Are You Optimize Your Blog For SPOTLIGHT?

Tag Keywords: blog seo, content optimization, identify hot keyword, internal linking, keyword suggestion, keyword tool, wordpress SEO optimization, 

They are blog or website have more then 1,000 pages or high google page rank but receive very little search engine traffic, why? One of the main reason is the website is not optimize for search engine result and traffic.

How to optimize for Search Engine Result And Traffic?

Simple, you need to look for “SPOTLIGHT”, it’s mean that hot keywords people being searching on internet related to your blog topics. If you blog about something that no body search for … your blog will not receive any traffic. I’m sure any topic will have someone to search for, but the worst thing is you didn’t optimize for that hot keyword or thing that people search. Then you will miss the search traffic. (more…)

Measure Progress - How Do We Do Link Audit?

Tag Keywords: blog seo, blog seo guide, link audit, seo, 

Okay, How We Do The Link Audit?

How can we know out that our linkbait is working and the promotion work? we do a link audit.

Most people will use google to do link audit. But if you check you back links using google, it’s will be pretty confusing since google often leave out the low rank page back links and include the count of internal links. So the best way to find out how many back links is using yahoo search.

Here are couple of example using yahoo search operator to help you to do link audit:

All The Links To Single Page

link: http://www.yourdomain.com/hello.html

External Back Links To Single Page

link:http://www.yourdomain.com/hello.html -site:www.yourdomain.com

All The Links To Entire Site

linkdomain:www.yourdomain.com

External Back Link To Entire Site

linkdomain:www.yourdomain.com -site:www.yourdomain.com

With this yahoo search operator, you will find more accurate link to your site. But bare in mind that not all this link is count toward your google page rank since yahoo search operator didn’t exclude the <a rel=”nofollow”> link. That mean all your comments or other link in other people blog or website no follow link will count too.

More tips coming up for link audit and how we know what kind of back link is helping us to rank higher in search engine result page.

Is Google SERP Confuse You?

Tag Keywords: blog seo, google serp, seo, 

We being keep track of our google search engine result page(SERP), the result is not very encouraging.

We found out that … most of the time, the result page can be very confusing. For example, if we tell you that we are currently rank #1 in this keywords, then when you go and search for it, we are not number #1. Why?

Here Are The Reasons

1. Personalization for individual search
2. Personalization for country and language search
3. Different google data server
4. Safe search setting
5. Google seem to change the our page search result from time to time.

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How To Get Your Blog Index By Google Within 48 Hours

Tag Keywords: blog seo, get index by google, google search engine, 

Alright, if submit to google URL didn’t work quite well for you. There are another two ways to get your blog indexed fast within 48 hours.

And we think the proven way and expensive way is beg/or get good ranking blog to link it to your blog so that your new blog can be indexed within 48 hours, but sometime you just don’t have this option, so this 2 little tricks might come in handy.
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Content Optimization - Where to Put My Keywords?

Tag Keywords: blog seo, Keyword Optimization, 

It’s time to optimize your content keyword after finding your list of keyword to optimized.

It’s a bit technical again. If you know a bit of HTML then, this should be no problem for you to understand what we trying to say here. Fear not, if you are using wordpress you can download some plugin to help you to optimize your content. But here we present the concept and HTML code to illustrate where to put the keywords.

A1. Fix Your Title

<title>Very Important Keyword</title>

A2. Fix Your Important Meta Tags

Meta Description:
<META NAME=”Description” CONTENT=”Your descriptive sentence or two goes here.” />

Meta Keywords:
<META NAME=”KEYWORDS” CONTENT=”your keywords,go here,separated by a comma,but not a space” />

A3. you body content keywords

<h1></h1>
<h2></h2
<strong></strong>

If you put the keyword in <h1> or bold is consider more important in search engine. High light or use h1 for those important keywords. Just remember, content is king, you have to write for your reader not the search engine. So we suggest you fix your title and meta tags first, then your body content.

