I got a question through my mail after a long time from a blogger Sheela from India asking me, she wants to know how do I optimize my blog? Its an interesting question which I would love to answer for my own personal feel good factor hehe.. Ok coming back to the question “how do I optimize my blog?”
To be frank I give more importance for on-page optimization over off-page, that doesn’t mean off-page optimization is not important. but my personal opinion is on-page optimization carries 60% of SEO over off-page, I know many seo-professionals and experts may not agree with me but its my personal opinion. Whenever I design a blog I focus more on my visitors and I design my blog based on it, I do analyze what are the age groups, their behavior patterns and other details about my visitors and decide up on my layout accordingly.
I make sure my pages loads faster, I use colors that are pleasing and relaxing for my users and goes easy on their eyes, I always prefer to have a white background with black font as its universally accepted and loved by many. In almost all of my blogs and also on some of my client blogs I make sure the content comes to the left corner because that’s where the user eyes tend to fall.
I am not a big fan of ads on blogs but I do need to monetize it in order to support my hosting costs and also I depend on my blogs for my income, I make sure I place ads on spots that don’t annoy my users, I avoid using video and image ads, I always prefer text ads as it proved to get me more clicks and also they don’t spoil your page layout much, also for some SEO reasons. I think internal linking plays a very great role in your rankings in search engines, I use SEO smart links by Vladimir prelovac, in fact I am a great fan of his works that I use almost all the plugin developed by him. You can check out more on what I do for on-page seo on my wordpress seo tutorial its a real big guide worth spending some time on for sure.
With regards to off-page optimization I love to comment on blogs, do-follow blogs especially, I hate RSS feed submissions but I do allow RSS for my subscribers, mostly I find people link to me naturally and I love it when they do, other than that I use seo elite software to look through links of my competitors and build links on those sites which they have links in, because search engines tend to analyze your site’s relevancy based on your links, so if you have links on pages where your competitors are then it sure does influence your rankings in a great way. Other than that I do make up contents sometimes in order to go viral and gather more links for me, I tend to submit them in social media sites like digg.
I do a lot of other things occasionally on my blogs, I cannot discuss everything, I try to reveal things more frequently on this blog as I update it with more interesting articles.
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I am Chakkravarthi, full time Blogger, webmaster and wordpress enthusiast . Apart from blogging I like to dwell in to SEO world most of the time.Use wordpress and support the open source community.