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title: "Search Engine Optimization for Your Blog: Three Easy Techniques, and also Drawbacks to SEO"
date: 2007-06-26
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# Search Engine Optimization for Your Blog: Three Easy Techniques, and also Drawbacks to SEO
- **Put keywords in the title and first paragraph.** Google places a heavy emphasis on keywords appearing in the title and first paragraph. The best placement is actually the first word in each. You can also install an SEO plugin in case you can't fit the keywords into the title gracefully. The [All in One SEO Pack](http://wp.uberdose.com/2007/03/24/all-in-one-seo-pack/) allows you to customize the title that Google sees, so you can stack your keywords and still have a literate-sounding title.

- **Link to everything.** Incoming links are everything when it comes to SEO. The more people who are aware of your blog, the more likely they are to link to you. So link to as many people and resources as you can in each post. To automate trackback notification, install this [Kramer](http://dev.wp-plugins.org/wiki/Kramer) plugin.

- **Write interesting content.** The claim to fame on my blog is basically one post I wrote about [blog usability](https://idratherbewriting.com/2007/04/09/twenty-usability-tips-for-your-blog--condensed-from-dozens-of-bloggers-experiences/). It received 188 comments/trackbacks and was translated into about a dozen languages. A few popular bloggers picked it up as well as [Stumble Upon](http://www.stumbleupon.com/) and [Del.icio.us](http://del.icio.us/). It surged my readership from 80 to 250 subscribers practically overnight. The more interesting content you have, the more people will link back to you. The more links you have, the higher your authority. The higher your authority, the higher your rank in search returns.