Search Engine Optimization for Blogs – SEO

Search Engine Optimization is something that makes many blogger’s heads spin – I know this because every time I write an SEO article I get comments from bloggers telling me that its too big a topic and that they’d rather just write ‘quality content’.
Whilst I’ll never argue that quality content should be anything but a first priority in blogging, the fact is that there are many millions of pages of great writing languishing around at the bottom of search engines results pages that deserve to be read by many but which rarely see the light of day because their authors have failed to understand that just a few simple tweaks in the writing process could see them ranking considerably higher.

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Why .Gov Links are Considered Most Authentic Backlinks?

Without any doubt, every website owner wants to take place on the first pages of the search engines to increase the number of visitors because the profitability and the popularity of the site will increase if more people visit that website. There are some effective techniques to catapult websites to the top of the search engine result pages.

Why .Gov Links are Considered Most Authentic Backlinks

As you know, keywords and keyword phrases are backbones of search engine optimization (SEO, in short), and SEO is the most common method to outranking any site for any keyword or keyword axioms, and getting traffic from search engines. On the other hand, major search engines place great value on link building in these days. The more links and back links you get and the better their qualities, the higher you will rank on the first page of the major search engine pages.

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How to Optimize Your Blog for Search Engines

So you’re looking to increase the profitability of your blog for the Christmas period (and beyond). You’ve optimized your AdSense, Chitika and Affiliate programs, you’ve even written a little seasonal content…. but there’s one missing element…. Traffic.
Unless you actually have people viewing your blog it is very difficult to actually earn anything from it.
So how do you drive traffic to your blog?
I’ve written quite a bit of this previously in a number of posts (for example here) but want to spend a little time talking today about Search Engine Optimization (SEO).

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Add Meta Description Tags to Blogger

Meta Tags are HTML elements used to provide structured metadata about a web page. Such tags are placed in the head section of an HTML document and Search Engines might use this data to display the search snippet when they display a page from your blog. Most of the Social Sharing Tools like the Facebook Share or the Google Plus buttons will pick up this meta description to create the snippet which gets shared to the Social Networks.







Meta Tags are HTML elements used to provide structured metadata about a web page. Such tags are placed in the head section of an HTML document and Search Engines might use this data to display the search snippet when they display a page from your blog. Most of the Social Sharing Tools like the Facebook Share or the Google Plus buttons will pick up this meta description to create the snippet which gets shared to the Social Networks.
 

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Keyword Analysis for SEO

As we know, the internet has made it possible for businesses to profit immensely by reaching a global audience. This is precisely the reason why every company/business organization has its own website which is built in an appropriate fashion to target their potential customer base. There is so much competition in the business world that every entrepreneur wants to be different than the other in one or more aspect. Website development is one such aspect which gives a business owner the opportunity to impact & influence online visitors in order to convert them into potential customers. SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is one of the most crucial requirements for every website that is built to have commercial success. SEO is the best way to reach out to your potential customers without having to wait for them to come to you. This particular technique makes extensive use of popular search engines like Yahoo and Google for product marketing and traffic building. Keywords are a vital requirement of every website & an effective Search Engine tool that helps potential customers connect with sellers. Keywords analysis helps the merchant (website owner) reach his target audience by building a powerful website. Keyword analysis is the method of locating & examining the quality & quantity of special words that are used within a website content which makes it either easier or tougher for an internet user to locate through search engines. By using an accurate keyword analyzing tool, one can ensure that his/her website utilizes the most researched keywords that describes their products & services in the best possible manner on the internet. Expert Website developers & Webmasters are completely aware of the importance that keywords carry in increasing the chances of success in a business website. The right use of appropriate keywords is the most effective internet marketing tool of present times.

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Where SEO is at in 2012

Each year brings with it lots of new surprises in terms of alterations, updates & improvements in the internet technology. SEO or Search Engine Optimization techniques are also rumored to experience quite a few changes in this year.

·    Social Media is expected to play a very important role for SEO in 2012. Google has already announced the fact that they consider websites that use social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook, and MySpace etc. for posing links & videos to promote their websites.

·    Images & Video links as well as essential transcriptions for keyword purposes would carry a lot more weightage.

