10 Tips To Make Your Blog Rank Better

Aug 16th 2006 View Comments

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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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/
http://danzarrella.com Dan Zarrella

Thanks Derek, I’ll probably end up installing that one here.

For #10 there’s a plugin for that too.
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