12 Advanced SEO tips for bloggers
Hello Readers, Search Engine Optimization or SEO has a great importance in blogging. Every blogger wants to optimize their blogs for search engines. This post focuses on how to optimize a blog for the search engines like Google, Bing and Yahoo. Unziptech has already shared many articles for SEO for blogger / blogspot blogs and this post also focuses on the same category. If you want to increase your search engine or organic traffic, it is very important to optimize your blogs for search engines so that you can be indexed among the top search results and can be gifted more traffic. Later in this article we will explore some useful tips that will help you do a better SEO optimization of your blog.
How to optimize blog for Search Engines:
Content:
You must have heard it
many times that Content is King. It is the first step towards the SEO of your
blog. Always write quality and unique content for your blog. Search engines do
not like low quality or duplicate content and your blog might not be included
among the search results. Try to write 500+ words articles for your blogs.
Search engines like well structured and long content rather than a quick or
small article. The bottom line is you need to write quality content for your
blog posts.
Meta Tags:
Meta tags are very important as they tell search
engines about the main information of your blog. Meta
tags include the description, keywords, author, language and other information
which is very important for SEO. You can add a 250 characters description of
your content, 5-8 closely related keywords in the Meta
tags. The basic structure of Meta tag is:
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Keywords:
As I mentioned above that Meta tags are very important and they includes the main keywords
of your blog pages. But you also need to maintain a healthy keyword ratio in
your main content or articles. Keep a 2-3% of keyword ratio within the main
content of your blog. Do not put more weighting of keywords in your blog posts
as it would be considered as keyword stuffing and you would be penalized for
this. Always do a keyword reserach using Google adwords keyword tool.
Titles:
Write attractive and
optimized blog post articles for your content. You should optimize your posttitles for search engines so that it could be indexed among the search results
more often and you would be gifted organic traffic. Do not use more than 50
characters in the post titles. You can also add symbols like ! and ? in your
post titles.
Images:
Images are used to make your
content more attractive and descriptive. But images without alt and title tags
are useless for SEO. You should optimize your blog images for search engines so
that your images could be included in the image searches and you will get
organic traffic.
Internal Linking:
Internal linking is a
great SEO practice. Internal linking refers to some content with in your blog.
Always try to put some internal links in your articles. It will let the search
engine robots and crawlers to navigate your blog easily, which will result in
good indexing of your blog pages. If your blog pages are properly indexed in
search engines then there is a great chance of increasing your blog traffic.
Blog Template:
Always use fast loading
templates for your blogs. It will help you reduce the blog page load time.
Sometimes search engine crawlers face troubles while crawling sites with high
page loading time and results in server errors. These errors will surely affect
the over all SEO of your blog.
Bounce rate:
Bounce rate is the
percentage of 1 page visits on your blog. Search engines do not like the sites
with high bounce rate. You should reduce the bounce rate of your blog in order
to optimize your blog for search engines.
Frequent writing:
Try to be more frequent at
posting on your blog. Search engines like the frequently updated blogs and
websites. The frequently updated sites are more oftenly crawled and indexed in
search engines.
Sitemaps:
Sitemaps are very
important and you should submit your blog sitemap to the Google webmaster and
Bing webmater tools in order to optimize your blog for search engines. Submitting
your sitemaps to webmaster tools help search engines to find the latest updated
content on your blog and they crawl / index it quickly.
Feeds:
Always use feedburner to
manage your blog feeds. If you are facing problems with your feedburner account
you can check out my article about troubleshooting the feedburner feeds. You
can submit your blog feeds to blog submitting websites and ping the search
engines using the websites like Pingomatic to inform search engines about the
latest content on your blog.
Backlinks:
Backlinks are the incoming
links in to your blog from the external resources like blog submission sites or
other websites who mention you in their blog posts. Try to write articles which
will be shared on social media and other blogger would like to use as
reference. It will help you get backlinks quickly and we all know backlinks are
very important for blogging and SEO.
I hope I have mentioned
some useful and helpful tips in this article. If you are confused about any of
the above mentioned points you can comment here. Your suggestions are always
welcome. If you think I have missed any important point above you can mention
it and I will update it in the post.
You should also check out
the blogger tips and tricks section on our blog for more articles like this. It
will help you improve your blogging experience.
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