SEO Tips & Information

In earlier posts on do follow blog commenting, I’ve given some simple tips on how to find dofollow blogs. I’ve recently come across another really neat way of finding relevant dofollow blogs. To get the most benefit from a blog comment, there are three key things to find:

1. The blog comment will be on a page with a decent PageRank.
2. The link to your website will have use your keywords as the link anchor text.
3. The blog is dofollow, i.e. the link won’t have a rel=”nofollow” attribute.

This link-building tip can help you with all three of these factors. The tip involves finding blogs that have the KeywordLuv Wordpress plugin installed. The owners of these blogs want people to comment and in return they give back a dofollow link with keywords of your choice. It’s a fantastic plugin for both bloggers and blog commenters.

To find blogs with the KeywordLuv plugin installed, search for the following on Google:

“YourName@YourKeywords in the Name field”

Keep the quotes around the search term and DON’T replace YourName or YourKeywords - type the search phrase exactly as it appear above. All blogs that have Keyword Luv installed, have this text as an instruction to commenters on how to get their keywords as anchor text. This tip helps with point 3 above and, if we assume that on average higher PR blogs will appear higher in the SERPS, it might be of some help with point 1 above too.

Helping out with point 2 is simple too - add your keywords to the search phrase. So if your keywords are SEO tips, search for this:

seo tips “YourName@YourKeywords in the Name field”

Google will then return results containing all of the phrases. Spend a few minutes seaching and you’ll find loads of blogs to comment on. Remember to make a good, relevant comment that adds to the blog post/ discussion. Owner’s of blogs with KeywordLuv are good enough to provide high-quality links to their commenters so don’t abus the blogs by spamming or the owner will go no follow wiping out most of the worth of any links.

For more link-building tips, read: Using Press Releases to build links and Link-building using DoFollow Blogs

Blogspot SEO, General SEO, Link-building

One important factor to bear in mind when blogging is to interlink your posts. The posts on your blog’s homepage probably have the best chance of doing well in SERPs since it’s likely your homepage has the highest rank of any pages on your site. By linking from newer posts back to older posts, you can help spread a little link juice back to the posts that have slipped off the homepage.

There’s at least 3 ways or styles of linking between blog posts:-

1. Turn keywords in the body of the post into hyperlinks to older posts on the right topic.
2. Add a footer to the post. Something like “To read more, go to …”.
3. Use a plug-in such as the Similar Posts plug-in.

Each of the 3 ways has advantages and disadvantages.

Number 1 probably gives the best or most weighty link since the (hopefully) nicely worded anchor text will be surrounded by other text on the same topic.

Number 2 allows you to always make sure that the posts are truly appropriate for linking.

Number 3 lets you sit back and let the plugin do all the work for you. This can be great if you install the plugin on an old blog with many existing posts. A disadvantage of this plugin is that the posts that are linked aren’t always those you would have linked up manually - sometimes the links are a bit random.

For further SEO Tips on blogging, see:

• Improving Page Titles on BlogSpot blogs
• Improving Page Title on Wordpress blogs

Blogspot SEO, Wordpress SEO Tips

A short while ago I write a post showing how to improve page titles in Wordpress blogs using the All-In-One SEO pack. Having good, keyword-rich, page titles is one of the top SEO factors. So what happens if you have a Blogger/ Blogspot blog? You can’t use the All-In-One SEO pack on blogspot so how do you improve the page title? By default, a blogspot page title begins with the title of the blog. For example, if you have a blog with the title:

SEO Tips & News

and write a post called:

Competitive Keywords

The page title for the post will probably be:

SEO Tips & News: Competitive Keywords

This somewhat dilutes your page title since the keywords you’d really like to hit people with a pushed off to the right. Their SEO impact is reduced for the same reason since good page titles are a top positive seo factor. Also, if your blog’s title is quite long, your keywords may not get displayed since most browsers have a 90 character limit for titles. One advantage of having a blogspot blog over WordPress is that the blog is generally easier to manage - though this is mainly because there is less flexibility and fewer options to work with. To improve the page titles though, there is no point-and-click option. you have to go under the hood and edit the HTML for your template directly.

Here’s what you need to do:

• Go to your blog and click the Customize hyperlink at the top of the screen.
• Click on the Layout tab on the top left.
• Click on the Edit HTML link just underneath the Layout tab.
• Find the following text (near the top):

<title><data:blog.pagetitle/></title>

• Replace the text with the following:

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;index&quot;'>
<title><data:blog.title/></title>
<b:else/>
<title><data:blog.pageName/>
</title>
</b:if>

• Then click the Save Template button to save the template.

Visit your blog and posts. The page titles of the blog posts should now no longer include the blog title.

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