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Excerpt: In part I of this two part series on SEO tips for Blogs we looked at WordPress plugins, creating themes, internal linking, RSS Feeds and Blog Aggregators. In the second part of  search engine optimisation for blogs, we examine social media, external linking and how to avoid duplicate content. Social Media Twitter Twitter is a social networking site that allows you keep in touch with groups of people on the web through the passing of short messages (tweets) to say what you are doing. It sound like a ridiculous idea but it has the capability to build up a targeted audience for your…

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Excerpt: Blogs are great way to add fresh content to an existing website but there are estimated to be around 133 million blogs indexed since 2002 according to Technorati. How can you make your blog stand out from the crowd and start bringing in a decent quantity of traffic? Optimisation for a blog is similar to that of any web site but  some things are particularly effective for blogs. WordPress WordPress is the definitive software for writing blogs. There are lots of reason why it is great. It is simple to install has many plug-ins, highly configurable has a large user base great support. WordPress Plug-ins When you…