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invespBlog has an excellent compilation of the best SEO blogs based on various categories:

1. By RSS membership
2. By number of incoming links
3. By the number of pages posted on the blog
4. By the ratio links to pages: since incoming links target specific pages on a blog, we will analyze which of the SEO blogs was able to attract the most links per post.
5. Unique monthly visitors: how many visitors did the blog receive during the last month. The data provided here is captured based on unique visitor numbers from Compete.
6. By Pages per visit: how many pages does a visitor navigate through prior to exiting the site. The data provided here is captured based on last month page per visit numbers from Compete
7. Ratio of visitors to pages: my assumption is that sites with more pages or with pages that rank for more keywords will receive more visitors. This ratio will indicate how many visitors different site pages are able to attract.
8. By Google page rank

Visit the blog to read the excellent compilation.

Aaron Wall has come up with an interesting article titled “The Blogger’s Guide to SEO“.

Here are the topics covered in this article:

• What Google Knows About Your Blog
• Why Blog SEO is Different From SEO for Other Websites
• Domain Registration & Hosting
• Keyword Research
• Keeping Up With the Joneses
• Writing Clear & Compelling Headlines
• Optimizing Site Structure
• Web Analytics
• Use Push Marketing After Launching Your Site
• Understanding Network Effects
• Learn More About SEO

The video this week is on SEO Basics. It covers title tags and their importance for SEO. The video by Gareth Davies of GSINC Ltd. is 4 minutes in length.

You can visit their website for more SEO Basics Videos.

Google’s Supplemental Cache is an area where it dumps pages which it thinks as duplicates. This can hamper your page listing in Google quite significantly if you don’t take care of it.

If you’re running a blog, you just won’t realize that each post that you write can be classified as a duplicate. How you ask? Just think of the numerous ways in which the same post can be accessed from your blog:

• You can access it directly from its page where you posted it
• You can access it via the RSS/Atom Feed for your blog
• You can access it via the Archives
• You can access it via the Category pages

Now, how can you convince Google that all of them are actually pointing to just one source rather than being classified as a “duplicate page”?

As part of improving SEO for this blog, I noticed that mid-last month I had over 100 pages from the BlogSailor network dumped into Google’s Supplemental Cache. After doing a bit of searching around, I read a very well written article titled Blog SEO: Get Your Blog out of the Supplemental Index which gave me some good pointers.

I implemented both the solutions, i.e., updated the robots.txt file to ensure that the search engine spiders don’t pick up potential sources of classifying content as duplicates. Also, I modified the header template of this theme to not allow indexing of pages which are not “single post” pages.

It’s been about 2wks now, and I’m noticing some pages dropping off the supplemental cache now. As of writing this post, there are 80 posts in the supplemental cache.

Whether this will help improve traffic to this blog or not, time will tell.

Some other good articles on this topic:

• Get Your Blog Out of the Google Supplemental Index
  
• Google’s Supplemental Results

This is going to be a running blog where I capture good articles/blogs on Search Engine Optimization (SEO).

Why do we need SEO?
Given below is an excerpt from Wikipedia on SEO:
Search engine optimization (SEO), considered by many to be a subset of search engine marketing, is a term used to describe a process of improving the volume or quality of traffic to a web site from search engines, usually in “natural” (”organic” or “algorithmic”) search results.

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