Writing (and now blogging) is one of the ways that I use to “de-stress”. And yes, Virginia, last week the thermometer of stress just went up the scale. It really is an enigma to me why people have satisfaction in whining or complaining when everything has already been explained in a statement or verdict.

Oh well, even our country faced the biggest verdict in a long time when they announced that Erap was guility.

At any rate, here are advanced tips on how to optimize your blog and increase your traffic. This may take some coding and plug-in knowledge. But for those who’ve blogged for some time now, you pretty much know that or know how to look for information on the web.

More after the jump…

10 WAYS TO OPTIMIZE YOUR BLOG

Source: www.webpronews.com

1. Tag clouds and tag pages; check out Ultimate Tag Warrior plugin for creating these. Spencer says he doubled traffic to one his blogs by adding it.

2. Add a “Related Posts” feature. Spencer recommends the Contextual Related Posts plugin for WordPress.

3. Top Ten posts feature to display most popular posts

4. Add “next” and “previous” post buttons

5. Build inbound links

6. Title tags – use SEO Title Tag plugin for WordPress to assign unique title tags to individual posts.

7. Claim your blog at Technorati and use Technorati tags

8. Use “sticky” posts that always appear at the top of the page as a way to add a keywords-rich introduction to category pages. Adhesive plugin works for this.

9. Use the Buzzlogic tool to find out which bloggers are most influential in conversations – refer to them and try to get them to link to you.

10. Get into other bloggers’ blog rolls (trackbacks and comments won’t help in link gain.