It's been a lovely weekend here in the UK, almost 'Summer like'. It's been an opportunity to spend a bit of time outdoors, something us brits dont get chance to do that often! A whole two days away from the screen explains the lack of recent activity on the blog, but I hope you find this latest post useful.
You will hear from many Search Engine Optimisation professionals, SEO Web sites and forums telling you that Blogs are a great way to create relevant back links to your web site through regular posts. There are many free blogs out there, both hosted and available to use on your own servers. The most popular blogging software is WordPress.
Here are some tips to help you optimise your blog posts for SEO.
1. Use Permalinks for your URL structure. Permalinks include the title of your blog posts in the URL (with hyphens replacing splaces). This flags for attention when Google is crawling the site.
2. Make use of H tags in your posts. Where you can use the Heading1, Heading2, Heading3 etc tags when writing your posts. As with any SEO content the search engines value the text in these tags and see them as an important part of ranking the page.
3. Dont stuff your blog posts with keywords. Make your blog posts interesting and relevant. Remember that you are writing your blog posts for humans to read. Make them engaging - offer readers tips or advice. Google likes human readable content!
4. Dont stuff your blog posts with links. Typically try to use about 5-6 links, all to different pages - maybe even some to different web sites. Your links should always be anchored on your the keywords that you are optimising you target site on. If your blogging software allows, aways make use of the Title tag on your links and include your keywords.
5. Dont forget to register your Blog URL with the Search Engines - and also register it with Blog directories. If you are writing good content then people will link to you, your Page Rank will increase and your outgoing links will become more valuable.
I hope you all have a good week. If anyone has any other tips on blogging for SEO then please feel free to comment!
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