Since writing the Finding Readers series of blog tips I’ve had a number of people ask for more information on getting listed on Search Engines – particularly Google.
Patrick Taylor has written a great post on Boosting your Google Ranking. He incorporates most of the tips I’ve seen written elsewhere in a way that even I (mostly) understand.
His main points include:
– Archive Individual Posts
– Incorporate post title into individual post title tags – I have this and it seems to work very well.
– Link a lot – and try to attract links
– Wrap Hypertext around words – ie don’t have links like click here but instead use descriptive terminology that people are likely to do a search on. Eg the best digital photography link on the web.
– Make your blog slim/trim and fast – he provides great resources for this.
Anyway – there is heaps to think about in his article – check it out.
You might also like to check out Google: Is your blog indexed? which also has some good tips on getting your blog indexed on Google.
Blog Tip 18 – Getting listed on Search Engines
Since writing the Finding Readers series of blog tips I’ve had a number of people ask for more information on getting listed on Search Engines – particularly Google…. This post has been moved to Pro Blogger – Getting Listed…
I just started blogging and have had essentially no traffic and of course have made no money. I found your articles useful and will try some tips. Since I don’t know a thing about blogging, I am scrambling to find info to help. I currently use adsense, but the whole thing about getting indexed is still confusing to me. I have two other blogs that are probably not as interesting as the first mentioned, but they were relevant to popular key words I found. My other sites are http://www.survivingyourspouse.blogspot.com and http://www.myrunningcircleslog.blogspot.com. I’m not in it to make the big bucks, but it would be fun to make a little extra. Anyway, just wanted to let you know I like your blog!
I started to use adsense about ten months ago, since then I visited your blog almost everyday to gain tips from your site.
I have been able to make more money to just read tips from problogger.
Then I decided to make blog to adsense newbie in Indonesia, to help them with adsense.
And this seo article is very helpfull to bring more visitors
Thank You Darren
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Thanks for the tips, I am very new to blogging and am trying to figure out all of the ins and outs with out going broke. This biggest obstacle I am facing is traffic. Your tips are timely, I am going to implement them starting today.
Problogger has motivated me to start my own blog relating to issues faced by busy mom’s and families. The blogging is enjoyable but I need to monetarily justify the time involved. Thank you for your wonderful tips about Adsense and getting listed in search engines. I have already implemented much of your advice.
My sites are indexed by Google in 2 days.. The best way to get indexed by having a link backs from a decent web sites.
Thanks
I have used google webmasters to index my site and also sitemap but why my site still not shown on the search results? Can anyone help me please?
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Good points. I use Blogger, figuring that Google would take care of the “heavy lifting” — which it did. Wrapping hypertext around words is a good idea and leads to more readable posts.