Get Your Blog Out There: Optimization
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If you think about it, blogs aren’t all that different from Web sites. In terms of functionality, both carry nearly the same components in that they feature the brand in its entirety and provide means to avail of their products of services or contact the company behind it.
Needless to say, there are, of course, crucial elements that differentiate one from the other. An official site will usually highlight the products and services the brand is offering in business-casual approach to appeal to potential clients, or on a street-level manner depending on the brand’s demographic.
A blog, on the other hand, can offer a far broader range of topics and discussions that revolve or are loosely hinged around the brand, its services and how customers can find value in them. Blog contents are also frequently updated and delivered in a more conversational tone that usually provides more personality than the main site would care to reveal. What’s more, blogs seem to
It is because of these attributes that most companies these days employ blogs into their main Web sites. Some entities, particularly smaller companies like startups and home-based services, even treat their blogs as the landing page of their online presence. As such, it’s also best to optimize blogs, not just for search engines but also to enhance user experience. Here are a few suggestions on how you can go about optimizing your blog through some of its design elements before going live.
Among the main factors that can optimize your blog are the domain and the site structure. By building a blog that has a solid layout with all the options, archive of posts, necessary links and contact details (among others) easily accessible with as few clicks as possible sure helps in enhancing site navigation. This of course translates to a good user experience, which can lead to repeat visits and ultimately, a good impact on your site traffic and a sweep of potential clients.
As a general rule, it is essential that you or your Web master meticulously review every line of code in its HTML structure before launching your blog out into the Interwebs. Foregoing this not only leads to risks of a plethora of site errors, but also misdirected traffic and low search engine indexing. For instance, missing tags or those erroneously placed within code trees may go unnoticed by Web browsers; while these can sometimes offer to effects on the overall structure, they can sometimes search engine algorithms form indexing your blog.
Keywords too are essential. Their values usually vary based on how much they have been used as queries across search engines. Assigning specific keywords to your blog can certainly help increase your search engine visibility and ranking. Make sure though that you use the ones that offer a good density and are relevant to your blog’s overall field of interest. You can ingeniously insert these into your blog posts or even embed them into the code by placing them within the <TITLE> and </TITLE> tags under the <HEAD> section of the code tree.
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RSpears @ April 29, 2010
