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Monday, August 18, 2008

Increase Blog Traffic! Meta Tag's Role in Search Engine Optimization

Anybody who wants to engage or is currently engaged in earning online needs to master the secrets of increasing their blog or website traffic. In increasing your traffic, submitting your blog url to various search engines is one thing, but making your blog fit for search engine indexing is another thing.

I am not an internet guru nor a technology expert but, I can share here some tips that you might find useful in optimizing your blog's search engine rankings.

Before submitting your blog url to the different search engines, be sure that you had placed the appropriate meta tag element in your blog or web pages. A meta tag is a hidden code placed in the section of your html page. The meta tag element is an HTML or XHTML element that provides information on your blog description and keywords. Many, yes many... because not all, search engines classify and scan or crawl the submitted blog based on the information associated with the meta tag.

If you want to increase the probability of your blog from being found by the search engines, you have to create a good title for your blog and incorporate the right meta tag element. However, as already mentioned, for some search engines meta tags do not really have a small relevance at all, because your blog can also be indexed based on its contents.

I will not go into the technicalities behind the meta tags. However, in order for us to take advantage of their importance , we need to know how we can integrate these elements in our blog.

Things would be much easier for us if we will use meta tag generators. Several websites offer free services related to meta tag generation. You may try to use the free meta tag generator of submitexpress.com. Go to the free tools tab, then click on meta tags generator.

After filling up the required fields, you should have a code is similar to the one below.

The words in red will depend on your blog title, description and keywords. On the other hand, those elements that are in blue, may or may not be changed. Anyway, when you go to the meta tag generator at submitexpress.com, you will be presented automatically with the appropriate meta tag for your blog according to the information that you will enter there.

To place the meta tag in BLOGGER, go to layout, click edit html, then click expand widgets. Paste the meta tag right above the code below.

Click save templates and that's it, you're done.

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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

It's always good to make sure your website or blog is pre optimized for the search engines. You want to do this because when your site or blog gets crawled with the wrong info it may take a while for new changes to take place.