Simple Actions on Google Webmaster Tools to Increase Rankings.
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According Problogger Research Google is the #1 source of traffic for most blogs. Over 48% visitors find blog using Google search. Social media gives only 15% of traffic and it depends on viral success, quality posts, and little bit of luck.
Backlinks, website structure, internal links, and content plays the biggest role to rank well on Google. At the same time you shouldn’t contectrate on PageRank or META tags (but keep it in mind).
I would like to share simple actions which you can apply to your blog using Google Webmaster Tools.
Actions on Google Webmaster tools:
- Sign up with Google Webmaster tools and verify your blog.
- Visit link Tools - Set Preferred Domain. Pick url you wish to display on Google. This action will help to reduce url canonization problem which was explained by Matt Cutts last year in his blog.
- Visit “Enhanced Image Search” option and click button to enable it. Simple procedure could increase traffic through Google Image Search.
- Remove URL’s function could help to disable pages with duplicate content from appearance in search. The same thing you can do in your robots.txt file, this function was made by Google development team to help people who doesn’t know how to use robots.txt file.
- Submit Sitemap. Google provide complete instructions to set up sitemap for your blog. You can also find several plugins for WordPress which can create sitemap for you.
- Pages with extarnal links option will show you other sites which link to your blog. The most important is to see deep links to your blog. Small amount of deep links could affect search engine rankings.
