Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is the methodology used to optimize your websites so they rank well within search engines. Keyword Density, Page Titles, and Link Popularity all play a part in where your webpage appears in the search engines. Check out the tutorials in this section to learn more.
Just about anyone can become a blogger but not everyone can make a lot of money from blogging. Making money from your blog is a slow process that required dedication and hard work. Remember slow and steady always wins the race.
I have listed 21 steps that will get your blog more traffic and in turn help you make more revenue.
1. Write at least one article daily. The more you write the better.
2. Make sure your content is original and related to your blog.
3. Highlight specific keywords using or tags on the content page.
4. Use keywords in title, description and first paragraph of your content.
5. Manually link keywords / phrases to related internal page on your site.
6. Write on current topics (Something that people may be interested in).
7. An image speaks a thousand words but it helps adding the alt text, at least for the sake of Google.
8. Research keywords.
9. If you are using WordPress, use a good theme that is SEO optimized.
10. Offer visitors email and full RSS subscription options.
11. Comment on other related popular blogs that provides link back to your site.
12. Make sure comment’s on your blog go through moderation before making it live, so as to keep spam content out.
13. Use fewer ads and if possible keep the content area free from ads, so that the user can easily read the content without any distraction.
14. Show Social Networking buttons such as Facebook, Stumble-upon, Digg, Twitter etc so if a user finds the article interesting they can easily share on their preferred network. Sometimes social networking can get you a hell lot of traffic.
15. Keep your sitemap updated and make use of webmaster tools to check for error and when found, correct them.
16. Look out for those 404 errors, fix them.
17. Do not buy or sell links.
18. Write guest articles that can be posted on other blogs or you can submit it to ezinearticles.
19. Keep a watch on your hosting server and make sure that your site is up 99% of the time. If too much traffic go for a dedicated hosting or VPS (Virtual Private Servers).
20. Write content for users and not for search engine (avoid too much keyword stuffing).
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1. Start by building up a list of targeted search terms that people might search for when looking for the products or services you offer. These will be the keywords that you will target.
2. Optimize the pages on your site for your keywords.
3. Add a descriptive page title and meta tags to your web pages.
4. Place your targeted keywords in H1 headers.
5. Be sure to have your keywords well placed in your website content.
6. Get quality backlinks which are relevant to your website.
7. Make the site easy to navigate - if you use buttons for your navigation add text links at the bottom of the page so that search engines can index all of your pages
8. Don't overstuff your page with keywords.
9. Use the title setting in your links. For example:
Hoover Web Design
10. Use alt tags on all of your images For example:
Formatting Tips To Speed up Your WebsiteWhile more and more people are getting access to high speed internet, there are many left on dial up. Be kind to those visitors and do a few, simple things to speed up your webpages. Not only will these tips give you a faster load time, most will also help keep your bandwidth fees low as well!
Use CSS For Faster PagesEven if you decide to use tables, CSS can greatly improve your web sites load time! With your styles in an external .css file, the browser can cache all the formatting and stylizing for your pages instead of having to read each and every single tag all over again. Also it cuts down on long drawn out tags and replaces them with smaller class styles instead.
Use External ScriptsUse the same script on multiple pages? Switch to an external script. I'm not talking about remotely hosted, I mean loading javascript files from one source instead of adding all that code to each of your pages like this:
That way the browser already has it in it's cache and won't have to read it each time another page loads. This one saves a ton of load time, specially for larger scripts!
Remove Anything You Don't Really NeedOK, while this might sound obvious sometimes the hardest thing about creating a website is not using every fancy trick that you know. Images, flash and sometimes even sound files are very impressive.. but do you really need to showcase all your talents on one page?
Embedded sound files are something many people just find annoying anyway. You'd be surprised how many are surfing at work ;-). The last thing anyone wants is a loud music or sounds announcing to their boss that they're surfing. Also many people have their own music playing... hearing a song over top of what we're listening to is less than pleasant. As for Java applets, try to ditch them or if you want those effects, JavaScript unusually loads faster and can do just as much or more. Stand back and take a critical look at your website, you may see a few special effects that can be let go of for the sake of faster load time.
Avoid Nested TablesOK, I'm not a big fan of using tables for layout anyway (I'm one of those people that believes content and presentation should be separate.. but thats another tip page). With that said, if in your templates tables seem necessary (or the easier way to do it), try to avoid nesting. Why? When you place a table inside another table, it takes a lot longer for the browser to work out the spacing since it has to wait to read the entire html and then work out the layout. If at all possible, try using CSS to create the columns on your page.
