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Platinum SEO Plugin
If you already read The 5 Basic Steps of SEO For Your Blog Part 1 and Part 2, you probably understand the importance of tagging, permalink structure, using the correct html tags for your post headings and titles. This time I will introduce you the Platinum SEO Plugin. The plugin offers all the features of All In One Seo Plugin plus more. Platinum SEO not only automates SEO for WordPress blogs, but also provides an onsite SEO solution.
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I have a great news to share with you. My SEO team advised that the next Google PageRank update will be completed before the Christmas day (25th of December) Within the next 2 weeks, your blog will get a new Google PageRank. If you want to get a better PageRank you need to ensure that:
- You don’t have backlinks from linkfarms. Linkfarms are cheap link directories where you get many hundreds of poor quality links for 50$-100$. Even though you experience a quick increase in traffic, there is a possibility of losing all your search engine traffic due to Google ban.
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SEO for blogs
In The 5 Basic Steps of SEO Part 1 we took a look at the importance of tagging and permalink structure for making a SEO friendly blog. Now let me tell you about one simple Search Engine Optimization tip that if you take the ten minutes necessary to learn and make it a habit, will improve your posts rank significantly in search engines like Google and Yahoo.
Apply This HTML Code Tip For Better Blog Headings:
When you write articles for your blog I bet you use Bold (B) to highlight your headings. Actually there is a special HTML code which you can use to highlight your headings in a way search engines like to see. These are called heading tags and work like below:
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skyrocket your traffic
If there is one thing common in top bloggers is that their blogs are well ranked for some specific keywords in main search engines Google and Yahoo. It does not make sense at all to compete with them at those keywords. However, you can still apply some basic Search Engine Optimization (SEO) techniques to skyrocket incoming traffic to your blog. Here are the 5 easy and applicable basic steps of SEO for your blog:
Permalink Structure:
This is one of the most important factors on SEO for blogs. I have recently updated my WP blog’s permalink structure as below, and organic traffic growth was remarkable:
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Posted by Mert Erkal on Dec 1, 2008 in Problogger | 8 comments

How to become a blogger
Yaro Starak has released a free report today for his new blog mentoring program become a blogger. You may download the report from here: Roadmap to become a blogger. The report is 72 pages, therefore I wanted to highlight the most important parts for my busy readers.
The Roadmap To Become A Blogger
The report is based on this idea: If you want to be successful in blogging, you need to reach the 5 Major Milestones listed below. The report also provides action plans for each milestone:
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