Write your body content to whatever you feel like writing but keep in mind that what is the hot search keywords to highlight and use when it’s possible

Wordpress Blog Implementation

For Fixing title in wordpress, all you need to do is just write keywords in your post “pages” or “posts” title, it’s will appear in the single post title.

For fixing meta tag in wordpress, it’s get a bit tricky, you can install the Wordpress Meta Plugin to do it.

Here is the list of wordpress meta plugin

For fixing body content, just switch to “code” view from your “visual” view in write post and then key in <h1><h2><bold><strong> in your content.

Well, what do you think, simple huh? Yeap, content optimization is easy to do compare to “link building and anchor text” optimization. That’s the topic we going to discuss next.

Google Webmaster Tools Review

Tag Keywords: blog seo, Google Webmaster Tool, seo tool, web master, 

We being using Google webmaster tools for sometime. We kind of have the hate and love relationship with this tools. This is a must tool to use if you are optimized on google search engine. It’s will tell you when is the last google crawler visit, what kind errors encounter in your website and the most important is your “prefer domain”. Google Webmaster tools is FREE to use, so it’s a wonderful surprise that google actually come up with this tool to make the webmaster life easier.

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Yahoo SiteExplorer Review

Tag Keywords: blog seo, web master, Yahoo site explorer, 

Yahoo site explorer is like google webmaster tools. It’s help you to manage your website and let you know what kind of error encounter when yahoo web crawler indexed your website. This tools is bare bone tool and a lot less feature compare to google webmaster tools.

It’s seem like the only useful function in this tools is to help you to submit your website sitemaps and RSS feeds. And you can’t really do much in this tool. Well, if you are optimize your search result on Yahoo Search, you might be interested to check it out. But we feel like this tool is not that helpful at all. So we give 2 star here even though Yahoo SiteExplorer is also FREE.

To sign up yahoo site explorer. Just add you website in the URL in yahoo site explorer, and it’s will bring you to the sign up page.

Well, This Week Is SEO Time For Us

Tag Keywords: blog seo, blog seo guide, seo, 

Well, this week after sharing our tips to KCLau(one of our blog reader), about SEO. We decide to write a simple SEO guide for blogger. We know that SEO is not very popular topic for blogger compare to how to make money online. Anyway, we decide to share more about this basic things that blogger can do this week to optimize they search engine effort.

As you know, there are couples good SEO books and information out there, but there is no comprehensive handbook really written just for blogger or wordpress users. We have write 2 chapters in “Simple SEO Guide For Blogger” today, check it out and tell us what do you think. We intend to complete this handbook this week. Wow, we not sure whether we will find the time or not. But it’s definitely fun to see whether we can do it or not.

You can show your encouragement to us for writing this handbook by adding us into your technorati favor or our mybloglog community. We will definitely complete this handbook if we get 10 favor and 10 new member in our community this week:P

Robots.txt, Your Wish Is My Commend

Tag Keywords: blog seo, robot, robot.txt, web master, 

Well, robots.txt is the way for webmaster or blogger to tell the search engine which things that can be indexed and which things is best leave it unindexed.

This is getting a bit technical here, if you have a wordpress blog, just skip it and download our robots.txt will do. But wait! before you do that you must know where to put the robots.txt.

Where to put robots.txt?

URL: www.yourblog.com/robots.txt

upload your robots.txt using ftp program to your top level folder of your blog just like showing in the URL link above. You can also create the robots.txt using your web hosting CPanel file manager to create a new file name: robots.txt. And copy the configuration below to your blog.

Download our robots.txt

Robots.txt Configuration Explain

Here we explain a bit about what robots.txt configiration will do

User-agent: *
Disallow: /cgi-bin/

first line “user-agent: *” mean that you allow all the search engine crawler or robot to index. The second line “Disallow: /cgi-bin/” mean that you disallow the search engine to your /cgi-bin/ folder.

Warning! So never do that

User-agent: *
Disallow: /

This will block all your content or blog from the search engine. Remove the “Disallow: /” in there if you have such a configuration.

MORE to come

To allow all robots complete access

User-agent: *
Disallow:

Or create an empty “/robots.txt” file.

