Blog Seo – What’s it all about? We are going to suppose that your motive for blogging is to get your blog read  by as many people as possible and the first way to do that is to have a blog that people will want to read, and  then, to have a blog that people can find.

• How to Have a Blog That People Want to Read

The key to this is to concentrate on a specific subject, so that your blog is focused, and to be passionate about your subject.  It makes enormous sense to write about something you are interested in yourself.  You can be passionate about that, and you will likely know quite a lot about it already.  It will be easy to be knowledgeable and interesting on that subject.

• How to Have a Blog That People Can Find – Keywords

Plan your blog posts, so that each post is about a particular angle of the subject, and each post will then go to building up a resource of information about the whole thing. The subject title itself is called the keyword.  So if your blog is all about old furniture, then your primary keyword will be “antique furniture”.  Make this the title of your blog, and use the keyword whenever possible, including in the URL, the post titles and page links, and any advertising you do.

• Long Tailed Keywords

Build up the blog by writing posts about particular aspects of your keyword, such as collecting, sourcing, selling, restoring, maintaining, whatever. These secondary subject headings are called “long tailed keywords” (LTKs).  When your main subject is established, then start writing about as many relevant long tailed keywords as you can. This will reinforce the authority of your site. The more authoritative your site appears, the more search engine traffic will arrive.

• BLOG SEO

Having a site that is clearly organised by subject matter, and is tightly focused on the prime keyword, is an ESSENTIAL part of Blog SEO.  Good navigation is essential too, so provide a subject index, and organise it carefully. It is a good plan to internally link your posts to each other, and to the home page and keyword.  Links add [search engine] authority to keywords.

• Site Authority

It is also good strategy to go on and write posts that deal with another aspect of the same thing. For instance, you might write posts about Chippendale chairs, early American chairs, and unrestored chairs, this is likely to give you multiple results in the SERPs [search engine result pages] whenever a surfer looks for antique chairs.  You will have gained site authority, and extra chances of the reader clicking onto your site, because you will have more than one page showing up in the search. This is GOOD!  If you can get other “expert” sites to link to your site, that will help site authority too. Site authority begins with an organised body of factual and relevant information on a given subject.

• Post Layout

Set out your posts using the basic rules of good writing, and use plenty of white space, small paragraphs, clear headings, and at least one graphic – more detail here!  It is very important that your posts are easy to scan and read, because surfers tend to skim each page looking for points of interest, and will only start actually reading if their interest is caught. Big slabs of text are off-putting, and hard to read, especially if scrolling is required!

• Basic Blog SEO

To have a blog that people can find, you need to pay attention to fundamental Blog SEO, which consists in having an informative, interesting, and factual site that is properly laid out, is well indexed; and has lots of relevant internal and external page links.  There are thousands of articles written about “black hat” [questionable] ways to boost your Blog, but the above list will get you a reliable set of readers who are likely to bookmark your site as a good place to return for more information.  More importantly you will soon achieve “Google Trust Rank”, and your site will never be penalised by any of the constant  changes in search engine criteria. So there you go – you now know exactly How to Blog, and how to apply Blog SEO

Inserting a Link to the Home Page from every post is a valid part of onsite SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) – it is an essential part of Keyword Coherence, the interlinking of your site Keyword with all the  lesser LTK’s (Long tailed keywords) that are the basis of each post.  You do it to give power (link juice) to your site keyword, thus boosting its position in the rankings.  It makes it very plain to the search spiders that this is what your site is all about!

• Put It In The Footer?

It can be hard to remember to manually insert a home page link, and it is not always easy to find a ‘natural’ looking place to insert this into your post.  So, what to do? Costa  from BloGigs suggests; “The easy, quick and surest way to achieving this is to leave a homepage link in your blog’s footer using the anchor text you want.“  Good theory, but I don’t like this idea very much – mainly because footer links don’t carry much weight.

• My Solution.

Here is another solution.  Put a line of code on the single.php template, and, as Costa suggested,  insert a homepage link  using the appropriate anchor text; but put it in the body of the post, just before the “Comments”.  Doing this embeds the link in the body of the post, immediately after the end of your writing, but before all the “fluff” that forms the bulk of most comments. The search spiders will apportion quite a lot of weight to the link in this position.

• How Do I do That?

Goto Dashboard/Appearance/Editor and open “single.php”. Search for this code :

</small>

</p>

and paste in this code after it:

<p style=”text-align:center;”><a  href=”http://MySite.com/category/home-page-post/” title=”Secondary Keywords….”>Anchor Text  includes Main Keyword………</a></p>

This code will insert your home page link after the credits, and directly before the comments.  Of course you will need to edit the code to display your own web-site URL and keywords.

