51 SEO Blog Tips For Everyone

51 SEO Tips That Everyone use on daily basis

1. Keyword Research
2. Use the google keyword tool
3. Isolate core tems
4. Isolate long-tail terms
5. Determine KEI value of all terms
6. Determine a subset of terms to isolate for SEO campaign
7. Determine how your website initially ranks for selected keywords (I use the Firefox extension Rank Checker)
8. Determine who your top 5 competitors are for each keyword (top 5 results in a Google search)
9. Find out what sites link to your competitors (Yahoo! Site Explorer is great for this)
10. Try to get the sites that link to your competitors to link to your site
11. Use selected keywords in the title tag
12. Do not flood the title tag with your selected keywords
13. Use selected keywords in the description tag
14. Do not flood the description tag with your selected keywords
15. Use selected keywords in the keyword tag
16. Do not flood the keyword tag with your selected keywords
17. Do not use a bunch of keywords that pertain to your site but do not appear on your site in your keyword tag
18. Use a selected keyword in the h1 tag
19. Use search engine friendly URLs
20. Utilize the image ALT tag
21. Include a sitemap.xml file in your site root and submit it to the major search engines (Google, MSN, Yahoo!)
22. Include a robots.txt file in your site root
23. Shoot for a keyword density of 3-4%
24. Try to make your selected keywords prominent in the body text
25. Use your keywords frequently, yet methodically
26. Use semantically related keywords in your body text
27. Manually submit your website to the Major Search Engines and at least a Use
28. Manually submit your website to industry-relevant directories in the proper category
29. Write engaging, unique and fresh articles on subjects you are interested in and that relate to your website
30. Submit your articles to article directories
31. Post your articles to your blog
32. If you don't have a blog, create a blog
33. Post your articles to Facebook
34. Use Twitter to tweet that you posted a new article on your blog and Facebook
35. Use social bookmarking sites to create inbound links to your website
36. Create press releases regarding new products or changes to your business
37. Submit these press releases to places like pr.com, przoom.com
38. Engage in social media
39. Read blogs
40. Comment on the blogs you read only if it adds to the discussion
41. Do not use keywords in the "Name" field
42. Use your name in the "name" field
43. Do not register and use forums solely to get a backlink in the signature
44. Learn more about your business and your industry everyday
45. Share what you learn with other people via Twitter, Facebook etc
46. Use Google Analytics to track the visitors who go to your site
47. Discover what keywords they use to reach your site
48. Use Google webmaster's tools to discover even more ways people are finding your website
49. Use a "Share" button on your articles and blog posts
50. Use the new facebook connect feature – it just works
51. Write informative content – try and be helpful!

Source : SmashBlogTips

Optimize Your Blog and Each Post

If no one is reading your blog chances are you need to really do some tune up efforts to increase the optimization of not just the blog but also each blog post. Many bloggers don’t realize that there are many different things other than just writing well that can lead to an increase in the efficiency of a blog.

Here are the areas that you should focus on when optimizing a blog or a single blog post:

Home Page: The home page should have a well optimized title tag and description utilizing keywords and having a nice robust description on what the blog is about.

Blog Description: Have a blog description of what your blog is about that consists of 200 words or so utilizing any keywords that you might be targeting. Include this somewhere on the home page for the search engines to be able to pick up.


Categories: Having to many categories can be a problem also. If you start a category for each post or every few posts and neglect to fill up that category you could run into a problem also. Keep your categories tight and frequently update them to keep your search engine optimization power funneling down into those focused categories.

Meta Info: Most blogging platforms these days have plugins that allow you to tighten up the SEO for each post allowing you to update the meta info and even target keywords. If your blog has this ability it should be taken advantage of each and every time.

Content: Your blog post should always include some keywords you are trying to target while keeping your post as long as possible. You want your post to have some substance to it so make sure your content is longer than just a few sentences. And always write your content for humans aka your audience reading your blog first, NEVER for the search engines. The white hat rules apply for your blog as they do for your static website.

Internal Linking: Internal linking is an important part of search engine optimization. If your blogs have actual pages try linking those pages once in a while to blog posts while always using anchor text of targeted keywords. Also if you have blog posts that are high trafficked posts link those posts to other similar posts using keywords to strengthen your internal SEO.

There is a variety of techniques you can apply to strengthen your blog’s search engine optimization aspects. Remember that it takes time for the changes to take effect so be patient.

Source: Search Engine Optimization Journal