Best SEO Sites for Increased Traffic Tips

As many of you know, Search Engines are the most substantial source of traffic for almost any blog on the web. The blogs without any traffic from Google will never have the chance to be shared with the world. In order to increase your traffic, you must optimize your blog so that Search Engines are attracted to it. Which is also known as SEO (Search Engine Optimization).

So here is a list of useful SEO sites where you can learn how to harness the power of google.

The List

Search Engine Land
Search Engine Land is a hub for news and information about search engine marketing, optimization and how search engines work for searchers.

Daily Blog Tips
Improve your blog with Daily Blog Tips. A fast paced blog featuring articles on blog design, SEO, promotion, monetization and more

Morgan&Men SEO
Have your site optimized for search engines by the Morgan&Men team.  Also check out their blog.

Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and SEO
talk about Google, SEO, and Gadgets. But mostly Google.

SEOmoz
Search Engine Marketing News & Tips

Search Engine Journal

Pronet Advertising
Pronet Advertising is a weblog about Neil Patel’s personal experiences in online marketing.

Search Engine Guide
The small business guide to search engine marketing. Articles from the top names in the industry cover topics including SEO, PPC, SEM, blogging, social media, adsense, adwords, Google, Yahoo, MSN and Internet marketing.

Online Marketing Blog
All about the intersection of search engine & social media marketing

Marketing Pilgrim
Andy Beal discusses news from the search engine industry, blogging, rss and other internet marketing.

Search Engine Watch
Search Engine Watch provides news and tips about search engine marketing (SEM), search engine optimization (SEO), and searching the Web. We offer daily news & analysis of the search industry, including the latest on Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and Ask.

Get Elastic
Ecommerce articles on internet retail, online marketing, social media, SEO, and killer ecommerce tips from Elastic Path Software; Featuring the Get Elastic ecommerce podcast – conversations with ecommerce industry insiders.

Web Analytics World
Manoj Jasra’s insight on Web Analytics and the Search Marketing Industry. Also including Interviews, Technology Reviews and Podcasts

BlogStorm
Search engine optimization & internet marketing blog

Small Business SEM
Small Business SEM by Matt McGee | SEO and Marketing Discussion for Small Businesses

SEO Scoop
SEO Scoop is a popular search engine optimization blog that focuses on SEO tips, theories and news.

Search Engine Roundtable
Search engine optimization news and resources

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Random Posts Widget for Blogger / Blogspot

This widget can definitely bring some excitement to your blogger powered blog. Letting your readers surf your blog to the fullest extent by creating a link to a random post in your blog’s sidebar. Besides providing fun for your blog, hopefully your visitors will stay on your site for longer periods of time.

Installation and Customization:

  • Click button below to complete Installation:
  • Once you have installed the widget, you can change the link text. The default value is “View Random Post”. To change this, view the code and search for “View Random Post“, and change it to any desired text.

Those are all the steps necessary to implement the Random Post Widget to blogger. I hope you and your readers thoroughly enjoy it!

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Related Posts Widget for Blogger / Blogspot

Now here is wonderful hack for displaying links to related posts beneath each of your blog posts. The related articles are chosen from other posts in that same category/label/tag. With this hack many of your readers will remain on your site for longer periods of time when they see related posts of interest.

Preview of Related Posts Links:

Error Fix:

If your related posts have not been working correctly:

  1. Search for this line of code: http://theblogtemplates.com/scripts/Related_posts_hack.js
  2. Replace the URL above with https://sites.google.com/site/widgetsforfree/scripts/Related_posts_hack.js

How to Add Related Posts Widget to Your Blog?

    1. Go to Layout >Edit HTML in your Blogger Dashboard.
    2. Back up your existing Template before making any changes!
    3. Make sure to check the “Expand Widget Templates” box.
    4. Search for the </head> tag.
    5. Add the following code just before the </head> tag.

<style> #related-posts { float : left; width : 540px; margin-top:20px; margin-left : 5px; margin-bottom:20px; font : 11px Verdana; margin-bottom:10px; } #related-posts .widget { list-style-type : none; margin : 5px 0 5px 0; padding : 0; } #related-posts .widget h2, #related-posts h2 { font-size : 20px; font-weight : normal; margin : 5px 7px 0; padding : 0 0 5px; } #related-posts a { text-decoration : none; } #related-posts a:hover { text-decoration : none; } #related-posts ul { border : medium none; margin : 10px; padding : 0; } #related-posts ul li { display : block; background : url(“http://lh3.ggpht.com/_cNpXRtRph18/S76dASm3WGI/AAAAAAAAEJg/AVmw4HhRdsk/rss.png”) no-repeat 0 0; margin : 0; padding-top : 0; padding-right : 0; padding-bottom : 1px; padding-left : 21px; margin-bottom : 5px; line-height : 2em; border-bottom:1px dotted #cccccc; } </style> <script src=’https://sites.google.com/site/widgetsforfree/scripts/Related_posts_hack.js’ type=’text/javascript’/>

  1. Now search for <data:post.body/>. In some of the templates this code may look like this
    <div class=’post-body>
    or
    <data:post.body/>
  2. Add the following code just beneath the code you just searched for.

    <b:if cond=’data:blog.pageType == “item”‘>
    <div id=”related-posts”>
    <font face=’Arial’ size=’3′><b>Related Posts : </b></font><font color=’#FFFFFF’><b:loop values=’data:post.labels’ var=’label’><data:label.name/><b:if cond=’data:label.isLast != &quot;true&quot;’>,</b:if><b:if cond=’data:blog.pageType == &quot;item&quot;’>
    <script expr:src=’&quot;/feeds/posts/default/-/&quot; + data:label.name + &quot;?alt=json-in-script&amp;callback=related_results_labels&amp;max-results=5&quot;’ type=’text/javascript’/></b:if></b:loop> </font>
    <script type=’text/javascript’> removeRelatedDuplicates(); printRelatedLabels();
    </script>
    </div></b:if>

 

  • Now Save your Template and you’re done!

 

Customization

    • In order to change the number of maximum related posts being displayed for each label, search for the code below (within the code given in step 7) and change the number “5” to any desired number.

max-results=5

If you have any questions on implementing this hack into your own blog, shoot me a comment and I’ll be glad to help!
Make sure to check out our other great Blogger Hacks as well:
Recent Posts Hack with Thumbnails; Recent Comments Hack; Sleek Search Bar

Special thanks to Real Trix!

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