Many people think that SEO is extremely hard. Hate blow it, but it is not that hard. This post is about simple blog SEO tips. All the stuff here does not require you to contact other webmasters or to buy stuff.  I’d say that implementing the things suggested here takes at most 10mins. Yet, the results are guaranteed. You need to use meta tags,  use internal linking, and check for broken links. Continue reading to find out more.

Meta Tags

Meta tags are tags that are shown in the HTML code of your web pages. The most profound are keywords and description meta tags.

There are two good reasons, why meta tags are important. First, when you have the meta tags on your pages, some of the search engines will rank your pages based on them. Second, some of the meta tags, like description, is shown on the search result under the actual link. If the description looks good, then people will more likely click the search result.

Using a SEO plugin

As default, WP is not that search engine friendly. WP does not automatically create the needed meta tags. I suggest to you all, that you add a plugin called ALL in on SEO pack. It lets you configure basically all you need. As a default, it uses the tags that you have selected as your keywords and the first lines of text are shown as the description tag. It also let’s you write these tags for every post if you want to.

Internal Linking

Having internal links in your posts is a great way to expose your older postings to your new readers. It is also a way to provide  anchor texts for the links that are pointing to the page. Even the internal anchor texts are counted by search engines and they will have a profound effect in SERPs (Search Engine Result Pages). Usage is simple. When you are writing a post, check for related postings and link to them directly on the new post.

Displaying Similar Posts

Another way to  increase internal linking, is to add a plugin that shows the similar posts. If you are using WP, all you need to do is to install a plugin called Similarity. Just search it in plugins and install. You will be all set.

Broken Links Check

Search engines hate you having broken links. Some pages will loose value for having broken links, so you need to get rid of them. You can check your links manually, but it takes a lot of time. Fortunately there is a WP plugin that helps you a lot and does automatically check for broken links. I use the plugin called broken links checker. It works wonders.

Conclusion

Implementation of these tips, takes only a little while. Important points to remember are,

• Meta tags
• Internal links
• Check for broken links

What type of plugins do you use for SEO? What are your SEO tips for blogs?

This is a question that has puzzled many people in forums and other places. Even people in the happy land of Twitter have been wondering about it. How much you should post varies by many factors. It all depends.

Optimizing for Readers

If you want a successful blog, you should focus on optimizing your post interval to fit your readers. In my opinion keeping a constant writing interval will bring in the best amount of readers. When you keep a constant update interval, then people will come to your site regularly to check back on how you are doing.

There may be some days that you have the drive to write several posts. If you write for on average a post a day normally, then I would cache part of the posts and published them at a later date. Never publish 5 posts one day and then 0 posts on the next five days. As long as your update interval is regular, you will get readers to come back. As an aim I would keep to write a post every single day. It is enough to show people that you are regular blogger that is worth following.

The type of your blog matters . If you have a tech blog, you must always keep writing about the new gadgets etc. There probably isn’t an upper limit for writing posts in a forum like that. For a personal blog, I would never write a lot more that one post a day, because frankly I do not believe that people will be that interested. Never bore your readers by writing posts that are nonsense. Only write when you feel like it and never just in order to post something.

Optimizing for Search Engines

Search engines love fresh content and often updated web sites. SEs spider sites with a certain interval. My sites get spidered about once every day. To always keep fresh content handy for SEs, I try to update daily. On the other hand, if you have a large site that gets spidered more often, you probably should update even more to maximise the SEO effect.

SEO is not something that you should focus on. Keep the focus on writing good content, that people will want to read constantly

Conclusion

If your posts have content and the updates are regular, there is no maximum amount of posts that you can write in a day. Key points:

• Post regularly
• Do not post nonsense and write just for the sake of writing
• Try to write at least on post per day to keep people interested