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SEO Question: Blog Titles vs. Blog URLs and their effectiveness

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6:55 pm
March 2, 2011


fptguy

Colorado

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posts 21

Nice discussion guys!  Financial Blogger stated stuff close to what I know.  But I agree age is very important also with great content and highly relevant links, the big G loves this.

 

Always use SEO plugin like All In One Seo or SEO Ultimate (more features)

 

This maybe overkill and not always required, but here are some rules that I've learned that seem to work well

 

Keyword should be in:

1) Title of Post (SEO plugin)

2) URL for page

3) Description (SEO plugin)

4) tags (SEO plugin)

5) content (once every 100-200 words if possible)

AND

6) External link anchor – when linking back to the keyword optimized post, in the anchor text say 1/4 to 1/5 of the time.

7) Internal link anchor –  from other related posts using exact keyword every time if you like since it's within your own site.  If in Wordpress I used the Related posts plugin beneath the post to help me find related posts quickly.

 

Hope that helps!

FPT Guy

Financial Planning Tips

Twitter: @fptguy

5:09 pm
March 30, 2011


Fcoll

New Member

posts 2

Post edited 5:09 pm – March 30, 2011 by Fcoll


Since some people were worried about post url length, there's a plugin which automatically removes stop words from your urls (a, the, etc.) — http://wordpress.org/extend/pl…..seo-slugs/

 

P.S. It does create some ridiculous urls from time to time :)

11:03 pm
April 27, 2011


Sylvia

Houston, Texas

Member

posts 57

Guys!! Read this latest article from seomoz Cool

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/8-e…..n-page-seo

11:17 pm
April 27, 2011


Sylvia

Houston, Texas

Member

posts 57

Well!! Thanks Mike..

 

Alan – MoneySanity.com said:

The Financial Blogger said:

Here's how I see it:

 

example: 

let's say you want to rank for the keyword "First Time Mortgage"

 

best way to write your title is: First Time Mortgage: 5 Tricks To Buy Your House

your keyword is the first thing in your title, so Google will get more attention.

 

url structure: first-time-mortgage-tricks

you get only relevant keywords coming from your title. So google can track the url and identify your keyword right away

 

in the first paragraph: include again "first time mortgage"

Google bots will give more importance to words inside the first paragraph. It makes sense since you should announce what your post is about in the very first line of your article, right?

 

additional tricks: read my thread

I have written a thread on SEO on the yakezie forum, this should help you out ranking for your keywords:

http://yakezie.com/forums/blog…..38;ret=all

 

cheers,

 

Mike

 

Mike, Great stuff. If you haven't already you should consider a blog about blogging.

Thanks!

 

Alan


12:27 pm
May 15, 2011


Buy Like Buffett

Member

posts 1682

Good article Sylvia.

 

 

Mark

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5:27 pm
May 16, 2011


Invest It Wisely

Member

posts 2019

JT_McGee said:

The Wall Street Chalkboard (Jeff) said:

Can someone tell me why my SEO sucks. When I get visits from search engines, most of them are from google images, or international visitors. I currently use the all in one seo package, but I haven't had much success.


Really, even if you did everything 100% by the book, the fact that your site is <1 year old is the killer.  Google values the age of the site more than is probably reasonable.  Trust me, you'll see serious jumps at the 6, 12 and 24 month old mark.  Google rewards those who have been around awhile, and does so generously.
 

^^^

Now that I'm in my first year I'm seeing some significant boosts in SE traffic. Only downside is a lot of it is tied to a couple of articles (the articles themselves are 10% of SE but like 80% of adsense and if you look at the keywords, most of them are related to the keywords of those two articles). I think it's because one article was featured on two major sites which really helped.

6:30 pm
May 16, 2011


JT_McGee

Member

posts 723

Invest It Wisely said:

JT_McGee said:

The Wall Street Chalkboard (Jeff) said:

Can someone tell me why my SEO sucks. When I get visits from search engines, most of them are from google images, or international visitors. I currently use the all in one seo package, but I haven't had much success.


