Searchable Blog–KISS Rule*

Thejesh GN

Bloggers Collective Barcamp Bangalore-4

*KISS – Keep it simple and stupid. These tips are only for beginners.

What is searchable blog?

If your blog appears on first two pages of the search engine (google or yahoo) when searched on specific keys

Our case study http://www.eventsbangalore.net

Case Study

EventsBangalore.Net

Keywords: Bangalore, Events, Upcoming etc

Identify the url and keywords

Get your URL Correct

Get your URL correct Use the keywords in the url Even if it is free hosting

Get your discription correct

<meta name="description" content="Events Bangalore. Whats up Bangalore. All happenings events in bangalore. Plays movies dram talks conference trekking ">

Autodetectable XML

<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS 2.0" href="http://feeds.eventsbangalore.net/eventsbangalore" />

Use the tags or categories

<a href="http://technorati.com/tag/bangalore" rel="tag">bangalore</a><a href="http://technorati.com/tag/events+bangalore" rel="tag">events bangalore</a><a href="http://technorati.com/tag/upcoming+bangalore" rel="tag">upcoming bangalore</a><a href="http://technorati.com/tag/bangalore+events" rel="tag">bangalore events</a>

Submit to search engines

Technorati

http://www.google.com/addurl/

http://search.yahoo.com/info/submit.html

Use Google WMS

Use Google WMS http://www.google.com/webmasters/

Ping the servers

Technorati

http://pingomatic.com/

By default your blog software ( like wp or blogger) should do this. Verify the settings

Use proper titles and URL

Use descriptive titles and descriptive URLs. Both Blogger and WP support descriptive URLs. Enable them

Like http://www.thejeshgn.com/2007/07/29/look-maa-i-am-on-mutiny/

Instead of http://www.thejeshgn.com/post_id=20

Last but not

Ask your friend for links with proper anchor text and title text

Thank You