Let’s face it, most people hate SEO and even more prefer to avoid it at all costs. That being said, SEO does help, and ranking better can help you get more traffic, more leads, and more sales. I know SEO sucks, but I want to give you 5 quick fixes you can implement right now that will immediately bolster your SEO…
Without You Having to
Think About it !
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Keywords in Titles
The title is the most important part of your post, and if you aren’t using at least a few keywords in your title, then you are missing a huge opportunity for SERP rankings. If your blog is about organic food, then try to use the phrase organic food in as many posts as you can. Also, rotate secondary keywords like organic foods, natural food/s, and organic produce, etc.
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Keywords in bold
You might not know this, but placing more emphasis on keywords by putting them in bold will help your SEO. Don’t overdo it, but find some of the most important words you’d like to rank for and place them in bold. See what happens.
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Anchor Links
Please stop linking the phrase “click here” unless you are using a direct link to a sales page. If you’re linking to your own blog, use a keyword rich phrase to link to it with. You don’t want to rank for “click here”, but you do want to rank for “meditation guide”, so use this:
instead of this:
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URL Slugs
A URL slug is the way a CMS, such as WordPress, creates dynamic URL’s for your blog posts. Typically, you’ll get a URL with a post number or date, which is a no-go. Enable custom permalinks using this code:
/%postname%/
This will turn “10 Ways to become a Better Blogger” into:
Which is much more SEO friendly. Of course, the issue here occurs when you have obscure titles, like:
“5 Reasons why I think you should stop blogging”
In this case, consider building a better URL by changing the default permalink to something like:
It’s much easier to remember for one, and it’s more powerful for SEO.
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Change Uncategorized
I can’t believe how many bloggers I see that forget to change the default WordPress category from Uncategorized to something more valuable. If your blog is about travel tips, change the default category to travel, and then add more relevant categories. Though the categories aren’t crucial for page 1 rankings, they do help, and having an uncategorized category does much more harm than good. It’s a simple fix, make it happen…
ASAP !
Yeah, SEO isn’t any fun unless you work for an SEO firm, but that doesn’t mean you should ignore it. Using these 5 tips, you can dramatically increase your SEO ability, and once you get good with this, you’ll do it 2nd nature, which is when you can pick up a few more SEO techniques. Remember this…
The Key to Being a Good Blogger is to
Always Be Learning !
Stay Frosty
The Bad Blogger
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I am doing all of the SEO tips on the article and yeah, all of them are working great to improve my blog SERP.
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Great to hear that… and thank you for reading my post…
thanks for keywords in bold tip … will implement that … btw do u have other sites where you blog ??
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I only blog on this blog, I didn’t want to reveal my other blogs because I have outsource a few people weekly to do the job for me such as writing content and also doing SEO stuff… since I’m not doing my other blogs, I never tell anyone as I’m not using “The Bad Blogger” as the author name… I’m currently running 6 blogs in 6 niches including this one.
But surely iphone is not the niche I do…
Good pointer to improve SEO… i don’t unerstand how does it help from an seo point of view to bold your keywords…
Please let me know, I’ll be glad if you can email me as well
Good blog you have here..
Take Care
Sandeep
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Well… I’m not sure either, my SEO guy told me and some people who I do hire to do search engine stuff, told me too, if so many people are saying about it… don’t you think is true that search engine spider is more likely to crawl it?
Hi, How about URL on blogger platform. Blogger platform just allow 6 word in URL. Whether that weakness for SEO?
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August 3, 2011 at 8:32 am
To be honest, I have no idea, but if the only answer I can give is it doesn’t matter how many words, search engine do not count words rather then look at the word….
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