DIY Search Engine Optimization for Blogs

DYI Search Engine Optimization

One of the best tutorials out there is one called “DYI Search Engine Optimization” by Lorelle VanFossen. Specifically, Lorelle (lorelle.WordPress.com) has some great tips, including how to optimize your code, develop strong intrasite links, write with strong keyword usage, use categories and tags, and how to use ping services. Lorelle says that “the goal is to help search engine crawlers move through your website collecting information to be stored in the search engine’s database.

The key to your blog’s data making it successfully into a search engine’s database is to:
1) Make sure there are no road blocks in the path of a search engine crawler.
2) Make sure the crawler can move through your blog, examining all your web pages.
3) Provide adequate keywords and key phrases which clearly help categorize your content.
4) Provide clearly labeled tags and categories recognized by tagging service crawlers and many search engines today.
5) Take advantage of pinging services.”

(http://lorelle.WordPress.com/2006/01/15/dyi-search-engine-optimization / )

Promoting your blog is just like promoting a website—you need good spiderable content, links to your content, and you need to set up your blog software to take advantage of all the great features.

I wonder whether the 500 wordtracker keywords do really work? Well, as far as I know, meta tags and real gr8 content with regular updates, do call for a must DIY Search engine optimizing...what do techies say??? Any tips here?

- ilaxi