Search Engine Optimization basics

Blogging is more than just about creating an online space for yourself and putting up content there.You have to be the best in order to compete with the best.But even becomes less important when it comes to optimizing your blog for search engines.
After all,you want your great content to reach your potential readers,right?Other wise,what's the point?This is the part where Search Engine Optimization(SEO) come in.
In this post,I'll take you move on,make sure you've covered the following parts in our blogging series.

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Google Webmaster tools

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          Google webmaster Tools is your friend! Whether you like Google oR not,you will have to sign up for Google Webmaster Tools(GWT).GWT is basically a dashboard wher you can not only get yourself verified as an official owner of your site,but also get access to a lot of tools,features,and reports.With GWT,you can change how GoOgLe sees your website,and even receive messages from Google regarding updates,and errors found on your website.

with GWT,you can:

• View crawl errors,crawl stats,blocked url's index
• Fetch as Google - Pretty handy for fetching data for your website and submitting it to index to ensure that it's indexed more quickly.
• View search queries,and interenal/external links.
• Submitting sitemap.
• ...and much more.

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Submitting Sitemap

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          The first thing to do after making a proper website or blog is to create a sitemap,and submit it to Google.A sitemap is basically a listing of the contents of your blog,sort of like a table of contents.It needs to be submitted to search engines so they know what content to find on your blog.We recommend that you put up some content first before creating and submitting a sitemap.Around 10 posts on your blog should be enough to get you started.

When you submit a sitemap,search engines use the data on that sitemap to locate your site and your data,and index it.You might have noticed that your site didn't appear on Google after you created it.Well,to get it into search results,Google first needs to index it.And to make Google index it soon,you submit a sitemap.

To submit a sitemap,you first need a sitemap generator.For blogger blogs,you can use the tool on the following link.

• Blogger sitemap generator

If you're using wordpress,the you just need a plugin called "Google XML Sitemaps".Either way,it's a simple process and only takes a few simple instructions.

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Keep monitoring your rank and statistics

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          Now that you're a blogger and have started generating good content,it's time you should start monitoring your success.Keep track of your PageRank,which comes out every three month. The last one came in  February this year.You should also keep a check on your Alexa Toolbar ranking.For monitoring your website statistics,you should use Google Analytics.


Friends that's all for now and you can also download google's seo optimization guide here



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