SEO Blogging Tips

I recently watched a video from WordCamp 2007 where Matt Cutts spoke about Whitehat SEO tips for bloggers.

It was a good hour and I thought others would like my compiled SEO tips from the show rather than watch the entire hour.

SEO Blogging Tips

• Write a keyword rich title
• Suggested Keyword Tool from Matt Cutts
• Don’t put your blog at the root of your web server.
• Name it /blog/, not /wordpress/
• Use word variants. I.E. ‘change’ and ‘changing’ in Title, Body text, etc.
• Use keywords in categories
• Use keywords in URL (slug)
• Extensions do not matter
• Keep parameters low (i.e. ‘?action=edit&post?etc’)
• Google doesn’t care how many slashes you have in your URL or website address
• You don’t need the date in the URL post
• Standardize links (i.e. www or not, /directory/ or index.htm)

Here is the entire video: