Hits -Traffic - Rankings - Disseminate Your Information via Proper Coding

There are three blog top lists that produce considerable traffic on a consistent basis.

http://www.blogtoplist.com

http://www.blogcatalog.com

http://www.topblogarea.com

If your a relatively active poster then your blog will show up substantially in the search engine results on these websites. I highly recommend using the All in One SEO Plugin, which will tag your blog posts using the categories you select. When someone searches the above websites, the results are associated with the categories you attached to your blog posts. The more posts, and the more categories the better results, including more targeted traffic. Do tweak your All in One SEO Plugin, because the better your website’s semantical structure, and W3C compliance the increasing Google search engine inclusion you will achieve. Google, by far provides the most hits; therefore it should be considered a priority to achieve substantial Google inclusion. This requires consistent and content rich blog posts, that are directly relevant and “title” and specified categories.

The categories you select should be descriptive of the particular blog post. Your categories should begin to tell the story of your posts before they are even read. Then when a search engine spider comes along, it will have seen your categories, and then read your posts saying “ohhh, I see”. You can almost say that a blog post is an elaborate, and textual description of the chosen categories.

A couple of important semantical factors include the <a> link “title” option. Always include the title option and specify the EXACT title of the linked page. For example:

<a title=”Server Guide - Blog” href=”http://www.bgevolution.com/blog”>Server Guide - Blog</a>

This is a proper html link, incorporating correct semantical structure. Also in your <img> tags do include the “alt” option at minimum. There are many option to the <img> tag, but the alt option allows for a brief message specific to people that cannot access your images. Web browsers will automatically display the alt message in the event that your images do not load. For example:

<img alt=”Sunshine rays coming through a window” src=”http://www.bgevolution.com/blog/sunshine.jpg”>

I also highly recommend using the absolute URL in the src option. Using a relative link does work in most browsers, but I have had requests to use the absolute URL to resolve certain spidering issues.

Two methods of substantially reducing your html size include:

• External Javascript
• External CSS
• HTML Includes

I’ll introduce each of the above concepts in individual posts.

Hits - How to Judge Your Website

How many hits does a good website get? Success is obviously subjective, therefore any website can be a success. For most websites, that are truly unique, even a modicum of hits should be considered success. The purpose of blogs is to disseminate ideas and information, therefore anything above 50 unique visitors a day can be considered a substantial milestone. Blogs can draw income from advertising, and require approximately 10,000 or more hits to begin generating substantial income. A Couple of hundred hits per day to a blog can generate a couple of dollars per day.

Obviously these numbers are my opinion based on a little experience, and should be taken in context. Overall you should consider any project pursued to be a success; no matter the degree of completion Its all one big learning experience.