Bing Webmaster blog suggests that placing keywords in the following areas on a web page will have the the greatest impact: Page title (inside the <title> tags) Body text headers (as used within tags such as <h1> </h1>, <h2> </h2>, and so on) Links to other pages (the link text between the <a> </a> tags) Meta tags (specifically when used with the name="description" and the name="keyword" parameters) If rewriting some passages of text so that you can use more of your keywords in a natural sounding form in strategic areas of your pages is doable, then it is usually worthwhile to do so.

Tim Ferriss recently shared some tips on how one can make his or her blog posts popular. Excerpts: Make sure your post focuses on just one idea. If you dilute your post with multiple topics, it won’t have the same impact.

People don’t just search for text. Google provides alternate search methods including image and document searches. Artist sites, often rich in images, allow an opportunity to index digital assets in search engines.

For search engines, the title tags should include highly relevant keywords and these may not always make a very attractive headline. So put the attractive headline in the H1 tags while the boring but search friendly headline could go in the title tag.

Gabriel Weinberg shares some interesting SEO tips that may help your site rank better in Google. Here’re my favorite picks from Gabriel’s blog: 1. Make as flat a site hierarchy as possible.  Pagerank seems to flow logarithmically from a homepage to its internal pages.