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Crawl Test for SEO

Crawl Test also known as a Spider Test is extremely useful for analyzing a website’s efficiency for Search Engine Optimization. This means that you can check if your website is equipped with sufficient levels of ‘crawl able’ or ‘browse able’ content after running it through a Crawl test. Webmasters often used these tests for analyzing the Search engine stimulation of the websites designed by them. The results of such tests provide them with relevant information about the ability & performance of websites for search engines as well as for internet users who conduct these searches. A spider check if undertaken from time to time allows webmasters to gauge & make necessary changes to a website design for advanced functioning & constructive SEO results. It is easy to access a number of spider check software & tools on the internet which can provide a vague idea about a website’s proficiency in terms of its content & adherence to SEO.

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How To Add Search Descriptions to Posts in Blogger?

This tutorial explains us how to add individual search description to Blogger posts. 

Blogger platform is gaining some advanced features on overall SEO on search engines. We already saw that Blogger has already released settings for search preferences. Earlier, it was really a tedious job to add meta tags and meta description to individual posts by adding them one by one on the Blogger template HTML using if conditional statements. That method used to downgrade the blog load time and not a better SEO strategy. But now, we have a great option for optimizing the posts to our tunes.

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Blogger SEO Setup Enable Search Preferences Settings

Now with advanced SEO and search preferences in blogger.  This is a good sign for those bloggers who are using blogspot platform now they can easily understand and use meta descriptions and keywords in posts for better SEO results in search engine. You can easily add separate and dynamic description, keywords to each blogger post.

• Blogger Search Preferences Features:

• Custom Site title and description setting.
• Separate Post and Comments setting.
• Custom Page for not found 404 error.
• Dynamic Meta description each post.
• Advance Blog tools and feed setting.
• Easily use Alt,Title tags for Images.
• Separate Keywords for each post.
• Redirection for Page not found.
• Custom Robots.txt  file.
• Nofollow attribute.

• Enable Search Preference Setting:

1. Sign in blogger,  select blog which you want to enable search preference advanced SEO setting.
2. Click on Setting last option from left side vertical menu.
3. Select ‘Search Preferences‘.
4. Clock on Edit from Meta tags, select Yes for enable search preferences
5. Add blog description in the box and hit save changes.

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Google Drive Launched: Get Free Invites!

After much hype, Google has finally unwrapped the brand new Google Drive. And as expected, it is equipped with many features. Basically, it is an online file-storage service, where you can upload your important files for sharing and safekeeping. Like Microsoft's SkyDrive, it offers an online storage space of 5GB for free! Now admittedly, Google has been slow in introducing such a service, considering that it a The Internet Giant. Don't let this be the deciding factor here though. As they say, slow and steady wins the race. Or does it? I mean, sure, Google has been introducing many new services and improving on existing ones, but is Google Drive any better than other storage services?

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Google PageRank Update May 2012!

Google's latest PageRank Update May 3rd 2012, which has just been rolled out, has given bloggers all over the internet something to say and think about. For some, it came as a pleasant surprise, as their PR increased, while others were shocked to see their PR drop as a result of this update. Indeed, we weren't expecting an update until June, but PR is updated every 3-4 months, so it didn't totally come put of the blue. It was just a minor update, as Google has already been implementing changes in the last few months. Amid high anticipation among bloggers, this update benefited more blogs than it harmed.

After this update, PR for MBT remains the same. But there is good news! The PR for our sister blog Smart Earning Methods jumped directly to 2 from 0! So as a treat for our readership at SEM, we have opened up guest posting on SEM, and we have already received some guest posts! You can submit one too now!

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Google Penguin and Google Panda Penalty - What's That?

As we all know, Google is a pioneer, and the world leader in internet search. It owns around 2/3rd (66%) of the shares in the industry at the time of this writing, making it bigger than any other internet company. It has been around for quite some time now, and has been updating its search functionality regularly. Since the past few years though, we have seen some radical changes in its search model. For example, it was only last year that the dreaded Panda update was unleashed onto the world! And these days, everyone is talking about the new Penguin update that rolled out just a few days back. Head of Google's web-spam team, Matt Cutts tweeted a picture of a stuffed penguin along with a stuffed panda. How cute :). Or is it?

Some people would agree. But many will say quite the contrary. These animals are supposed to give out a friendly image about the updates. They are monsters in disguise though! Many websites have been punished and penalized by these two. So what actually are they all about? And how do they effect websites?

