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Hey, what’s more exciting than getting huge organic traffic from Google and other search engines to your blog? Every other day, you write posts. Not every post gets noticed. Not every post is picked up by Google. Not every post gets the fame it deserves.

Here are some tips to optimize your blog post a bit for search engines if you’re looking for driving some traffic from Google and other crawlers. Try these, some day one of your posts will drive tens of hundreds of visitors via organic searches.

Though I’m not an expert in SEO, I can give you a few tips based on what I’ve learnt in the last year of blogging. Here we go!

Use short, keyword-filled titles

Yes, make your titles short and optimal. Think of the words that people will use when searching on Google. Think from their point of view. Use those words in your titles.

Don’t make them too long. This could dilute the ‘SEO value’ of the words.

Themes that have the post title followed by the blog title aren’t a good option. Edit your theme so that the individual post pages have only the post title in the title tag, and not the blog title.

Use ‘Post Slugs’ wisely

Your WordPress posts have permalinks that contain the title of the post in them, like this: yourblog.com/your-blog-post-title

Put it to good use.

Check this post on Copyblogger. Compare the post title and the permalink URI. Both are not exactly the same.

The title attracts people like you and me to read, the URL slug attracts search engines. The slug is short, and uses very good keywords that are often searched for. Mind you – search engines read URLs as well. So it’s a good thing to use an optimized post slug and make it friendlier for Google and other search engines.

You can alter the post slug from the right pane in the WordPress Post Editor page.

slug

Use Headings

Use heading tags like <h2>, <h3> etc to put in your posts (like I’ve done here). Search Engines put emphasis on the heading tags, so make sure your post titles are in <H2> format.

There’s nothing wrong in using Heading tags inside a post to highlight sections in the post (like I’ve done here in this article). Besides being good for organic traffic, this also makes the post more readable and scannable.

But don’t overdo. Don’t make every other paragraph beginning as a heading. I don’t see many bloggers doing this, but decided to include this tip here.

Have you got any secret tips? Shout ‘em out now in the comments.

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Written by Shankar Ganesh

January 25th, 2008 at 9:27 pm

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  • http://www.nirmaltv.com Nirmal

    Nice article Shankar, I’m also concentrating on SEO a bit more now.

  • http://www.miltonramirez.com TonNet

    Thanks for the input. I m going to start parcticing your notes.

  • http://www.whoismadhur.com Madhur Kapoor

    Good article buddy. I think i should start using Post slug carefully now .

  • http://groove-bay.com Music Site

    those are good advice but I really not sure if they are enough, I want to learn more about it,

    Thank you for the advice,
    Regards.

  • http://www.techzilo.com Sumesh

    Shankar, many comments above seem like spam (except TonNet, I know him personally). Don’t you think you should delete them?

  • http://www.shankarganesh.com Shankar Ganesh

    @Sumesh: Yeah man, I had the same doubt. Nevertheless deleted em now.

  • http://www.iinspirationbit.com inspirationbit

    Shankar, how many blogs are you running? ;-) When did you start this one?

    Good tips, but how about the Meta tags? By default WP is using the same meta keywords and description for every post/page, that’s not good for SEO.

  • http://ashwinr.com/ Ashwin

    Amazing article, Shankar. Thanks for the tips, going to implement a couple of them..

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  • http://www.techzilo.com Sumesh

    I remember you giving me many of these tips way before you published ‘em. Thanks!!

    And I’m considering voting for you as one of the three favourites on DBT group writing project. Are you hip?

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    And you might want to change the RSS icon on top, its over a month past Xmas…

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  • http://www.online-tech-tips Aseem Kishore

    I’ve recently learned about the Title and post slug difference. It’s a smart way to write posts, but takes a lot of work. The other things I have been trying to do! Good tips!

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  • http://askwiki.blogspot.com Rishil

    Thanks for the tip Shankar, I have not yet finiliased on my plans to move to wordpress from blogger..

  • http://techmalaya.com Syahid A.

    Thanks for the post slug tip. Implemented!

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  • http://leatherjacketstyle.com/ Shankar Ganesh

    implemented, Thanks.

  • http://www.digitalsolecism.net Mike

    Nice post, especially about the slugs. I did not know that!

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  • http://techvigator.blogspot.com/ Rishi

    Nice tips. I really miss the post Slug thingie in Blogger.

  • http://melodycenta.com shakira

    Good article buddy. I think i should start using Post slug carefully now .