SEO Tips for your Blog

SEO Tips for your Blog
Today, I am going to talk about that part of the SEO (Search Engine Optimization) process, which an ordinary blogger does not know of, or tends to forget while building his blog. Normally, if you are using WordPress as your blogging platform, a bit of SEO is already done for you, thanks to the WordPress […]

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Today, I am going to talk about that part of the SEO (Search Engine Optimization) process, which an ordinary blogger does not know of, or tends to forget while building his blog. Normally, if you are using WordPress as your blogging platform, a bit of SEO is already done for you, thanks to the WordPress development team. But here are some very important key points that you should remember while running your blog. Let us start from the basics and move on to some advanced techniques.

Title Tag

You should never ignore the importance of your tag. The <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyword_%28computer_programming%29" title="Keyword (computer programming)" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" class="zem_slink">keywords</a> for your blog/website should be included in the title tag and the length of the title tag should fall between 60-90 characters. The search engine spiders always look through your titles while looking for relevant content. In WordPress, the title tag is usually formed by the name of your blog which can be found in Options menu of the wp-admin section.</p> <p><strong>URL Keywords </strong></p> <p>Make sure that your keywords are also prominent in your blog links. WordPress saves you from the hard work by providing custom permalink feature, which allows you to choose the suitable link structure as per your requirements.</p> <p><strong>Keywords in Heading Tags </strong></p> <p>This is another place where your keywords play a major role. When using WordPress, these tags are commonly used in the post titles (<br /> <h2> tags). Remember that your post content should also have those particular keywords that you used in these titles.</p> <p><strong>Keywords in Image Tags </strong></p> <p>When using images in your documents or posts, always specify the <strong>alt text</strong> for the same. Search Engine spiders cannot see the images but they can index their textual descriptions specified in the <alt> tags. 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