• Use POST.PHP (Works on Default Theme)
  

Use POST.PHP instead of doing this with PAGE.PHP and the links will appear on all the indexed single pages, but NOT on the home page where you are showing up to (say) 10 posts on the same page.

• For 2010 Theme Do This:

Open single.php, search for “<div class=”entry-utility”>“, and paste in the above code directly ABOVE it.. (Be sure that the quote marks are vertical, not slanted)

• Whoopee….  300 Internal Links!

300 Internal Links (Pic @ evworld.com)

So there you are, the easy way to link to the home page from EVERY post.  Suppose you have 300 posts indexed, now suddenly you will have 300 internal links pointing to your Home Page, and every one with the correct site keyword as the anchor text.

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How to get Multiple Listings in Google

I have posted before on this subject, under the heading, How to Get Listed Twice in the Top Ten SERPs.  Google has since changed its search algorithm, and the methods described in that post need to be updated.  Under the old rules we would get a double (indented) listing, with a plus sign to expand that showed four more pages – thus you got the top 6 entries in the SERP.

• Top Nine Positions

The existing search result algorithm appears to make it even easier to get multiple listings.  A search  today for “Get Listed Twice in the Top Ten SERPs” shows my sites in the top 4 slots, and a plus sign, which when clicked expands to give me the top nine positions. That pushes all but one competitor off the front page – Whoopeeee!  A more competitive search phrase; “How to Write the Perfect Post”; comes in at number 4 position, but still has the next 4 slots, plus the plus sign with 5 more, making a total of 9 SERPs +again.

• The Formula

To get these multiple listings in Google, you need to do this. Write at least two posts that are optimised for the same keyword, and be sure that they are linked internally.  The content needs to be different, but the subject and the keywords the same. Use a strategy of “Keyword Coherence” to set out your keywords – briefly, use the site keyword in every post, and write supporting posts using all the longtailed keywords, and be sure that they are all interlinked internally.

• Include Keywords, LTKs, Categories, Titles and Links

Use a specific long tailed keyword for each post, but try to include related LTK’s as well.  In this way you will get Google listing not just for the one page, but several pages because they include the LTKs and links to them too.  Be sure to include the LTKs as tags, as well as in the titles and categories. This is my proven method of how to get mutiple listings in Google

• Keywords Defined

The logic with keywords is that Google will define your site by detecting keywords, then show it in the SERPs to other searchers using those keywords as references.  So if your post is all about SEO for blogs, then the prime keyword is SEO, and the first longtailed keyword is BLOG SEO. This is the basis of your keyword structure.  SEO is the head, BLOG SEO is the back-bone, and all the other related terms like,  KEYWORD, SEARCH, GOOGLE, and SURFER are “dem Bones that walk all around” as your site [keyword] skeleton. Keyword Coherence, therefore, is the art of making a strong skeleton [framework] of keywords; keywords that all point to each other and build each other up.

• Keyword Connections

Each article [post] features a particular keyword, and than talks about the long-tailed keywords that belong to it. The prime post keyword is related to the preceeding post prime keyword and strengthens it. So if your first post was about SEO, then the next post might be about GOOGLE, and the one after that about SURFERS – all related subjects – all building keyword strength. And all to do with SEO, Site Design, and Keyword Coherence.

• Keyword Linking

Keyword Coherence is further strengthened by linking.  To Maxinize your Site post about SEO, you would link the keyword GOOGLE to the next post (about Google), and in that post you would link your SEO keyword back to the previous post about SEO. This web of links that you create, each keyword linked back to it’s parent, and linked forward to it’s child [long-tail], is the internal component of “Keyword Juice” – it is the “internal linking”.  The other element is “external linking”, where you link to other related websites; and they in turn link back to you. This is the process known as “Back-Linking“‘

The Perfect Post

My golden rules for writing the Perfect Post are:

1. Keep it as short as possible
2. Use white space and bullet points
3. Always include a graphic!

And I should mention the platinum rules too – Start and end with the keyword/keyphrase; and don’t forget the anchor text links!

• KISS! (Keep it Simple Sir)

You want to strike the happy balance between covering all the bases and saying too much.  The net has conditioned us to speed read, and scan pages to quickly pick out the ‘meaty bits’. If your readers can’t do this they will mostly just click away and go and find a site that  offers these features.

• Only NERDS and NOOBS use Dark Backgrounds

Bullet Points and white space are really important for scanning the page to quickly get to the info we are looking for.  Small chunks of text, with easily understood headings are essential for fast surfing.  If you capture the readers interest in those first 12 seconds, they will surely read on and get to the rest of your site; but NOT if they get bored with big slabs of type.  Always use easily read type, like Arial, and NEVER use dark backgrounds.

