Optimizing Your Blog For Search Engines

Marketing Profs has a detailed article on site optimization over on their site for their premium subscribers. Here’s a summary:

1. Customize your title tags with keywords
2. Rewrite your URLs for link gain
3. Tag clouds and tag pages are your twin secret weapons
4. Link to related posts
5. Create a Top 10 Posts list, regardless of posting age, and offer links to these
6. Lose “permalink” and “click here” from your linking vocabulary and instead link with keyword-rich anchor text
7. Create sticky posts to gain keyword prominence on category or tag pages
8. Use heading tags to reinforce your keyword theme
9. Guide the search engines to your key points with bold, strong or emphasis tags within the body of the post
10. Multiple author blogs need author pages and the links to their sites need to be cleverly done to maximize SEO benefit to them

Via: Business Blog Consulting