SEO for Blogs: Content, Content, Content

SEO is commonly done for websites but what if a client approaches you to optimise their blogs? Is there a difference? Will your knowledge for optimising websites come in handy? SEO for blogs uses the same concepts as ordinary SEO. This means that you should apply all that you know about SEO for the client. […]

Blog SEO: Keyword Tools (Google Keyword Tool)

On my last post I discussed the importance of choosing the keywords with which you want to optimise your blog for. It IS however, pretty hard to choose which keywords you should use without any help. Thankfully there’s plenty of keyword tools available on the internet. When using keyword tools though remember that you should […]

WordPress Plug-ins

If you blog using WordPress and can’t do something that you want done like adding Sphere-related content at the end of your blog posts you might be surprised to find out that there are already plug-ins available that make it happen. To find good WordPress plug-ins all you need to do is search for “wordpress […]

Blog Usability: Feeds

I have written about the importance of RSS and/or Atom feeds to blogs. By providing feeds you will not really be increasing the on-site usability of your blog but its overall usability. Regular blog visitors often prefer checking the contents of their favorite blogs using feed aggregators (i.e. Google Reader). The reason for this is […]

Exhanging Links with Similarly Themed Blogs

Last time I mentioned how automated blogrolls are not useful for SEO purposes. Blogrolls using plain HTML is still useful but those that use external javascripts do neither you nor the one you link to much good (except that it can of course drive traffic to the site). If you want to get more inbound […]

Blogrolls and SEO

When it comes to updating the blogroll, whether to add new blogs or delete old ones, many bloggers actually never come around to doing it often enough. The reason for this is simple, if you have lots of blogs you like managing your linklist can be a headache. It’s one thing to subscribe through an […]