Thread: Simple Blog Optimization Tips

Every one knows that blog is basically an interactive website that avails you to create and post content through an online presence control panel. In simple blog is the best easiest way to generate fresh and up to date content for your website. Blogs can be personal or else business related. Whatever it may be, you have to optimize your blog for both search engines and readers.


Need for blog optimization:

Let’s discuss the reason first to optimize the blog and how effectively it can be helpful

• Optimizing the blog can increase the page rank of the blog.
• It helps in generating ROI (Return on Investment)
• You can drive traffic to the blog from various sites due to blog optimization.

Important Aspects of optimization:

1. We have Optimize a blog for both search engine and readers; let’s share some few points for optimization:
2. The title of your blog post should be quite interesting, descriptive, keyword rich and short. You can also make use of important keywords in title.
   
3. The first paragraph of you blog content should attract the attention of readers and insist them to read fully. Don’t write your post in extensive long manner, it can be in optimal length.
   
4. All post should have a theme. It’s important to present a worthful content to reader. Keep focus on readers and at the same time write a keyword rich content to avail in Seo perspective.
   
5. Use the blog title in URL and make it as in short manner. Some blogging sites generate dynamic URLs for each post. By using redirection plugin you can improve your blog permalink structure. By using such plugin you can rewrite the urls of your blog and make them more search engine friendly.
   
6. Ensure that RSS feed is available and also make it easy for readers to subscribe RSS feeds. For that you can use subscription buttons or chicklets in the side bar or in dedicated Subscription Info page. It will be useful for people those who want to subscribe to your blog. Usually RSS feed is for promoting the blogs.
   
7. Make us of Tag clouds and Tag pages; it will be helpful in boosting traffic.
   
8. Optimizing blog categories is an vital part. Blog posting can select multiple categories that are relevant to the post. So choose multiple categories if applicable.
   
9. Submit your Blog to Blog directories and Rss directories.
   
10. Make sure that it is easy for readers to bookmark your blog posts since social bookmarking sites have the capacity to bring enormous traffic to your blog. You can do this by adding some code to your blog template for the major social bookmarking sites. Else you can simply add social bookmarking widget. A typical social bookmarking widget will be having a set of social bookmarking sites.
    
11. Search Engines like unique fresh content. So keep on update your blog post to keep on often spiders to crawl your site.
    
12. Ping on Various sites each and every time you update your blog post.

The highest priority is getting some decent content online. You can add/tweak everything else as you go along.

Fresh content is very important in blog, You must update your blog regularly with fresh quality content.. SE and readers love that..

I must say make blogs update, topic should be eye catching.

adding to that the most important is to make sure you always update your contents by putting up a unique and fresh articles.

good tips. Controversial topics seem to stir things up and get more hits. It seems like boring topics just don't get as much traction. there has to be some type of drama or really good optimization.

One more thing is making your website content higher position in the code view of your page! (Let put it above all the navbar code)

Start blog is easy, but to be well managed blog, may not be that simple.
Easier said than done.

But if your goal clearly, then everything will be handy.

Ranking a blog in SERP is very easy, one just need to update the blog with unique and fresh content. Just do this for a month using proper anchor text and link and see you will definitely achieve PR2 after the update. Google is now giving much value to unique and fresh content as visitors now seek only the content which is fresh. hence, it will help google to provide more and better results to their searchers.

Fresh content on the blog is still king, but you still need quality backlinks from quality services / sites to your blog. The stuff you do outside of your site will help dictate how well your blog is perceived and how well it ranks.

Great tips will give it a try, but I agree fresh content for blog is really important.

Good info, Thanks for sharing

Use different keywords for different blog posts. In most cases, search engines will return two results from you blog at most, so having five or six posts optimized for the same set of keywords would be a waste of content.

Put fresh and unique content on your blog make baclink for your blog.

Use 3 column template for your blog . It can give me you some values. Participate in blog carnivals.