Blog SEO, promotion and traffic
This page contains links to all posts on Top Blogs on search engine optimization or SEO, promoting the blog and its individual posts, and how to improve traffic on the blog.
What is SEO
The following links have been created especially for new bloggers and those not familiar with basic concepts of search engine optimization:
- What is SEO and how it works: basic questions about SEO answered
- How search engines and their search algorithms work
- SEO terms and jargons explained
- How to get to the top of Google search results? Learn from Google itself! This is a simple article based on Search Quality Raters Guidelines issued by Google.
- What search engines like on websites? Another SEO article based on Google Search Quality Raters Guidelines, focusing more on website authority.
Specific SEO actions that work today
- SEO tips seen on the web How useful are the tips?
- Does your blog come on top of search pages? Very practical tips on how to improve bog SEO.
- 30 SEO actions that Google likes or dislikes: List of good and bad SEO actions, mostly based on Google's advice
- Search Engine Optimization techniques that give results: Discussion about the latest SEO trends
- Best search engine optimization techniques that will always work: Why some types of SEO will always work. Also a list of evergreen SEO actions.
- How to do SEO on blogs without knowledge of HTML? Search engine optimization on Wordpress and Blogger blogs needs no knowledge of HTML.
- Give links to other blog posts. Internal linking, when done wisely, can help in search optimization without much effort.
- Using H tags on posts to improve blog SEO
- Importance of description meta tag
- How to write good description meta tag
- How to put SEO-friendly URL and description on Blogger posts
- Make standalone pages on blogs to give info on 'about us', policies etc. Google likes them.
- What is the best free SEO plugin for Wordpress?
- Why pay for keyword research when high-quality ideas are free?
- How broken and dead links hurt and how to fix them
- How to create a custom 404 page on Blogger blog
- Disavow bad backlinks But should you do that? If yes, how.
- Why canonicalization is good SEO and how to implement it?
- Catchy versus search-friendly titles on blog posts
- Putting alt attribute on images In this detailed post on images, one section talks of how to put alt attribute and how it serves SEO.
What SEO actions can hurt websites
Some actions for search engine optimization are considered unethical or black-hat. These actions are mostly taken by indiscreet SEO guys to fool search engines. Sometimes, genuine actions by webmasters and bloggers can also be seen as undesirable. These can be seen in the lists linked in the first section above. The links given below discuss some specific blackhat SEO actions:
- What are Google Penalties and how to avoid them in SEO?
- Fiverr traffic It can be useless or risky.
- Private Blog Network: should you buy one?
- How to avoid a slap from Google and maximise gains from keywords
New developments in the field of SEO
- Google algorithm changes These keep happening, but should you worry?
- Do you know RankBrain? Will it eat up search engine optimization?
- Voice search is going to rule the search universe in future. What should a blogger do?
- Google search technology updates for 2021 Google is focusing on page experience.
- Semantic search vs keyword search What has changed recently in the way SEO is done?
Other SEO discussions
- Social media and blogging updates. A 2018 post shares a study on how social media helps SEO
- Blogger blogs and SEO: Does Google disfavor blogger blogs? Clears a common misconception that Blogger blogs are bad for SEO.
Blog promotion
- Even the best-written articles/ posts/ websites need promotion.
- Should I submit my blog to blog directories? An old discussion, still relevant.
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