SEO Tips For Blogs

Written by Owen Jones Thursday, 16 June 2011 11:33

Blogs, originally called web logs, were developed for web masters to document changes they instigated to web sites. However, blogs have evolved into entities, specialized web sites in their own right. Blogs can be used as an on line diary or even be used for SEO (search engine optimization) reasons to support a web site.

Blogs, originally called web logs, were developed for web masters to document changes they instigated to web sites. However, blogs have evolved into entities, specialized web sites in their own right. Blogs can be used as an on line diary or even be used for SEO (search engine optimization) reasons to support a web site.

Blogs can either be written by only its owner or members might be able to post entries too. These external posts can be posted automatically or they can be kept to be checked by an administrator first before being posted. Blogs are well-liked by search engines because they tend to be 'current', that is, updated often, whereas web sites frequently lay unchanged for months. In other words they are 'static'.

However, there are a couple of methods that you can give your blog a helping hand to climb in the search engines' rankings. Let us take a look at some of these SEO tips below:

A blog should be themed. That is it should focus on a target audience, a niche, and not wander off that topic. You want to build up a focused readership of surfers who are interested in one small issue, like flying petrol-powered model aircraft.

A themed blog will have a high density of keywords that the search engines consider to be related or on-topic. This will help your blog rise in the rankings - it is an organic, that is, not forced, form of SEO.

In common with web site SEO, the blog ought to have a name that reflects what it is about. Resist the temptation to call a blog on cooking cakes after yourself or 'fat and fruity' or something daft like that. A blog on cooking cakes should have the words 'cooking cakes' in the title or URL.

In order to do this in the correct manner, you will need to pay for the blog's domain name and host it yourself. If you go the cheap option and use a free blogging site like Google's Blogger, choose your blog's name carefully and try to have it categorized exactly.

The titles of your posts should also be chosen carefully to mirror the content of that article because each piece will almost certainly be a page in the blog, so its title becomes part of its URL

Be certain that your blog pings (that is 'tells') the blog registers after every post. This creates links back to your blog and search engines rank blogs and web sites by the number of links pointing back to it.

Getting these links or backlinks should be your foremost priority after posting an piece a day. Getting backlinks is a enormous issue all on its own, but two easy ways are to create a signature file (sigfile) with a link to your blog.

Add this sigfile to the foot of every email you send out and join forums and blogs which are on the same subject as your blog. Post to those places and be certain that your sigfile is appended to each post.