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Here are 10 things you should gear up your blog with, so that when Google bots are on your blog this season update, they award you a high PR.
Get at least 5 real – good – solid -high quality back links.
I could’ve easily made a vague statement like – get more back links. But no – this season, focus on high quality back links.Let they be few but real good ones.
What are high-quality back links?
By quality back links i mean, back links from
- an authority site/sites related to your blogs category.
- a high PR site than your’s
- a site with no bad neighborhood.(Ensure this with every new site that links to you, by checking their incoming links on Google, using the query links:thesite.com)
And, avoid sites
- with too many(more than or equal to the incoming links) outbound links on a single page.
- with hidden text
- with spammy title tags
- with no authenticity
- forums/blogs which are months old only.
Clear up all the broken links on the pages
Atleast, those on the index page(landing page). Broken links bring down your blogs status, and i know how hard it is to keep them from cropping up.You can check the number of broken links on your site/blog using this tool or the broken links status in your Google Webmasters account.
You can download the data in CSV format from there. Take some time off and find the broken links, edit/delete them.This could be paintaking process but i recommend that you clean them all up before the crawlers are on your blog.
Write a meta tag description with a clean(don’t repeat keywords) and attractive copy.If you are on Wordpress, get the All in one SEO pack today and install it. It should help you writing individual META tag DESCRIPTION and TITLE tags for each post.Blogger users can write the META Title and description tag in the Settings itself.
Add ALT tags to your images.
That’s a very often repeated tip. And i don’t think this shold help you much, but it will help you describe your blogs content to Google, if not anything on the SERP’s.
Add ALT tags to every single image on your blog including the subscriber feed button.
Extend your domain name registration.
To a longer period, say 5-10 years.Google values domain names registered for a long time as it suggests that the site is more authentic than one that’s registered for an year or two.
Ensure that on the landing page(for blogs, the front page) your keyword appears at least with a density of 6%, that is if the total number of words on the page is 100, then the keyword should appear 6 times.
Change the BOLD tags to STRONG. Though both tags appear to have the same visual effect, crawlers catch hold of the STRONG tags and the keywords included in it.
Ensure that the title tags of your posts are enclosed in H1 tags. If your template does not support it, either change it or edit the CSS style out.
Trim down your blog roll links if you have one. It does not make any sense keeping 53 links to your friends blogs. Trim them down – keep them to a minimum.
Finally run a simulation test on your blog with this Spider simulation tool and ensure that you have no junk in your code. If the simulation test comes up with lot of CSS code/or junk other than your article content, remove those stuff from your template or try using a different template in which your article appears first on simulation test.
So much for a crash course in SEO to gear up your blog for the upcoming Google PR update.(most likely to happen by August end-Unconfirmed).These 10 step-course should ensure that you in good shape, all geared up for google bots.
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OK Kavita, your comment somehow gives me a the feeling that you are looking for links desperately.
It’s a good idea though to write such comments – not spam – not very original. Yet good.
Cheers!
Mani
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huh… don’t know how did I got here but you seem to know alot about SEO (almost as much as I do ). Read nothing new here but it’s a good article for newbies.
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Hey Mani,
What is Authority sites? How does these helps in SEO?
Thanks,
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Well, Vishal authority sites are the ones trusted by google. They have all davantages of quick indexing, SERPs preference, Higher PR etc. Ex:- Problogger.net, SEOMOZ ..
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Wow great tips. I have been preparing my one month old website for this PR update. I will follow your tips and hopefully I will get that PR im aiming for. I will be back for the result.Thanks for sharing.
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Really great,I will follow up to increase my site pr.
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I was actually working on my blog while reading this article. i know right from the start that this will help. tnx
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Goed artikel, ik heb er veel aan gehad en veel mee gedaan zoals die spider simulator is top. Ik heb dit ondermeer voor mijn website Videos.nl> en ook bubba. Ik heb wel eea nog aangepast, maar in principe gaat het perfect zoals hierboven beschreven.
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