How much do the keyword meta tags affect your search rankings?

“Too many people have spammed that too much, we don’t use that at all.” – Matt Cutts

Meta Description Tags are used for snippets for your articles in the search results. A good SEO plugin will be helpful filling out the Meta Description and Name. However the keyword tags are mostly used only for bringing back search results within your website.

So if you have been cramming as many keywords into every article you write, then It’s time to rethink you strategy. Try to use helpful tags, that will let users find similar content instead of keyword spamming.

There are soo many wonderful plug-in’s and widgets to use in the world of Wordpress and blogging. How do you know which ones are good and which ones are just average? The only way to tell is to give them a shot or ask your friends. As a rule I try to do any code myself, but if there is already a plug-in that does it better I’m up for using it. Here are my TOP recommendations for Wordpress plugin’s.

Click Here to check out the best Wordpress Plugin’s

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Matt Cutts from Google gave a lecture at this years Wordcamp detailing some of the more important details of blogging. According to Cutts, Wordpress automatically solves 90% of the Search Engine Optimization mechanics of us.

The rest of the work is determined by your pagerank, your reputation, and the relevance of your article to the search query. Matt gives some very valuable tips on how to increase your search engine traffic. As well as how to find keywords in your niche, and how to write better articles. For anyone who has their own blog, this video is a MUST SEE.

Do you have a lot of good high quality images on your website, but no one is seeing them? There are a few guidelines to follow that will increase your chances of being ranked in the image search engines.

Lets take a look at Firebug a powerful web development app for Mozilla Firefox. Also SenSEO is an add-on for Firebug that grades your pages SEO and give you tips on how to improve.

*SERIOUSLY THESE TWO APPS HAVE SAVED ME HOURS OF HEADACHES*
You can download Firebug at www.getfirebug.com
You can download SenSEO at Firefox Add-ons

Today at Zero 2 Hero we celebrate the 15 day anniversary, since this blog is fairly new I have the advantage of testing many different methods of traffic generation and reporting how well each one works.

So today I wanted to share with you my progress and what has worked best after 15 days since my beginning. Lets take a look at 2 ways that I was able to get more traffic and improve my page rank, and 1 way that has not worked well so far.

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