• Get Traffic From Pic’s

The whole Web is a graphic experience, and for this reason I always use a graphic.  We home in on the pictures when we are scanning, so try to make the picture as relevant as you can.  Google sends me lots of traffic from my pics too! Make sure that the header immediately above the pic, the jpg name, the pic title and the ALT text ALL USE THE SAME KEYWORDS, to get Google listings for it.

• Keywords and Links and Tags

Build in your keywords like this.  If your post is about “the Perfect Post”, then use that phrase in the title, again in BOLD or EM in the first sentence, and again in the last paragraph.  Be sure to link to a keyword on one of your  internal SEO pages, one that will reinforce the message, and to your site theme keywords too. I see lots of my traffic searches coming from tags, sometimes more than come from the regular listings, so DO NOT forget to use tags.  I include six to ten if I can.

• Proof of this “Perfect Post”

as the screenshot shows – the keyphrase “write the Perfect Post” shows up as number 1 out of 74,000,000 SERPs only an hour after being posted! Use these simple rules and you too will soon be writing the Perfect Post!

In it’s simplest form internet marketing is to do with how to monetise your site.  You may add some affiliate Google Adsense (pay per click) links, set up Google Adsense ads, or open up a simple e-Commerce site selling t-shirts or e-Books.  Internet marketing, however, is to do with the whole deal and concerns every aspect of your site whether it be just a long-tail-keyword niche site, or a full on global sales empire.

• The Three Essential Tools

This site deals with SEO (search engine optimisation); web-site design; and with keyword coherence (a logical keyword strategy).  We delve into things like Google Adsense, Blogger and WordPress too, but primarily it is those three tools that are discussed here on BizBlog.

• SEO, Site Design, and Keyword Coherence

SEO, web-site design, and keyword coherence are the keys to unlocking the MMO (make money online) potential of your site. It is really, really important to get those three basic site-building bricks cemented firmly in place.  If you want to build a proper business, with an effective growth strategy, and the ability to keep growing, then make this your top priority.

• Is Content Really King?

There are some who trumpet the value of a particular aspect of site building, like “content is king”, or “backlinks are everything”, and yes, they are very important, but we believe that they are all secondary to the above 3 points. You could actually build a high traffic site with nonsense content if you get the other things right, and it could still work, but pertinent content would really launch it.

Everybody has heard of the Google Adwords Keyword Tool – right? But have you used the ‘Website Content’ feature? Click on the Website Content choice inside the ‘How would you like to generate ideas’ dialogue box and an address panel will open to enter the URL of your website. Enter your URL in the space provided.

• Keyword Generator

If you have a number of posts or pages that are related to your keyword then put a tick in the check box to include these extra pages. Now click the ‘Get Keyword Ideas’ command button. When the process ends, click/select the Global Monthly Search Volume heading. This will sort the results with the highest numbers at the top of the column.

• Keyword Discovery

You will find that Google has sorted out the prime keywords within your site and has suggested groups of appropriate keywords that are relevant to those prime keywords. This keyword software is even more efficient than the Google Wonder Wheel Tool for keyword discovery. It will find in seconds a large range of highly important keywords. You can be assured that the words suggested are highly relevant.

• How to use this Keyword Research Tool Result

Choose a group, select the highest ranked keywords in that group and write a  post using  those same top keywords.  This post will then build the power of the prime keyword because you will have used all the most powerful relevant long tailed keywords (LTKs).  For this post, I used the keyword group “Keyword”, together with the 5 highest ranked LTKs:

• Table of Global Monthly Searches

There’s a new tool you can use to home in on Long Tailed Keywords (LTK’s) it is called the Google Wonder Wheel. To find it, do a normal search, then click the Web+Show Options link to expand the option menu. Go down to the Standard view Menu, and click Wonder Wheel.

• Related Search Terms

The wonder wheel layout is like a kind of Mind Map of the “Related Search” terms for your primary search. Each spoke of the wheel gives a high ranked search term that is directly related.  We SEO types call these related terms Long Tailed Keywords (LTK’s).

• Google Adwords Keyword Tool

Click each of these spokes, and run any likely looking terms thru the Google Adwords Keyword Tool (with the language and country set  correctly). Note any high scoring searches. My basic SEO keyword has 6,100 searches globally pcm, but the  LTK’s I found had a combined value of 80,000 searches.  So, in a matter of minutes I had found 8 very promising LTK’s, all closely related to the prime KW, and all very prone to bring lots of search traffic.