Avoid Full Page Tables for Faster RenderingIf you use tables, try avoiding the whole page being one big table. The browser won't show anything until it's read the whole thing that way. For a faster loading webpage, either try multiple tables (not nested) or having stuff above the main table to make your content in the first table show up faster. That way your visitors will have something to read while the rest of your page loads. It may not really make you page faster, but it will feel like it to your visitors.
Split Up Long Pages - Multiple Short Pages Load FasterBy splitting up long pages into multiple pages you not only make the content show up faster but many people that see a very long scroll bar give up. Remember, people's attention spans are often shorter than a grasshoppers (OK, not literally, but you get my point) since so much information is available at our fingertips. Try breaking it up into more readable lengths.
Remove Excess "Whitespace"Whitespace is the spaces between your coding, removing the unneeded tabs and spaces can help a lot! Doing this will take a lot of extra bytes off the total size of your page and will speed up load time quite a bit. (Careful using automatic squishers, I find they often squish too much and makes it rather hard to edit later.)
Keep Your Code CleanIf you do use a wysiwyg editor, most times the will add useless code to your pages for example, many will leave empty tags (ie. ). Removing any of those excess tags will not only speed up your load time, but make you pages validate a lot cleaner.
Speed up Images Load TimeDon't Go Overboard On ImagesWhile images can greatly enhance the look of a site they can really slow it down if there are too many. Try to decide if all your images are really needed (quite a few nice effects can be done with css, so sometimes images are unneeded.)
Height And Width TagsWhen the page loads and the image size is already defined (ie. you've used the height and width tags), the browser knows where everything will be before the images are loaded. Otherwise the page has to wait and load the images before the text. Same goes for tables, so try to use width tags when possible on those as well for a speedier page.
Faster Images? Reduce Their File SizeThere are many totally free, online image optimizers so you don't even have to install anything and it's extremely easy! Online Image Optimizer will greatly reduce the file size of your gif, jpg, or pngs and neither you or your visitors will be able to see the difference other than a page that loads a heck of a lot faster. They also keep the transparency and animations in gifs!
GIF vs JPG vs PNGPersonally on new sites I design I tend to go for optimized pngs. They have lossless compression (jpgs are lossy) and can be used without worry (gifs have the potential to have copyright issues) and load fast when optimized. Jpgs however are usually better for photos and sometimes highly detailed images. The best idea is really to try the image you want in different formats and compare file size to quality.
Here's a bit of fast info... If you don't need sharp resolution, choose PNGs or GIFs over JPEGs, as PNGs and GIFs generally load quicker. JPGs are generally best for photos, PNGs or GIFs for anything else.
Interlinking is very crucial to your SEO strategy. It means how you link to your inner pages, the web pages residing under your domain. These links could include:
Your navigation text links
Your breadcrumb links
Subject area links
Individual page links
You can use all these links to strategically increase your keyword density and improve your search engine rankings.
Navigation links
Some people are dead against using images as your navigation links but if you use the ALT attribute of the image tags and use the right text, it’s same as using the anchor text. But the point is, you can use your navigation to create the right keyword density by using appropriate anchor text. Through your navigation, if you link to your web designing services page by using “Web Designing Services” as your anchor text it is much better than simply using an image without the ALT attribute.
Breadcrumb links
Breadcrumb links are navigation links that appear at the top of the page as your visitor first clicks in a category, then a sub-category and then a link. For example, view this breadcrumb navigation: Web Designing >> Free Web Templates >> Template Name. All the expressions in the above mentioned breadcrumb navigation contain relevant keywords.
Subject area links
Content websites having information on varied subjects can use those subject names as anchor text and increase link-based SEO relevance. For instance a website publishing SEO information can have interlinking as a separate subject and then link to that section from various pages with interlinking as the anchor text.
Individual page links
These are the most important links in terms of interlinking because they directly link to the pages. These can be your main navigation pages being referred to from your inner pages, or some support pages that don’t need a place in the navigation scheme but supply small chunks of information as and when needed.
The interlinking helps the search engine spiders navigate your website and evaluate it in a realistic manner, according to the keywords and phrases you use as anchor texts.
