Written on August 15th, 2005 at 09:08 am by Darren Rowse

Search Engine Optimization for Blogs – SEO

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Search Engine Optimization is something that makes many blogger’s heads spin – I know this because every time I write an SEO article I get comments from bloggers telling me that its too big a topic and that they’d rather just write ‘quality content’.

Whilst I’ll never argue that quality content should be anything but a first priority in blogging, the fact is that there are many millions of pages of great writing languishing around at the bottom of search engines results pages that deserve to be read by many but which rarely see the light of day because their authors have failed to understand that just a few simple tweaks in the writing process could see them ranking considerably higher.

So it’s time for another series – this time on Search Engine Optimization for Blogs!

People often ask me ‘how do I get ranked number one in (((insert favourite search engine here)))?

My answer usually starts with – ‘I don’t really know what I’m talking about….but….’

You see whilst some of my blogs rank very highly on different search engines – I often don’t really know why. Much of what I do is educated guessing and experimentation. I do read a lot of other people’s advice on the topic, but the more I read the more I realize that I’m not alone in my guess work – virtually every article I read is a ‘best guess’ of some kind.

My main advice to people wanting to optimize their blogs for Search Engines is to keep it simple. Start with quality content on a specific topic and then tweak it using the best current advice going around.

When I think about SEO for my blogs I tend to divide the things I focus upon into two parts – offsite and onsite search engine optimization techniques. Offsite techniques are more about what others do on their websites in linking to you, onsite techniques you have more control over as you write.

Off Site SEO Techniques

Off site SEO techniques are as the name suggests factors from outside the site itself (ie from other sites) that impact the blog’s ranking in search engines. Many of these factors are outside the blogger’s control – however they are useful to know. The most obvious and probably most powerful offsite factor are Inbound Links (something I’ve already referred to above).

It is generally agreed that the links that point to a website are one of the most powerful way of climbing Search Engines results pages (in fact many argue it is THE most important factor). – To put it most simply – every link to your site is seen by the search engines as being a vote of confidence in your site.

Ideally Speaking – The best inbound links have three main qualities to them:

  1. they are from higher ranked sites than your own
  2. they are relevant to the topic you are writing about
  3. they link to you using relevant keywords to your page

Whilst you may not have complete control over who links to you these are the types of links that you should be dreaming of.

How to generate quality inbound Links?

Of course whilst most of us know this it doesn’t make getting such links any easier – its in the hands of others in many cases. So how do you get such links?

  • Quality Content – There are all kinds of link generating systems out there but in my opinion the best way to get links to your blog is to write quality content that people will want to read. You can solicit links with others or sign up for different link building programs or even buy text links on other sites but the cheapest and probably safest approach is to build inbound links in a natural organic way as others link to your quality content.
  • Notify Relevant Bloggers of your content – Whilst I don’t advocate spamming other bloggers and asking for links – I would recommend that if you write a quality post on a topic that you know will interest another blogger that it might be worth shooting them a short and polite email letting them know of your post. Don’t be offended if they don’t link up, but you might just find that they do and that in addition to the direct traffic that the link generates that it helps build your own page rank in the search engines (more on letting other bloggers know of your posts here).
  • Directories – Another way to generating inbound links is to submit your links to directories. I know of webmasters who swear by the benefits of such a strategy – the first thing that they do when starting a new site is to do the rounds of directories – submitting links to key pages with appropriate keywords in the links. There are loads of directories out there – many of which offer a free submission. Ari Paparo has compiled a list of blog directories that you might want to start with.
  • Inter-link your Blogs – Increasingly bloggers are starting or joining blog networks to enjoy the benefits of multiple sites and writers working together. One of the advantages of networks of sites is that they usually link to one another. In doing so you have complete control over how your sites are linked to from multiple domains. It is worth noting that you should be careful with this approach – if all your sites are hosted on the one server many think that Search Engines will work out what you’re doing and the impact will be lessened.
  • Buy Links – Many professional web masters have a budget to purchase links from other highly ranked and and relevant sites. I won’t go into this too much here but you might like to read more about it in my recent post On Buying Text Links. update: I’d encourage anyone wanting to buy links to think very carefully about this. Google have been cracking down on sites that use this practice. They can’t catch everyone but some have been caught and seem to have been penalized for doing it.
  • Swap Links – Similarly many bloggers swap links with other bloggers. Sometimes this happens pretty naturally (you see someone linking to you so you link back) but in many cases the links are strategic ones and formally arranged between site owners. I get daily requests for such reciprocal links (I rarely act on them). Whilst there is some benefit in such link swapping I would again advise caution here as many SEO experts believe that the search engines have methods for tracking such strategies and devaluing the links. Some try to get around this by doing indirect or triangulated links. ie instead of site A and B doign a direct swap they involve other sites. So A links to C in exchange for D (also owned by C) linking to B (also owned by A) – makes your head hurt doesn’t it!?! There are also a variety of systems around that say they’ll take care of such interlinking for you – I know many who use Digital Point’s Free C0-Op Advertising system. Personally I tend to avoid such schemes and have a policy of linking to sites I think are valuable to my readers. If they link back then so be it.

If you’re looking for link exchange/buying/selling programs you might like to look at systems like:

- Link Adage
- Text Link Ads
- Link Worth

On Site SEO Techniques

Having looked at Off site Search Engine Optimization Techniques I’ll now turn my attention to examining some of the factors you might like to keep in mind as you build your blog – (or Onsite techniques – things you do on your blog that help build a higher ranking). As with all SEO techniques there are many of these and a lot of speculation around all of them so let me touch on as many as I can:

1. Keyword Rich Content – identify a few keywords for your article that you’re hoping will get indexed highly by Google. Don’t pick too many but consider the questions

  • How do I want people to find this post in Search Engines?
  • What will they type into Google if they want information on the topic you’re writing?
  • How would I find information on this topic in the Search Engines?
  • What results come up when I do plug these keywords into Google?
  • What other keywords are other sites using?

The answer to these questions will give you a hint as to what words you’ll want to see repeated throughout your article a number of times.

These keywords will need to be the most common words used in your article. Use them in some or all of the following ways:

  • Keywords in post and page titles (read my post on using keywords in titles)
  • Keywords in URL of page (blog herald wrote on this a while back)
  • Keywords in outbound links (read this article on the pros and cons of outbound links)
  • Keywords in bold tags (try do it at least once)
  • Keywords in heading tags (there is debate over exactly how to use them but it’s generally accepted that h1 tags are important and that h2, h3, h4 etc tags also have an impact. Having said that I’ve seen some pages rank very well in search engines without using heading tags. There are many tutorials online about heading tags – here’s one.)
  • Keywords in image alt tags (here’s how)
  • Keywords in the general throughout the text of your post – but especially early on in the first few sentences
  • Keywords in meta tags (they seem to be less valuable these days but many still believe they are useful with some search engines – here’s a Guide to meta tags)

Of course you can go over the top with keywords in posts and let it destroy your content – but if it fits with what you’ve written tweak it to include the words you are targeting a couple of extra times. Most SEO experts recommend getting your keyword density up to between 5-20% – I think 20% is probably bordering on massacring your content.

One last word of warning and disclaimer on keyword rich content (because I can just hear the comments on this post already) – don’t sacrifice your readers experience of your site just for the sake of SEO. Yes keyword density can be important in climbing the search engine rankings – but more important is that your content and design are user friendly and helpful to readers. There is nothing worse than a site that is stuffed with keywords – these sites come off as cheap, nasty and spammy – don’t fall for the temptation.

2. Themed sites - One of the growing theories of SEO is that you are more likely to rank well if you have a substantial amount of pages on a similar theme. ie a niche topic blog will probably rank higher than a general one that covers many topics. Build a blog with over 200 pages of content on the same theme and you’ll increase your chances of ranking well as SEs will see you as an authority on the topic. The take home advice here is to keep to some kind of a topic/niche/theme for your blog. It is also probably another argument for categories and tagging posts that relate together strongly.

3. Site Design – Search Engines like well laid out, well coded and easily to navigate sites. Make sure your pages validate (I need to work more on this) and that they are viewable on all major browsers. Search Engines don’t tend to like too much Flash, Frames or Java Script in your site – keep it simple and clean and their robots will index your site a lot faster and more accurately. Also try to keep your blog free from dead links (a challenge for those of us with older blogs with big archives).

4. Interlink your Site – The way Search Engines index your blog is to send little robot crawlers to your site to track what you’ve written and follow the links. Make it easier for them to get around your blog by using internal linking wisely. Most SEO experts recommend that you provide some sort of Site Map that means every page on your blog is just a link or two away from every other one. One way to do this for bloggers is to make sure that your category pages are in your sidebars as I do in this blog. Also make sure every page links back to your main page and any other important pages on your site. If you’re writing on a topic you’ve previously written about consider linking to what you’ve written before or use a ‘other relevant posts’ feature at the base of your article. You’ll see in my menus at the top of the page a number of my key categories and articles. One of the impacts of having them highlighted in this way is that they have become some of the most highly ranked pages on ProBlogger simply because they are linked to from every page of this blog.

