Useful SEO Tips and Tricks for Blogspot and WordPress

As an online warrior managing a series of portal and personal website, there is always a question brought up by the public, on how to boost our website traffic in the shortest time? To encounter this question, first of all, you need to know what SEO mean.

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Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is the process of improving the visibility of a website in a search engines like google and yahoo via “natural” or un-paid search results in search engines. SEO target different kinds of search including ‘image’, ‘local’ and ‘video’. With the help of SEO, your articles or images will be able to appear in the front list matched with your target keywords. Likewise, nowadays most of the BlogSpot and WordPress premium template have also come with Search Engine Optimization (SEO) plugin function.

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Today, I am going to unveil the source code and hidden part of Search Engine Optimization planted in BlogSpot and WordPress premium template. And also some useful SEO tips and tricks to increase your website traffics. This simple guide is suitable for both beginners and advanced users.

Format Blogger Post Title
when we talk about a BlogSpot SEO, post title plays a major role. Blogger post title are usually followed by home page title. Here is how to fix this. Go to Blogger edit HTML, find out code section

Create Custom Meta Tags and Description
Create a custom Meta tags allow the search engines to identify the title and description and other details of a URL. The Meta tags and description does not only help to target the right keywords, thus it comfort people actually choose your page when browsing the search results.

Maintain and Focus the correct keyword Tags
Keyword tag is important in individual post. By adding specific tags, it helps both search engine and visitors find relevant information on your webpage. Therefore, you need to maintain and focus the correct keywords used in every post. Hence, it is recommended to put the most important keywords in the first-100 keywords zone.

Customized Your Permalinks
The effective of customize your post permalinks is to construct your post into 100% recognizable and will contain keywords for your post that will make them easier to be found in search engine.

Add a Related Posts Widget
Labels also affect related posts widgets in Blogger. And if there are so many posts tagged with similar labels, it would affect the arrangement of articles in related posts.

Images SEO
Apart from SEO the title, description and title in a webpage, it is true that image searches can drive you lot of traffic to your website. Therefore, SEO images can help you in better search engine ranking.

XML Sitemaps
XML Sitemaps are key when it comes to SEO. An XML Sitemap is simply just a list of pages on your website. These help search engines skim through your Word Press website better and help to discover your posts.

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Customized Comment Section
Customize your comment section to avoid spam comments from anonymous. Because spam comments are bad for your post as they don’t contribute anything to the topic. Hence, too many spam comment will cause your page to be flag as spam by search engines and your site will get penalized.

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Don’t link to unimportant pages from every other page
Due to changes in Google’s algorithm about nofollow links, it’s advisable for you not to include links in your contact page, RSS feed and other irrelevant pages from every single page of your website.

Integrate Social Media Sharing Buttons
It is recommended integrating with social media sharing button in your posts. This actions help search engine to determine what reactions a webpage is getting from the real users. Social networking website includes, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Google+ and etc…

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Hopefully the above tips and tricks would guide you to have a better understanding about Search Engine Optimization (SEO). Likewise, overly SEO process will harm your website subsequently, so note that every step has its quality and quantity.