• How to Find Long Tailed Keywords:

Using the Google Wonder Wheel is a fast and effective way to find LTK’s, if you combine it with the Adwords Keyword Tool. You really do kill several birds with one stone doing this. By combining these “related Search Terms” in your post you are making the work more authorative, you are providing coherent keyword use, and building traffic as well! This works even more effectively if you post separately using the LTK’s and cross link the posts.

Build More WordPress Traffic

If ‘getting traffic’ is the name of the game for real Word Press bloggers, then applying the Word Press No-Index plugin to tags, categories and archives is to ‘score an own goal’. The theory behind this is to prevent any ‘duplicate content penalty’. Right, but is that really a good idea?  Seems paranoiac to me to wilfully rob your self of useful links

• Google Trust Rank

This site, and my other blogs, enjoy the accolade of Google Trust Rank. Usually, when you look at my listings in the Top Ten SERP’s for my keywords, you will see see another listing indented (Double Indexing) under the first result and also you will note a little box with a plus sign (+) in it. Click this and you may find 5 more SERPS. For those terms it regards my sites as ‘Authority Sites’. I see that Google is displaying here URLs that are Tags, Categories, Archives, and so on. This is not duplicate content, but different URLS, and varying anchor text, but the result is SEVEN SERPs in a row.  How good is that? For any surfer clicking the box, I have the top seven SERPs on a keyword, I have beaten out the opposition and I AM STOKED!

• Don’t Use No-Index on Tags, Categories, Etc

To exclude Tags for instance  using a no-index plugin is oxymoronic: what the heck are tags for, if not to offer a keyword focused extra source of listing and to be displayed in the SERPs? My top performing page this week is commentluv-guarantees-premium-keyword-backlinks and I can see in my CPanel stats that search spiders have used 6 different URL paths to that same page, all contributing traffic.  Activating the No-Index Plugin would therefore be shooting myself in both feet!  That is NOT the way to Build More WordPress Traffic!

Simple SEO for WordPress

There a few really simple things you can do to make your blog ‘bounce’ up the rankings to be that magic Number 1 in the Google SERPs.

• Check your dashboard settings and be sure that in:

1. Settings/Privacy you have “I would like my blog to be visible to everyone” checked.
2. Settings/Writing you have “Atom Publishing Protocol” and “XML-RPC” enabled; and that there is at least one reference like  “http://rpc.pingomatic.com/” showing in the “UpDate Services” window.
3. Settings/Permalinks you need to have “Custom Structure” set as “/%category%/%postname%/”

• Keywords and Key-Phrases

Be sure that your site keyword appears in the Blog Title, in the Blog description, and hopefully also in the URL.  Use it too as your prime category name, and use your next most important keywords as the other category names.

If your site is about various wifi widgets then the ideal URL for your post about antennas should then look like this:

http://widgetfactory.com/wifi-widgets/G3-wifi-widget-antennas/

Your vital keywords have appeared in the URL(widget), in the category (wifiwidgets) and in the postname (G3 wifi widget antennas).  These are worth great karma, and of course even more link ‘juice’ is added when they are used as the ‘anchor text’ in links back to your site.

• Internal Linking

Write your first post with your prime keyword as the subject, and link back to it from your subsequent posts. You can also link from it to “longtailed (subsidiary) keywords” that appear in later posts.  This ‘internal’ link structure (I call this keyword coherence ‘site synergy’) is important because it adds to the ‘authority’ of your keyword and will net you extra SERPs for each search term as your site grows.

• Back-Links or External Linking

Back-Links or External Linking is the single most important factor in your site SERP performance.  The easy way is to find and utilize the value of CommentLuv sites to raise quality keyword anchored links, or you can use one of the tools that locate high PR do-follow blogs. Whatever you do, try for anchored links from ‘authority’ sites – preferably those with good PR.

• Post Structure

Use your keyword (or key phrase) in your Post Title, again (in BOLD) in your opening paragraph; and in the closing par. You can use it once more in a short post, but probably not more than once a paragraph.  If there is an “English” spelling, or alternative spelling (e.g. check-cheque) use that too, as well as any synonyms you know of .  Keep the post on topic for added authority, and you can also link to recognized authority sites. Weave in any associated long-tailed keywords with appropriate links to posts that discuss them.

• Double Indexing and Tags
  

A second post on the same topic with the same keyword in it will get you a “Double Listing” in Google. This looks impressive to surfers, and also pushes one of your competitors off the top 10 page. Don’t forget to add a tag for your keyword in the post, as well as tags for the other important long-tailed (LTK’s) keywords.  Google indexes WP tags as well as post titles and links, so that is an extra result for each keyword. Get this simple SEO for Word Press right and you will  be able to rocket your site to No 1 in Google