How to improve searchability of your home education posts.
I’m generally talking about on blogs here – places like facebook have odd privacy rules that means it’s difficult to say what is searchable and what isn’t.
The best way to raise the profile of something you’ve enjoyed is to publicise it. Link to it on your blog, and make the link text (that bit that goes blue when you mouse over it) say something with keywords in it eg home education according to grit as I’ve done here.
If you don’t know how to do that, I’ll try to stick a tutorial on here sometime soon 🙂 Feel free to leave a comment to ask so that I know there is interest.
Other ways of building links are to use the various link building tools that ppl may have. For example here on my blog there’s a little gizmo at the bottom of each post that lets you post the link on delicious, digg and various other sites. The more links from that sort of site, the more authorative the source of the link is deemed to be and the more often it will be found in search engines.
Blogs can also be deemed more authorative depending on how many regular readers they have. So sign up to a feed reading service, and add your favourite blogs to it. Google offers one, there are a variety of others.
And conversely, if you don’t like a post, don’t link it. On the web there’s not really any such thing as bad publicity, so even if you link to something to complain about it you’ve still raised its profile. Food for thought.
hope this helps 🙂
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