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Seo tips for bloggers
Posted by livefree • 5/02/08 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
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Who has any?
When I write my titles, I try and make them long tailed keyword phrases. It seems to work well for me.
I use wordpress, I noticed the title of your blog matters. Come up with a good title and you will get ranked first.
If you search Success University Recruitment in google you will find me on the first page ^_^
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Titles do help a lot. Ive managed to keep my top spot for drinking on weekdays in Google. Gotta love it! -
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I was wondering the same thing actually. It would be nice if some smart person around here could tell us the best way to title our posts. For instance I just posted about quinoa as an alternative to brown rice because of the rice shortage in America
kitchentablemedicine.com/what-is-the-best-alternative-grain-to-brown-rice/
And I wasn't sure if I picked the best title. Maybe I should edit it and add "Quinoa" in to the title so if someone is looking for health info on quinoa they will find it more easily.-
Yours title is good if you want to get better rankings, try re-writing your article and submitting them to some article directories, in your resource section include your keywords as your anchor text.
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I'm the black sheep blogger ... I quit writing for one online mag because of SEO. I wanted to WRITE, not keep score. SEO is great if you're looking to make money, not so great if you're writing to write. It's like online political correctness. "Don't say it THAT way, say it THIS way!"-
I agree lots of private label articles I have are horrible because they are optimized for keywords and sound like gibberish.
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I don't agree with you Anniepooh!
SEO it's a great way to build a nice, clean website, a great way to rank higher in serps and if you are a writer I guess you would love people to find your blog and actually to read what you have to write. This is when SEO becomes attractive. You may be the best writer in the world but if no one finds your blog you will only write for yourself.
Regarding the post title question - you guys try to have the targeted word or phrase in there as it is quite important. If you write about quinoa then add quinoa into the title. Also the keyword density it's quite important so make sure you have your targeted keyword into the blogpost a few times - don't over do it.
There is a great plugin for wordpress which you can use - All in one SEO - it works great and it is a must have if you are willing to optimize your blog.-
Well, I already write for a great company - I blog professionally. My traffic has remained the same since before then. I didn't care about tons of hits then, and I don't care now. My goals are a little different than the average blogger, though.
I guess I may have been writing well from the get-go since a huge amount of my hits come directly from google searches. -
Good to know! I just started using that SEO pack and was wondering if it is worth the extra effort.
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I don't agree with anniepooh either.
I do agree with loredan.-
I agree with anything TimeThief says.
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No one said you're not a great writer (perhaps you are since you do this for "a great company")...my point was that from writing to ranking it's a damn looong way
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If you're looking for ranking! I think you missed my point. I don't write from the angle of, "is the search engine going to pick this up?" I write for myself first--if the searches pick it up, great. If not, no harm, no foul.
I don't carry ads on my site that aren't beneficial to me in a way other than financially speaking. So, for me, SEO doesn't mean much.
If my voice and SEO happen to match, fabulous. If they don't mesh, that's just fine by me.
I think maybe you're thinking I'm knocking bloggers who do implement SEO tactics in their blogging. I'm not. I think if you can make a buck and still be happy with what you're writing, then you should go for it.
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Anniepooh,
I had one writer with me that agreed with you totally, my response now heads up my writer's tips post.
"Writing online has to accomplish 3 things, write so they will see it, if they see it, write so they will read it; if they read it, write so they will be glad they read it"
www.painrelief101.com/articles/writer-tips
The first is SEO, the second is formating and presentation, the THIRD is writing style and quality.
My belief is if you don't get the first 2 right, the third rarely comes into play.-
...and the reason I quit writing for the SEO crazy place was just that.
Just because someone clicks in, it doesn't mean that they will READ. I got tired of bending my words just to fit what google was driving someone to. I can't tell you the times I've clicked on a link only to be sorely disappointed. I could put all the right words into the header and tags and then fill in the blanks with "crap, crap, crap, crap..." and the only thing that mattered was the click in. It was all money and I chose not to be a part of it.
I'm NOT saying it's that way for everyone. I was relating my own experience and that's all--no hidden meaning or agenda. -
I'm with you AnniePooh. I've done a hell of a lot of SEO experiments on my sites, I've got some great rankings for some pages, I've even got good traffic to those posts, but hardly any comments or discussion. When I compare the stats for a couple of my sites, the posts that get the most discussion are barely ranked. They still get traffic, but they get their traffic from other bloggers or forum threads, not from the search engines. My posts that get the most activity (and isn't that what bloggers want) are written, well, how to put this, not for SEO. I know which kind of traffic I prefer.
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SEO is about many things, and a meaningful title with good keywords in it is one technique.
Good names on images is another. If writing about coffee makers, do not label your image "img0001.jpg", but "Blue coffee maker" and remember alt/title tags.
Having your writing in the language of your "customer" (readers) and use keywords within the text. Use the same terms as your customers/readers do, because that is what they'll search after.
Links are good, but not the normal Site A --> Site B --> Site A links. Google picks those up instantly and doesn't value them as high. Use Site A --> Site B --> Site C --> Site A. Go in circles instead of link swapping.
Links out of your site is also important, not only links to the site. It'll be ranked lower if no outgoing links.
Meaningful links, meaning that it matters what you link to and from. If the topics match they are valued higher then not. Remember to also use meaningful link text, alt and title. Not just "link" or "next" but write what you are linking to.
Avoid link farms. They are not valued high in Google and many would actually hurt your ranking.
There are many other things regarding SEO, but these are some of the easy things one can do.
Use the meta-description if at all possible.
Meta keywords are not used by Google at the moment, but things change fast. If you use Meta keywords select a handful of keywords and use them. Don't spam it and only use keywords relevant to your page and which are actually included in your content.
(edit: And when I mention rank, I do not talk about Page Rank which is less important nowadays - but rank on the google search result page) -
It is also a good idea to add good folder names to your pages.
I made the mistake early by being generic with my folders
Example. www.profitonknowledge.com/blog/wordpress
I really should have changed this part/blog/wordpress , but its been so long
and I know if I change it the links will go dead. I am to busy to get involved with that right now.
But for the record take a few moments when you are uploading files or folders that the name of the files and folders if possible has your keywords. -
The best seo tips
pointseven.wordpress.com/category/search-engine-optimization/ -
That's really great. And one more thing you might want to add to all the things you said is to make your title something catchy.
Titles with "leaked", "secrets revealed" and other sexy type things seems to work too. I do it all the time, and it pays well.
By the way you should also try making your blogs more visible by advertising it in video format and sharing it to the world. Some people call it Video marketing, but I call it "Hello World"
www.videosalesleads.com
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