Seo stands for search engine optimization. It means to increase your blogs traffic manually bysearch engines. Seo is the main problem for every blogger. There are many ways to drive fake traffic to your blog or site such as traffic exchange sites for example linkcollider, traffup, like-ex.com, ptc sites, traffic swarm, hitleap and many others but its not valid for Google AdSense. Because Google hates fake or paid traffic. You would have read many posts about seo and driving traffic to your blog in many websites or blogs and most of them wouldn't be helpful. Don't worry you are at right place. After reading this post your blog will be 100% seo friendly without any doubt. If you will follow the below written steps, I guarantee that you will see your blog much better than before. In this post I am going to tell you how to generate valid traffic from search engines. To make your blog or site 100% seo optimised you need to do following things:
(1). Keywords in title of blog:
Describe your blog's content in your blog's title for example if you have a blog about blogger tips then give it a title "blogger tips, tricks, gadgets, widgets and tutorials" it will help searchengines to show your blog in results if someone search for any of keyword which you use in title.
(2). Tags in posts:
When you write a post take care of having tags in that post. Because search engine will target your tags to show result. Write tags is (h2) font-size. For example you are writing a post about a publishing network or what else now you have to write keywords about that publishing network in tags. So that the search engine find your post and show in results.
(3). Keywords in post title:
Try to describe your posts summery in your post title. Its helpful for seo as someone search onsearch engine for your written keywords in post title the search engine will show your blog in results. It is a good way to increase your blog views.
(4). Lengthy posts:
Your post must be of at least 250-300 words. Above 300 words will be more good.
(5). Unique posts:
To gain unique visitors you have to write unique posts. Your post should contain more text than images. And it must be helpful and meaningful. Your blog should have a category that is your blog should focus only at one thing for example, if you created a software blog than it should contain only software etc.
(6). User friendly:
As a wise man said," Simpler is better". Your blog should have a friendly user interface It means no pop-ups, no-on click ads, pop-up like boxes because these things frustrates most of the users.
(7). Meta tags and description:
Write a meta description of your blog. Write about your blog in below code between comas. And paste it below <head> in template. Also write the keywords of your blog's content in the second code and past it below <head> in your blog template.
<meta content='write description here' name='description'/>
<meta content='write keywords here' name='keywords'/> (8). Submit your blogs URL to search engines:
Increase you blog traffic by submitting link to search engines. Three big search engines "Google,Bing,Yahoo" will accept your link for free. Submit your blog link to other searchengines, you can find more search engines on google.
(9). Submit URL to directories:
You can find a huge list of directories on Google. Submit your link to directories for free, it is also helpful to gain unique traffic.
(10). Social sharing:
Create fan pages of your blog on social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, linkedin, tumblr, stumbleupon etc. Share your posts on fan pages to grow more audience.
(11). Description of each post:
While writing a post you must have a brief description of the post, you can find it on right side of blog post which will help to increase your seo as this description show up when someone share your post.
(12). RSS Feed:
Create an rss feed for your blog at http://www.feedburner.com add Email subscribtion widget to your blog so if people subscribe to your feed they will have updates about your new post in their inbox. It is also a good way for traffic.
(13). Join the blogging communities:
Joining the blogging communities also helps you to increase your blog traffic. The main source of problem is traffic. It becomes a headache to drive more traffic to blog. Joining blog communities helps you to increase traffic in this way that when you join a blog community and make or add your blog with a brief description and tags other bloggers visit your blog as it appears in recent news or latest article, if they like your blog they will visit again which increase your traffic. Some of the top blog communities are Getblogtraffic, blogengage,bizsugar, blokube etc you can find many other blog communities on Google. But I am using Getblogtraffic as it is easy to use and I prefer to use Getblogtraffic for beginners.
(14). Make searches:
Ask your friends on social networks to search the keywords for your blog in Google, Yahoo, Bing or any other search engine. More searches will make Google or any other search engine to index you blog in search results and also in auto-complete. Because your blog's keywords will be trending.