5. Update regularly – The more you update your blog the more often Search Engines will send their crawlers to your site to index it. This will mean your new articles could appear in the index within days or even hours rather than weeks. This is a natural benefit of blogging – make the most of it!

6. Outbound Links – There is debate over how SEs treat outbound links from your blog. I’m in the camp who believe that relevant outbound links enhance your site’s ranking in search engines. I always link out to quality relevant sites that I think my readers will find useful and have a little anecdotal evidence that seems to support the theory that this is healthy for the way SEs index you (check out Waynes article on the topic for more info). Linking to sites outside your own blog does mean you end up sending traffic away from your blog so you need to count the cost of such a strategy. Note that you should always try to link to reputable and relevant sites to your own page. Also keep in mind that too many outbound could have detrimental impact upon your blog. Like in most things in SEO – moderation is the key.

7. Choose your domain name wisely – there are numerous factors to keep in mind when selecting a domain name. For one you might like to include your keyword in it if possible. Secondly you should do a little research to see if someone else has previously used the domain. This could have both positive and negative impact. If it was a quality site with inbound links you might reap some benefits but if it was a banned spam site you could still be banned from Google for a long time. One service you might want to use to check expired domains is Way Back Machine at Archive.org.

8. Register your Domain for a Lengthy Period – a recent patent by Google indicates that it now looks at the length of your domain’s registration in ranking it. It does this because many spam sites have short registrations and a longer one indicates that you’re building a site with substance and are in it for the long haul.

9. One topic per post – the more tightly focused the theme of a page the better when Search Engines come to rank it. Sometimes you might find yourself writing long posts that end up covering a number of different topics. They might relate loosely but if search engine ranking is what you’re after it could be better to break up your post into smaller more focused pieces.

10. Write optimal length posts – there is some thought going around the Search Engine Optimization community that pages that are too short can get passed over for high rankings. I try to keep posts at least 250 words. Of course there are some posts on my blogs that are shorter, but if I’m writing a post that I want to rank well I try to give it some meatiness in terms of length. On the other hand don’t make it too long either – because in doing so you make it difficult to keep your keyword density up and could end up with a less tightly focused page. Research also shows that longer articles can have a pretty steep drop off rate in readers after the text gets below the ‘fold’ or to the end of the first screen of article .

11. Avoid Duplicate content – Google warns publishers in its guidelines about having the same content on multiple pages. This goes for both multiple pages that you own but also pages that others own. This is because a tactic of spammers is often to reproduce content on many pages and/or to steel content from other sites. There is some debate over what duplicate content does and doesn’t include (for instance many bloggers use ‘free articles’ as content on their blogs – these articles often appear on hundreds and even thousands of other sites around the web and to me could be seen as duplicate content) – my advice is to be very careful about how many places your content appears. I do republish occasional posts (or parts of them) but try not to do this too much and attempt to add elements that are unique on each occasion that the posts are republished).

12. Ping – services like Pingomatic (there are numerous others too) will ping a variety of websites for you to notify them that you’ve updated. In doing so you’ll also be letting search engines know that you’ve updated which will trigger their robots to come visit your blog. I’d also suggest pinging Google’s blog search tool.

13. Submit your RSS to MyYahoo – submitting your RSS feed to MyYahoo seems to help with getting indexed on Yahoo. Read more about this at Getting Yahoo Traffic for your Blog. Some also think that doing the same thing to Google’s Personalised pages could have a similar impact.

14. Quantities of Content – I always get into trouble when I write about having lots of content – but I think its true that bigger sites tend to rank better than smaller sites – whilst it is possible to rank highly with a small site – it’s probably not the norm.. Search Engines will see your site as more comprehensive the more content you have. You also better your odds of being found in Search Engines if you have more pages. By no means am I saying just to put up random junk content – be careful about this – rather work at building a comprehensive and large site over time.

15. Submit to Search Engines – You can do all the best onsite SEO strategies in the world and still get no where because the Search Engines have not found you to start with. Each search engine has a way of letting it know about your site – submit your URL to be included in the index. Please note that this takes time and perhaps a quicker and more effective way is to get linked to by a site already indexed by the search engine. I’ve written a post about his previously at how to get indexed by Google.

You might also like to tryout some of the services around that offer to submit your sites to search engines for you – I’d be wary of paying for this sort of service though. I never have and seem to do ok.

Again I will reinforce – the above techniques come out of my own experience and from the things I’ve learnt from others. I am not an SEO expert but find that if you keep the above in mind you can do reasonably well. Don’t become obsessed by SEO – if you do you run the risk of forgetting about your reader, forgetting to write quality content and you could find yourself getting into some dodgy SEO tactics that could get you banned from the Search Engines You’re trying to get listed in.

I’ll finish here by adding that SEO can take time – so be patient. After 2.5 years of blogging I’ve managed to build my blogs page ranks and SERPs but it did not happen over night. Sometimes it seems that no matter what you do nothing works – it may be that the words you’re wanting to target are actually a heavily targeted segment of the internet (consider changing your approach) – or it may just be that there is some unknowable glitch with the SE you are targeting – its a fickle game and one that I’d recommend you don’t rely on alone. So yes work on your SEO but also consider the many other methods around to find readers for your blog. You might like to read my Finding Readers for your Blog Series as a starting point.

Feel free to have your say on the topic of SEO and blogging below – share your comments, experiences and questions for the ProBlogger community to interact with.

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307 Responses to “Search Engine Optimization for Blogs – SEO” - Add Yours

  • Kurt

    August 15th, 2005 9:48 am

    Thanks for the set of tips on SEO. I have to work especially hard on this; my blog is a subdomain of my main site, which was sent to PageRank 0 purgatory because some spammers took advantage of my open wiki and embedded invisible spam links that stayed for about six months. I’m using all of these tips to try and slowly crawl back out of that, but it takes time.

  • Kidino

    August 15th, 2005 11:44 am

    I wrote something that maybe others would be interested in on my blog. It’s not so much about SEO. But by doing non-SEO marketing techniques, like press release, participating in forums, writing articles in publications, etc … indirectly will also help your SEO efforts.

    But you’ve got to start with good content .. best if it’s unique, and a search-engine-friendly website.

    Sometimes it’s best to stop worrying about SEO for a while.

    http://moneyclicking.net/index.php/archives/2005/08/12/non-seo-marketing-for-instant-massive-traffic/

  • Swade

    August 15th, 2005 3:17 pm

    I’ve been incredibly frustrated by Google not ranking my blog. To cut a long story short, it ranked 100 times better when it was a typepad blog with a long convoluted name than what it does now with it’s own domain name.

    It ranks ok for people looking under ‘Trollhattan’ but terrible for people looking for ‘Saab’.

    Grrrrrrrrr.

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    August 16th, 2005 6:30 am

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  • Roseanne

    May 27th, 2006 8:43 am

    Anything above a 5% weight for inclusion of keywords, is bordering on the ridiculous, and will more than likely get the article or webpage ignored. The norm is 2% – 5% – - – with 5% being the high end. Hever, Google appear to prefer the 2% mark). Hmmh! that “SEO expert” who recommends anything above a 5% weight for keywords must be that same charlatan who “guarantees” a top10 ranking – tcchh!!

    If you are a new webmaster, gunning for competitive keyphrases , will only land you in the Google Sandbox for a few months.

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    June 13th, 2006 3:04 pm

    ON BUYING AND SELLING LINKS: DO NOT DO THIS FOR SEO PURPOSES.

    Matt Cutts, a Google engineer, has blogged about this before to say that Google frowns on it, has algorithms to detect it, and can in fact cause the selling website to lose their ability to give PageRank/reputation.

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  • Paowiee

    June 19th, 2006 10:52 pm

    Thanks for the tips! I’m definitely working on SEO for my blog too. Wish me luck!

  • Michael

    June 22nd, 2006 11:06 am

    Great tips… Always love your stuff Darren!

    What I got out of this article was to use pingomatic! As search engines wouldn’t know if I have updated! I

    I have currently been writting for my business on 20+ different subjects, still have problems with getting traffic through!

    Anyway good job! Can’t wait for more great ideas!

  • Jason Brown

    July 9th, 2006 2:07 am

    Another great article I just found Darren, also congrats on the little one in the family.. I myself just had twin girls not long ago!

    Not too many people pay attention to SEO when it comes to their blogs, I think mostly because they might not understand it. Many people may comprehend the onsite SEO work, but maybe not the offsite techniques.. I am glad you included that in your post as well. I am also glad you let people know SEO takes time. All too often I have clients that need my services that think SEO happens over night. It is something that takes time and work.

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  • Kate

    July 30th, 2006 7:12 pm

    I have had my blog for just over four months and I am only just starting to realise that there are things I could do to be more widely read. All this is news to me and makes interesting reading. But it is going to be a while before I can actually get my head around it and understand much of it,
    Kate.
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  • Jim

    August 3rd, 2006 9:06 pm

    Mostly good tips. However, I would advise against submitting to search engines, if your site has links they will find it. Submitting without many links or any content can make it take longer for you to get indexed.

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    August 22nd, 2006 2:15 pm

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  • Justin

    September 8th, 2006 6:50 am

    This topic is driving me crazy. It’s been over five weeks and I have yet to be indexed any relevant search engines. Google owns blogger.com (which I use) and accepted me to Adsense, yet I can not get indexed for the life of me. Who knows. Maybe by Christmas.

