Saturday, October 07, 2006

How to make Blogdrive pages rank higher in search engines?

Blogdrive is a great *cough* blogging software, however it isn't the most search engine friendly blog platform around.

New entries or blogs tend to get higher ranking than old post because of Blogdrive's way of handling 404 pages. These new content, either entries or blogs receive a large amount of incoming links from Blogdrive main page and 404 pages. (The number of incoming links is porportional to your page rank.)

As a result, if you regularly updates your blog, your blog will naturally have higher page rank due to these incoming links. (Tip 1)

Other methods, will largely depend on the design and internal HTML coding of your blog.

Tip 2: Insert permalink of important post you made to your sidebar. Since your sidebar appears in every single page of your entire blog, it naturally gives a high number of incoming links. It helps a lot.

Associating keywords to your individual post have a tremendous help of relating to relevant searches. This, however is difficult because Blogdrive system doesn't help in this aspect, at all.

A little hack here and there in the HTML makes a difference.

Such as this blog, each permalink pages have it's Blog Title in the title bar. This is done by forcing individual blog post title into the <title> tag. (Tip 3) This method makes your permalink page rank goes up a significant one PR (PageRank)

Another method, is to link to your individual post with the relevant keyword. Either in your blog, or your friend. Let's consider this as Tip 4.

Tip 5: A newly discovered method by myself, is to insert your blog title into your permalink. Currently, all permalink has the format http://seigey.blogdrive.com/archive/360.html with no specific keyword in the URL. If we make it look like this:
http://seigey.blogdrive.com/archive/360.html?Search+Engine+Friendly+BlogDrive

I consider this as another genius idea of mine and I gladly share it with all. Have fun.

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