Personal Blog Templates

• Published:February 16th, 2008
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Well, you’ve launched your personal blog. You’ve already done the largest part of the work: you’ve chosen the right personal blog template - the one reflecting your personality and taste most… You have already learned how to work with Wordpress blog admin panel. And it can seem to you that the most difficult things on the way of becoming a blogger are done. But there is one more thing which will take your time before your readers find you and your posts.
You can be an excellent writer and have a great journalist’s talent, you can even have a strong belief that your great ideas can save the whole world. But there is a little chance for your personal blog to be found and read if you do not care about your blog promotion. Why? The answer is simple. The amount of web pages dictate bloggers definite rules –

To become popular you must use SEO methods!

For those who feel dummy in Search Engine Optimization (SEO) I decided to explain what tricks will help your personal blog appear on the top lines of search engines ratings.

SEO will not be very difficult if you know some basic rules:

Using Wordpress blog templates you have a lot of useful opportunities like different plugins. You can use only one to raise your rating radiply. Its name is Headspace. HeadSpace is a powerful all-in-one plugin to manage meta-data and handle a wide range of SEO tasks. With it you can tag your posts, create custom titles and descriptions that improve your page ranking, change the theme or run disabled plugins on specific pages, and a whole lot more. Just load it to you computer, install and choose preferences.

1. Optimize the titles of posts, articles and news. After you chose key words for your personal blog use them in the titles of its content. Doing that, remember that your aim is to attract people to your personal blog and searchers will only help you do it. That’s why write interesting titles which will differ from other titles of internet articles on chosen theme. Other way you will have risk being on the top lines of search engine ratings not to attract alive people to your personal blog.

2. Optimize links. Use key words in the anchor texts (names of links), which are the ways to the full versions of your posts or other blogs and useful web resources. It will make you SEO more effective.

3. Optimize your Wordpress personal blog themes. Pay attention to the existing menu structure. Every theme in your blog must have entrance from the main page. Article pages should be linked to other posts, having similar content. Wordpress templates offer good options to organize your personal blog structure according to SEO requirements.

4. Use not more then 5% of keywords for one page. Otherwise pages will be overloaded. The same thing with titles - they must include not more then 50 signs.

5. Use unique content in your personal blog. Some times you will feel that your are tired and don’t want to write your own article or post for your blog. Maybe you will want to place an article of some other author in your personal blog. It is simple and does not take a lot of time. But don’t do it. Or at least don’t forget to link to the original. Content of your personal blog must be unique.

6. In connection with the previous point - write content which may be interesting to other bloggers or web resources. If they quote from your personal blog, they will have to provide a link. It will give you more useful links from other sites to your blog, which is a very important SEO criterion.