Basic SEO Terms For Bloggers

by Ishan on July 27, 2009 · 16 comments

Search Engines

Search Engines

Recently, Creative Junkie commented on one of my SEO related posts:

*sigh* – I hate that I don’t understand this stuff.

This made me realize that I need to introduce readers to some basic terms related with Search Engine Optimization.

  1. SEO: Search Engine Optimization refers to practices used to improve ranks on Search Engine results. This, in turn, brings more traffic to website/blog.
  2. Title: Title is a meta tag that is shown on the title bar of your browser.
  3. Meta Description: Meta Description is not visible to normal visitors. Search Engines show it below the title on results page.
  4. Keywords: Keywords are just like tags. The only difference is that these are used by search engines to determine the relevance of a page to the topic. Assigning right keywords to your pages can increase your search engine traffic dramatically but a wrong step can get you penalized!
    Always do some keyword research before assigning keywords to your posts and keep theme relevant. Wrong Keywords can hurt your ranking!
  5. Keyword Density: Keyword density is the percentage of times a keyword or phrase appears on a web page compared to the total number of words on the page. Ideal keyword density should be around 5-10%.
  6. ALT Text: Alt text is the alternate text that is displayed when a picture is not available. Search Engines consider it in image searches.
  7. Page Rank: Page Rank is Goggle's algorithm(actually, group of algorithms) that is used to determine the position of page on results page.
  8. Inbound Link: A link from another blog/website to your blog is called inbound an link.
    Number of Inbound Links is one of the most important factors for SEO. So, you should start building links!
  9. Outbound Link: A link from your blog to some other website/blog is called outbound link.
  10. Internal Link: A link that goes from one page of your blog to another page is called an internal link.
  11. No Follow: No Follow is a link attribute that is used to stop the flow of Page Rank from one page to other. You can make a link no follow by adding rel = "nofollow" inside <a> tag. e.g. < a rel = "nofollow" href = "http://bloggingwithsuccess.net/">
  12. Do Follow: Do Follow means that a link is not nofollow. Remember that this is not an attribute.

These were 12 basic SEO terms from bloggers.

Let me know if I missed something out.

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{ 16 comments }

Ricky Peterson August 11, 2009

This is a nice article to understand in detail about SEO

Christina Crowe August 5, 2009

Great list! This has helped me tremendously!

I'm also one of those people unfamiliar with SEO, though I've been researching a great deal about the topic. Thanks for the clarification!

Tech-Freak Stuff August 4, 2009

Very beautiful list! These are really a must know for all Bloggers and WebMasters.

Asswass July 30, 2009

When do you know it’s time to use the No Follow attribute?

RankUno July 31, 2009

You can use nofollow attribute for the following events:

1. When you have trust oriented logos of hacker’s safe, scan’s alert and other award badges on your site. These websites do not need link juice from our website.

2. When you linking to some skeptical sites or content.

3. When linking to internal pages don’t need Page Rank namely, terms of use, login page, registration page, etc.

4. When you have comments under moderation in your blog. Those comments can be attributed as nofollow until they are moderated."

Asswass July 31, 2009

Thanks RankUno, I guess I now understand "no follow". Cheers

Creative Junkie July 30, 2009

I now have several blog posts of yours that I have saved in order to read them and re-read them multiple times to fully understand them. Why this stuff doesn't computer with me, even relatively simple stuff like this vocabulary, is beyond me. I'm wondering if I suffered some awful web-related trauma previously and now have a mental block?

Mr. I July 30, 2009

Do not worry. All this looks like alien stuff at first.

Just keep learning in small chunks and you will be expert one day.

And yes, if you need any help, we are always here! :-)

Eddie Gear July 28, 2009

Hi there,

Very well written and though out post targeting a regular reader.

Cheers,

Eddie Gear

Mr. I July 30, 2009

Thanks for compliment. Hope the post helped you.

Heryrhey July 28, 2009

Nice tips SEO do you have, care to exchange links?

Mr. I July 30, 2009

Hi Heryrhey,

Thanks for the offer but we do not exchange links.

Ruchi July 28, 2009

I agree Nicholas, when I started with blogging I was finding it too boring and time consuming to learn. This is really nice article for readers who want to understand this in proper manner. Nice post Mr. I

Mr. I July 30, 2009

Thanks for the compliment. Hope the post helped you.

Nicholas Z. Cardot July 28, 2009

I remember that when I was first getting started I had no clue what a lot of this stuff meant. This article should make it clear for a lot of the readers here.

Mr. I July 30, 2009

Glad that you found this article helpful. Make sure to read other posts about SEO:

<a href = "http://bloggingwithsuccess.net/blogging-habits-seo&quot; rel="nofollow">Baisc SEO Habits Are Easy To Establish

<a href = "http://bloggingwithsuccess.net/increase-search-engine-traffic&quot; rel="nofollow">Step By Step Guide To Increase Search Engine Traffic

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