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  • Agent Rant

    September 9th, 2006 9:10 pm

    I did a overture bid search on All of high paying keywords from cwire’s list, and found that all the keywords were priced 10 times lower at an average. Could it be that the prices have come down or Google bids are MUCH higher than overture?

  • munkay

    September 17th, 2006 5:33 am

    Yup right very good info there. I’m new in blogging and infos in your blog are really usefull to me to start.I always interested with seo since its a subject where we can do a lot of trial and error and experimenting new thing.Since i just started new blog its quite a challenge to me :) , thanks for the infos

  • chymera

    September 24th, 2006 4:00 am

    WOW! Thanks for this article. I’ll be working on my site now … hope It’d translate to higher palcement in search engines :)

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    October 2nd, 2006 4:30 pm

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  • Blog Revenue

    January 5th, 2007 2:54 pm

    thanks for the article darren..I’ll start to implement it on my blogs.

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  • John M Weaver

    January 12th, 2007 3:18 pm

    The biggest thing that i have found is make sure you have sub pages for your posts. Have numerous posts all on one main page will do you no good, take the time to find a layout that will be both user and search engine friendly, it has been worth it for me!

  • Mustang Blog

    January 16th, 2007 12:32 pm

    Thanks for the help man you’ve been referred to by many.

  • renewing your mind

    January 25th, 2007 4:16 am

    Just what i needed..Thanks for the wonderful resource!

  • Motivation 4 Athletes

    January 25th, 2007 1:31 pm

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  • Jason

    January 26th, 2007 3:28 am

    I have The Master Plan, by Charles Heflin. How can the techniques in it be used for creating Wordpress content blogs?

    thanks

  • April

    January 28th, 2007 1:26 am

    Wow, great information. I have been very confused on the “linking back”, I was on a few sites and saw people asking others to “link back” giving us the http:// code.. Oy Vey, that confused me. So someone likes your content and adds your website in their content..? I don’t know why I am so confused. I will make my way to the free directories first. I started a website as well and did not know starting a blog would be as much work, I am enjoying this. Thanks again for the information Pro Blogger..
    April

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    February 7th, 2007 11:58 pm

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  • Brendan

    February 9th, 2007 7:31 pm

    Thanks for this great information. Does leaving a coment (which has a website url included) also count as an external link? I quess it does? Is taht why commenting on other peoples websites is encourage. I am sure that the answer lies somewhere in the pages of problogger

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  • Shahidul Imon

    February 13th, 2007 12:54 pm

    There I was getting nitty gritty on SEO and stuff, where as you already have them all ligned up properly in one place. Your posts are very relevent and accurate to my knowledge and understanding of the Blogging world. Once again keep up mate!!

  • Vlad

    February 13th, 2007 6:17 pm

    Hello Darren,
    Very nice article, than you. Basing on your article i tried to describe SEO in our business – creating eCommerce applications and online shops.

    Thanks again,
    Vlad Gurgov,
    http://obsgroup.blogspot.com

  • nika

    February 17th, 2007 2:25 am

    I hope this thread is not so old that I dont get any input because I very much value anything you all can give.

    I migrated from http://nikas-culinaria.blogspot.com to my own hosted site http://nikas-culinaria.com

    I have not done any redirects per se tho have swapped out the new feed on the old site to try to direct feedreaders to the new site.

    I have also worked on internal referencing links so that the link to the homolgous pages in the new site.

    I recently used the wordpress “Google Analyticator” plugin to generate sitemaps and ping to google.

    Both sites have dropped by a 500 hits/day in the last week.

    I get a large number of google and google image hits on the old site.

    Question: Does keeping my old blogger blog intact some how poison my new blog? Are the migrated duplicate pages seen as spam by the SEs?

    Thanks ahead of time!

    Nika
    http://nikas-culinaria.com

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    February 17th, 2007 4:59 pm

    Search Engine Optimization for Blogs – SEO…

    This is a good article, plus I am just testing the linking…

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  • Eliena Andrews

    February 19th, 2007 1:08 am

    Hi Darren,
    The article is really helpful, really gr8 one. wow, i m learning more and more on problogger, that’s gr8 for me . Thanks darren
    Eliena Andrews
    http://healthtreatments.blogspot.com

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  • Colleen

    February 22nd, 2007 6:39 am

    I know you have no control over this, and that this entry is old, but wow, that list of blog directories from Ari Paparo – outdated! Half of those are no longer open. And he doesn’t have comments on that entry any longer.

    I’ve started my own blog directory in the meantime. Note to self – keep it open :-)

  • Anne

    February 22nd, 2007 11:31 pm

    HI there!

    Your blog is really informative. Thanks for the tips!

  • Beguinners Guide to SEO

    February 24th, 2007 8:11 am

    Great guide, thanks, I have a couple of blogs, one with blogger and the other one with wordpress, I found this guide and the other one you have for blogger, I will be reading your guide thoroughly, thanks.

  • chingkkay

    February 25th, 2007 1:40 am

    i’ve been searching for almost 2 months how to increase traffic regarding my blogs, now i found you , saying very informative. my blog site is about technology and very resourceful, and i don’t think people will snob on it.

  • Leo

    February 27th, 2007 12:31 pm

    I’ve stumbled upon your website, and followed on it for a few month now. I finally got my hand dirty and started a blog. This article is exactly what I need. That’s for all the information… kind of overloaded right now. Seems like a long way to go. Thanks.

  • Myk

    March 1st, 2007 7:09 pm

    Im new to blogging, i have a website http://www.carefreebaby.com, i tried to create a blog for it, url is carefreebaby.blogspot.com, im not sure if i want to copy most of the content in the site and put it over there, if that is a good idea, any help/ suggestions?

  • How to Take Care of Baby

    March 1st, 2007 7:12 pm

    Im putting adsense in my site, website address is http://www.carefreebaby.com, am i over-doing my adsense placement?
    Hope to hear from your expert opinion. Thanks in advance.

  • Cher

    March 17th, 2007 2:44 am

    I thought the professionals are the only ones to build a search engine friendly website. But after going through the whole seo tips mentioned, i feel that anyone with a minimum effort can do SEO of his own site !

  • david

    March 27th, 2007 3:03 pm

    thanks for the tips , will come handy in the future i think!

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  • Aaron Ballantyne

    April 13th, 2007 4:53 am

    Darren,

    I would just like to add that the age of links to a blog and also the age of a blog itself has a great impact on SEO. The older both are the easier it is to get ranked for whatever keywords one is targeting. Since new blogs are much harder to get ranked linkbuilding to them should be aimed primarily at getting direct traffic and SEO a secondary goal.

  • Alison

    April 23rd, 2007 1:28 pm

    A simple tip for the early days of a new blog –

    Adjust the number of posts that appear on the home page of your blog to a very large number.

    This takes the maximum advantage of the highest ranking page on your site to improve your posts position in search engine results pages. In the early days you are not going to have a problem with hosting bandwidth and as long as you havn’t overloaded your posts with images, flash etc download times should still be reasonable.

  • Michael

    April 27th, 2007 9:11 pm

    I am a SEO professional myself and after reading through this excellent site I am thinking of starting a blog myself to offer free advise and get more exposure.

    Is blogging the way to go ?

    Your SEO article – excellent!!!

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  • Vineet

    April 29th, 2007 9:13 pm

    hi, by applying your suggestion i got PR 2 in two months, actually my blog isn’t that old but ur tips worked, thanx for a wonderful article. I learnt alot from here.

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  • Brandon

    May 3rd, 2007 1:56 am

    Very nice read. Thank you for the information. Will apply this information and wait to see the results.

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  • Alex

    May 7th, 2007 4:12 am

    It’s a realy good advices, and the main is – we need patience, and everything will be.

    Thank you.

  • David Fiske

    May 9th, 2007 1:03 am

    Fantastic advice as always!

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    May 15th, 2007 8:53 pm

    Hi Darren,
    Great post. Just started my own blog and I’ve been learning so much from you. From my own SEO testing I would say that the easiest and quickest win for any site is Page Title and Description tag optimisation. There are good plug-ins that help to make the whole process very simple. A few of them:
    http://www.neato.co.nz/ultimate-tag-warrior
    http://www.netconcepts.com/seo-title-tag-plugin/
    Cheers,
    Gustavo

  • Mohd. Hashim Khan

    May 20th, 2007 4:41 pm

    If you are a wordpress user I’ll suggest these few points:

    1. Choose a Valid XHTML and CSS template only for better search engine friendly pages.

    2. Install “All in One SEO” plugin

    3. Install social bookmarking sites plugin like “share this” etc.

    4. Use permalink structure as /%category%/%postname%/
    (use custom option and not the default) this makes your blog URL search engine friendly.

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  • ngadutrafik

    May 28th, 2007 5:27 am

    thanx for your info. I’m newbie about SEO, so all article about SEO always interesting for me.

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  • Adam

    June 5th, 2007 6:34 pm

    I’d also recommend using Google Analytics to look at the traffic sources for your site and analyse the keywords being used so you can optimise your content.

