In my previous article I talked about Link building Tips for blogger. Toady I’ll try to discuss about 5 basic steps for off page search engine optimization (SEO). It’s totally basic technique and result from my own experience.

I’ll discuss for who have no experience about off page search engine optimization. Off page seo technique is similar to Link building method. If you search in google for “song download” you’ll find 122,000,000 website in search engine result page (SERP). But main thing is which one in first place. First place acquired website has done on page and off page seo.

Here is popular off page seo techniques:

1. Directory submission:
Its one of the most popular and most practiced way to submit website in directory and get a quality backlinks. I have talked in my previous post about a list of directory where you can submit your site. These web directory offer free links or paid links. If you have a good amount of money for directory Submission, you may choose high traffic directories. They start charging from $15 to $ 100 for a certain period. Search engine bots frequently visits well known directories. So there is a chance to get quality back links.

2. Article/ Blog submission:
This is very popular and appreciated technique. Suppose you have a site about “Football accessories”, you may write article your product related web site about your product, service, price etc. You can open a new section of your web site which is Blog section. You may write article daily, weekly or monthly write about your products , service etc. This will help your pages to be indexed soon and come up in SERP.

3. Signature posting in forum:
Internet is a place where always someone to help you. This concept is created Forums. Forums are off different kinds of – computer forums, fashion forums, doctors’ forums etc. If become a member of forum related to your website’s niche. Most of the forum allows you to keep your website’s link after certain amount of posting. It allows to get a quality back link from related topics.

4. Link Exchange:
Link Exchange has lost it’s popularity. Link Exchange means Site A will place Site B link in it’s website and Site B will place Site A link it’s website. Now a days, new means of Link exchange is taking place – 3 ways Link exchange, so that Google and other search engine have little idea of link exchange. According to that Site A will place Site B link, Site B will place site C link, Site C will place Site A link!

5. Social Bookmarking :
Social Bookmarking gaining popularity now a days. Its not only a means of backlinks but also generates huge number of potential web traffic. Digg, Stumbleupon, Technorati, Del.icio.us are very well known bookmarking sites. So you may try other dofollow bookmarking sites if you are looking for backings; link Spurl, Mister Wong, Backflip, Bibsonomy etc. Otherwise you should use previously mensioned bookmarking sites for traffic.

If you have different views, please feel free to post comments.

Today i'm showing How to optimize image in blogger(Blogspot). Its another quick seo Tips for blogger. 8 things always keep in mind when you put image in a blog.

• Include the keyword in your image name:
  Example: Instead of "DSC5548.jpg ", Its better to name it as "seo-tips-for-blogger.jpg".
  
  Never use characters/spaces in filenames as they will be encoded. Ex: – Instead of "DSC%25644cat.jpg" it’s better to name it "DSC-25644cat.jpg"

• Use the ALT tags:
  ALT tags are recommended, though their usage is debated. Let’s put it this way. It may not give you a good push in the SERPS, but definitely, you don’t want to lose an opportunity.
  Example:<br /><img src="SEO-tips-for-blogger.jpg" width="257" height="329" alt="Snowing - Seo tips, Iseoblogger" /><br />
  

• Use the "Title" attributes:
  Title attributes are a great way to add meaningful information about the images. Use it. Example:- Title="White cat sitting on the wall." P.S – Don’t forget the image search traffic.

• Place the image within ample text:
  So that, engines can crawl the text and make out what the image is about, if at all the ALT tags, filenames and TITLE attributes aren’t available.

• Do not use the same ALT tags for two or more images on the same page.

• Do not use the same TITLE attributes.

• If possible, place the image amidst the textual content.
• Name the folders with your keyword variants in place.

Yes ! If there’s one thing that I do for optimizing on a webpage that would be obviously the Page Title. It is the most important SEO factor and it helps search engines get the idea about your website.

1. What is the length of my page title?

From the point of view, the idle length of the page title is around 65 character. You know Google SERPs display only 65 character.Anything after which will be truncated. So it makes sense to write page titles within the 65 character limit.

2.Repeating keywords on page title?

We’ve been told several times that repeating keywords on the page title is not a good idea. But every other website I see (popular ones) do follow this method. What’s disappointing is that while Google suggests that this is bad karma, not all the time can they “catch” such acts.

Also, most of the time, when keywords are repeated on the title, there are all sorts of keyword spamming techniques that follow. Obviously, if the webmaster is taking the luxury of spamming his page title, then he must be following other methods too.

So, if you’ve been repeating keywords on your page title, then its most likely that you’ll lose your reputation with Google somewhere down the line, if not now. Most of the successful websites doing keyword title spamming, is either gone unnoticed or not within the Google radar, so don’t imitate them.

3. Does your Page Title answer the users question? Use it as a Call For Action.

You know, people tend to like websites that address their concerns. So, if someone is searching something on Google and assuming that your site appears on the first page, check if the page title is answering the users question. Merely matching the search term just isn’t enough to convince the user.

For example, if the Google search query is -

“What is Karate ?”

A perfect title would be something like –

“Learn Popular Martial Art Karate – Get Karate Gear,Videos etc”

Rather than something like –

“Karate Videos, Karate Gear, Karate Masters, Blah Blah”.