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The Benefits of Ranking High in Search Results

While it is pretty obvious why having a higher ranking with popular search engines is important, there are many other small reasons why page ranking is valuable to you and your website.  Being discovered is crucial in keeping your website afloat and the bigger you become, the more you will observe a snowball effect: more and more people – from visitors to advertisers – will flock to your site to view content, participate and engage in partnerships.  I have outlined several reasons why high page rankings are good for your site and how you can use your situation to benefit in other, lesser known ways.

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Do You Know Which Keywords You Should Be Targeting?

Most websites are set up with the aim of selling goods or a service but if no-one can find your website you will never reap the success that you dream of.  Choosing the best keywords and key phrases for your site is one of the most important things that you will do as a webmaster as this is the not only a great way to increase your site traffic but it is also the best way to increase your targeted traffic.  The more targeted your traffic is, the higher your conversion rate will be.

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Do You Know How Well Your Website is Performing in the Search Engines?

If you have a website, whatever its purpose, you want it to be seen.  Whether it’s a blog you write for fun, an affiliate marketing site you use to make money, or a commercial site for your business, it’s not doing you any good if nobody knows about it.  In the bad old days, people used to remember site URLs and your domain name really mattered, but in the Google age, people generally access the sites they visit not by typing in a memorized URL and navigating to it, but by running a search or clicking a link they find on a page they’re already using.  This is why search engine optimization is more important now than ever before.

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Are .edu Links Still Valuable in an SEO Campaign?

An .edu domain can’t just be bought outright by anyone.  These domains are reserved primarily for educational institutions located throughout the world.  In order to buy an .edu domain the owner of the website has to be accredited by an agency working for the Department of Education in the US, and elsewhere around the world other stringent policies are in place to ensure that .edu domains continue to be credible.

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Fundamental Link Building Practices to Boost Your Search Engine Rankings in Google

We hear the entire buzz about getting back links over the web, but why are links so important to gain higher search engine rankings? First of all, links allow the search engines to find and index your website in the search engine databases. Second, high quality links help drive direct traffic and give the search engines an indicator of the importance of your website. The amount, the quality (trust), and the relevance of back links, will reveal many important signals to the search engines to determine the order of ranking. Obviously, Google cares first about its users, which are their utmost priority. All their technology is based on this philosophy. The more and the better they are able to satisfy their users, the more they will increase their market share (to sell more Adwords ads). They don’t want to ruin their SERPs with useless spam. This is why links from trusted websites are so important. The more trust the more and better rankings you will get.

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Customize Search Preferences! Complete SEO tools for Blogger Blogs

Google has been working really very hard to make Blogger a very solid, efficient and effective platform for bloggers from every end of the world. In the very beginning stages of a blog, Search Engine Optimization plays a very vital role in the growth of a blog. It's really difficult for newbies, who doesn't have any knowledge regarding SEO, to let the search engines know that they've got an awesome blog out there and their blog should be monitored and indexed in the search engines among the top web pages listed. Keeping that in mind, Blogger has announced their new update regarding the Customization of Search Preferences. These Search Preferences made it very easy for bloggers to add Meta Tags to their blogs, to set Errors plus redirection and Crawlers and Indexing.

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Major Google Search Result Update for Google Plus!

Google was trying different minor changes after the arrival of Google Plus but a major update occurs yesterday. This is really a good change in my view. The change is that now the Google Plus users can search in their desired websites. Let me explain you in detail.
For example me or any of my friend in my Google plus account friend list shares MBT on Google plus and very next day I search for BLOGGER TRICKS on Google. Now what Google will do is that because the keyword BLOGGER TRICKS is related with MBT and i have shared it in my Google plus account so it will first crawl MBT blog and will show me the results from it first.

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Blogger Blogs 302 Redirected To Country-Specific URLs

The hottest BlogSpot news of the week is 302 redirection of almost all BlogSpot domains to country specific URLs. Instead of the .com domain extension, your visitors will see their country specific domain extensions. Blogspot blogs in India so far have been redirected to blog-name.blogspot.in address instead of blog-name.blogspot.com. For instance, if you are viewing a blog with address blog-name.blogspot.com from United States (USA)  then you will be redirected to blog-name.blogspot.com.us. The new URLS will now correspond with the country of the reader’s current location. This is called "country-code Top Level Domain" or ccTLD in short and this redirect is popularly known us "302 Redirect"  which is a temporary change and not a 301 redirect which is a permanent change of address.

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