The 5 Basic Steps Of SEO For Your Blog – Part 4
Posted by Mert Erkal on Dec 9, 2008 in Search Engine Optimization | 6 comments
SEO For Your Blog
If you applied all the techniques mentioned in the Part1, Part 2, and Part 3, your blog will become a SEO friendly blog. However, you still need to verify that the images in your blog posts are SEO oriented and the HTML codes used in your blog are validated. This verification will positively effect your blog’s search engine rankings.
SEO For The Images In Your Blog Posts
You need to make sure that you use below formula for the images in your blog posts:
<img src=”example.jpg” alt=”keyword”>
Insert a keyword or tag you use in your blog post as caption of your blog image. This will make your blog post images more SEO friendly. This will bring extra “targeted” traffic into your blog.
Validate Your Blog’s HTML Codes to W3C Standards
Web pages are written in special languages called HTML and CSS. These languages quite often changes. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) sets the standards of what is valid HTML/CSS and what is not. Most of the search engines take these standards. If there are errors in your blog, chances are search engines can not read everything of your blog. You can validate your blog’s CSS and HTML through the links below:
Stay tuned for more SEO tips in Part 5…
Thanks for great tips .
@ Versos: You are always welcome
That html tag for images is key. I don’t think people realize how much traffic you can get from google image search. It’s essentially a whole number search engine, with Tons of searches a day.
@Jonathan: Definitely, there is also SEO Images WordPress plugin for this purpose.
Excellent tips.
I am a web designer by trade, and other designers and developers, think that the W3 are just nit picky and there for the sake of it.
In actual fact, a good designer should value clean, design and SEO. This should not be taken lightly.
We need to remember that Google only reads HTML, you can see this by visiting the Google Cache.
wordpress plugins like sitemap and images are really helping SEO