How to get your Blog to rank higher in Google’s search results
Wondering how Google determines which blogs get listed the top of it’s search results? Well, we now have a little insight into the process because of a patent filed by Google.
Here’s the positive aspects of a blog that will get your blog ranked higher:
1. Links from Blogrolls or from other highly trusted bloggers
2. Links from mails and chats
3. Using tags to categorize your posts
4. PageRank
5. Feed subscriptions
6. Number of clicks in search results
Here are the negative qualities that will lower your blog rating:
1. Posts that are added at predictable times (automated posts)
2. If you have a lot of duplicate content
3. Using words that appear in spam blogs
4. Posts that are identical in size
5. Linking to a single web page
6. A blog with a ton of ads
7. Different content between the site and the feed
This quality score is then mixed in with the relevancy score (IR), which looks at how many times the search terms appear in your blog (putting too many “search” words in your blog over an over will be negative), the characteristics of the search terms (font, size, etc) and how close the search terms relative to each other.
Using this method, popular established blogs or newly created blogs will appear in search results as long as the content is relevant to the search! Try to avoid doing any of the negative actions and write more content!
