Every week, I’ll be picking up a blog from one of the top commenters, and I’ll be reviewing the blog/website in an SEO perspective, dissecting it by the basic elements of SEO. The idea is to give readers an opportunity to learn the basic SEO by observing another blog, which should in turn help them improve theirs.
This weeks pick is Stephan Millers blog which deals with blogging, seo, wordpress and earning money online.
Site: www.stephanmiller.com
Page Rank: 3
Alexa: 169,139
Meta Keywords: Quite a lot.
Meta Description: None found.
Links spiderable: Yes
Google snippet data : “Popular Posts. Feedburner Feedsmith Plugin Security Issue · Moving Day · Google Adwords Industry Related Help · Google Just Gave Me the John Chow Treatment …”
Incoming links on Google: 69
No. of pages indexed on Google:206
What is good in the blog?
- Each article stands out with titles using bold and large font
- Well arranges sidebars with categories, top commentators etc
- What is exceptionally good is the popular posts highlighted on the top right corner
- Text is very well spaced and in good size, good accessibility
- Feed subscription options right on top, very easy to spot
- Stephan’s photo gives an identity
What’s not looking good?
- Somehow, I don’t feel like the theme is compact.
- Colors are missing.
- Stephan’s photo
- The footer seems to be out of shape with widgets aligned improperly
What can be done?
- In the footer, probably he should take out one of those widgets and cut it down to one “recent visitors” widget.
- Align the blogrush widget with the recent visitors widget
- Stephan should replace his photo with a much better one, the current one looks jagged
- Add a search button to the search bar
- Add meta description for the blog
- Stephan should work on link building, as the number of incoming links is not impressive at the moment.
- Reduce the number of keywords used in the meta keywords tag and keep only the most relevant ones only - it looks spammy now.
- The feedburner feed count is fairly low, so it can be removed until it reaches a “boastable” number.
- The title of the homepage is just his name. I think he should add a tag line to this like, “Make money online with Stephan Miller”. Of course, it’s up to Stephan to decide based upon what the objective of the blog is. Title tags for the articles seems cool, I think Stephan is using the AllinOone SEO pack for this.
So, those were some quick notes on the site. I’ve talked only about the basic stuff here. Hope it gave you some pointers as to what are the factors that count most.
I’d love to hear from you suggestions, opinions and corrections on the review.
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Mani,
Thanks for the review of my site. I was just getting to the point I was going to pay for one.
The picture is going to be changed. I am playing around with the template now, which I will be giving away. I was trying to use the Gravatar pic which is limited to 80px. That seemed too small for the header. It pixelated because I tried to make resize it with height and width.
The goal of using the Gravatar pic was for branding. It’s on my blog and every social network I belong to. People that see me one place may recognize me somewhere else.
Right now the meta keywords are being covered by whatever plugins I have installed.
I took the feedburner count down. I wasn’t really sure when to start showing that.
It’s a slow process and I will be getting to the linking issue. The release of the template should help. It has six widget areas and the colors are configurable through the WP admin. It also has tags built in for common WP plugins.
Thanks again Mani, I bookmarked this to help with the changes.
Stephan
Stephan Miller’s last blog post..A Constant Brain Change
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I installed alexa toolbar & widegt but no result see http://www.alexa.com/data/details/main?url=www.fortunehotels.in ranking of my website here.
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great information,Good post there mate.
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?Great Post Thanx.
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thanks for your great information. I will put you on my blogroll
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Maintain a consistent look on all pages. Use the same color, same font, and same navigation bar .
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How do we manage the costs and the effects of environmental activities (environmental account)?
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Thank you so much for this post.
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gr8 post mate, thanks for your effort, the site seems have quite good tags, good seo as well, cheers..
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an interesting read
thanks.
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Your spot on but I think smartphones are going to be very important in this field.
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Hello,
I have spent some great time to go through this wanderful blog.
I love your original presentations. This is one of the best blog I have ever seen. Congratulations
Very Elegant. Incredible informations. Very usufull.
MY TIPS AND SUGGESTIONS:
1- KEYWORDS
Watch position and density in every section of yuor content.
2- CONTENT
Content is king, so be sure to have good, well-written and unique content that will focus on your primary keyword or keyword phrase.
3. BACK LINKS
Build a network of quality backlinks using your keyword phrase as the link.
All of these above are increadible inter connected.
LAST but more important tip:
THE FIRST TOP LEFT PORTION OF THE SCREEN is the section of your web page where you need to concentrate your space for; keywords, related content, links.
Pasquale
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Hello,
I have loved spending some great time to go through this wanderful blog.
MY TIPS AND SUGGESTIONS:
1- KEYWORDS
Watch position and density in every section of yuor content.
2- CONTENT
Content is king, so be sure to have good, well-written and unique content that will focus on your primary keyword or keyword phrase.
3. BACK LINKS
Build a network of quality backlinks using your keyword phrase as the link.
All of these above are increadible inter connected.
LAST but more important tip:
THE FIRST TOP LEFT PORTION OF THE SCREEN is the section of your web page where you need to concentrate your space for; keywords, related content, links.
Pasquale
Reply