(15). Adding separator between blog title and post:
Adding a separator between blog title and post title helps search engines to search your blog or website for the searched keyword. That's the reason to define your post summery in post title so the search engine may find your blog. It is also a good thing for seo. A separator may be plus sign, minus sign, slash, brackets or |, now a days most of the bloggers and webmasters are using this(|) sign. Facebook uses |,/,-. You can use any of them to separate your blog title from your blog posts. It is not important that you must use this sign(|). Use any of them which you like. For adding the separator to your blogger click here.
(16). Optimize links for seo:
While adding an external link in your post you must check the Add 'rel=nofollow' attribute.And open in new tab option. Its not important to check the open in new tab option but checking Add 'rel=nofollow' is very important. It tells robots and crawlers not to follow any external link. If you are still confused then the below image will guide you:
(17). Making permalinks of posts:
Don't forget to make permalink of every post you write before publishing it. Making permalinks also help search engines to find the keywords in links. You can create a permalink easily. There is an option on right side of the post click it and click done, your blog will automatically generate permalink related to your post title. You can create a custom permalink also. If you have any confusion related to permalink below image will explain it more briefly:
(18). Tags in images:
Google images is a platform or site where people search millions of images every minute. Tags in images help Google to show images to users. When someone finds your image he clicks to open it he will be redirected to your blog so its also a good way to get more traffic. How to add tag in images?: when you upload an image click it you will see many options such as small,large,medium,x-large,add caption and properties. Click properties now write the tags in both tabs and click save.
(19). Fast loading:
Make your blog load fast because slow loading blogs and websites frustrates users and they close your blog which results in decreasing your blog traffic. Get some tips to increase your blog loading speed here.
(20). Create relation between posts:
While writing a post relate it to other posts similar to it. For example if you have written a post about seo tips and you have given some tips in it such as adding a related post widget will help you to increase you traffic then past the link of the related post widget or anything else which you want to relate. This will increase your page views how? the answer is a reader must read a related post to solve his problem. If you are still having problem in how to relate posts then simply add a related posts widget to your blog.
(21). Join blogger forums:
Join blogger forums and create posts there also highlight your blog name and link so the search engine show the joined blogger forums in results, it will increase your seo. Other feature of joining the blogger forums is that other bloggers who are on the same blog will visit your blog. You can find popular blogger forums on Google easily.
(22). Rename images:
Rename all images with the name of your blog before uploading them. Use keywords of your content while renaming images.
(23). Google trends
Use Google trends to get keywords(which are mostly searched) for your blog. It will show your blog in search results when these words will be searched again. For example in the below image I've searched for "earn money" and it has shown results, regions from where it is most searched, related keywords and a graph which shows in which years these keywords are trending.
Copy the word which you searched as well as related searches and add them to your blog as shown in step 6 for better seo.
(24). Backlinks:
Most of the blogs suggest to create quality backlinks to your blog for seo. Because they help your blog to spread throughout the Internet. Backlinks are the links which are created on other sites, so when your blog is searched they will also appear in search results. You can create quality backlinks by using Link collider.
(25). Recommendation on Google:
Ask your visitors and subscribers to recommend your posts on Google(g+1). Google recommendation makes your blog posts popular on Google and lets visitors to find your posts easily. For example if your post has more than 100 recommendations then it is guaranteed that your post would appear in search results if related keywords were used. It is very hard to get g+1 on post but you can exchange g+1 at Link collider. Link Collider is also known as seo booster, you can find many seo tools here such as link submitter, link bookmarking, copy material checker etc, now g+1 exchanging is also available, you can use it to get your post recommended and make your seo better. But if you have more subscribers then you don't need it.
(26). Post titles:
This is one of the most important thing for seo, because it helps search engines to search and index your post title. To make your post title optimized for seo you need a little customization in template of your blog. When you customize your blog post titles they become bigger as compared to before customization.
