SEO Tip Number 7: Other things to do and not to do

Besides writing better, using keywords, optimizing your inbound and outbound links, and doing other stuffs you’ve been hearing from me these past series, well, there are also other additional things that you might consider observing to really optimize your blog for search engines and get a better ranking.

Submit your blog URL to search engines

You might’ve been doing a lot of work within your blog but then you notice that you’re barely getting any traffic from search engines. The problem perhaps lies in the fact that search engines haven’t indexed your site yet. If your site is still in its starting stage then that’s probably true. (If you’re using Blogger/Blogspot though you don’t have to worry that much since Google will definitely index you.)

You can try submitting your Blog URL to search engines manually, or use those sites that offer free search engine submissions. Check this article for the links to free search engine submissions that I recommend. Take note that Google, Yahoo, and MSN aren’t the only search engines around and used by everybody.

Also, if you want Yahoo to index your blog faster, the easiest way around this is to get a Yahoo account and sign-up for a “My Yahoo Page”. There you can subscribe to the RSS feed of your blog.

Things to avoid

• Links “from” and “to” spam sites. This is bad for your blog. Because if you have lots of these, the search engines might be led into thinking that you’re also involved in spamming. Always check your comments section for spam and remove it once you spot one.
• Participation in Link-Schemes. If you’re buying or selling links, there might be some problem. If caught, your SERP rating and page rank will drop since you sort of compromised Google’s trust in you because of active participation in selling/buying links instead of linking to really valuable sites that could help your readers.
• Over-stuffing of keywords. Why? It’s because when you do this, it’s pretty obvious that you’re not after quality content but for tricking search engines into ranking you better because of tons of keywords. And that’s where you’re wrong. Search engines will see through your game and see you as a spammer.
• Misspellings and bad grammar. It doesn’t play that much role in your search engine ranking; but if it does, it might be that your visitors aren’t very fond of paying attention to what you’re saying. If your blog is teeming with wrong spellings and hard to understand grammar, it can cause massive brain hemorrhage. What more if you do it on your keywords? Well, people won’t be able to find it in their related searches all because it is indexed as “kayward” instead of “keyword”, right?

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