How to write blog post titles while keeping SEO in mind
Posted on November 20, 2007 - Filed Under SEO | 18 Comments
How many times do you happen upon a post written by a fellow blogger whose title makes you wonder what the post will actually end up being about? Note that many times that you do run across these posts, they do not have a high PageRank or get very much traffic unless they have been Dugg, etc. And even if they do, could they get more traffic if their post title was optimized?
SEO tips from Matt Cutts that every blogger should know
Posted on September 6, 2007 - Filed Under SEO | 3 Comments
About three weeks back, Google search engineer Matt Cutts gave a very informative presentation at WordCamp 2007 about what web site owners and bloggers (especially WordPress bloggers) could do to make their sites more SEO-friendly. You can check out the post by Matt here to read more or watch a video of the presentation.
Here are a couple of the basics that I got from the video and written transcription of the talk:
Check your PageRank, rating, backlinks, and website using Xinu
Posted on August 28, 2007 - Filed Under SEO | 12 Comments
Here’s a nifty tool that you can use to check your web site’s important SEO-related stats such as PageRank, links at social book-marking sites, indexed pages for the top search engines, and number of backlinks. This tool is targeted more towards helping your site overcome insufficiencies that you might have when ranking with search engines.
Xinu is a very simple to use, yet comprehensive tool to diagnosis or analyze a web site. It’s also a good way to get an idea of how your site compares to other sites in your niche.
Website Grader – A free search engine optimization (SEO)/marketing tool
Posted on July 25, 2007 - Filed Under SEO | 2 Comments
If you have your own web site or blog, it’s always good to know where you can improve the SEO aspects of your site so that you rank better in the SERPs. There are a few good tools out there that you can use to get specific recommendations for your site. I really like Website Grader because it checks many aspects of a site’s overall ranking including the site structure, meta tag usage, head tag usage, image summary, age of the domain, Google PageRank, Alexa rank, Technorati rank, readability of site, and inbound links.