(27). Update your blog daily:
Updating blog daily doesn't mean to add or remove any widget or updating the same post again and again or customizing your blog template or updating look of your blog, it means to create new post in blog. As a beginner you must create at least one post daily, more than one will be more good because search engines specially Google love those blogs who are updated daily and index post of these blogs frequently, so if you want to make your blog popular you have to create 1-2 posts daily.
(28). Use Google webmaster tools:
You must have heard about Google webmaster tools, these are the tools which help you to improve your blog for seo. These tools show you errors in your blog, ways to improve these errors and also help you to index your posts in Google search results. It also provides you an advanced search box which works much better than the ordinary search box provided in blogger. These tools provide you detailed reports of your blog pages also. You can find more features of Google webmaster tools here.
(29). Bing webmaster tools:
Similar to Google webmaster tools, Bing has also provided tools for webmaster which are similar to Google webmaster tools. This tools are easy to use and helps you to index you posts in bing search results. You can find these tools here. You need to setup a Microsoft account first to use these tools. These tools will show errors in your blog, help you to make your blog seo friendly and so on. You can also submit your blog's sitemap to bing so that Bing can index your posts links easily.
(30). Underscores in pages urls:
Now a adays bloggers are creating many pages in their blog such as advertise with us, contact us, about page etc but they don't know one thing that in most of cases when you create a page in blog its url contains underscore(_) which is not good for seo. Search engines like Google doesn't like it. If underscores lies in posts links then its not bad for seo but in case of pages links underscores causes problem so avoid having underscores in page urls. Mostly underscores are found in contact page's url such as http://blablabla.blogspot.com/contact_64.html. How to get an underscore free url? well, to get a url having no underscores isn't that easy in blogger as it generates pages urls by itself and you can't change it but I have found a solution for that. The solution is very simple to get an underscore free url while creating a page first give it a title than click on publish open it and see there will be no underscores and after that edit it again and make your page. Sometimes this trick don't work in that case delete and re-create pages with different names several times, may be it work.
(31). Italic tags:
Tags are very important for seo so every post must have tags in bold style and in large size so that search engines could use them to show results. One more thing which must be focused while writing tags posts in is tags must be in italic form. You can see a demo below. You can write text in italic style by using tools above each post on right side of bold text button as shown in below image:
Thanks for visiting 101Helper. I hope this post is helping you to make your blog seo friendly. If this post is helpful to you do me a favor, recommend this post on Google or share on Facebook and twitter. Follow and subscribe for latest updates.
(32). Meta code optimization:
Meta code optimization is also important for seo, meta codes are of different types and helps robots and crawlers to crawl your blog posts. It is helpful to get more traffic in many ways such as meta code for description helps in adding description of a blog or site and helps search engines to encounter your content''s keywords in your meta description and show your blog in search results. Read a brief post about meta code optimization here.
(33). Dofollow links:
Above in this post I have told to add rel="nofollow" to every external link so that robots and crawlers don't follow that link but what about internal links? I have also told to relate old posts with new posts by internal linking which is very important for seo but some bloggers make a mistake while doing this, they add rel="nofollow to internal links also which tells robots and crawlers not to follow these links which results in a low seo. So it is very important to take care while adding rel="nofollow" to links, make sure to add rel="nofollow" to external links only. For a better seo you have to tell robots to follow your internal links and for that you have to use rel="dofollow" instead of rel="nofollow" as rel="dofollow" tells robots to follow the links and ultimately it increases chances of appearance of more links in search results.
(34). Blog title optimization:
Blog title plays a vital role in seo as it appears with with every post title in search results. Therefore it should be optimized to have a seo friendly blog title. Above in this post I have discussed about adding a separator between blog and post title as it help in seo but it is good for those blogs who have a short title. You might have noticed in search results that full titles aren't shown because every search engine has a limit, so if you have a long blog title and you are adding a separator between post title and blog title, it won't work because in search results only post titles are displayed while blog title is kept hidden in dots(...). So You have to make some changes in your blog title to make it shorter for better results. If you have a long blog title like me then don't add separator leave it to post titles only or make some changes like me, what's the change which I have made in my blog title? hover your browser tab to know or see below image. You can see in below image that there is only blog title before post title, where is the rest of title? well it is the change which I have made, so now my blog title is is fully optimized. You can also do it by reading my recent post about Blog title optimization for seo in blogger.
