There is a great number of free or inexpensive design templates available for all kinds of blogging software. They are easy to install and can be, to some extent, easily modified. They come in different arrangements of content blocks and color schemes. When it comes to looking for that close-to-the-perfect template, we spend hours picking the right graphical design. But there is more to it than colors, visual structure or cool pictures; it also has to have the right HTML coding or the correct, as some of us say, “invisible part”.

As I went through a number of different designs that look “clean” and “usable”, I found that most of them did not have the best HTML foundation for optimized presentation of your content. There is no doubt that the designers spent a lot of time creating these templates, considering the details that they have incorporated in their designs. However, as I scanned the code I could tell that there were things that are just not SEO. This article uncovers some of the common mistakes made by pro and not so pro web designers that create free downloadable blog templates. Continue Reading »

This post is going to be a timely addition to the URI discussions previously covered on the pages of bloSEO (Keywords in URLs, Underscores vs. Dashes). Today we will be talking about the file extensions in URLs. Many believe that adding “.html” or “.htm” to the name of a page will help page ranking or improve positioning in search results.

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