Which blogging platform do you use? If you’re using WordPress, like I do, than it would be useful to know some tips on how to make sure your blog content is more visible to the search engines. Joost de Valk wrote an interesting post on his blog discussing things to do to make your WP blog more SEO friendly. These are the tips discussed:

• Improve your titles, meta descriptions, and “more” texts
• Pick the correct permalink structure and slug
• Improve your template
• Remove duplicate content
• Interlink related posts
• Create linkable content!

Read in more detail on his blog. I especially liked the remove duplicate content advice. It seems simple enough, but I wouldn’t be surprised if a great portion of bloggers ignore duplicate content on their blog because of lack of understanding the way WordPress creates categories. Joost aims to continue this post with another one discussing the next step in WordPress SEO, so there will be more tips coming our way.

The fact that these are WordPress tips doesn’t mean they are not useful for other blogging platforms. On the contrary, almost all tips discussed can be implemented on blogs powered by different blogging software.

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