12 Quick, Easy Tips to Optimize Your Blog / Website for SEO

Interspersed in Vanessa’s User Behavior and Audience Engagement Observations were plenty of really specific blog / website related Search Engine Optimization Tips. I’ve summarized them for you below. Most of them are quite simple and quick to accomplish, and even implementing a few of these SEO tips will take your blog / website a long way as far as search engine visibility and search traffic conversion is concerned.

Quick, Easy Tips to Optimize Blogs / Websites for SEO

1. Write compelling content.
2. Use 1 domain only where possible.
3. Include post dates in your post, as this helps search bots determine freshness / recentness of your content.
4. Try to request inclusion into Google News.
5. Use ALT attributes on Images. This helps in image search result conversion.
6. Use RSS Feeds effectively on your blog / website.
7. As Matt Cutt’s told you, realize that Google ignores Keywords META tag (in your Posts) when ranking web search results.
8. Your Post Title and Headings don’t have to necessarily match.
9. Although Google penalizes sites for slowness don’t worry too much about this as it affects less than 1% of all website crawled at present.
10. The bigger worry should be that if your site is slow, the bots crawling your site will also get bogged down. So try to fix that.
11. Go to Google’s Webmaster Central and see the section where you can optimize your site for speed.
12. Do check out Matt Cutt’s presentation on the Google SEO Audit Report Card he shared 2 weeks ago.