    While Analytics shows the sources and keywords actually used to click to your site, Google Webmaster tools also shows the relevant top keywords along with your search position even if they didn’t result in any visitor clicks (statistics tab -> query stats).

    This often shows up some searches being used that you may not have considered before allowing you to add more of these keywords to your content and capture more visitors. For example, although my site is about a B&B in the Cotswolds I can see I am ranking an average position 9 in Google for the search “highest point on the cotswold way”.

    The other thing I do is probably bordering on crazy but every time I get near a computer I launch a search engine and issue a search using my preferred keywords. I then find my site in the results and click on it. I’m convinced this makes the search engines think my site is the relevant place to go using these keywords and as such improves my results position.

    You’ll see me in airports, hotels and restaurants on PCs, mobile phones and laptops!

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  • Business

    June 15th, 2007 12:21 am

    I came across this site and it was extremely helpful! I was searching for how to SEO a blogspot blog with like meta tags and such but this info will work!

    Thanks

  • Talal

    June 16th, 2007 2:16 am

    Thank you for these valuble information. I think that SEO issue is the most complicated since there is no particular way to improve your site related to the search engens.

  • TheLowCalorieDiet

    June 16th, 2007 9:59 am

    Thank you so much for the information, I know what you mean about the domain name, a few years ago when I first started with the whole internet thing I bought some really really dumb domain names, they are so bad I’m not even prepared to write them here……….lol Thanks again, great site too.

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  • Kemp

    June 20th, 2007 2:07 pm

    I’m only one of a million little lights in the bloggosphere that will benefit from your exeptional page. Thanks heaps and grab a cookie when you come to visit my page one of these days:-) http://ke-mp.com.

  • Chris

    June 22nd, 2007 9:44 am

    Hi Darren,

    I’ve seen many people struggle with Search Engine Optimization and I often recommend them to read this post because you handle every piece of the subject without resorting to the king of computer language most beginning bloggers don’t understand.

    A lot of people can blog, but you really know how to write quality content. Keep up the good work :-)

    Regards,
    Chris Peters

  • Zen Zoomie

    June 26th, 2007 2:27 pm

    An oldie and a goodie…I love it when I find a gem like this from the past. Great article Darren! I wish I’d found this a week ago, but better late than never.

    Chronicles of a (Wannabe) Professional Blogger

  • Laef

    June 29th, 2007 5:05 am

    search engines are very complicated, some times even if we are well ranked, we don’t know why, some times we can’t save a good place in search engines for a long time especialy for blogs.
    A good tool I suggest to use Seo Elite Sftware

  • Laef

    June 29th, 2007 5:09 am

    search engines are very complicated, some times even if we are well ranked, we don’t know why, some times we can’t save a good place in search engines for a long time especialy for blogs.
    A good tool I suggest to use is Seo Elite Software

  • SEO Mexico

    June 30th, 2007 1:33 am

    Hello,
    Excellent post. I’d like to comment something, Technorati is not mentioned in all your content, and this is an excellent way to increase traffic and visibility on the net. And besides Technorati tags help a lot in traffic matters. This search engine is a must in any blog.
    Regards.

  • Mr.Money

    June 30th, 2007 9:03 pm

    I have a question, what is the difference SEO & PR ? (although i know PR is only by google). and How can we use META TAG at Beta Blogger?

  • Maria

    July 4th, 2007 11:51 pm

    Excellent article! I make the same suggestion as Laef: Seo Elite Software
    All the best!

  • Mela

    July 9th, 2007 1:52 pm

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  • Rukshan Kothwala

    July 14th, 2007 2:23 am

    Thank you very much!.I did these SEO tips to my blog.So i got best results.
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  • Vijay

    July 14th, 2007 10:56 pm

    Recently i switched to wordpress new domain and i lost my previous PR of the blog.
    I did a manual redirect to my new blog from previous one so that i will not lose my traffic from old blog also.
    Darren can you please tell me that should I completely delete my previous blogger blog or keep the same with redirect to new blog?
    Will this affect my new blogs ranking anyway?
    I have now changed old blogs meta tag to noindex, follow.. should i keep this or change?

    Lot many questions but your answers will be highly appreciated..

  • Rob

    July 15th, 2007 8:11 am

    Hey Darren –

    I’m fairly new to this whole internet entrepreneurship business and it’s definitely been a learning experience. Your blog has been a great help.

    Trying to understand SEO for Google is a real trip.

    My primary website is about park ranger jobs. Even though (IMHO) I have some of the most credible content I can find on the net about this topic, my site didn’t show up until pages 6 through 10 on Google Search results.

    It wasn’t until I started posting on credible blogs (like this one) and various other forums, that my Google ranking really started to improve. I make a point of writing posts that actually have some value, rather than just saying “Thanks for the great article” and leaving a link to my site.

    RangerCareers.com is now on page 1 when you google for “park ranger jobs” Hallelujah!! This has been making me crazy for almost a year. But now the traffic (and sales) is really picking up.

    It’s like any other business. You have to work on it, be persistent and consistent, and understand that you’re NOT going to make a million overnight, no matter what anyone tells you.

    Now, I’m gonna tackle affiliate marketing.

    Anyone had any experience with Mark Ling at Affilorama.com? Trying to figure out if it’s worth the $27.95.

    Rob
    http://www.rangercareers.com

  • Abbotsford

    July 15th, 2007 9:02 am

    Great post. I am new blogger. I have 2 real estate blogs. Your blogs help a lot.

  • Winston Redford

    July 20th, 2007 1:45 pm

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  • Gids

    July 25th, 2007 12:55 am

    Great SEO advice – thank you. However, I think you should much caution should be taken by bloggers going along the buy links route.

  • Ed

    July 26th, 2007 12:20 am

    really interesting and well written article. novices and experts alike will both pick up a lot of tips and ideas from reading that

  • BuySell

    July 30th, 2007 5:14 am

    Thanks. Very interesting and well written. I don’t think anyone should buy links. Google obviously doesnt like it so why do it. They will pick up on it eventually and everything will crash. Just do it right and over time good things will come.

  • geri

    August 5th, 2007 3:16 am

    Thanks… And thanks for the link!… Blogging makes my SEO work so very easy… And I usually end up reading something useful!… As for buying links… Google is a hypocrite on this issue… AdWords and Adsense is all about selling links… The SEO community should have done a better job of making this point!

  • Junping

    August 5th, 2007 11:33 pm

    Great advice there! Although I am not very much focused on SEO yet as I am focusing on social networking first, I will soon use the SEO tips here to boost my traffic! Thanks for the great tips provided!

  • Vishnu

    August 6th, 2007 5:48 pm

    I agree with buysell 100%. Buying links for just the sake of traffic dosen’t seem like 100% appropriate. And in the case of outgoing links they should be like value add-ons that will step up the audiences blog experience.

  • oeoa

    August 9th, 2007 12:55 pm

    Great SEO advice – http://www.digitalav.ws thank you. However, I think you should much caution should be taken by bloggers going along the buy links route.

  • web designer

    August 10th, 2007 2:58 am

    Excellent article and I like the way you explains each and every thing. But as you know well now a days buying links from other sites is now going to an end by search engines…..so rest of the work that we done like PPC will be going to stay for SEO Optimization….

  • Sterling SIlver CZ Jewelry

    August 17th, 2007 6:24 am

    Thank you so much for the useful info!

  • Ivan

    August 19th, 2007 7:51 pm

    Frankly said, it is a pure waste of time trying any SEO methods on blogs. If you remove the word blog, this WELL-WRIITEN article remains valid SEO resource. But what about the difference between skillfully build and properly optimized website and a blog: they have different web nature. I mean this: if a blog is not a website, it can not be optimized with a website’s SEO methods as we apply at smart web marketing. I don’t see a lot of blogs in the SERPs for competitive keywords, even close to none.

  • Vinai

    August 23rd, 2007 8:30 pm

    There are many SEO tools that help to automate some of the work of finding good directories to link to, finding the right keywords, and optimize the web pages. You can find some great SEO Tool Reviews at The SEO Bible website at http://www.theseobible.com to save you some time and effort.

  • Nicky

    August 26th, 2007 12:24 am

    Excellent…i don’t find any words to describe it. As someone has suggested this to be in a pdf format. I too would welcome this suggestion. I request you to get this SEO techniqes in pdf so that we could have a copy of it to put into practice rather than reading and forgetting it.

  • Roseanne

    August 26th, 2007 5:56 pm

    Nicky,

    If you don’t have access to Adobe Pro, you can automatically turn any webpage into a PDF either at Adobe’s website or at Pdfonline.com

    They also offer an API which allows the inclusion of a “Convert this post to PDF” button at the bottom of popular posts. Available at http://www.pdfonline.com/easypdf/sdk/features.htm#printer

    cheers

  • Michael Persson

    August 27th, 2007 5:42 pm

    I think the descriptions of all content here are good and of great value. I also create a blog for search engine optimization and xhtml and css development at http://www.xhtml.gr

  • منتديات

    September 17th, 2007 12:43 pm

    some people pay much money to get these tips
    we feel very free here in your blog
    thats great
    problogger.net is our internet uni:)

  • Mike

    September 19th, 2007 1:29 am

    Very good article, I’m impressed by the On Site SEO techniques section. I don’t know very much about how Search Engines work, but it helped me create a website. Also the section that talks about how to get indexed by Google was useful since I think it’s the way new websites can quickly earn a visibility boost.

