Stopping Spam Getting Throught.

Spam its on the increase constantly, so you need to be aware of how to block it.

1. Akismet - very popular way to catch spam, for me it has only ever let 3 through out of around 2,000 so its my number one.

2. Change the settings in discussion (options >> discussion), a important one i find is ticking “Comment author must have a previously approved comment” this will then only allow people that commented previously to comment again.

3. Stats programs for Wordpress, these can be brilliant tools to use against spammers, I use one called Popularity Contest this will tell you what posts are most commented on even after the spam has been removed, then you can edit the post to disable commenting, I’ve found in some cases its practically halfed my spam count!

Website Content Make Your Keywords Stand Out.

You may of figured out by now that having keywords stand out could be important in getting your website ranked their are many ways in which you can do this:

1. Meta tags most important thing on your websites are use of meta tags these make life much easier, if your running Wordpress you will be able to do this easily by using a plugin called Ultimate Tag Warrior.

2. Bold tags you wouldn’t of thought this but using the bold tag it will make your keywords stand out more with Google so it puts them rank higher, but you don’t want to go over the top, keep it low maybe 10 per page, if you just spam your site with them Google will ignore you and lower your rank.

3. The H1 and H2 tags, these tags are used for headers and can be a very important thing in the world of SEO, by using the header tags Google will figure out that its a title theirfore ranking it higher and making your keywords much stronger, if your running a blog the header tags are a must have!

Website Layout Make It Easy For Google

You might not have thought that it really matters how your website is layed out, as you may have noticed my page is a mess mainly because I’m trying to reconstruct it to get the most out of Google.

How should it be layed out?

Well this is a slightly simple answer, you need the most important content to be shown first, for example this design was made so that the navigator is displayed before the main content in the source code, Google rated the first 50 words the highest so use your layout to make the most of these 50 words.

Also remember to keep your word count on the page around 1500 word if need be split the pages up, this will still allow you to have even better results in Google as each page they will rate the first 50 words the highest, so the more pages the better you might find just don’t over do it.

Links to and from your website.

The real question here is what does Google like?

Google, its all about Google now the problem with linking to things like directory’s that require a link back Google will not like that, no longer can you trade links with people unless you do a three way swap yeah this is very complected but now its the only way to still link swap.

One simple way to do this is by creating a del.icio.us account, try to get Google crawling it as much as possible for example add thousands of people to your network meaning you get more links to your account allowing Google to crawl the site more then link delicious to your site but do not link back, but if your on a bunch of forums put a delicious link in your signature or where ever else you can put the link, so use delicious to link to your site as much as possible.

If you’ve got any more sites you can then you can use delicious to link to the site as well, which allows you to stop interlinking them.

My Target This Week is Focus on SEO

My visitors count is going up and up, but its way too slow about each month I’m lucky to get a extra 50 unique visitor count but this isn’t enough.

So from now on I’m focusing all my attention to getting my SEO skills up, I’ve always wanted this website to bring me some money but so far it isn’t doing anything of the sort, I’ve tried loads of advertising methods but none of them work its driving me crazy.

So I will post all about my new findings in the world of SEO and again I will start from the beginning.