So, you have enrolled with blogger or WP and are raring to go. You have even written two or three posts and are looking for supporters to start reading your blog as fast as attainable. It'd be worth the effort, if you would just concentrate on avoiding some major issues that could impede your blog performance.
Not tagging with topical phrases
Tagging is an essential aspect of blogging. Tags help a reader as well as the search engine spiders on understanding what your post relates to. Be wary of over using the tags. Restrict your tags to four or 5 and ensure you only use applicable tags.
Absence of fresh and topical content
Search websites are always looking out for fresh content. If you are stagnant and do not make a contribution towards your blog by submitting quality content, the crawlers will pay no attention to your page and your page will be ranked terribly low. Low ranking means that your page will show much later on in the search results. This means that you will not have many visitors coming to read your blog.
Blogs are preferred by the search websites and rank way higher due to the very nature the posts or content on the blog are fresh. If you do not capitalize on the leeway given here by the search engine algorithm, you'll clearly not make it to the top.
lack of inbound and outbound links
absence of fresh content will affect your inbound links. Plenty of other sites and blogs are aware of the need for fresh content and inbound links from quality sites. Fresh quality content makes a contribution to your inbound links which gets you a higher rank in the search results. However , you lose this if you do not contribute.
Then there are others who do not realize the significance of outbound links. Being related to other sites or blogs by mentioning and linking them on your blog is an excellent way of associating yourself with other sites or blogs. If you become selfish and do not link important sites from your blog, then you lose this way of optimising on your web presence.
absence of good titles
Titles are like a godsend so long as blogs are concerned. You can have many posts and all with different titles that optimizes different keywords. This means that your blog has the potentiality of turning into the top search result. not many bloggers understand the need for a good, keyphrase rich title!
Usage if general keywords or many general keywords that causes misunderstanding on what your content is about
As much as there are bloggers who do not understand the subtleties of what a good title can bring them or the way the inbound and outbound links can help them or the signification of writing fresh content every other day to keep their blogs relevant or the requirement of tagging, there are bloggers who use keywords like nobody's business!
Keywords are meant to help the crawlers to identify your blog or site and the subject which belongs there. Try and male keywords blend in your content. This suggests, do not use them for the sake of using and don't focus on more than three keywords in a post. This may avoid the confusion to your readers as well as search website spiders.
Author Resource:-
This writer works for Geek Choice, a computer repair company that provides on-site computer service from wireless network setup to data file recovery.
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