Below are fifteen Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Tips from Google’s Matt Cutts. Definitely worth reading if you want to increase your changes of getting Google love for your site:
- Don’t put your blog at the root of your domain.
- Name your directory ‘blog’ instead of ‘wordpress’.
- In URLs, no spaces are worst, underscore are better, dashes or hyphens are best.
- Use alt tags on images: not only is it good accessibility, it’s good SEO.
- Include keywords naturally in your posts.
- Make your post dates easy to find.
- Check your blog on a cell phone.
- Use partial-text feeds if you want more page views; use full-text feeds if you want more loyal readers.
- Blogs should do standard pings.
- Standardize backlinks (don’t mix www with non-www).
- Use a permanent redirect (301) when moving to a new host.
- Don’t include the post date in your URL.
- When moving between hosts, wait until Googlebot and traffic begin to visit the new host before taking down the old one.
- If using AdSense, use section targeting.
- Use FeedBurner’s MyBrand feature to take control of your feeds (i.e., feed.domain.com instead of http://feeds.feedburner.com/domain).
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stop with what we know now, because maybe tomorrow will be different,
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