To exclude all robots from part of the server

User-agent: *

Disallow: /cgi-bin/
Disallow: /tmp/
Disallow: /private/

To exclude a single robot

User-agent: BadBot
Disallow: /

To allow a single robot

User-agent: WebCrawler
Disallow:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /

Our wordpress robots.txt configuration:
Copy and paste in your robots.txt below, remember
This only work for wordpress!

User-agent: Googlebot
Disallow: /*/feed/$
Disallow: /*/feed/rss/$
Disallow: /*/trackback/$

User-agent: *
# disallow files in /cgi-bin
Disallow: /cgi-bin/

#disallow all files in /wp- directorys
Disallow: /wp-*/

# disallow all files ending in .php
Disallow: /*.php$
Disallow: /*.js$
Disallow: /*.inc$
Disallow: /*.css$
Disallow: /*.txt$

# disallow any files that are stats related
Disallow: /stats*

# disallow wordpress specific folder
Disallow: /category/uncategorized*
Disallow: /feed/
Disallow: /trackback/
Disallow: /rss/
Disallow: /comments/feed/
Disallow: /page/
Disallow: /date/

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Well we hope now you understand robots.txt better, but if you need more explaination, visit the URL link below to find more information about robots.txt

http://www.robotstxt.org/

Register Your Blog With Search Engine

Tag Keywords: blog seo, register your blog, start blogging, 

If you wonder why your blog doesn’t have any traffic coming from search engine, because you haven’t register it.

We know most blogger are active in technorati, mybloglog and more, but it’s doesn’t mean that when you sign up for technorati or any blog community website, you also register with google and yahoo. So if you haven’t register with any search engine, this is what you can do ..

Decide which search engine you want to register. We recommend the big 3 and you can submit your url by following the URL:

1. Google - Google URL Submit
2. Yahoo - Yahoo URL Submit
3. MSN - MSN URL Submit
   

After you have submit your Blog URL, just wait for the search engine crawler come to visit and index your blog page.

Some of the blog get lucky if they already have a incoming link point to their blog from other search engine indexed blog or website. The search engine might come to visit your blog this way, but we don’t like to take chances, and it’s easy just to submit your blog URL to the search engine.

After you submit your URL, then what?

In order for your search engine to index all your page, you must ensure that your blog must be able to crawl and index all your blog post and pages.

Seach Engine “Road” Block

1. Frame Page
2. Javascript Redirect Page or Pop Up
3. Dynamic Page
4. robots.txt

Well, we have good news for you. We have one simple solution for blogger that will solve all this problems. Google, yahoo and MSN have agree to come up with a better and simple solution to over come the search engine road block. That’s is creating the sitemap.xml for your blog. Search engine will crawl this index xml page instead of all your blog pages. If you are using wordpress, you can download the plugin to generate all your blog into sitemap.xml automatically.

Here is the link :

http://www.arnebrachhold.de/2005/06/05/google-sitemaps-generator-v2-final

If you are not using wordpress, try to ask your blog community or google it using sitemap generator with your blog platform.

So by using sitemap generator or creating yourself( you don’t want to do that ), you can ensure you blog being index properly, rather then redesign your website to eliminate “frame”, “javascript”, and rewrite your URL in dynamic page. Nice huh? Indeed, this sitemaps have make our web developer live much easy but in order to maintain it without using an auto-generator will be “hell” for webmaster. Anyway, I’m sure most of the blog nowadays will come with an sitemap auto-generator. If not, it’s time to reconsider your blog platform.

How about robots.txt?

We will talk more about robots.txt in the next guide. For now, robots.txt is the configuration to tell the search engine crawler that which page and folder is allow to index. The BIGGEST mistake new blogger even do it disallow the search engine to crawl all they blog by having the wrong configuration in robots.txt. We will talk more about how to configure your robots.txt for your blog later on. If you don’t have any robots.txt configure, don’t worry too much, it’s default one will be allow the search engine to crawl all your page and folders. But sometime, it’s not a good idea to leave it to default, and indexed all your page and data in the server.