Summary: SEO Tips for Bloggers Blogging ABCs hosts Deborah Carney, Tricia Meyer, Vinny O'Hare, are joined by guest Eric Nagel to discuss the basics of SEO tactics for bloggers. Eric supplied us with an excellent outline below, but be sure to listen and not just read, there is excellent discussion on each of these bullet points, plus a ton of great stuff that came out within the discussion. Keyword research Take your idea, and think about how people are going to search for it "How to..." Google search suggestions AdWords tool Title Tag This should be your keyword. Don't be cute here The title tag in WordPress is inside an H1 tag, which helps with on-site SEO WordPress SEO Plugin by Joost de Valk http://yoast.com/wordpress/seo/ Allows you to set Title, Meta Description Meta Description is sometimes used for the snippet shown in organic search results No need to have your site name repeated in the title tag, unless your site brand is commonly searched for Permalinks Don't use default of ?p=87 Choose one of the options that has %postname% (either Day and name, or Month and name) Images Don't hotlink images Use the Title, Alternate Text & Caption fields Name the image with your keyword ex: your-keyword-here.jpg Social Sharing Twitter button Facebook share button If you use Thesis & want to specify the Facebook thumbnail, read http://www.ericnagel.com/2011/03/specify-thumbnail-image-sharing-link-facebook-from-thesis.html Twitter Official Instructions for Tweet Button Your social circle influences Google search results Sitemaps Google XML Sitemaps by Arne Brachhold http://www.arnebrachhold.de/projects/wordpress-plugins/google-xml-sitemaps-generator/ Eric's XML Image Sitemap Plugin http://www.ericnagel.com/2010/10/image-sitemap-for-wordpress.html Submit to Google Webmaster Tools http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/ Submit to Bing Webmaster Tools http://www.bing.com/toolbox/webmasters/ Follow all of us on Twitter: Tricia Meyer Eric Nagel Vinny O'Hare Deborah aka Loxly Blogging ABCs Thanks to Geekcast.fm for hosting our podcasts. Please go visit them to hear more podcasts about internet marketing.
