- Do keyword research and know which search terms drive the big traffic
- Make sure your target keyword appears once in the post title and at least once in the body of the post
- Make sure your post title appears first in the title tag on its permalink page
- Make sure your post title appears in a heading tag in the HTML
- Link out to other blogs, a lot. Eventually they’ll link back
- Redirect all URL requests without WWW to the WWW version of the page (or vice versa)
- Use clean URLs
- Link back to old posts in the body of new posts
- Put links to your most popular posts in your sidebar
- Put links to related posts at the end of every post
I expand on these tips and much more in my upcoming ebook: SEO for Bloggers.
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August 16th, 2006 at 1:17 pm
9. There is a WordPress plugin that allows you to easily add a top posts section to your pages: http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2005/11/25/wp-plugin-top-10-posts-and-views-per-post/
August 16th, 2006 at 8:08 pm
Thanks Derek, I’ll probably end up installing that one here.
For #10 there’s a plugin for that too.
August 16th, 2006 at 10:32 pm
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