.txt file is also a result of Global translator plugin problem.
Another useful stuff which I got to know recently is using anchor text to link back to your article.
Why you should link back to your article and anchor text technique?
Linking back is a good strategy and I use manual link back, but linking back along with anchor text can be a killer strategy. You can use Google analytic to check your keywords for most of the pages. If you don’t know how to use analytic for analyzing your content. Let me know, I will come up with a detailed article on it. Another benefit of linkback is getting good PR into your internal pages.
Alternatively use any related post plugin to link back to your old article.
There are many SEO plugin which I have not discus yet and they will be covered in upcoming post.
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thanks @Harsh, this is your best post on blogging tips.
Thanks Himanshu I glad you like it.
Thanks for the tips man!!
Thanks for your suggestions and information’s.
Nice way of integrating the whole articles with your older posts.
Just dugg and stumbled it.
Thanks for your social bookmarking love Honey. Interlinking your old post is again a good strategy for SEO.
Great post – I also wrote on the subject and shared some additional tips specifically about SEO for Google Image Search here http://internetmarketingabc.com/?p=206
You are right. most of the techniques above are followed by me as well.
Great Nihar, I will suggest do write such posts, it will be very useful for many people, who follow your blog.
great post harsh i came through mixx.com
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Thanks Aravind. Welcome to shoutmeloud
Thanks a lot for the nice tips bro… keep updating the needy bloggers…
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Amandeep I’m glad you enjoyed this one. Do check out related posts to find more relevant SEO tips.
Great post again.
Btw tell me one thing ..you said that one should not use more than one categories for one post rite?
Suppose i am using news as one category and then internet news as another category for the same post, then is it going to cause the post duplication??
Yes shahan it will… though depend how you show your category posts..if you use excerpt its a good thing..else you might fall in category of post duplication issue…
I use excerpts…thank god
thanks you for article, i just newer on wordpress
Great post Harsh. I did the same mistake earlier of tagging my posts to different categories and had a massive duplication issues with Google. My page rank fell from 4 to 0. I have recently changed domain name for my blog and am in the process of again building my blog.
You made the categories no follow. So how does Google index your site? I also had done the same and directed Google to Archives but it did not work properly. Had to edit the entire posts myself later to let Google follow the categories for indexing.
Once again congrats for such a great blog!
Nityin my category and tags are noindex but dofollow.. So Search engine bots can easily crawl the link flowing from there.
Meanwhile thanks for compliments
I need a clarification. I now have made categories on posts as “do follow” and “no index” in the Platinum SEO plugin settings. Can I tag my posts to different categories without any fear of duplicate content?
Hi Guys,
First off thanks Harsh for the great post. I am only receiving between 75 -100 hits per day on my blog but am seeing a steady uptick in my daily visitors so SEO has really started to become a real interest for me.
Can anyone give me a clear explanation of terms “follow, no follow” & “index, no index”.
Since I have started to being marketing quite a bit with articles I am getting alot of trackbacks to my blog and want to know how those affect my PR. Are they a positive or a negative?
Thanks,
John
A small question, I have installed All in one SEO plugin which gave me an option to add keywords. What exactly help my post to get searched keywords or tags. Right now whatever tags I am using I also copy paste the same for the keyword. I am a bit confused I hope you could help.