Blogs are here to stay in one form or another. Getting your blog found in search engine results pages is important for getting new readers. There are lots of ways to do SEO, but Uncle Arthur has put some wild ideas of his own together about simplifying this process. These ideas are listed below in my easu to read list of 10 Great Ways to Optimize your blog.

1. Add a Tag Cloud and tag pages to your blog - search engines love this and so do readers.

2. Add a section for Related Posts. Readers love the convenience of seeing where they can get further content.

3. Use a Top Five Post List - your new and returning readers can even vote on them.

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4. Establish a good number of Inbound Links - it gives search engines the clue that you are important.

5. Use Your Title tags – There are plugins to do this with WordPress.

6. Make Sure You Join Technorati - apply the Technorati tags.

7. Use your “sticky” posts at the top of the page to add keywords in an introduction for each category page. Adhesive plugin works for this.

8. Put “next” and “previous” buttons on your posts.

9. Use the Buzzlogic tool to find out who are the bloggers with the most influence – get to know them and try to get them to link to you.

10. Get your blog onto the blog rolls of other blogs - much better than pursuing comment and trackback links.

Well, I don’t know everything, but these should help you make your blog much more optimized. With these 10 Great Ways to Optimize Your Blog you should get a steady increase in traffic via SERPs.

Finding the Path to Utopia,
Arthur Browning