SEO quotient review – Stephan Miller

Every week, I’ll be picking up a blog from one of the top commenters, and I’ll be reviewing the blog/website in an SEO perspective, dissecting it by the basic elements of SEO. The idea is to give readers an opportunity to learn the basic SEO by observing another blog, which should in turn help them improve theirs.

This weeks pick is Stephan Millers blog which deals with blogging, seo, wordpress and earning money online.

Site: www.stephanmiller.com
Page Rank: 3
Alexa: 169,139
Meta Keywords: Quite a lot.
Meta Description: None found.
Links spiderable: Yes
Google snippet data : “Popular Posts. Feedburner Feedsmith Plugin Security Issue · Moving Day · Google Adwords Industry Related Help · Google Just Gave Me the John Chow Treatment …”
Incoming links on Google: 69
No. of pages indexed on Google:206

What is good in the blog?

- Each article stands out with titles using bold and large font
- Well arranges sidebars with categories, top commentators etc
- What is exceptionally good is the popular posts highlighted on the top right corner
- Text is very well spaced and in good size, good accessibility
- Feed subscription options right on top, very easy to spot
- Stephan’s photo gives an identity

What’s not looking good?

- Somehow, I don’t feel like the theme is compact.
- Colors are missing.
- Stephan’s photo
- The footer seems to be out of shape with widgets aligned improperly

What can be done?

- In the footer, probably he should take out one of those widgets and cut it down to one “recent visitors” widget.
- Align the blogrush widget with the recent visitors widget
- Stephan should replace his photo with a much better one, the current one looks jagged
- Add a search button to the search bar
- Add meta description for the blog
- Stephan should work on link building, as the number of incoming links is not impressive at the moment.
- Reduce the number of keywords used in the meta keywords tag and keep only the most relevant ones only - it looks spammy now.
- The feedburner feed count is fairly low, so it can be removed until it reaches a “boastable” number.
- The title of the homepage is just his name. I think he should add a tag line to this like, “Make money online with Stephan Miller”. Of course, it’s up to Stephan to decide based upon what the objective of the blog is. Title tags for the articles seems cool, I think Stephan is using the AllinOone SEO pack for this.

So, those were some quick notes on the site. I’ve talked only about the basic stuff here. Hope it gave you some pointers as to what are the factors that count most.

I’d love to hear from you suggestions, opinions and corrections on the review.

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