The Features to have with a SEO Friendly Blogging Platform
Wednesday, October 21, 2009 9:17
Blogging is the most effective mode of online communication to spread your wings over the internet. What you need must to keep your feet on while running this online activity is a solid ground that is blogging platform. The problem lies with choosing the best of blogging platforms. Make sure selecting the blogging platform that offers you optimal control over the customization and optimization of your blog posts with some specific SEO elements. Check the following features of a platform that you choose to support your blogging activity-
Title tag customization is one of the effective SEO strategies to make web pages crawlable and indexable. Some blogs lack the built-in feature to customize title tags. An external plugin for title tag customization is one of the requirements for the self-hosted versions of Wordpress. Keep in mind; it may be a lacking with free blogging platforms.
Wordpress is the first choice of bloggers for it allows optimizing URLs with keywords. You can easily customize the keyword-rich URLs according to your needs. For your kind information, TypePad and MovableType do not support keyword-rich URLs. Like Wordpress, ExpressionEngine allows users to make small changes in the keyword-rich URLs. Many blogging platforms support URLs with dashes between keywords.
Though not so much crucial as title tag customization, Meta tag customization is worth a consideration for search engine ranking of blog posts. Customized Meta tags go well with blog search engines. They are great help for social bookmarking activities on Delicious.com and StumbleUpon.com. Wordpress offers this feature as one of its external add-ons.
Almost all blogging platforms allow bloggers the liberty to customize HTML tags on the basis of header tags like H1, H2 etc in their blog posts. You can customize your URLs with “nofollow” if it is prior stated in the CSS stylesheets. It is worth great SEO value for the higher page ranking of blogging sites.
Web pages featuring internal links with customized anchor text are search engine friendly. Choose the blogging platform that offers internal anchor text flexibility. The flexible content management system of a blogging platform can efficiently handle custom inputs from the admins to the category of anchor text. However, internal anchor inflexibility is not a major hitch with many a blog platform.
Blog sites with proper categorization structure are likely to rank high in search engine page results. Many platforms for blogging feature innumerable categories. Most of such blogging platforms allow users a grip over categories and subcategories. Moreover, you can customize your categories with different URLs and optimize them with pithy descriptions for search engine optimization of your blog posts.
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