This article was written by Peter Stolmar.

“Here are a few neat Search Engine Optimization (SEO) tips to help your blog rank a little higher in search engines. Why should you listen to me about blog SEO? Granted this blog is fairly new, and PageRank 0, but most of my posts get listed in Google for the keyword I want within minutes, and I am actually on the first page right now for “adsense privacy” and “adsense cookies” (depends on your browsing history now).

Now, it is not very difficult to get into the first page as a “recent” result, even without much SEO – these are blog posts and other news items within the last few hours that show up in Google search results. Try it – if you search Google for relevant news when it happens (try Googling a Twitter trend) you will see a few blogs and sites with lower “authority” but when you search for them a few hours later they will be lower.

Often, these “fresh results” seem to completely drop out of the search results before going into the “main” index. Remember: now that Google uses your web history to refine results, you may need to clear cookies, clear web history, and change your Google search settings to see the “default” results, and you have less control over your position for your target keyword phrases in actual visitor searches.”

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