How Navigation Labels Improve SEO
If you think of your website as a map, navigation labels name the streets, features, shopping districts, and even major buildings like libraries and community centers. Does that description sound too expansive for something so humble? Maybe you need to rethink your definition of navigation labels.Every time you write a post on your blog you have the option to add some Labels to that post.While most Bloggers don't give much thought to the labels they use and some don't add any labels at all they can be very beneficial to your blog in a number of ways, but only if used correctly.Using labels in the correct manner can help your blogs performance in Search, leading to more traffic and labels can be a great way for visitors to navigate your blog keeping them browsing through your archive.So by simply following a few rules and putting some thought into the labels you select you can get more traffic to your blog and increased page views from that traffic.
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Lets look at some of the mistakes i see made all the time.
Using Long Labels - Your labels should be short using the minimum number of words possible.Examples i have seen such as "Going To The Shop" Should Be simply "Shopping" then that label can be added to a more wide range of future posts.Non Specific Labels - Above we changed "Going To The Shop" to "Shopping" and not only did this make it shorter it also made it more specific.A label i seen on a Great art blog recently was "Stuff I Drew This Week" ...Hmmm... Would "Latest" Or "Latest Work" Or "Latest Drawings" not work better ?.
Too Many Labels - A huge percentage of Bloggers are guilty of this, basically thinking More is Better.Are you one of those that think if i add Tons of labels to every post it will help ? I know i was when i started Blogging in the dark old days.In fact lots of labels are just messy and of no benefit whatsoever.
No Labels - Yes from one extreme to another while some people think they should keep adding labels until they are told to stop others just don't bother or don't understand.Labels are important and as i said when used properly can be a great benefit to your blog.
So how can the use of proper labels help your blog in search ?
There are a number of ways not least the labels pages.When you click on a label and are presented with a list of posts using that label the list of posts are on a 'Label Page'.This page of course has it's own URL and so is another page of your blog.Another page for readers to view and increase page views but also another page for Search Engines to crawl.Each label page will be crawled and indexed by Google and the other main search engines and in some cases a popular label page can rank quiet high in search results.How to Choose correct labels?
Decide at most 10-20 labels for your entire blog and always link new posts to them. Take an example of labels used by Blogger Planet blog. Since I frequently write on widgets, templates, blogging tips and SEO tips therefore I have chosen these keywords for letting my users know what categories do the blog offers for healthy reading. You can take an idea by looking at all keywords I used in my label cloud.Some points to Note:
- Use at most 20 labels for your entire blog
- Use at most three words for defining a label
- Give preference to short one word labels
- Use your main SEO keywords in your labels. (Not to help search engines but to help your visitors better understand the concept behind your blog)
- Link each post with relevant label. If a post doesn't relates to any category then create a general Label link and name it "Miscellaneous"
- Use no more than two or three labels for each post
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