10 Ways To Optimize Your Blog

"There are 93.8 million blogs worldwide," says SEO-PR president and co-founder Greg Jarboe. "Getting excited about getting a blog is like getting excited when the phone book arrives."

"Yeah, but, it's your name in print," says Navin Johnson.

That's not a reason to not have one though. A blog is still an effective way to get noticed and to gain an audience. "Things will starting happening to you now," reminds Navin.

But only if you do it right. "If you don't have a blog, go ahead and start one," says Jarboe, "but the whole industry has moved on. It's now about performance; it's now about results."

Okay, so how do you get those results? Well, there's probably not a finite set of things, but there are some good suggestions. Jarboe suggests staying away from turf already claimed. "Look for emerging terms. Find terms that are upcoming or growing in importancethat don't have five years of entrenched bloggers competing for them."

But if you have to enter ground already well-traveled, it's a good idea to get in good with those that know the road. Join their conversations, get their attention, earn a link.

Jarboe joins Stephan Spencer, Founder and President of Netconcepts, LLC in providing some expert advice on optimizing a blog, and we've organized that advice into a neat top ten list. (The plugins recommended are all for WordPress.)


1. Tag clouds and tag pages; check out Ultimate Tag Warrior plugin for creating these. Spencer says he doubled traffic to one his blogs by adding it.

2. Add a "Related Posts" feature. Spencer recommends the Contextual Related Posts plugin for WordPress.

3. Top Ten posts feature to display most popular posts

4. Add "next" and "previous" post buttons

5. Build inbound links

6. Title tags – use SEO Title Tag plugin for WordPress to assign unique title tags to individual posts.

7. Claim your blog at Technorati and use Technorati tags

8. Use "sticky" posts that always appear at the top of the page as a way to add a keywords-rich introduction to category pages. Adhesive plugin works for this.

9. Use the Buzzlogic tool to find out which bloggers are most influential in conversations – refer to them and try to get them to link to you.

10. Get into other bloggers' blog rolls (trackbacks and comments won't help in link gain.

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Best of luck!
Imran

 

great post nice inclusion! are you a word press blogger??

 

Great post. Very informative.

 

Nice tips. Most people do not use them all.

 

Great tips I will take your advice and start using the plugins you suggested

 

Now let me see...

http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2007/08/22/ses-10-ways-to-optimize-your-blog

http://www.google.com/custom?q=%22Yeah,+but,+it%27s+your+name+in+print,%22&hl=en&newwindow=1&client=pub-4099951843714863&cof=FORID:1%3BGL:1%3BS:http://www.hyperwords.net/%3BL:http://www.hyperwords.net/hy-for-google.gif%3BLH:100%3BLW:100%3BLBGC:FFFFFF%3BLP:1%3BLC:%230033cc%3BVLC:%23333333%3BGALT:%23999999%3B&filter=0

I don't think you should get rep for copying and pasting

Onward and upward

Steve Dorrington (AKA CarpetDog)

 

Thanks for these

 

LOL , Many members here who don't know what is WebproNews .. Im just helping them by posting these threads here.

 

Whatever the source, thanks for sharing.

 

Thank you

 

hi

great tips

thanks

 

funforums

Tag clouds and tag pages is this a new method??

 

You just copy paste that from another site!

 

You know what the use is good for tag clouds I mean?

 

My post is for the OP not to you

 

great tips
thanks

 

Aaron111
What do you use for blog?
Drupal?

 

Do Tag clouds really work?
I might consider implementing that plugin soon.

 

Great article!

 

Nice post, very helpfull