The Blogger Tips

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SEO Checklist helping bloggers to optimize site ranking. Webconfs providing a score checklist of the factors that affect your rankings with Google, MSN, Yahoo! and the other search engines. The SEO checklist contains positive, negative and neutral factors that exist in term of keywords, links, metatag, contents, Visual Extras and domain URL.

1.Keywords

• Keywords in <title> tag (+3)
• Keywords in URL (+3)
• Keyword density in document text (+3)
• Keywords in anchor text (+3)
• Keywords in headings (<H1>, <H2>, etc. tags) (+3)
• Keywords in the beginning of a document (+2)
• Keywords in <alt> tags (+2)
• Keywords in metatags (+1)
• Keyword proximity (+1)
• Keyword phrases (+1)
• Secondary keywords (+1)
• Keyword stemming (+1)
• Synonyms (+1)
• Keyword Mistypes (0)
• Keyword dilution (-2)
• Keyword stuffing (-3)

2.Links - internal, inbound, outbound

• Anchor text of inbound links (+3)
• Origin of inbound links (+3)
• Links from similar sites (+3)
• Links from .edu and .gov sites (+3)
• Number of backlinks (+3)
• Anchor text of internal links (+2)
• Around-the-anchor text (+2)
• Age of inbound links (+2)
• Links from directories (+2)
• Number of outgoing links on the page that links to you (+1)
• Named anchors (+1)
• IP address of inbound link (+1)
• Inbound links from link farms and other suspicious sites (0)
• Many outgoing links (-1)
• Excessive linking, link spamming (-3)
• Outbound links to link farms and other suspicious sites (-3)
• Cross-linking (-3)
• Single pixel links (-3)

3.Metatags

• <Description> metatag (+1)
• <Keywords> metatag (+1)
• <Language> metatag (+1)
• <Refresh> metatag (-1)

4.Content

• Unique content (+3)
• Frequency of content change (+3)
• Keywords font size (+2)
• Keywords formatting (+2)
• Age of document (+2)
• File size (+1)
• Content separation (-2)
• Poor coding and design (-2)
• Illegal Content (-3)
• Invisible text (-3)
• Cloaking (-3)
• Doorway pages (-3)
• Duplicate content (-3)

5.Visual Extras and SEO

• JavaScript (0)
• Images in text (0)
• Podcasts and videos (0)
• Images instead of text links (-1)
• Frames (-2)
• Flash (-2)
• A Flash home page (-3)

6.Domains, URLs, Web Mastery

• Keyword-rich URLs and filenames (+3)
• Site Accessibility (+3)
• Sitemap (+2)
• Site size (+2)
• Site age (+2)
• Site theme (+2)
• File Location on Site (+1)
• Domains versus subdomains, separate domains (+1)
• Top-level domains (TLDs) (+1)
• Hyphens in URLs (+1)
• URL length (+0)
• IP address (+0)
• Adsense will boost your ranking (+0)
• Adwords will boost your ranking (+0)
• Hosting downtime (-1)
• Dynamic URLs (-1)
• Session IDs (-2)
• Bans in robots.txt (-2)
• Redirects (301 and 302) (-3)

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