If you have just started a new blog, perhaps you may wish to spend some time on on-site optimization. This is the best time to get your blog optimized for the search engines so that once you start posting content, the bots can crawl your pages and index your content.

On-site optimization involves making some easy tweaks on your blog to make the pages more search engine friendly. That way, as soon as you go into off-site optimization, it is easier to get your blog ranked. Fortunately, you have full control over your blog. On-site optimization is easy as long as you know what to do.

Here are some tips to optimize your blog for high search engine rankings.

Tip 1: Primary keywords in domain name.

If you have not registered a domain name, you're in luck! Don't do it just yet. Go to a keyword research tool and identify a set of primary keywords that you like to rank for. For instance, if you are starting an SEO blog, then your keywords may look like "SEO Expert Blog". Have those keywords in your domain name. This is very significant. If you have previously installed the blog on a new domain, proceed to the next tip.

Tip 2: Always use friendly URLs.

Wordpress is the most popular blogging platform on the internet, so assume that your blog is hosted on Wordpress as well. The default setting for the URLs is not set to make your pages search engine friendly. You content URL will appear something like this:

/p=46

What you want is for your main keywords to become visible in the page title and the page url. To do that, go to your admin control panel. Next click on permalinks and select a format that you like. Any one will do, only if you change it from the default setting.

Your URL may possibly look something like this:

/30/2009/title-of-your-post.html

Observe how much cleaner the URL looks? And, your main keywords are now in your post title.

Tip 3: Always use a light weight template.

Wordpress allows bloggers to add and install plugins and templates. Unluckily, some templates are so complex that they make the whole blog looks cluttered. A cluttered blog is never a good thing. You have to keep in mind - search engines always prefer simplicity. The easier it is for the bots to crawl and determine the theme of your blog, the better it is. Therefore don't use templates that have too many files to load or are too complicated. Just make use of a clean and simple template.

Tip 4: Install all-in-one SEO plugin.

If you are baffled by on-site SEO, you can constantly make things simple by installing the All-in-one plugin. This plugin will prompt you on several options and these options are designed to make your blog search engine friendly. For instance, you can choose to have no-follow tags on your category pages to evade the duplicate content penalty. The plugin can also optimize your title tags.

At present that you have your blog tweaked and optimized for the search engines, it's time to learn how to build some back links.

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