My recent theme change is very much guided by SEO. What is this? SEO, or Search Engine Optimization, is basically all about ensuring search engines can properly crawl your blog or website and provide relevant content in search results, and boosting visits. But a blog theme, as the skin of a blog and the providence of coding information, can only do that much for SEO. What we need is pointers on how to ensure search engines pick up our keywords. CqWen, an SEO blog, listed some seemingly obvious but often ignored points.
1. Using keywords in your URL
That means, if your post is about how to grow a cactus flower, it makes sense to have an URL that is akin to “http://domain/growing-cactus-flower” rather than “http://domain/post5671″. This is one thing that many bloggers ignore because URLs and Permalinks are auto-generated by the blogging software. Unless someone points it out, people miss it.Very true.
2. Over usage of keywords
Don’t use keywords too often or you may get registered as spam by search engines. Scary, isn’t it?
There are more tips on the site, and frankly those are good tips for people who want to boost blog traffic. While the blog itself is also trying to boost its own popularity, let’s remember that the internet has its own ecological system – blogs fuel each other in advertising building up a network.
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