Majority of bloggers are no strangers in the concept of search engine ranking factors. In this community, everyone would be pleased if there's a new factor discovered that may provide a great potential  ranking boost. Of course, everyone in the blogging community would love that. In this post, you can see a Periodic Table Of SEO Ranking Factors. This is a table made to better understand or help the blogging community in their adventure for Search Engine Optimization.

Full  Periodic Table

Want to rank well? 

• It is still very important to have quality content ( Cq ). It's the reason why it's the first factor listed on the chart.

• It is still very important to have conducted proper keyword research ( Cr ). A topic that sometimes feels forgotten in the quest for more exotic ranking factors.

• The locality of a searcher ( Pl ) -- has grown into a major ranking factor that can seem all-but-forgotten by some SEOs who assume that "normal" results still exist and can somehow be found by running proxies or using the pws=0 trick. Google personalizes results down to the metropolitan level in the US and elsewhere. Good luck "adjusting" for that to get your "normal" results.

A Closer Look

This periodic table shows us on  where to focus to succeed in SEO. It is very important to see the big stuff that matters most in SEO and do your best in implementing it in your site or blog. Try undertanding the periodic table and you will see that it is a very good guide in SEO in just one table.

Drop a comment if you have something to say! ^^

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The default title tags of a blog is showing the blog title then the post title. Bloggers know that this is not good for Search Engine Optimization (SEO). It is very important to show the post title first then the blog title especially on Google search engine. This is because Google put more weights on optimized title tags. So, the question is how to optimize title tags ? You might consider first to change the title tags on your blog HTML.

- showing blog title first then the post title-

 -showing post title first then the blog title-

Changing The Title Tags:

1. Go to Layout>edit HTML in your Blogger dashboard.
2. Search for this tag: <title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title>
3. Replace this tag with the following code:

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;index&quot;'> <title><data:blog.title/></title> <b:else/> <title><data:blog.pageName/> | <data:blog.title/></title> </b:if>

     4.  Save your template and you should see the results in your web browser.
     5.  It may take a few days for the changes to show up on the Google search results.

That's how  to change the title tags on blog HTML. Just don't rush things, have patience and it will be change is a few days after implementing. ^^

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The adventure of Search Engine Optimization is very hard than anyone can imagine. Search Engines does not have a constant result for every searched item. This depends on a lot of factors that makes bloggers hard to be on top of every search. Backlink is said to be the number one factor for a blog to be in the first page results.

Have you think about this? Your theme or template has something to do in optimizing your blog on search engines. Yes, that’s right! New bloggers don’t have the knowledge about Search Engine Optimization as a whole. That’s why most of them end up with a messed and unknown blog. So better have a Search Engine Optimized theme/template now.

Select A Search Engine Optimized (SEO) Theme/Template with: 

1. Optimized Title Tag - This means that post title appears first before the blog title. You will notice if you will do a search in Google, for example, some of the permalink of the search items shows the blog title first then the post title. Well, to have an optimized theme, you need to have your title tag optimized also. This can be fixed by a plugin but remember that plugin can slow down your blog. So better have it in your theme.

2. The Content Loads First Before The Sidebar – Every blogger should know this, crawlers read the part of the blog that loads first. So if the sidebar loads first then the crawlers won’t read your targeted keywords first since you have those in your content or blog posts.

3. Extensive Use Of Header Tags – Blog title, post title and other sub-titles should have h1, h2 and h3 tags respectively. Better use this in your blog since search engines put weights on these tags.

4. A Footer – The footer of the blog gives you a sitewide link to a post you want to optimize. Others say that footer links are not weighted heavily by search engines but they got it wrong. A lot SEO contests results show that footer links help a lot. Readers may not notice this links but search engines still count them as links.

5. Only 1 Credit Link For The Theme Maker – We know that we have to give credits to the theme maker but too much is not good for the blog. One sitewide link is enough for the theme maker. We don’t want to waste too much Google juice for the theme. Links are important that’s why use them wisely.

That would be my suggestions in choosing the right theme/template for your blog. Feel free to add some if you have something in your mind. ^^

 

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Within the Head section of a page the Title is contained between the open and close tags of the <title> element. The Title tag content, unlike other parts of the Head section, is viewable without having to open the source HTML of the page. In most browsers, the page Title will appear in your browser window. You can see it on the top of your browser window.

 

 Importance Of Title Tags In Search Engine Optimization (SEO):

• The title tags are very important from the search engine point of view. This is because all major and minor search engines place much weights on these tags (and use these tags to gather information about an website) in comparison to all other aspects.

• Many major search engines like Google and Yahoo! display title tags of a web page as a heading in their SERPs (Search engine results page) followed by a brief description of the content were the keywords appear.

• The title tags helps the user in finding out which page he is on. Almost all popular browsers including Microsoft Internet Explorer, display title tags on the top bar as well as the bottom. Firefox 1.0 uses title tags to describe 'tabs'. This makes title tags extremely important from the web usability point of view as well.

 Optimizing Title Tag:

Title tags are most important when it comes to search engine optimization as all major search engines including Google.They place much importance on them. In fact title tags are used by search engines to gather information about a web page. So it is a matter of logic that if the title tag does not match the content of the web page then the search engine may not give the page any ranking at all. As title tags and the web page content are two inseparable things it becomes a necessity to understand the webpage content (or what the webpage is all about) before finalizing on the title tag text. (It should be noted that title tags are specific to a single web page and not to the entire website). So it would be logical to assume that title tags should be written based on the webpage content.

Things to remember to have an optimized title tags:

• Keep the Title 12 words or less.
• High-priority phrases should be utilized within the first 70 characters of the Title tag.
• The maximum usage for any particular word is two.
• Use as many high-priority keyword phrases as you can given the recommended usage limits.
• Utilize keyword phrases in the exact way they are searched. Please note that word order is important and you should use stop words if they are commonly included in the query.
• Make sure that keywords targeted in your page Title accurately reflect the topic of the page.
• Do not utilize keywords or phrases more than once in page Titles without a specific reason for doing so.

Title tags are definitely one of the "big three" as far as the algorithmic weight given to them by search engines; they are equally as important as your visible text copy and the links pointing to your pages – perhaps even more.

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Meta tags / content is a very important factor in search engine optimization. This means that this will help search engine crawlers to find your blog. This tags will not be seen in your homepage or your blog because this is placed in the blog HTML and only crawlers and of course you can see it. Some blogger templates have built-in meta tags in their blogger HTML so the only thing to do is to configure the meta tags. But most of the blogger templates don't have meta tags in their blog HTML so it is your initiative to add the meta tags to make your blog more SEO friendly.

Adding Meta Tags / Content On Blogger HTML

1. Now go to your Dashboard > Design > Edit HTML.
2. Find the line below in your HTML.

<b:include data='blog' name='all-head-content'/>

     3.  Configure the js below:

<meta content=' DESCRIPTION HERE ' name='description'/>
<meta content=' KEYWORDS HERE ' name='keywords'/>
<meta content='noodp' name='robots'/>
<meta content='INDEX,FOLLOW' name='Robots'/>
<meta content='3 days' name='revisit-after'/>

          DESCRIPTION HERE : Change it with your blog description.
          KEYWORDS HERE : Change it your KEYWORDS, separate keywords with comma.


      4.  Now add the configured script just below the code in step 2.
      5.  SAVE your template.

If you followed the steps above then you successfully added Meta Tags / Content in your blog HTML. Good luck in your SEO adventure. Drop a comment if you have something to say! ^^

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