Links and Keywords

I checked out an SEO guide and heard more of the same I always knew. But there were a few tricks I had not thought about. Sure you need links to your page. You should not have too many links out of your page. The links to you should be static text ones. The real light was shed on the use of keywords.

Put your keyword in your header. Check. Also put keywords in your H1 tag. Okay. You sould also have your keywords appear in the body of your text three times. Bamm. Keyword should be bold. Oh snap. Had not thought much about that.

Final new idea I read was that your titles should not be too long.

SEO Tuneup

SEO is an ongoing process. You need to keep up with your site to remain on top of the search results. One of the main jobs is to find the pages on your site that return errors. Find those pages with broken links and correct them.

You should also get rid of duplicate info on your site. That means duplicated across your site, and duplicated by others. Make sure your pages are relevant to your site's keywords. A quick way to do that is to put tag clouds on all your pages. Then you can see if they are relevant.

Good luck.

Blogging Tips

I just finished skimming a book about Google Blogger. Much of the book focused on how to get your blog read. These were good old fashioned SEO practices I will share with you now.

Note that text link ads might actually drop your Google page rank. Ouch. I got to make that money. But I did not know it would push me lower in the SERPS.

You should put keywords in your title. Add keywords to the first couple sentences of your blog post. Keywords should be part of your URLs and image names. Tags should contain your keywords.

Use keywords in your links, as well as around your links. Links within your blog help a little bit. Frequent posting is required. Comment on other blogs to get people to come to your own.