SEO For Blogs
Dateline: SES NY – March 26, 2009
SEO for Blogs
Yesterday, Michael Gray, Owner of Atlas Web Service, presented the following hints and tips to improving the SEO value of your blog.
1. Don’t write blog titles that suck
Bad titles lack keyword focus, they are often clever or amusing and therefore not intuitive to a reader or search engine.
Great post titles include keywords and are focused on topics covered within the post.
2. Partial RSS feeds are like being half dressed at a party
Why do you want to use full RSS feeds? Full feeds allow you to benefit from web scrapers and build links for you. Make sure you put keyword optimized hyperlinks within your post, especially to those pages that are difficult getting links.
3. Build domain authority with a blog
Put your blog on a sub-domain or sub-folder on your static domain, you are able to consolidate Link equity. The static site and the blog need to be topic related. It’s probably not smart to add a blog about baby names to a static site about customizing a ‘57 Chevy.
4. Stand out and be link worthy
Don’t blog for the sake of blogging. Have a purpose.
Blog at a pace that allows you to be extraordinary. The longer the time between posts, the more extraordinary you need to be.
Stand for something! Give an opinion, be controversial, be serious, be funny, be politically incorrect, be a jackass – be something. How does that CW song go? You’ve got to stand for something or you’ll fall for anything – Aaron Tippin 1991
5. Just because you blog, doesn’t mean they will visit
Michael stated “That great writing without shameless self-promotion is like locking Shakespeare in your basement. 
Leverage your network, before and after the post goes live, to help promote your content. Make sure people know who you are. Connect with other influential bloggers. Start by linking to and/or commenting on their blog.
More SEO for Blogs
SEO for blogs, of course, requires more than just the five tips shown here. In the weeks to come I’ll be posting about additional blogging SEO tips and tricks. In the mean time, you can review these SEO tools.
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8 Comments on SEO For Blogs
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Kai Lo from Make Money Online on
Thu, 7th May 2009 11:52 pm
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Hal Major on
Sat, 9th May 2009 3:27 am
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Matt from Kitchen Design Showroom Chicago on
Wed, 24th Jun 2009 2:27 pm
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Richard Cummings on
Wed, 1st Jul 2009 11:16 am
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Hal Major on
Wed, 1st Jul 2009 11:36 am
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Noah from Internet Marketing on
Thu, 16th Jul 2009 3:14 pm
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Hal Major on
Sat, 18th Jul 2009 3:12 am
Yes, you really have to blog about what you love. Can’t just blog for the sake of blogging. In my case, I love to blog about how to make money online!
Kai Lo’s last blog post..People Click Ads On Blog
Kai Lo,
Thanks for stopping bye and commenting.
Hal
thanks for site. this helps me how to use properly the blogs in the keyboard.
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I think the first point is very important. Know how to proper Title your post, both for visitors and for search engines.
Great ideas on SEO for blog. People assume that by creating a blog people will visit…simply not ture!
Richard Cummings’s last blog post..Why Your Amazon Affiliate Store Makes No Money…and Others Do
Thanks Richard, I appreciate the support. I’m always amazed how newbies believe that all you have to do is put up a blog or website and people will come. It definitely is not the “Field of Dreams”. Hard work and long hours seem to be the relevant ingredients.
Hal
The benefits of showing your full RSS feed vs a partial are debatable. When you show your full feed and get scraped, you’re running 2 risks, really.
1) You get fully scraped and marked as the duplicate content while a scraper gets marked as the original.
2) Your visitors might not bother coming to your site for more content, since they can just read it all through your feed.
Hi Noah,
There are definitely pros and cons to both methods. I’ll say though if your content is going to be scraped it is going to happen no matter what. No doubt sending directly to a scraper in a RSS feed makes it easier for them.
Thanks for the input and it’s valuable that people know both sides of the issue.
Take care,
Hal
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