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Increasing traffic for your blog in 4 ways
Making static urls using mod rewrite
Apache’s mod_rewrite can be easily used via a file called “.htaccess” to turn dynamic urls into friendly urls.
Here is an example of how it’s done:
#Turn on the Rewrite Engine
RewriteEngine on
#Set the base path
RewriteBase /
#Check that the lookup isn’t an existing file
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
#Check that the lookup isn’t an existing directory
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
#Check that the file isn’t index.php (avoid looping)
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^index\.php$
#Force all .html lookups to the index file
RewriteRule (.+)*\.html index.php?nav=$1 [QSA,L]
#Note: QSA=query string append;L=Last, no more rulesDynamic URLs and static URLs
Google recently released article on dynamic vs static urls which suggests that search engine do not like dynamic urls as much as they like static urls.
I suggest you guys to have a read on it by clicking here
Avoid Common SEO Mistakes, 5 important tips
These 5 simple SEO solutions for common SEO mistakes can save you time to market and countless hours of frustration trying to reverse engineer competitors, simple keywords or rankings.
1- Don’t target keywords target markets – Keywords come and go and search behavior and user intent is whimsical this is why you should target markets instead of keywords. Since no two people think or search alike, you have to play the law of averages in your favor by finding the most trafficked and relevant keyword clusters to funnel traffic to your pages. This means targeting groups of keywords then finding which ones gain traction first.
There are pivotal keywords that act as a semantic thread that run throughout the theme of your website, so, by finding, consolidating and unifying those pages with internal links (the only links you have 100% control over); by the time you need to acquire links for ranking factor from other sites, you are miles ahead of your competition.
Best tips to improve your blog search engine optimization
There is a lot of amazing SEO power built into WordPress. Unfortunately it does not all come by default, and you might not know what is best when it comes to templates and options. Follow these simple rules for search engine optimization and your blog will rank much higher in Search Engines.
1. Optimize WordPress Permalinks
The most search-engine friendly permalink MUST includes the post title (%postname%) in the link,having keywords in your URL is an absolute must, In your WP admin panel, click on the “Options” tab, then the “Permalinks” sub-tab, and choose the option just below the “Default” permalink option. My suggest permalink structure is /%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%/ or /%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%.html .
Modify title of your Mybb forum
Some times you want to modify the title of your mybb forum to add key words in it. Or change it in some other way for search engine optimization.
Do not play with forum title itself because it will make it too long and will not look better.
All you need to do is, add your words in template file.
Choosing a title for your personal blog
Trying to choose title for your personal blog? It can be difficult, specially for people, who have never start a blog before. Your always want your personal blog title to be very perfect and explain properly what the blog is about. Should be creative and put good impression on your blog readers. But question is how you can do that? Following article will explain you all about it.
Step 1
Title of blog should inform your blog readers that what your blog is about, and catch the attention of readers. It should be short in length, should include right key words for search engine
traffic, should be unique and most important should have correct spelling. Keep all these six points on your mind when considering title for your personal blog.
Search engine optimization by improving permalinks
Permalinks are the permanent web addresses for your individual blog posts. One of the great features of WordPress is its extremely easy and flexible to make your permalinks into pretty much anything you want.
When considering how to setup permalinks, you want to put some thought into how you want the web addresses on your website to look to both your users and your search engine spidery friends.
How to submit website in search engines
As soon as the world stepped into the 21st century, the computer, technology, and Internet communcation started growing on a massive scale. There are people out here who know how to make a website and publish it online. But still there are millions who have no idea that how their website will get listed in well-known search engines like Google, Yahoo, MSN aka Live.com, Altavista, Ask, Dogpile, and many more. So here is a simple guide and links to help you out submitting your website to different main search engines.
Submit/Add your website in Google for Free
http://www.google.com/addurl/?continue=/addurl
Five tips for search engine optimization while making a website
Search Engine Optimization also known as SEO is one of the most important and most talked about issue regarding website development and designing. Today I’ll give you some hints and tips to make your good search engine optimized website. Everyone wants their website to come on the first two pages of search engines, mostly google.
Google has widely changed the way of search engine technology, therefore usually all the search engine optimization techniques are based on the studies of Google. By SEOing your website you will get a good page rank, or in other words your google page rank will increase.