Few Questions about SEO. Please advise

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by malikwiki, Jul 30, 2009.

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    Hello , I have few question plz advise me .

    1 - Can I change my meta keyword of my blog ? or it will harm my blog ranking if i change ?

    2 - I want to change my blog post titles . try to optimized for keywords ?

    3- directory submission still works to rank high in SE ?
     
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  2. ifixas

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    1. Yes you can change it, but i recommend it change if google bots come to your site every day.
    2. Try to optimize. It should help.
    3. I don't know really, but you should get more traffic.
     
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  3. ALGWorks

    ALGWorks Active Member

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    1 - Yes, you can change your meta tags any time you want. If anything they'll probably help you rank more specifically for keywords you're targeting, so don't worry about it hurting your site so much.

    2 - Absolutely. Try to also make sure that your titles are in headers (H1 or H2, depending on your site structure). This will only help you attract visitors that are looking for just what you're writing about.

    3 - This is a bit more tricky. Naturally the more incoming links you have from related websites the better. To that end many directories could really help you out. Just make sure sure that the directories also doesn't "nofollow" your links. Some do this and as a result they'll just be a waste of your time.
     
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  4. malikwiki

    malikwiki Active Member

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    some of my blog post are mouths old so still i change it ?? will google crawl my site again and take new titles ?? and it will help me ?
     
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    If you have a sitemap, or at least a proper internal linking structure then search engine spider bots WILL crawl your sites and UPDATE the title tags.
     
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    1) Yes you can change them all you want, keywords don't have the weight they use to so any changes really won't hurt you

    2) Yes always make sure you have optimized titles they are some of the most important parts of SEO

    -- If you are using Wordpress I recommend getting the plug in All-in-one seo it is very helpful in changing all your tags.

    3) yes if you are selective in the directories you pick, make sure they are cached/indexed to make sure the page your site will be listed on is getting reached. If they are not then it is more or less a waste of time/money to put your link on that page if the Search Engines are not reaching it.

    Hope that helps :)
     
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    jason12390's first and third points are quite valid. In the past meta tags may have held a lot of weight however in today's world of "pack the meta tags with keywords to artificially drive traffic to us" society they tend to not hold as much. Bing might still use them a bit, that is the deal with Yahoo! works out that could all change as well.

    Be picky of directories as well. Some can be great, while others can be quite useless. Pick and choose wisely.
     
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