Written on May 7th, 2005 at 09:05 am by Darren Rowse

Where to Put Keywords on your Blog

Search Engine Optimization 5 comments

Getting your blog ranked highly in Search Engines can be a complicated task – so can sifting through all the theories being espoused by SEO ‘experts’. Everyone has their theory. As a result I like it when people put together simple well thought out lists that even a non technical person like myself can get his head around at the end of a hard week’s blogging.

SEO and Online marketing have put together a helpful list of 8 places to put your keywords in your blog if you want the Search Engines to look favorably upon you. Being smart about using keywords (the words you want people to find your blog with in Search Engines) – is generally accepted as important factor in SEO.

Here’s the list (each point is expanded upon in their post):

1. Use Your Keywords in Text Links for ALL Links – Inbound and Outbound.
2. Use Your Keywords in the Page’s Title Tag.
3. Put Your Keyword in Your Description Tag.
4. Place Your Keywords in a Keywords Tag.
5. Make Sure You Use Your Keyword in Your Heading Tags.
6. Put Your Keywords in Bold Text in Several Places on the Page.
7. Use Your Keyword in Text Early – and Often.
8. Use Your Keywords in Alt Tags.

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5 Responses to “Where to Put Keywords on your Blog” - Add Yours

• Andy

  May 7th, 2005 5:45 pm

  Good tips – there was a theory that the meta description and keywords tags had died out, but I am sure they are still used by certain systems. I still add them, though I need to sort them out again on my blogs since I updated to WP1.5

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• njwindfreak

  December 9th, 2007 8:08 am

  Thanks for the tips but I also heard that Meta Tags have died out. How about using keywords in the actual url?

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