(1). Keywords in title of blog:
Describe your blog's content in your blog's title for example if you have a blog about blogger tips then give it a title "blogger tips, tricks, gadgets, widgets and tutorials" it will help searchengines to show your blog in results if someone search for any of keyword which you use in title.
(2). Tags in posts:
When you write a post take care of having tags in that post. Because search engine will target your tags to show result. Write tags is (h2) font-size. For example you are writing a post about a publishing network or what else now you have to write keywords about that publishing network in tags. So that the search engine find your post and show in results.
(3). Keywords in post title:
Try to describe your posts summery in your post title. Its helpful for seo as someone search onsearch engine for your written keywords in post title the search engine will show your blog in results. It is a good way to increase your blog views.
(4). Lengthy posts:
Your post must be of at least 250-300 words. Above 300 words will be more good.
(5). Unique posts:
To gain unique visitors you have to write unique posts. Your post should contain more text than images. And it must be helpful and meaningful. Your blog should have a category that is your blog should focus only at one thing for example, if you created a software blog than it should contain only software etc.
(6). User friendly:
As a wise man said," Simpler is better". Your blog should have a friendly user interface It means no pop-ups, no-on click ads, pop-up like boxes because these things frustrates most of the users.
(7). Meta tags and description:
Write a meta description of your blog. Write about your blog in below code between comas. And paste it below <head> in template. Also write the keywords of your blog's content in the second code and past it below <head> in your blog template.
<meta content='write description here' name='description'/>
<meta content='write keywords here' name='keywords'/> (8). Submit your blogs URL to search engines:
Increase you blog traffic by submitting link to search engines. Three big search engines "Google,Bing,Yahoo" will accept your link for free. Submit your blog link to other searchengines, you can find more search engines on google.
(9). Submit URL to directories:
You can find a huge list of directories on Google. Submit your link to directories for free, it is also helpful to gain unique traffic.
(10). Social sharing:
Create fan pages of your blog on social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, linkedin, tumblr, stumbleupon etc. Share your posts on fan pages to grow more audience.
(11). Description of each post:
While writing a post you must have a brief description of the post, you can find it on right side of blog post which will help to increase your seo as this description show up when someone share your post.
(12). RSS Feed:
Create an rss feed for your blog at http://www.feedburner.com add Email subscribtion widget to your blog so if people subscribe to your feed they will have updates about your new post in their inbox. It is also a good way for traffic.
(13). Join the blogging communities:
Joining the blogging communities also helps you to increase your blog traffic. The main source of problem is traffic. It becomes a headache to drive more traffic to blog. Joining blog communities helps you to increase traffic in this way that when you join a blog community and make or add your blog with a brief description and tags other bloggers visit your blog as it appears in recent news or latest article, if they like your blog they will visit again which increase your traffic. Some of the top blog communities are Getblogtraffic, blogengage,bizsugar, blokube etc you can find many other blog communities on Google. But I am using Getblogtraffic as it is easy to use and I prefer to use Getblogtraffic for beginners.
(14). Make searches:
Ask your friends on social networks to search the keywords for your blog in Google, Yahoo, Bing or any other search engine. More searches will make Google or any other search engine to index you blog in search results and also in auto-complete. Because your blog's keywords will be trending.
(15). Adding separator between blog title and post:
Adding a separator between blog title and post title helps search engines to search your blog or website for the searched keyword. That's the reason to define your post summery in post title so the search engine may find your blog. It is also a good thing for seo. A separator may be plus sign, minus sign, slash, brackets or |, now a days most of the bloggers and webmasters are using this(|) sign. Facebook uses |,/,-. You can use any of them to separate your blog title from your blog posts. It is not important that you must use this sign(|). Use any of them which you like. For adding the separator to your blogger click here.
