Comments on: 10 Ways to Optimize a Popular Post on Your Blog

By: Chicago Shoes

Chicago Shoes — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 18:10:20 +0000

I am wondering the same thing as a few others… If you change the content won’t that also change how the search engines see your page? Is it possible that you could lose traffic instead of gaining it?

By: Hair On The Brain

Hair On The Brain — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 21:17:31 +0000

Re: #2, if you’re already getting traffic from search engines to a post, why would you need to risk losing that ranking by altering the content? Obviously whatever you’ve done is helping you rank for that keyword so it seems unecessary to change things. Great list though. Lots of good tips. Internal linking is a great thing to do.

By: soontobeblogger

soontobeblogger — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 21:13:30 +0000

Great post, Darren!
I used to overlook the importance of the image alt attribute, but here is another article that opened my eyes:

http://www.michaelaulia.com/blogs/why-you-should-care-with-the-image-alt-attribute.html

It describes the importance of alt tags in a practical example.

By: Darren Rowse

Darren Rowse — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 10:24:34 +0000

Christopher – stay tuned, there’s a post queued that answers this in the next few hours :-)

By: Christopher Clayton

Christopher Clayton — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 09:43:37 +0000

Hey Darren,
What do you suggest bloggers do to Optimize Page Loading?

By: Social Marketing Journal

Social Marketing Journal — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 22:21:03 +0000

This is such a valuable post as you’ve hit a lot of questions the average person has on the subject — bookmarking now!

By: Ilaarijs

Ilaarijs — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 20:51:59 +0000

I have just photos, not much text… :)

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 20:26:50 +0000

I cant believe I haven’t thought of this before.

I regularly have posts pulling in 3000 – 10000 visitors daily but have never attempted to put my focus there. What an idiot!

Thanks for the advice.

By: guia

guia — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 09:44:49 +0000

Thanks for sharing your article. For me the ways to optimize a popular blog post on a blog is to create quality content and with unique title.

By: Edwin

Edwin — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 08:11:08 +0000

Great post Darren. There are about 3 tips here that I haven’t used, so I am definitely going to work with those.

By: Mark F

Mark F — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 05:44:14 +0000

Thanks for another great article. Have been reading your blog for a long time. I follow most of the tips and have a top ranked blog for our clients.

Keep up the great work…

By: Ronald Bradford

Ronald Bradford — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 17:53:05 +0000

Thanks for the productive and concise information. Given I stumbled across your site via your Plurk http://www.plurk.com/user/problogger I’ll be reading more of your information at time permits.

By: Salwa

Salwa — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:21:54 +0000

This is a great post, thanks for sharing some techniques on how to optimise a popular post.

By: The Blogger Tips

The Blogger Tips — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:15:46 +0000

Thanks for these information tips. It help to increase the traffic.

By: Cath Lawson

Cath Lawson — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 13:31:34 +0000

Thanks Darren – These are really good tips. One post that I get a lot of search engine traffic for isn’t a particularly good one. So I’ll definitely be improving it and also writing some more related posts, as you suggested.

By: Vern at AimforAwesome

Vern at AimforAwesome — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 03:33:05 +0000

If I notice I have a page that’s really rocking I’ll review it first. Anything I could change for SEO to make it better?

I add more tags around the keywords that are working for the page. I add something to the bottom of the page with the keys in it. I add links to other similar articles about the topic. I put links within the text that link to other pages of my site that have more info on those topics. I submit it to technorati, delicious, stumble, and facebook. I put it on tumblr.com. I go to google keywords and find the top key phrases around the subject and write 1-3 more articles optimized for SEO and link to and from that page that’s already cranking. I try to add a photo or video to the page because multimedia is better than just text. I make sure my ads are above the fold on that page and though I’ve not done it – I’ll start adding a Feedburner icon so others can subscribe – GREAT TIP, thanks!

With all that said, right – if the source is Stumbleupon I may not do anything except optimize the page for ads as the traffic stinks!

By: PinoyCopywriter

PinoyCopywriter — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 01:53:55 +0000

I agree that most bloggers don’t like to update, rewrite or improve their previous entries.

Thanks for the tip no. 9. You just gave me a good reason to check on my old posts and reconsider updating them.

By: replica rolex

replica rolex — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 20:53:01 +0000

Thanks for sharing the tips and advises on the post optimization. It is really nice to know how one can optimize / re-optimize blog posts to make best use when the post is getting more and more recognition by people / engines.

By: List of Ways To Make Money Online

List of Ways To Make Money Online — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 19:02:50 +0000

I have a short post that has been attracting visitors but the link they click on in the post in no way rewards me if you know what I mean… I have to find a way to cash in on this post.

By: Revenue

Revenue — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 12:49:37 +0000

Thanks for this article!