- 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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