Really, even if you did everything 100% by the book, the fact that your site is <1 year old is the killer.  Google values the age of the site more than is probably reasonable.  Trust me, you'll see serious jumps at the 6, 12 and 24 month old mark.  Google rewards those who have been around awhile, and does so generously.
 

^^^

Now that I'm in my first year I'm seeing some significant boosts in SE traffic. Only downside is a lot of it is tied to a couple of articles (the articles themselves are 10% of SE but like 80% of adsense and if you look at the keywords, most of them are related to the keywords of those two articles). I think it's because one article was featured on two major sites which really helped.

Crazy isn't it?  What you said sounds a lot like the changes I see when sites age. It's like everything that worked for the first year is then dialed up for having been a year older.  Compound SEO? ;)

I have a site turning 6 years old this year…I'm hoping Google brings me a big birthday gift. :P

 

JT McGee – MoneyMamba

URL: MoneyMamba.com 

Twitter: @JT_McGee

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5:55 am
May 17, 2011


Sylvia

Houston, Texas

Member

posts 57

Thanks Mark…

 

Invest It Wisely said:

JT_McGee said:

The Wall Street Chalkboard (Jeff) said:

Can someone tell me why my SEO sucks. When I get visits from search engines, most of them are from google images, or international visitors. I currently use the all in one seo package, but I haven't had much success.


Really, even if you did everything 100% by the book, the fact that your site is <1 year old is the killer.  Google values the age of the site more than is probably reasonable.  Trust me, you'll see serious jumps at the 6, 12 and 24 month old mark.  Google rewards those who have been around awhile, and does so generously.
 

^^^

Now that I'm in my first year I'm seeing some significant boosts in SE traffic. Only downside is a lot of it is tied to a couple of articles (the articles themselves are 10% of SE but like 80% of adsense and if you look at the keywords, most of them are related to the keywords of those two articles). I think it's because one article was featured on two major sites which really helped.

11:30 am
June 1, 2011


billspaced

New Member

posts 1

Great discussion, all! My informed response to the original query is, "It depends." :)

 

And since it depends, why not optimize in all ways possible? URL, URL structure (there is a difference), title, tags, categories, keywords, CONTENT (huge), offpage factors, etc.?

 

For example, if your keyword phrase (KWP) is available as a .com, take it. If not, try .org and then .net. If still not available, go for KWP+some number or modifier (bluewidgets101.com, for example).

 

You can't do anything about your domain age, though, as a lot of people have said here, age really matters.

 

Don't forget backlinks–links do count, as long as they're indexed. Links do have different weightings, however, with the SEs. A link from Wikipedia is better than a link from JoeBlow.com. However, get enough JoeBlow.com-type links and you make up for the quality with volume.

 

As in real life, make the best of what you have. If you already have a killer website but its URL isn't keyword rich, who cares? Make the most of it, using other tactics (get more backlinks, optimize your permalinks, guest blog to drive more traffic to your site, etc.).

 

ALWAYS write good content, make frequent updates. And don't forget the importance of traffic–traffic begets more traffic. The more traffic you get, the higher up in the ranks you go (all other things staying the same).

8:41 pm
June 21, 2011


Kristoph

Member

posts 11

People have provided great answers here. 

 

I think search engine traffic is ultimately about content, however. No matter how much optimization you do for keywords, etc. the amount of traffic you get is largely proportional to the quality and quantity of inbound links. If you provide fresh, relevant, remarkable content, you'll get frequent visits and inbound links. I suggest building quality links from sites that have traffic already, and let your remarkable content spread through word of mouth. That worked for my earlier blogs and I'm applying to my current one. 

 

Kristoph

Smashing Entrepreneur Blog - Harness passion, ideas, and entrepreneurship to live an epic lifestyle.


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