Wednesday, December 28, 2011

SEO Tips for Blogger

Here is a collection of My SEO tips for my beloved readers.. 

1) Don't put too much posts on homepage - When you put too much content on homepage, it leads to duplicate content. Means many pages on your blog will have similar content. Your latest post page and your homepage has got the same content rite? 

2) Submit a Sitemap to Google Webmaster Tools 

3) You will have links to feeds on your pages. Or may be some links to social bookmarking sites. Too many links on a page makes it unfriendly for search engines. So you should add the rel='nofollow' tag to such not so important links.. 

- Feed links (The blog feed has same content as your blog.So it is important that you make the feed links nofollow) 
- Social Bokkmarking links - If you use social bookmark buttons like that for digg,stumble twitter etc, try making them nofollow.. 
- Links to unimportant pages(unimportant to search engines.. ;) )like contact me page,link to me page,about me page etc.. 
link name is a dofollow url 
link name is the nofollow version of the same link 

4) Use the Title Tag Hack 

5) Use Meta Tags 
- What you shouldn't do when using meta tags - I have seen many blogs using the same meta tag for all pages of the blog.You should never use such duplicate meta tags, I suggest that you use a separate meta description and keywords for your home page.You can use b:if conditions to do this. 

6) Get back links.. Get more links to your site from your friends.. ;)  You can also add aLink to your site Widget . 

7) Submit your blog to Directories. - One of them is here Blogger Directory 

8)I won't add a archive widget.If i do it i will display it on a particular page only. - Why? The archive widget has so many links in it..As i said too many links on a page is unfriendly to search engines. 

9)Don't add additional ROBOT meta tags.. Some guys try adding tags like  
Blogger automatically does some SEO for it.. Don't override it. You know something? Every blogger blog has got a robots.txt file.. see mine.. http://www.bloggerplugins.org/robots.txt Off course we cant edit them. 

10)When building back links use your primary keyword as the anchor text. Anchor Text - > Just to explain what an Anchor Text is. 
I use Blogger Widgets as my Anchor Text. 

11) Use Alt tags for images. When you use images try to add alt tags. For example can be replaced as Some alternate description for the image 

12) Focus on what you write. Always try to write some unique and interesting content.You cant hope to be on top of search engines with copy paste blog posts.. 

These are some of the ones that i remember..Will update it if i find anymore..

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