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I have a blog. Recently i decided to check my blog against various free seo analysis tools online. Here is my keyword analysis
"Keywords meta tag contains too many keywords.
This tag contains 61 keywords. This is too many for what we would consider a 'robot friendly' keywords tag. The maximum number of keywords we recommend for this tag is 20."
Well these keywords are got from the tag cloud i guess. So does this mean i have to reduce my tags?
Also when i check for links
"Found 185 url's from where 151 unique." The problem is most are internal links pointing like www.example.com/tag/hi and www.example.com/2009/01/24 etc.
So will this harm my ranks?
i currently have PR 2.
How do i optimize my site further? Any ideas?
1. The keyword tag that you create becomes an indicator for the search engine to use when judging your web page content for keyphrases. If the tag doesn't reflect the content then it is practically useless. If within your content your keyphrases are easily identifiable then the keyword tag is not even needed. But if you must use a keyword tag it is best to offer the search engine 4 or 5 related keyphrases that actually exist within that web page's content.
2. Forget about link building and just build something worth linking to.
3. Concentrate exclusively on developing the best quality well-optimized web content within your means. Link heartily but naturally between your own web pages and even across your own web sites when merited. Remember that an effectively written, well-placed internal link is more valuable than a hundred links that you've dumped externally. Make full use of the important web page components : ie: Title, Description, headings, emphasizing ...
How do i remove the tags on the front page?
I have some 5-6 link exchanges. Will it hurt my ranking?
Will blog posting(not comments. Blog posts with deep links. However it is just 1 article distributed to these 400 blogs) on 400 other blogs give me any boost? There are many paid services that offer that right?
The biggest search engine, Google, completely ignores the meta keyword tag. Yahoo pays a little attention, but not much.
If you wish to remove it, you will have to edit the header section of your pages.
The duplicate content may well be from category pages which have only one entry - putting more entries in each category may help with this.
But it sounds like at this point you should be concentrating mostly on writing more great blog entries, and maybe a little networking with other blogs on similar topics. Ignore stupid SEO tools.
- don't remove your meta keyword tags, optimize them
- your link exchanges will probably not hurt you but stop doing it
- the search engine follow links, it will easily find your other content buried beyond the landing page
b) Link exchanges are dead. Accept this fact before you end up putting a R.I.P banner on your websites rankings.
c) Follow 0 tolerance policy for duplicate content. Dont ever copy any text from any website
d) Page Rank has no relationship with SEO rankings of your website (unless it drops to <0)
b) Link exchanges are dead. Accept this fact before you end up putting a R.I.P banner on your websites rankings.
d) Page Rank has no relationship with SEO rankings of your website (unless it drops to <0)
Neither of these are true.
Relevant link exchanges happen naturally. A niche is a niche. People happen to reference each other all the time. Link exchanges for the express purpose of manipulating rankings MAY be devalued- but not until you are caught. And if you keep it low-level, you are unlikely to be caught.
Some people are obsessed about PR. That way lies madness. But saying PR is dead is plain wrong- statistical analysis shows two things
1) Higher PR pages tend to rank higher than low PR pages
2) High PR links tend to give more benefit than low-PR links
[edited by: Shaddows at 9:58 am (utc) on Feb. 2, 2009]
