SEO For lesterchan.net

Posted by Lester Chan at 12:23 in Site

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I am not a guru when it comes to SEO, what I know about SEO is from what I heard from my friends and forums. I also do not believe in paying thousand over dollars just to get a good SEO because most of the tools are free!

Just would like to share the stuff I did on this website to improve it’s SEO:

Age of domain does matter, I bought lesterchan.net way back in 24th January 2004 which makes this domain close to 6 years old.
I am using Google XML Sitemaps to send sitemaps to various search engine.
Post title always appear first in the browser title bar before the domain name or website name, eg “Site Traffic October 2009 « Blog | lesterchan.net”.
I allow bots to crawl my whole website using <meta name=”robots” content=”all” />
From a user perspective, I always think what search term might the user Google for and I use that as the post title. eg “Windows 7 Pricing in Singapore” or “SingTel iPhone 3GS Price Plans”. All these post has become my most viewed posts.
Produce content that users really want in order to get them to link back to you. Example, my highest viewed page is my WordPress Plugins Page.
Register your website with Google Webmasters Tools.

Tools used to track my website:

Feel free to add in more SEO tips in the comments.

Tags: lesterchan.net, SEO

Hazman Aziz

Comment #1

14:36
Tuesday, 3rd November 2009

You can installed these plugin if you want your site to be visible:

- http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/all-in-one-seo-pack/
- http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/platinum-seo-pack/

Play also with your WordPress Tags too.

Most importantly, used WordPress as your platform.

Lester, for you don’t need. Your plugins will do the work for you to drive your site up. =)

For the rest, play around with the template, compile and make your own version, let’s out download your modified template.

Lester Chan

Comment #2

14:42
Tuesday, 3rd November 2009

Thanks for sharing =D

saad

Comment #3

06:44
Thursday, 5th November 2009

Nice post Lester.Thanks for sharing.I completely agree with u in the matter of domains age.Surely they matter a lot.And i think headspace is far better option than All in one seo.Wot do u think?

Francis Teo

Comment #4

02:45
Friday, 6th November 2009

Hi Lester,

Interesting post. I’m an SEO, and well would just like to comment that setting the robots meta tag to “all” or “index, follow” is basically useless for SEO purposes because that’s the default behavior of the search engines.

That said, having it there doesn’t have any ill-effects (except for wasting a tiny bit of space).

Cheers,
Francis

Lester Chan

Comment #5