4. Make your Page Title different from others.
When writing page titles, keep in mind that there are ten other competitors thinking like you and doing the same thing as you to get their sites ranked. In order to “win the user” you have to be different. A simple solution is to check your keyword rankings on Google and find out what the top competition page titles are like. Then write effective and attractive copy within the 65 character limit.

5. Select and design your keywords after thoughtful keyword research.
If you select and design your keywords properly 65 characters is a lot of space, and spamming occurs when you are not sure about what keywords to target. So don’t just go about picking up every keyword variation possible from your keyword research tool. You just got 66 characters, make full use of it.

This Widget will Display Recent comments on Blogger Blog.

Step 1: Go to your Blogger account.

Step 2: Next you have to go Dashboard > Layout > Page Element > Add a Gadget > HTML/JavaScript

Step 3: Copy and paste the code below:

<br /><script style="text/javascript" src="http://www.freewebs.com/filer/blogger/rc.js" ></script><script style="text/javascript" >var a_rc=5;var m_rc=false;var n_rc=true;var o_rc=100;</script><script src="http://YourOwnB1og.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default?alt=json-in-script&callback=showrecentcomments" ></script><div;><small>↑ <a href="http://www.madtomatoe.com/recent-comments-widget-for-blogger/">Grab This </a><a href="http://www.madtomatoe.com/" target="_blank" title="Recent Comments Widget">Widget</a></small></div> <br />



Step 4: In this code Look for the line:

<br />…src=”http://YourOwnB1og.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default… <br />



Step 5: And replace the blog address (indicated in color blue below) with your own blog address.

Step 6: Add title and save it.
That's it !


Options:
Number of Comments
This widget is set to display 5 recent comments. If you want to change that number, just look for the number 5 in the code and replace it with the number of comments you want to be displayed. I recommend setting it between 4 and 8.

<br />… a_rc=5;var m_rc=false;var n_rc=true;var… <br />




Number of Characters (Excerpt)
This widget is set to display an excerpt of 100 characters of each comment. If you want to change that number, just look for the number 100 in the code and replace it with the number of characters you want to be displayed. *

<br />n_rc=true;var o_rc=100; <br />

*Recommended setting: 50 to 100.

The tips of link building give you a guarantee that you will get link from established website. This differs from content-oriented development strategies which hope to gradually attract natural editorial links.

These link building tips focus more on targeted link placement or link insertion, whereby you are likely to control the specific anchor text used.

• Submit your site to Web Directories: This is a pretty monotonous process that can get you several hundred backlinks if you have the time. An alternative would be to hire a manual directory submitter. Here’s a list of web directories you can use. You can also find some blog directories here.
  
• Submit Press Releases to PR sites: A basic press release about your website’s launch can be released to several PR websites, who will distribute it to various online news outlets. A good way to get a free link. I recommend using PRWeb and PRLeap
  
• Reciprocal Links with Similar Websites: Its important to pick sites that are of high relevance so you’ll not only get links but traffic. Reciprocal linking can be useful from the beginning but don’t overdo it. You can find link partners by emailing them directly or searching through webmaster forums.
  
• Article Submissions. Create a short article on your niche topic and submit it to article directories for a backlink and some traffic. You might get more links if your article is picked up and published on other websites. Here is a list of article directories, sorted by Alexa and PageRank.
  
• Social Media Profiles: There a whole bunch of social websites online which allow you to insert a link to your website on the profile page. Sign up for some of them, preferably using a username and avatar that brands your business or you as a person. This might come in useful when you decide to promote your site via the social website in the future.
  
• Social Bookmarking/Voting Websites: Certain social voting websites like Netscape or Digg are often crawled by search engines and their links do help to get a website indexed. 3spots has the biggest list of social voting and bookmarking websites I’ve seen so far.
  
• Forum Signatures: Sign up for some forums in your niche and start contributing to ongoing discussions. Insert a link to the homepage or some inner pages of your site.
  
• Create a Tool, Theme or Widget: Pay a designer to come up with an add-on application or template that is related to a specific social network, popular website or platform. Include a credit link that points back to your designated website.
• Blogs on Other Blog Platforms: Use existing blogs you have on other blog networks. Or set up different versions of your blog on different blog networks like Wordpress.com, Blogger and Xanga. Link to specific webpages on your website.
  
• Comment on Other Blogs: Start commenting on relevant and popular sites in your niche. Don’t just spam for links but focus on building a relationship with other bloggers as well. Write a relevant comment and try to avoid using keyword names or signature links.

Post a comment if you feel something Wrong.

One way to drive traffic to your blog is to claim it in different Blog directories, one of the best is Technorati, they provide a pretty straight forward method to claim your Blogger.com blog. Once there they let you fill out your blog profile, including keywords, description and so on.

There is a side to this that most people don't understand. It's very hard sometimes for you to actually get into the top 10 SERPs on google.com and the major search engines, sometimes it takes months. But on most blog directories you can easily get into their top search results if you use the right keywords and descriptions, and since a lot of people visit these sites to find blogs they will eventually drive traffic towards you.

Also the profile page that it creates for your blog will get picked up pretty quickly by the major search engines, so this will also drive traffic towards your blog pretty quickly.

So try It