Bloggers
who are interested in building high traffic to their blog and
maintaining a successful blog should pay particular attention to search
engine optimization techniques which can help to improve the search
engine rankings of their blogs. So now it all boils down to techniques
that help you effectively optimize your blog post for search engines.
Here are tips and ideas to do just that:
Blog Post Title
Blog post title is the most important element on the blog post and it
plays a big role in bringing traffic to your blog. Here are some tips to
optimize your blog post title to SEO.
- Google puts more weight on words found in the beginning of your
title. So include your targeted keyword in the beginning of your title.
You can use Google keyword tool to find the keywords.
- Make it simple and attractive: You have to make Google users to click on your title.
- Make it Short: Try to use 60 characters or less.
- Be unique
Content
This is really huge. You have to give more importance to the content.
Write And you should keep in mind that you are writing for people not
for search engines. So don't over use your keywords on blog posts. Some
tips to make your iontent ready for SEO
- Quality content is king. Make your content informative and useful to your readers.
- Google plays close attention where a keyword appears on your page.
Include your target keyword in the first 100-150 words of your article.
- Use outbound links to show you as an active member of web to search engine.
- Include internal links.
- Use images on blog post. (more tips below)
- Write long posts.
- Make it easily shareable
Images
Images can generate a good traffic on image based searches. But you have to optimize images on your blog post. But how?
Image name
- The name should be relevant to the image
- Make sure to include keyword to the image name
- Try to avoid space because these are generally replaced by %20 and
will have no value when it comes to SEO. ( You can add '+' or '-' sign
for blank spaces.)
Alt tag
Alt tag is a simple HTML tag that describes your image. When search robots scan your content they go through your image HTML.
To add this simply add alt="this is your alt text" to your image tag.
<img src="image-optimiza.jpg" alt="Optimize image for SEO" />
Image Size
This is really important to reduce the load time. So how to reduce the
size? Try to use jpg images on blog post. There are plenty of free tools
to resize and reduce size of the images online.
Final Words
Use these tips to help optimize your blog and get the most from search
engines. The more you post and use these tips, the more results you will
see. If you earn your living from the number of clicks your blog or
your ads get, this will essentially mean more money for you. Put these
tips to use and watch your results rise today!
Sourav
Sunday, September 6, 2015