(16). Optimize links for seo:
While adding an external link in your post you must check the Add 'rel=nofollow' attribute.And open in new tab option. Its not important to check the open in new tab option but checking Add 'rel=nofollow' is very important. It tells robots and crawlers not to follow any external link. If you are still confused then the below image will guide you:
(17). Making permalinks of posts:
Don't forget to make permalink of every post you write before publishing it. Making permalinks also help search engines to find the keywords in links. You can create a permalink easily. There is an option on right side of the post click it and click done, your blog will automatically generate permalink related to your post title. You can create a custom permalink also. If you have any confusion related to permalink below image will explain it more briefly:
(18). Tags in images:
Google images is a platform or site where people search millions of images every minute. Tags in images help Google to show images to users. When someone finds your image he clicks to open it he will be redirected to your blog so its also a good way to get more traffic. How to add tag in images?: when you upload an image click it you will see many options such as small,large,medium,x-large,add caption and properties. Click properties now write the tags in both tabs and click save.
(19). Fast loading:
Make your blog load fast because slow loading blogs and websites frustrates users and they close your blog which results in decreasing your blog traffic. Get some tips to increase your blog loading speed here.
(20). Create relation between posts:
While writing a post relate it to other posts similar to it. For example if you have written a post about seo tips and you have given some tips in it such as adding a related post widget will help you to increase you traffic then past the link of the related post widget or anything else which you want to relate. This will increase your page views how? the answer is a reader must read a related post to solve his problem. If you are still having problem in how to relate posts then simply add a related posts widget to your blog.
(21). Join blogger forums:
Join blogger forums and create posts there also highlight your blog name and link so the search engine show the joined blogger forums in results, it will increase your seo. Other feature of joining the blogger forums is that other bloggers who are on the same blog will visit your blog. You can find popular blogger forums on Google easily.
(22). Rename images:
Rename all images with the name of your blog before uploading them. Use keywords of your content while renaming images.
(23). Google trends
Use Google trends to get keywords(which are mostly searched) for your blog. It will show your blog in search results when these words will be searched again. For example in the below image I've searched for "earn money" and it has shown results, regions from where it is most searched, related keywords and a graph which shows in which years these keywords are trending.
Copy the word which you searched as well as related searches and add them to your blog as shown in step 6 for better seo.
(24). Backlinks:
Most of the blogs suggest to create quality backlinks to your blog for seo. Because they help your blog to spread throughout the Internet. Backlinks are the links which are created on other sites, so when your blog is searched they will also appear in search results. You can create quality backlinks by using Link collider.
(25). Recommendation on Google:
Ask your visitors and subscribers to recommend your posts on Google(g+1). Google recommendation makes your blog posts popular on Google and lets visitors to find your posts easily. For example if your post has more than 100 recommendations then it is guaranteed that your post would appear in search results if related keywords were used. It is very hard to get g+1 on post but you can exchange g+1 at Link collider. Link Collider is also known as seo booster, you can find many seo tools here such as link submitter, link bookmarking, copy material checker etc, now g+1 exchanging is also available, you can use it to get your post recommended and make your seo better. But if you have more subscribers then you don't need it.
(26). Post titles:
This is one of the most important thing for seo, because it helps search engines to search and index your post title. To make your post title optimized for seo you need a little customization in template of your blog. When you customize your blog post titles they become bigger as compared to before customization.
(27). Update your blog daily:
Updating blog daily doesn't mean to add or remove any widget or updating the same post again and again or customizing your blog template or updating look of your blog, it means to create new post in blog. As a beginner you must create at least one post daily, more than one will be more good because search engines specially Google love those blogs who are updated daily and index post of these blogs frequently, so if you want to make your blog popular you have to create 1-2 posts daily.