  • منتديات

    September 21st, 2007 11:58 am

    ============
    Hi There Darren….
    i noticed that you used NoFollow in your blog,darren we’re real reader and we love your blog,i’m reading your blog since about 1 year or more
    why you use NoFollow in your blog?
    i think you should remove it if you really love your readers
    coz your readers should get some pagerank from you blog:)
    why not?
    thanx
    ===========

  • yiyix

    September 27th, 2007 11:43 am

    Thank you for your good article. I will translate it into Chinese in my blog. I think it is the SEO article that all bloggers should read.

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    September 27th, 2007 5:13 pm

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  • Fred Joiners

    September 27th, 2007 10:44 pm

    Some of this I knew, some I didn’t, some I NEED – thanks Darren from another Queenslander.

  • Kenneth Bittner

    September 28th, 2007 12:23 am

    Excellent advice, I really appreciate it.

  • Cyrus Nguyen

    September 29th, 2007 4:02 am

    Exellent post Darren. Many people think that SEO can be done in a matter of days or month. Continuous improvement and building backlinks along with quality content is what’s all about.

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    October 1st, 2007 6:44 am

    In case your readers are interested, I recently did a Podcast with IBM Distinguished Engineer Mike Moran on the topic of SEO and his book, “Search Engine Marketing inc.”

    You can find the Podcast and Show Notes here: http://www.iaconsultants.ca/index.php/2007/04/05/ibms-mike-moran-search-engine-marketing-inc/

    Cheers,
    Jeff

  • Megan

    October 19th, 2007 11:54 am

    Hi Great Great Article! I am so addicted SEO and blogging. I have yet to find a group for that but anyway don’t by links google does hate them. How do i know …I did it uggg and everything went down FAST. Hit it the right ways and you don’t have to worry about.

    Great work

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    MEGAN

  • seoTracker

    October 23rd, 2007 4:52 pm

    I think what most webmasters need to start with is the software platform. Most content systems already incorporate SEO aspects into the software. So for beginners they need to pay attention to software features.

  • seo-9

    October 26th, 2007 5:32 pm

    i think blogging is going to play important roll in seo

  • Rahul

    October 29th, 2007 3:37 am

    Thanks for the gr8 tips! And yeah Google is coming down hard on text links,…

  • cyberst0rm

    November 14th, 2007 9:42 pm

    The last four-weeks have been especially hard on sites that sell text links. Page Rank has tumbled across the board!

    Your SEO tips are very useful! I’m quite sure that using them can help boost any websites reputation with search engines.

  • driller

    November 26th, 2007 2:00 am

    Regarding directories, post to keyword on-topic directories. You will see little optimization value from free-for-all directories. Spend the time to find the right directories for your site, preferably with pages with a small/medium amount of links.

  • Taimoor

    December 8th, 2007 3:06 am

    nice work but i am still facing traffic problems

  • edie

    December 8th, 2007 10:35 am

    Thank you for this post. Really good one :)

  • Abunza

    December 17th, 2007 11:33 am

    That is excellent information! I knew a lot of it, however there are some new things I picked up. Thanks for the information!

  • Tom

    December 23rd, 2007 2:01 am

    Thanks for a informative start for the newbies!

  • Orion

    January 4th, 2008 3:26 pm

    This is alot of info to digest! Nice comprehensive list, keep it up

  • SEO Development India

    January 8th, 2008 11:05 pm

    Great blog on SEO techniques.
    thanks for posting your prcioues thought for us.

  • Adam Moss

    January 19th, 2008 4:53 am

    Great article. I am a web developer working for a company called Creare Communications, and we’ve focused heavily on different methods of search engine marketing in recent months.

    The thing we’re beginning to implement at the moment is the inclusion of blogs and RSS feeds to them on our customer’s websites and we’re waiting to see how much of a difference it makes. It’s certainly true that blogs with quality posts that reflect the author’s expertise are the most effective as this one shows, so when writing articles on our blogs, quality of content is a high priority.

    We’ve used the SEO book from SEO Book.com, which has been valuable and I’d recommend it despite its hefty price tag.

  • Adam Moss

    January 19th, 2008 4:56 am

    I think I’ll subscribe to your feed actually…. thanks a lot.

  • himanshu

    January 22nd, 2008 9:16 pm

    Excellent blog.I have a question from you. If google starts ranking pages only on the basis of traffic a web page gets for a particular keyword(s) like on the basis of page views/page, avg time on the site, bounce rate etc, then isn’t the end of seo is near.

  • veronicaromm

    February 5th, 2008 5:39 am

    You have explained SEO for me, finally! This is the best organized set of info and I am thrilled. I am pleased to see that I have been employing many of the suggestions already. But the linking, and the more tricky stuff is new to me and I think it will be fun. Thank you.

  • Saporito

    February 6th, 2008 3:23 pm

    Great article. Very in-depth and well-crafted. I’ve also been reading http://www.massmailsoftware.com/blog/ which has several great articles on SEO.

  • Daphne

    February 6th, 2008 9:00 pm

    Wow… This is definitely an awesome tips! Great article! I would surely go back here very often… Thanks a lot! :)

  • Allie Baldwin

    February 8th, 2008 6:46 am

    Do you need help catching the hunters on the web? I found a great website to help with this through seo, sem, ppc, and social media strategies. It is called dexteritymedia.com. I used them for tips on how to socially market my site on the web and it worked wonders.

  • Michael

    February 13th, 2008 10:04 pm

    Nice SEO tips. Iam trying some of youre things to get hogher ranked.

  • summer

    February 15th, 2008 1:36 am

    nice tips and ideas on Search Engine Optimization for blogs. I’ve done some of them and some of them are new to me. So I’m going to try it those things. It might work well with my blog. Thanks.

  • Jean-Rey Caldeira

    February 19th, 2008 8:38 am

    I’m new to SEO and this is really useful information! I’m adding it to my favourites.

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  • James Grieg

    February 24th, 2008 12:11 am

    Nice post, one should focus on ongoing seo activities for a long time, that would deliver quality result.

  • neura

    March 6th, 2008 7:59 pm

    its a too long long tips but so useful… its good coz you have specify the off page and on page optimization… it helps me a lot…

    thanks….

  • Drupal SEO

    March 10th, 2008 10:09 pm

    While searching on internet I found your blog very interesting with lots of quality content. I like your blog regarding SEO tips and feel that it will be helpful for all.

    Nice post!

  • NewSunGraphics

    March 11th, 2008 2:33 am

    Great post about SEO. Very well put and to the point!

  • willie

    March 11th, 2008 5:00 pm

    Hi,
    Its really a good tip, but i dont know for how long it is valid.
    what i felt about this, seo is a game of round chairs which always keep on revolving, mean google consistently changing
    its algorithms to judge web pages, but one thing which really effects is back links.

  • Devina R

    March 12th, 2008 7:52 am

    wow… great post :D

  • Web 2.0 & Usability Blog

    March 13th, 2008 8:43 pm

    SEO can be difficult for blogs as I find it’s less about keywords and more about incoming links which can take a long time.

  • Sibirskiy Tiger

    March 14th, 2008 4:07 pm

    Thank you Darren, I learned a lot, will go and practice for some time and than come back for more, again thanks.

  • computer jobs

    March 19th, 2008 10:56 pm

    Thanks. very useful information, all the time i was look for it ;)

  • Link Builder

    March 27th, 2008 11:59 am

    Excellent blog you got there pal! the info bout SEO is great. In SEO META TAGS (Keywords, Description, Title ) the better the keyword the higher the chance of your ranking, cause this is what the researchers write in the search engine to find info’s of a paricular articles or topics. be back for more, keep posting..

  • rajesh

    April 7th, 2008 3:29 pm

    very nice post. some thing to take for our SEO team.

  • Master

    April 17th, 2008 12:27 am

    I like your post very much. You reflected complete search engine optimization, in one Post. I like your way. you know i did the same in complete website, but still your blog is more powerful As it represents much more information. By the way I try to give the same info on http://www.ultimatewebstand.com

  • Dave

    April 21st, 2008 4:26 am

    Great list, I have been playing with different SEO plugins lately in trying to improve a couple of blog’s organic performance, although your list is a nice refresher and bring us back to the important basics. Will bookmark this one.

  • Aaron

    April 24th, 2008 8:21 pm

    Some good seo advice here,cause its definaetly a mine field out there’.
    And here’s something that can also help a lot;
    supertips

  • Adam Humphreys

    May 8th, 2008 1:45 am

    Wow. Thanks alot for all of this info. I’m very new to seo but i’m really starting to understand it all now. It’s great to have people like you revealing little secrets that so many try to hide.

  • seo results

    May 10th, 2008 8:02 am

    You were close on the inter linking in your own site. You should google “Silo” or “Silo’ing” and see how some of the experts in SEO are building their websites. The Site map was an excellent suggestion and you were right on with that one. Good read and an exceptional article to boot.

