Google Writes Guide For Bloggers

By Kevin Muldoon

Google has recently added a new page to their Best Practices area specifically for bloggers.

The guide gives bloggers some basic Search Engine Optimisation tips like linking to internal pages within your blog and adding a sitemap to your blog. However it also gives advice on a lot of non-SEO issues like promotion and encourages bloggers to ‘Write well and often‘.

Here is a quick summary of what Google suggests bloggers should do :

Create great content

• Write well and often
• Follow the webmaster guidelines
• Categorize your posts
• Make sure users (and crawlers) can easily find your blog
• If necessary, limit comment spam
• Check our tips for affiliate sites

Make sure readers and crawlers can find your content

• Create descriptive titles for each of your posts
• Connect with your online community
• Publish a feed of your content

Your blog and Webmaster Tools

• Add your blog to your Webmaster Tools account
• Verify your blog
• Submit a Sitemap

I know that blogging is an incredibly popular medium but I find it strange how they have only written a guide for bloggers. Perhaps they will extend this section at a later date and include tips for forum owners etc.

The guide doesn’t cover anything which experienced webmasters will not know but it’s a useful guide nonetheless and one which I’m sure will help new bloggers.

Link : Creating a Google-friendly site: Best practices for bloggers

Kevin Muldoon is the owner of Blogging Tips, a blog dedicated to helping bloggers succeed online.