Everytime I make a post, I am thinking of SEO on mind as my ultimate purpose is to get people searching for my post. There is some trick and technique to this and most season bloggers do this if you pay attention and study their posting method. Your post title play a very crucial role.
1. Write Post Title with Search Term
You have to always think of what a people would type at Google when they are doing a search. If you are writing about a car, have the car manufacturer, year, model included or the type of car, having post title like “I like the new Honda” wound not help your Search Engine Traffic as most people would not search for this word and “new Honda” would be a competitive keyword.
2. Keyword Density
It is important for you to use the similar keyword that you have used in your title and use them at least once or twice the post body. Do not repeat them too often that you will actually get penalize.
3. Start with Long Tail Keyword
Try to aim for something smaller when your blog is new as you will not win the big boys by having the same title keyword for your post. Be specific so that you are targeting a niche and smaller crowd.
4. Make sure that your html title <title> does have your post title
Although it is mostly built in with most blogging theme / templates, you have to make sure of this. If you look at the following picture. You notice that the search terms are in bold and your website link is actually using the <title> of the current link or title of your blog post.
Another flexible alternative for WordPress user is to have All in One SEO Pack plugins installed. It is quite easy to use, but the latest version require some pre-configuration before you can actually use this plugin. Nevertheless, it is still a very powerful tool.
5. Permalink
This is a superb built in function on WordPress and Blogspot because having the post title on the link gives you a slightly better advantage over sites that does not have them. Although this may not ensure that you beat another website / blog that does not use this, but we are sure that it is taken into account because it will be highlited in bold.
You can see that top 100 malaysia blogs is highlighted.
Give this a try and you shall see some differences in time to come. SEO does not happen instantly, even if you have made some changes to your previous post, it will take days to week for Google Spiders to come crawling to your website and update their database.
I use Platinum SEO Plugin on my blog..I was wondering which is better All in One SEO Pack or Platinum SEO Plugin …?
I’ve tried to use both of them b4, but I think that they’re almost the same, there is only a slightly different on the features, I believe that’s not a big impact when it comes to SEO, they’re still doing well. I’m currently just using All In One SEO Pack.
Regards,
Lee
thanks for the feedback…I have not tried platinum SEO but I guess there is people switching because recently All in One SEO Pack comes without any setup and it is disabled in default (even with updates).
I have kept my setup, so it is basically copy and paste
Nice tips but still I’m not very good with it.
Great tips. I will say in addition to your post to pay attention to length. Google will crop your meta title on the results page after 66 characters, but Yahoo won’t crop your title until 120 characters. To get the best results for both of these prominent engines, try to make your meta title have a primary and secondary length.
interesting. I will try my best to promote using SEO.
I think number 1 is often overlooked, just spending some time thinking about how someone would search and what they would search for helps out tremendously. So does using things like product codes etc which can bring in some really high quality buying traffic
wow number one! the best.
Great Post Adi,
I have the all in one SEO plugin for WP and it seems to be configured for me. If I have that do I even need to mess with the meta keyword or the meta description? It seems like those are already taken care of via my tags with the plugin. Is that correct?
Superb tips. That’s why your blog rank well in google search engine.
I’ll follow it.
Cool MAN !! I finally find out why my blog is SEO unfriendly ..
But there r too many competitor out there .. sometimes SEO is related to luck, tat’s why my blog traffic = luck too .. xD
Anyway > Thanks bro !!
Salam sejahtera Adi.
Wow! This is a good tips, but I don’t understand about Permalink.
Adi, Had this tips can use with any website either only blogs type websites or any websites. Please check on my website if you were to tell me how to make Permalink with my websites.
This is a good posting. I would like to thank you for the information. I want to follow it and hope I will get better rank for my blog.