  • SEO Leeds

    May 19th, 2008 1:40 am

    Good SEO article…(Patience is a virtue when it comes to SEO)

  • JimboyPogi

    May 20th, 2008 1:51 pm

    I find this article informative…thank you for clearing things up regarding about SEO. :)

  • Adams Team

    May 22nd, 2008 8:11 pm

    very good post. something to take for our SEO team.

  • Arlo Gilbert

    May 25th, 2008 12:02 am

    A very very great tips. Thank you for this tips. I will use this for my own blog. Because my idea is not enough. :)

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    June 4th, 2008 3:18 am

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  • Internet Marketing Company

    June 4th, 2008 8:53 pm

    wow great tips, this is one of a hell infomative for an seo. Thanks gonna bookmark this.

  • Richard

    June 5th, 2008 10:20 am

    Thanks for the tips Darren, Did not know about a lot of these. Will be sure to register to 2020!

  • Webtools

    June 7th, 2008 4:47 pm

    Thanks for this great list of seo tips. It will be very helpful to me.

  • Abaculus

    June 9th, 2008 1:19 am

    I am glad I happened to come across this site. The SEO tips will be very helpful to me. Thanks so much for all the information you put out. This information will really help people who want to use SEO for their blogs. It will also help beginners learn great
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    June 11th, 2008 6:41 pm

    I find it very difficult to rank good during the short amount of time, even though I focused on quality content, and I tried to optimize it for SEO.

    Fluctuations with ranking are so big at the beginning and I find it’s really important to be patient.

    Thanks for the tips, especially about submitting RSS feed, I’ll try it.

  • iddaa

    June 13th, 2008 8:08 pm

    Thank you for this post. Really good one

  • Cheap website design

    June 20th, 2008 5:15 pm

    Thanks for your information. I been trying the above techniques from past 1 month but I didn’t get ranked well. I have a problem in getting indexed by the Google. I have searched a lot in search engines for getting listed in Google in 24 hours but non works properly. So can you please suggest me how to get listed by Google in a less time.

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    June 23rd, 2008 10:18 pm

    I am really very thankful for this precious info. One of mine friend worked on his site according to these outlines and just after couple of weeks he is enjoying higher ranking. Now, I am also going to move according to these guidelines and i hope it will be very for me as well. I can also understand that keyword competition does matter for getting higher ranking in search results.

  • AmateurProtagonist

    June 25th, 2008 6:53 pm

    The problem with a bigger article is you will make more keywords, with a smaller article you can hit one word very clearly.

    However with a larger article you do have the chance to increase strings of words. As well as links, search engines love pages that have some follow up links.

    Good article.

  • SEO Inc

    July 4th, 2008 1:44 am

    Great Article! Super info and accurate! Here are some tips on getting around FLASH sites.

    Write the Flash object onto the page using JavaScript and replicate all the links and content that appear in the Flash version using regular HTML within the noscript tag! As long as the user has JavaScript enabled, they will see the Flash version of the site, and the search engines will be able to crawl through all the content and links found in the noscript tag. And there you have it — SEO friendly Flash!

    To see how to embed Flash objects using JavaScript please refer to example B in this “Making Flash Accessible” document published by the W3C.

  • Totonet

    July 4th, 2008 6:47 pm

    Nice seo tutorial. thanks for posting this. I’m allready doing some of the thigs i learnd, hope it will give me better position on goole and others.

  • Amaan Goyal

    July 5th, 2008 3:40 am

    Your post reflects and reviews the complete search engine optimization process and serves as a handy notebook to one and sundry, excellent effort.

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    July 9th, 2008 12:50 am

    Yah, I have this one post that is only about 2 paragraphs, but it always tops my charts everyday. I just wrote about this random singer I found on a video site, and everyone seems to know this guy, and they’re making this big comment list on my blog.

    I haven’t tweaked the SEO yet, but now that I’m reminded, that’s what I’m off to do.

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    July 15th, 2008 12:16 am

    Great tips here which I wrote an article and listed your post here on my blog:

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    July 15th, 2008 3:00 pm

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  • neo

    July 16th, 2008 3:37 pm

    Great!! you have focussed on some very good seo key points really informative these are the actual real seo techniques.

    Cheers

  • Busby-Seo-Challenge

    July 21st, 2008 4:43 pm

    It was nice reading your post . Really these informations are worth, giving clear idea about SEO. Good work………Keep posting new ideas …I would like to hear from you ….

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    July 22nd, 2008 4:19 pm

    This is a great post. I really got a good idea about SEO reading your post. you have some real good ideas. Can you post some more ideas

  • Daryl Saari

    July 25th, 2008 3:57 pm

    I fully agree to what it takes in getting results in SEO, because
    you have to fully understand how it works in the first place, and
    also it takes time and effort to get the results a person is looking
    for in obtaining a great keyword position.

  • Robert

    August 1st, 2008 4:17 pm

    Nice post and definitely good SEO tips. I like your blog … Quality contents… thanks a lot.

  • SEO Company

    August 1st, 2008 8:14 pm

    Lets put PR again aside. We should focus on our goals instead of finding good PR, back-links etc. The higher is your focus on your achievements, the better is every thing!

    And yes, A great post indeed. Everything written above is just very much impressive….Congrats Writer!

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  • Marketraise

    August 11th, 2008 8:17 pm

    I have also worked on Blog SEO, and i came up with the following steps.
    Blog Optimization-

    1. Firstly you have decide which blog domain you will prefer-
    According to me following are the best one-
    1. Blogger
    2. WordPress
    3. Moveable

    2. The blog features should be customized one, and on that basis select the templates.

    3. Then select the proper keywords for your blog content.

    4. You can create a site map for your blog. For that you can use Google sitemap toolbar.

    5. Submit blog URL to blog directories and search engines.

    and much more on http://optimizeyourblogmarket.blogspot.com/

  • Internet Marketing Company

    August 12th, 2008 5:42 pm

    The page ranking offered by Google is not the ultimate measure of the popularity of your website. So, don’t be disappointed if they’re giving you low scores. Build a page with good, constantly updated content that has a generous splattering of relevant keywords and you will see yourself rising higher in the SERPs.

  • Kent

    August 19th, 2008 12:27 pm

    This is a very good SEO article .. I have a very difficult time about SEO but with this article, I learned so many ideas that could help me of having a meaningful content and a better PR quality for my blog. Thanks for the post.

  • Seo India

    August 22nd, 2008 8:59 pm

    We use both process on page and off page optimization and both have own importance. On page optimization have done on own site.

  • SEO Company India

    August 25th, 2008 7:53 pm

    Quite a thought raking article…thanks for sharing.

  • Phoenix SEO

    August 27th, 2008 10:00 pm

    Great article! Another good idea for the Google XML sitemap is to make sure after you create it to go in and adjust the priority on your pages. This will tell Google which pages in your website are more important than others..:-) I like to set the homepage to 1, many sitemap generators will give you a .5 for all pages as a default.

  • eBrandz

    August 28th, 2008 2:39 pm

    Excellent info. The tips should apply to even a website other than a blog. Keep adding good keyword rich content pages and you stand better chances of getting backlinks and boost in rankings.

  • dyned

    August 30th, 2008 9:06 am

    Great information. Thanks for the useful tips. Nowadays I’m creating a new website and I will use the information on this new site. Regards.

  • K1 Visa

    September 2nd, 2008 6:46 am

    Fantastic information! Thank you! I was able to at least get my site indexed in google within a week!

  • Web development

    September 2nd, 2008 11:29 pm

    To the quality links I can also add that the page from which you get a link is also of primary importance. The site in general may be relevant to your topic and have a good PR. But sometimes the links go from the pages which were specifically made for link echange. In this case you get a link from a page with a couple hundred other links. For sure such a link is of no value. so one has to be very selective while delivering link campaign.

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    September 9th, 2008 7:23 pm

    great job you are explained total on-page and off-page optimization tips, use of quality content and quality inbound Links.

  • Mystery Girl

    September 12th, 2008 10:37 pm

    Thanks.. its very good SEO tips.. these are the those things which i really need……

  • SEO Tips

    September 13th, 2008 1:52 am

    These are great tips, whats the best way to build back links though.

  • Daily Search

    September 13th, 2008 4:39 pm

    These are very good & beneficial information for SEO methods…
    Grate Work…

  • SEO India

    September 30th, 2008 9:20 pm

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  • gout

    October 4th, 2008 2:27 pm

    very useful articles…..I think seo off site more important and power full for geeting free traffic than seo on site, I already implemented for my web……so I am focus on off site optimisation…thanks

  • miller

    October 8th, 2008 1:09 am

    I read a lot online about seo tips and I have to say that this blog is full of some of the best I’ve seen in a while. Keep up the good work and thank you for sharing with us.

  • SEO Blog

    October 12th, 2008 4:37 pm

    Lovely blog seo tips! They should increase everyones rankings some! I vote they all give you a nice back link!

  • Daryl Saari

    October 13th, 2008 5:37 am

    Great seo and Blogging tips, it will help out so much
    and thanks for all the really great advice that was given!

  • SEO Devon

    October 14th, 2008 3:30 am

    It’s great to find such a well laid out article, thanks for the advice.

