Showing posts with label Blogging and SEO. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Blogging and SEO. Show all posts

Monday, October 25, 2010

Best And Safest Meta Description For Blogger's Blog*spot

Indexed quickly by Google is the desire of all bloggers who blog professionally or even semi-professionally. They seek and explore different SEO techniques to realize their dreams in terms of fast Google indexing. Various SEO techniques have been applied by them into their HTML codes of blog template. One way is to use a blog meta description. And this is actually legitimate as long as they have original content and not using SEO techniques excessively.

However, and of course, there are some matters that should be considered carefully by a blogger who uses Blogger's blog*spot before using meta description. Where, the use of meta description can lead to problems and issues for their blog. Some of matters that should be considered carefully by a blogger are:
  1. When you use meta description for your blog, this will cause duplicate meta tags which will be reported in your Google webmaster tools.

  2. Although there are ways to avoid or eliminate duplicate meta tags after using blog meta description so it does not appear in Google webmaster tools - HTML suggestions report, you can not guarantee to yourself that such way is the right and safe way.

  3. Blogger is a free blogging platform where its blog design and structure, is already created and customized appropriately for Blogger user and Google search engine. Keep in mind that Blogger is a Google service.

  4. Inside the Blogger's blog*spot page structure, already available a feature that actually functions as a meta description and subtitle, i.e in blog header precisely right below blog title. On the blog header - blog description, you can even add up to a maximum of 500 characters to describe your blog.

  5. In essence, the power of a blog is the content especially text-based content. The more you often and regularly make posts and focus on a topic, then googlebot will more often visit your blog for indexing.
In the end, the blog description on the blog header is functioning as the default meta description for the Blogger's blog*spot. And this is the best and safest way.

Monday, September 20, 2010

Excessive Search Engine Optimization Is Spam

Excessive SEO Is Spam
Who would not wish his or her blog indexed fast by search engine?, particularly by Google. By quickly indexed by Google, then the opportunity to bring more visitors to the blog, will be bigger. Logical flow is:
1. Indexed quickly
2. Then impressions become higher
3. Because it has high impressions, then the next is an opportunity to get clickthrough, would be higher as well.
And the way to get indexed quickly by Google, is to use SEO (Search Engine Optimizer) techniques.

However, all things that are excessive, will have a tendency to lead to something that is not good. Included also, when using SEO techniques excessively. In the end, to apply SEO techniques that are excessive are similar to Spam. And surely already know that Spam is one of the biggest enemies of the internet. Basically, SEO is necessary to learn and use in blogging. In a note, bloggers use it in proportion and fair.

One example of many SEO techniques is that when using keywords into an article or post. By putting a keyword in post title and a keyword in each paragraph, it seems, is still proportional. However, when excessive, then this case is close to or even can be called a Spam.

In addition, by applying excessive keywords are also contrary to the ethical aspect in making the article. When writing an article accompanied by a thought: "Where would I put these keywords?", really, this will break the concentration and focus in writing of good articles. Even if an article is completed and ready to publish, it will feel uncomfortable to read in the user's side.

Please note, users came to a blog to read a good article, seemed to flow and comfortable to read. Not come to read articles that are full of keywords nuance, or excessive SEO nuance.

There are still many SEO techniques, and an article about Search Engine Optimization, which is fundamental as well as ethical, is SEO technique suggested by Google Webmaster Guidelines.