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SEO Health Check

5 SEO Health Checks for your Blog

SEO Statistics and facts are good to know, especially if your Blog is in existence for more than 6 months.  These statistics help you identify areas where the blog excels and where it fails.  In this post, I will show you 5 Essential SEO Health Checks that can reveal hidden problems of your Blog. 1.  [...]

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Everything you wanted to know about XML Sitemaps [SEO Tips]

What is a Sitemap? Sitemaps are an easy way to tell search engines about pages on the site, that are available for crawling.  There are two types of sitemaps: HTML Sitemap – Listing of the pages of your site, so that the users can find relevant and important information faster XML Sitemap – List of [...]

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Starting with SEO #5 – Essential SEO Plugins

WordPress is well known for its plugins, when it comes to extensibility. There are many plugins around, especially to make your blog SEO friendly. Check out this post, on the 9 SEO plugins that every blog should have. It is a nice collection of some very useful plugins. Thanks, Darren Rowse for sharing the list [...]

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Starting with SEO #4 – Similar Posts

Over a time, any blogger publishes a good number of posts, that are around a similar topic. Generally, the link between posts are derived using the Post Titles, keywords in content, Categories and Tags. Including Similar posts in your blog have the following two major advantages: Readers can navigate to and read similar posts, with [...]

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Starting with SEO #3 – Anchor text and Images

Anchor text Anchor text is a clickable text on a HTML page, that takes the user to another HTML pages either within the same site or a different site.  This is usually achieved using the <a href=” … /> HTML tag. Better the anchor text is, easier it is for the users to navigate and [...]

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Starting with SEO #2 – Page Titles and Meta Tags

Page Titles Title tags provide a description on the content of the page, to both search engines and users. Title tags are recommended to be unique for each page and post (in case of blogs). This will highly improve the chances of your posts, making into top search results. As per Google SEO Starter guide [...]

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Starting with SEO – #1

I have been blogging for quite some time. But only recently I was struck with the buzzword, SEO. For those of you who are unaware of this term but running a blog (and looking to popularize it!), I would like to share my learning through this series of posts. SEO stands for, Search Engine Optimization. [...]

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