  • SEO Services

    October 14th, 2008 4:50 pm

    Excellent article, its really interesting to know all about optimization for blogs. I got success after adding meta descriptions and keywords in each and every post of blogger manually, that’s my biggest research in blog optimization.

  • Online Marketing Preston

    October 17th, 2008 1:32 am

    An excellent post Darren, very precise with a load of great tips for Blog optimisation; I would also add to your on-page optimisation techniques: the position of keywords towards the top of a site as I feel this has some bearing on S.E. ranking.

    This is the first time I’ve visited your site and I have to say I’m really impressed…

    In the words of the Californian Gov…

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  • UKSEO

    October 19th, 2008 6:55 pm

    Great informative post Darren, It’s nice to see someone giving away good advice. ;-)

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    October 20th, 2008 11:34 am

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    I understand ..how we guys feel when we start writing something about new post..and our mind is full of ideas….

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    October 21st, 2008 10:48 am

    I do my basic SEO knowledge frequently and constantly. It have to be patient.

  • SEO Services Joel

    October 22nd, 2008 8:14 am

    Thanks for the great post, a wealth of info. I agree, it would be nice in a PDF.

  • Alice Henderson

    October 23rd, 2008 9:55 am

    What are everyones thoughts about pages on social networking pages?

    I’ve created a page for http://www.redballoon.com.au – I understand that it’s a great tool for viral marketing, but does it have the potential to really impact SEO?

    Including lots of experience search terms and activity images increases the relevance, but do i need members to actually give it SEO weighting?

    Thank you,

    A

  • Google Page One

    November 2nd, 2008 10:06 am

    Great no nonsense help and tips. I think the truth is that no one really understands how the search engines work. We all use methods that we find work, most of the time.

  • Web Development Company

    November 4th, 2008 2:57 pm

    Hello friend,

    Its a great article about SEO. I am new in this field and i have learnt many new things from your blog. Thanks for your knowledge with us, i bookmarked your blog and will share it with all of my friends.

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  • Rathna

    November 4th, 2008 9:16 pm

    It’s great to find such a well laid out article,its really interesting to know all about optimization for blogs, thanks for the advice.

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    November 12th, 2008 3:24 am

    Great Article for me. Some of them , i am using in my blogs and some new for me.

    Thanks again for this great article.

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    November 19th, 2008 2:30 am

    Darren,

    Kudos, this is a Great article to refer people to looking information on optimizing there blog not only is it concise straight to the point the information is pretty accurate and easy to understand.

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  • SEO LA

    November 25th, 2008 12:54 am

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  • Dan

    November 27th, 2008 5:13 am

    Being with an SEO and web development company, I have to agree that Darren, makes some very strong and valid points for increasing search engine rankings.

  • Patrick Valdez

    November 28th, 2008 2:33 pm

    I am not usually a big fan of SEO blogs but I was very impressed with this article and found all of your advice to be solid and relevant. I speak to a lot of people who are looking for ways to better optimize their pages and I will definitely refer them to your site.

  • Montreal SEO

    December 11th, 2008 12:45 pm

    Do you think you can use all your keywords on the same page. Or should you split them up.

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    December 16th, 2008 2:17 am

    We are in the process of creating a blog for our site. This article is the most helpful one I’ve found. thanks so much!

  • pavankumar

    December 31st, 2008 6:58 pm

    This SEO blog is really useful , I am able to know the exact approach for optimising my blog and website.Thanks for your seo and web designing and affiliate marketing tips.

  • CursedArrow

    January 3rd, 2009 3:30 am

    Great article !

    8. Register your Domain for a Lengthy Period – a recent patent by Google indicates that it now looks at the length of your domain’s registration in ranking it. It does this because many spam sites have short registrations and a longer one indicates that you’re building a site with substance and are in it for the long haul.

    Huh, is there an official source please ?

    Thanks !

  • Mark

    January 6th, 2009 1:05 am

    Hey, thanks for the great post, I have been involved in creating many blogs for our different clients, But the “ping” thing is new for me:(.

  • Matt Kennedy

    January 7th, 2009 12:21 pm

    Why does google not show the meta data for my blog http://www.counter-stools.com when you search for it? How do I get google to recognize it? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

    Thanks,

    Matt

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    January 8th, 2009 4:33 pm

    Mostly good tips. However, I would advise against submitting to search engines, if your site has links they will find it. Submitting without many links or any content can make it take longer for you to get indexed.

  • seostaffing

    January 9th, 2009 10:03 pm

    thanks for the tip, i learned a lot for a begginer… i’ll just have to think of a good strategy in marketing our site…

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    January 10th, 2009 3:35 am

    I too need SEO for one of my blog. Thanks for your article. But i need to know these things.
    If you can please mention, how many backlinks we must have to make a pr1 blog.
    (I dont think there will be a exact answer for this.)
    But hope there will a approximate answer.

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    January 12th, 2009 9:57 pm

    We are talking now of SEO. SEO is most successful when you concentrate on one aspect or effort at a time. A great place to start concentrating is in the way your site is built. One of the first things that attract search engine spiders is the actual design of your site.

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  • Glen Graham

    January 14th, 2009 1:13 am

    Hi Daren this was a very interesting article. I learn something new every time I visit your site.

  • tina

    January 14th, 2009 9:56 pm

    Hi Daren thank you so much for this great article. It is really good to read new things every time.

  • SEO Philippines

    January 20th, 2009 2:21 pm

    Great article!I am glad you let people know SEO takes time. All too often I have clients that need my services that think SEO happens over night. It is something that takes time and work. Keep it up!

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    January 20th, 2009 7:38 pm

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  • Maximum Hit

    January 23rd, 2009 12:38 am

    You are providing approx all details that come under on page optimization, these points are really good and any one can try SEO by following these points step by step…
    Please keep update these points…

  • SEO India

    January 27th, 2009 11:03 pm

    Blogging itself is a kind of SEO, you update your content regularly by posting new post and by providing rss feed you get back links.

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    January 28th, 2009 4:54 pm

    Make sure it easy for you visitors to share your content. Place a bookmark button, such as one offered at http://www.bmbutton.com, and track what your readers react to. Then analyze the text that have gotten their attention and find out why it was popular. (Study your competitors as well.) When you learn how to write “priceless” posts, everything else becomes a piece of cake int the blogger’s world!

  • SEO Preston

    January 30th, 2009 5:58 am

    Another suggestion would be to add a social bookmark function to your website. This is handy for all users this also increases authority if somebody does submit your website.

  • Organic SEO

    February 5th, 2009 5:33 pm

    I would say the blog is much easier place to promote your services as it is much faster place crawled by search engines. You just need to do regular posting on it and the above tips are really useful.

  • Seo Services

    February 10th, 2009 11:20 pm

    I discovered the benefit of bookmarking as a medium of promoting websites. I checked my friend’s way of using bookmarks for his site and now I check it on my side.

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    February 14th, 2009 5:51 am

    dang, this post is over 3 years old and it all still sounds like its right on the mark.

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    February 16th, 2009 10:30 pm

    Bookmarking for the SEO is very important as i know,and eventually one of the most common misconceptions about SEO is that it should be implemented after the website has been built. Keep up the good work huys.

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  • Allen - Montreal Web Design

    February 19th, 2009 4:27 am

    How much does Google really see in blogs. Is it worth it?
    A few years ago it was, but i think that spam has gotten in to it.

    Allen

  • Extreme Seo Internet Solutions

    February 19th, 2009 5:17 am

    Very Nice Post Darren Rowse, Spend the time to find the right directories for your site, preferably with pages with a small/medium amount of links. bookmarked this page.. keep it up..

  • Search Engine Optimization Service

    February 23rd, 2009 11:54 am

    Mostly good tips. However, I would advise against submitting to search engines, if your site has links they will find it. Submitting without many links or any content can make it take longer for you to get indexed.

    :)

  • seo san diego

    February 26th, 2009 3:14 pm

    There are all kinds of link generating systems out there but in my opinion the best way to get links to your blog is to write quality content that people will want to read,you definitely right thanks for the information.

    by: ricka

  • How to Grow Your Blog to the Next Level With SEO

    February 27th, 2009 12:02 am

    [...] Search Engine Optimization for Blogs (SEO) [...]

  • seo philippines

    February 27th, 2009 9:22 pm

    Nice article,Doing non-SEO marketing techniques, like press release, participating in forums, writing articles in publications, indirectly will also help your SEO efforts.I speak to a lot of my friends who are looking for ways to better optimize their pages and I will definitely refer them to your site. Good work. Keep it up!

  • Seo India

    March 1st, 2009 12:11 am

    Thanks for the tips, its really useful.
    Thanks a lot.

  • C.C. Mitchell

    March 1st, 2009 1:04 pm

    These are some great tips!

    My blog is relatively new and am having problems getting recognized.

    I’m glad to find some one that makes so much sense in a Cracked World.

  • medicine

    March 3rd, 2009 1:41 am

    Great no nonsense help and tips. I think the truth is that no one really understands how the search engines work. We all use methods that we find work, most of the time.!!

