Tuesday, February 9, 2010

SEO-Search Engine Optimization-How to Optimize Your Blog for Search Engines

If u want to find some information about SEO or a solution to your question.what will u do??There are a millions of websites through out the world providing information about your topic.When you enter a keyword in the search engine ,it will display all the sites containing the mentioned keywords.The search engine displays the top results of the websites one by one.this is known as ranking.The purpose of seo is to bring your site to the top of the ranking list for a certain keyword.If you want your pages to be highly ranked,SEO pays a major role.
1.Research your subject.choose your subject wisely.The market for your subject can be seen by going to sites like wordtracker.com and overture.com.Choose your main subject having many sub divisions so that more information can be provideddonot choose a subject having losts of competition.choose a subject with enough demand with not too much competition.and note that traffic for the site is the main thing for earning money.To find out the competition enter the subject in google search engine and see how many sites are there with that keyword.always cho
2.Your web url should contain your keywordsex:www.seo-tips.blogspot.comIf ur web page is about seo and related topics
3.Use html-text based links having your keywords linking to other posts so that it is easy for the robots of the search engines to follow theselinks to other pages and indexes your site on its database
4.use keywords in title of the post ,use atleast one keyword or combine mutiple keywords into a phrase and use it in the title and and also in your posts in the first few lines of the post.
5.Use meta tags in your template.Even though google and alta vista are ignoring the meta tags some users use that as it is usefull for other search engines.ex:\....\
add this meta tag below to your template to allow robots to index your page.

If u donot want your page to be indexed replace follow with nofollow in the above line
There are a number of online meta tag generators u can use-www.metatags.com
6.The most important thing is that u must satisfy your visiters with unique content so that they willlink to your site.this increses your no. of backlinks.
7.If you are a new blogger you should consider linking to highly ranked-backlinks followed-sites.So that your site will get indexed easily.
8.Backlinks is the most important factor contributing to higher ranks in search engines.More the number of links on other sites pointing to your site,the higher the rank of your site.The search engine considers that as a vote of confidence of other sites of your site.
9.Use ALT attribute alt='' tags. Enter two to three keywords into the alt attribute besides describing the picture to the search engine spiders as they cannot read images,they only read text.

blogger
10.Make your site user friendly by removing nofollow on blogger.Because it will not allow Googlebot to follow that link back to the originating post and index it.so it is of no gain for the blogger or site owner linking to your posts.this will reduce the backlinks to your site.Also don't forget to mention ur site is backlinks followed by using a image at the end of the posts. You can also mention in a prominent place in your blog that backlinks are FOLLOWED and thus encourage other people to link to your blog-posts.By using this your site will get indexed easier and faster.But you have to climb to the top by providing unique content and gaining more backlinks.
SEO must be done at the end after developing your site.It is a continuous process to get higher ranks

Common mistakes in seo 1.Keyword stuffing-Repetition of keywords in same post or page.keyword density is also considered by search engines to rank your site. 2.Duplicate content-Copying content from other websites.