SEO of blogging websites
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What are the best practices of doing SEO of article/blogging websites.
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SEO BOOK - Bloggers Guide to SEO (Highly recommend reading this)
All the best.
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Ravi - your questions - this one and the other ecommerce one - are VERY broad. They're much too open to be answered fully in this format or in this forum.
At this point, all we're going to be able to really help with is a list of articles we've seen, beginner guides like Moz's and things like that.
If you intend to do your own SEO, you're really just going to need to dig in, Google some questions you have, learn by doing and reading a lot more (try Inbound.org for some really decent material to start with.)
Also, the best advice for blogging at the moment is - if you haven't been doing it, start. You're going to need to start somewhere and it doesn't have to be perfect, it has to be present.
Let us know your specific questions. Once you're blogging, what do you want to know? We can't teach everything about SEO in one Q&A post though.
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