  • Pauli

    March 7th, 2009 10:03 pm

    (Blogger user)

    Could someone smart check my site or the code. Is there something fundamentally wrong. I have tried averything but searchengines won’t rank it right. I should have first page results with some keywords (had it lost it) but instead I have pages like 5,6,7. And I have no competition! And i’m a quite experienced seo:er.

    http://www.elektroniikkakaupat.com/

    have I being punished or something? Its in finnish language but the is there something wrong with the code or layout or gadgets that i’m not aware of? Or should I just go with Wordpress….

    I have similar blogger sites with no problems at a

  • Chaucer

    March 9th, 2009 2:37 am

    I too have started a blog a couple of weeks ago and took the advice from a friend about SEO. I truthfully do not know that much about it as I was given a crash course from a friend. I am probably doing things completely wrong. Here is the address if anyone wants to give me some criticism:

    http://modernproposal.com/

    I believe some of my stuff has already started climbing the google ranks because I am seeing referring visits in Google Analytics from keyword entries. Though when I type these keywords in myself I can’t find my site. I am still fairly new to the whole thing so I am trying my best to digest it all.

    This article explains a lot and there are suggestions here that I have not yet done that I will be attempting to do in the near future.

    i was wondering if Google Adsense is something that bloggers should look into so early in the game? I don’t have it on my blog because I wanted to get some traffic on my site and not have readers be scared away by all the ads. What are your thoughts on this?

  • Mainak

    March 21st, 2009 12:08 am

    I have been blogging regularly for the past three months. A few days back, my blog suddenly got a large number of visitors. But the numbers have dropped ever since. I am baffled as to why the numbers rose on a certain day and have decreased ever since. Why am I not receiving any more visitors?

  • bogdan

    March 21st, 2009 3:02 am

    great article!
    every piece of information is very useful. the only drawback on this whole SEO thing is that it takes so much time… i mean, don’t expect to build up a site(blog) and to have from the first day 10 000 unique visitors. it just doesn’t happen.

  • geetha

    March 25th, 2009 7:52 pm

    First I like to thank you for sharing this wonderful article. Search engine optimization has been the key term in the internet business today.. However, a good SEO tactics can only help improve an existing site.

  • Costa Rica Real Estate

    March 31st, 2009 10:20 pm

    This is such a great resource that you are providing and you give it away for free. I love seeing websites that understand the value of providing a quality resource for free. It’s the old what goes around comes around routine. Did you acquired lots of links and I see lots of trackbacks?

  • Social Media Optimizations

    April 2nd, 2009 1:10 pm

    Search engine optimization is very important to each and every online business. your post have very usefull informations to all of us. thanks.

  • organic search engine optimization

    April 3rd, 2009 5:22 pm

    Fresh updates and original content is one of the aspects that the reader looks for a blog. They wanted to see other perspective so they choose to read blogs..

  • seo web design

    April 5th, 2009 6:05 pm

    Off site SEO techniques

    We have seen people submitting same article to multiple sites thinking it will help, yes it helps to get some links. Do not try with an article from your website.

  • Allen - Montreal Web Designt

    April 7th, 2009 7:57 pm

    I think you said it best by saying good content is key.
    At Adeo we say content is golden. Change the often and keep it simple and you are on your way to the top.

    Allen

  • Online Marketing

    April 8th, 2009 9:03 pm

    This blog is well written and provides a lot of knowledge about SEO techniques. This blog explains almost all the latest SEO techniques. There is another blog http://online.marketing.over-blog.com. This blog will also provides lot of ideas for SEO and Internet Marketing

  • Dux Marketing

    April 15th, 2009 4:23 am

    Hi,

    I’ll come across your website and found it more interesting in Search Engine Marketing. I learn more techniques, thanks for the information you share, i’ll come back often.

    Regards,

    Dux Marketing

  • Keith D

    April 16th, 2009 7:38 pm

    Blimey

    What a great read.

    Easy to follow and logical – thanks for sharing.

    Keith D

  • Dr Manishankar Chakraborty

    April 17th, 2009 1:35 am

    I want to put http://www.manishankarthetrainer.blogspot.com popular amongst all blog search engines on the topics of management training, management consultancy and soft skills training.

  • pauladams

    April 18th, 2009 1:32 pm

    Your blog is really very useful to meI. like to thank you for sharing this wonderful article. Search engine optimization has been the key term in the internet business today.. However, a good SEO tactics can only help improve an existing site.

  • Fee Blog Directory

    April 20th, 2009 5:29 pm

    Thank you for posting SEO for blogs. This post help me to enhance my blog ranking as well as traffic from search engines like google, yahoo and msn.

  • Tre Pryor

    April 23rd, 2009 2:41 am

    Great post! I appreciate it greatly. Do most of these points apply to standard Web sites (like my real estate site) that aren’t blogs?

    Cheers!
    -Tre

  • SEO Company India

    April 24th, 2009 10:00 pm

    Hi, I think your blog is really fantastic. Thank you for sharing.This post help me to support my blog ranking as well as traffic from search engines like google, yahoo and msn.

  • MysticG

    April 27th, 2009 1:21 pm

    Quality content is one of the basics i always read about but I blog about music and music videos so I dont have much written content do I need to do something different or will these tips help. I just changed my domain name the other day plus i was messing areound with a .co.cc free domain name and my after the first change my search engine traffic dried up i need some help

  • Jason

    April 27th, 2009 3:02 pm

    This article was very useful because I recently started a blog and have some websites I want to improve by using some good SEO techniques. Very helpful – thanks!

  • SEO India

    May 5th, 2009 7:15 pm

    Great blog! Very useful briefing of SEO… its very helpful to me because I am new in SEO field..

  • sulumits retsambew

    May 11th, 2009 12:15 pm

    In update content regular, is it a matter that we need to write large content or will small precise content work as well ?

  • Sandeep Aparajit

    May 11th, 2009 9:08 pm

    Thanks for such a wonderful article. At present my blog rank is 3. This will definitely help me improve my blog rank. Thanks a ton!

  • Ravi Moosad

    May 13th, 2009 6:46 am

    Old post but still very relevant. Thanx. I will use these techniques once my site has more content.

  • rajeev

    May 14th, 2009 4:13 pm

    This article was very useful because I recently started a blog and have some websites I want to improve by using some good SEO techniques. Very helpful – thanks!

  • Ryan

    May 14th, 2009 4:50 pm

    This article give us a great deal of information and to see all the suggestions and feedback make this blog post very valuable. thanks for the post and I am using many of the techniques discussed or will soon.

  • Keegan

    May 20th, 2009 7:48 am

    I find directory linking to be very easy, there are tons of directory to submit to. I’m not sure how well directory linking helps with google. And what PR should a directory have to benefit a site with the same or more PR?

  • Jason

    May 20th, 2009 8:19 am

    Fantastic Article – keep up the good work!

  • Charlotte SEO Company

    May 20th, 2009 4:09 pm

    I agreed that Inbound links is he best way to climb high on Search Engine Result, even from before until now. What I don’t understand more is that a lot of SEO’s says that link building is not as important as it is before. Whereas it is still and should always be. For inbound links provides as your credibility and as a vote from other sites on your website as mention in the article.

  • Link Building Service

    May 23rd, 2009 11:38 pm

    OK, that’s it. I’m closing down my blog. Nothing left to talk about.

    Excrutiatingly great list guys. I hated myself for it, but simply could not help reading the whole thing. :)

  • Web Design

    May 28th, 2009 10:01 pm

    This is a great article on the content vs link building

    http://www.seochat.com/c/a/Link-Trading-Help/When-Content-isnt-King/

  • meenakshi

    May 30th, 2009 3:50 pm

    hey….im just starting out with seo, and this article helped me a gr8 deal…thanks a lot for the tips….gr8 work…

  • Montreal web design

    May 31st, 2009 1:36 am

    Inbound links are one of the factors for rankings, but not the most important. I always thought that Content is gold in SEO or Internet marketing. Write content for users, dont forget to update your site at least once a month. Try to get as many one way links as you can. work on your titles and h1 tags carefully.

  • Jonathan

    June 5th, 2009 3:14 am

    Gorilla marketing in today’s economy is everything, marketing to get through the recession!
    If your interested in web optimization for your site, there is a free site for uploading video ads for your business, they also have image uploads if you are not yet up to videos. The more sites you can link to the greater your market will be. They have a free link exchange as well.

     http://adwido.com

  • Nina from Mauritius

    June 5th, 2009 4:52 pm

    Thanks, these information will be very helpful to me in the SEO of my blogs, and hope that other articles like this keeps up.

  • Victoria

    June 11th, 2009 8:18 am

    Search engine optimization, whether on a website or a blog, really is complicated. But I have to give it to you for explaining it extensively

  • Los Angeles SEO

    June 12th, 2009 2:16 am

    @Victoria, I think it was simplified by Matt on his blog with a Powerpoint presentation. It just a matter of following the basic guidelines of search engines and the most important thing is to be always updated.

  • Infomist SEO

    June 12th, 2009 5:22 pm

    Well. A good and informative information, which helps the new blogger who starts just their blogs. Thanks again.

  • Adam Humphreys

    June 16th, 2009 12:34 am

    Yeah it’s all a big chasing game, waiting for the big G to make it’s next move..

  • Keegan

    June 16th, 2009 8:13 am

    Very insightful. It always hard counteracting Google. Its almost not fair


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