It’s easy to spend hours browsing the internet, trying to pick up cool SEO tips someone may not have thought of. Well thats fine, but here are 5 simple top tips that you may have overlooked.

  1. The number one piece of advice anyone can give you is to keep your blog up to date! A stagnant blog which hasn’t been updated since February of last year probably won’t be useful to anyone. An entry every week or two will work wonders for search engines, they can’t seem to get enough of that fresh content!
  2. Make it interesting! Will it add value to your site? Will people actually find it interesting or useful? If the answer to either question is no, then don’t waste your time. Instead, think of something which is going to be interesting to your target users.
  3. It’s all good and well writing some kick ass blog posts which should generate lots of quality traffic, however what’s the point if your blog isn’t robot friendly? Ensure you have a tidy link structure – main navigation, sub-navigation, content. Simple right? Well don’t complicate things then!
  4. Use catagories in your blog. You need to make browsing through articles as simple as possible for the user. So what better than to utilize tags? They only need view what is relevant to them. You can also take advantage of an archieve function to aid those who only wish to view recent posts.
  5. Stick to the point. An article which covers various topics is useless for SEO. If its about wireless adapters, talk about wireless adapters, not how bad your ISP is! You can also check that your article’s URL contains the keyword you are attempting to optimise for. For example if we had an article about Cenix being awesome, our URL could be ‘http://cenix.co.uk/how-awesome-are-we/’.

Good luck optimising!