(28). Use Google webmaster tools:
You must have heard about Google webmaster tools, these are the tools which help you to improve your blog for seo. These tools show you errors in your blog, ways to improve these errors and also help you to index your posts in Google search results. It also provides you an advanced search box which works much better than the ordinary search box provided in blogger. These tools provide you detailed reports of your blog pages also. You can find more features of Google webmaster tools here.
(29). Bing webmaster tools:
Similar to Google webmaster tools, Bing has also provided tools for webmaster which are similar to Google webmaster tools. This tools are easy to use and helps you to index you posts in bing search results. You can find these tools here. You need to setup a Microsoft account first to use these tools. These tools will show errors in your blog, help you to make your blog seo friendly and so on. You can also submit your blog's sitemap to bing so that Bing can index your posts links easily.
(30). Underscores in pages urls:
Now a adays bloggers are creating many pages in their blog such as advertise with us, contact us, about page etc but they don't know one thing that in most of cases when you create a page in blog its url contains underscore(_) which is not good for seo. Search engines like Google doesn't like it. If underscores lies in posts links then its not bad for seo but in case of pages links underscores causes problem so avoid having underscores in page urls. Mostly underscores are found in contact page's url such as http://blablabla.blogspot.com/contact_64.html. How to get an underscore free url? well, to get a url having no underscores isn't that easy in blogger as it generates pages urls by itself and you can't change it but I have found a solution for that. The solution is very simple to get an underscore free url while creating a page first give it a title than click on publish open it and see there will be no underscores and after that edit it again and make your page. Sometimes this trick don't work in that case delete and re-create pages with different names several times, may be it work.
(31). Italic tags:
Tags are very important for seo so every post must have tags in bold style and in large size so that search engines could use them to show results. One more thing which must be focused while writing tags posts in is tags must be in italic form. You can see a demo below. You can write text in italic style by using tools above each post on right side of bold text button as shown in below image:
Thanks for visiting 101Helper. I hope this post is helping you to make your blog seo friendly. If this post is helpful to you do me a favor, recommend this post on Google or share on Facebook and twitter. Follow and subscribe for latest updates.
(32). Meta code optimization:
Meta code optimization is also important for seo, meta codes are of different types and helps robots and crawlers to crawl your blog posts. It is helpful to get more traffic in many ways such as meta code for description helps in adding description of a blog or site and helps search engines to encounter your content''s keywords in your meta description and show your blog in search results. Read a brief post about meta code optimization here.
(33). Dofollow links:
Above in this post I have told to add rel="nofollow" to every external link so that robots and crawlers don't follow that link but what about internal links? I have also told to relate old posts with new posts by internal linking which is very important for seo but some bloggers make a mistake while doing this, they add rel="nofollow to internal links also which tells robots and crawlers not to follow these links which results in a low seo. So it is very important to take care while adding rel="nofollow" to links, make sure to add rel="nofollow" to external links only. For a better seo you have to tell robots to follow your internal links and for that you have to use rel="dofollow" instead of rel="nofollow" as rel="dofollow" tells robots to follow the links and ultimately it increases chances of appearance of more links in search results.
(34). Blog title optimization:
Blog title plays a vital role in seo as it appears with with every post title in search results. Therefore it should be optimized to have a seo friendly blog title. Above in this post I have discussed about adding a separator between blog and post title as it help in seo but it is good for those blogs who have a short title. You might have noticed in search results that full titles aren't shown because every search engine has a limit, so if you have a long blog title and you are adding a separator between post title and blog title, it won't work because in search results only post titles are displayed while blog title is kept hidden in dots(...). So You have to make some changes in your blog title to make it shorter for better results. If you have a long blog title like me then don't add separator leave it to post titles only or make some changes like me, what's the change which I have made in my blog title? hover your browser tab to know or see below image. You can see in below image that there is only blog title before post title, where is the rest of title? well it is the change which I have made, so now my blog title is is fully optimized. You can also do it by reading my recent post about Blog title optimization for seo in blogger.
