3 New and Promising Design Blogs You Should Know

Nowadays thousands of blogs are created every day and the question is how to find best and worth reading blogs? Yes we know a lot of famous blogs like SmashingMagazine, Six Revisions, Abduzeedo but new and fresh blogs also writes useful information with the main topic – design. This article presents 30 new and promising design blogs you should know that are worth checking out. Blogs featured here discuss about web design, Photoshop, WordPress, development, graphic design and much more. We hope that you’ll find a new and useful blog who will help you in your interests. We recommend you to subscribe to liked blog RSS. We’re planning for the second showcase of new and promising design related blogs, so if you have something to offer please write in comments.

1. Onextrapixel

Onextrapixel, or more commonly known as OXP is a weblog dedicated in delivering useful, comprehensive and innovative information for designers and web developers. OXP is started by two very enthusiastic Singapore web developer and designer.

2. Creativeoverflow

The creator of Creativeoverflow is Jacques van Heerden. Creativeoverflow topic focus on Web Design, Photoshop, Soacial media.

3. WebM.ag

                                                Useful Design blog regularly publishes articles on Design, Development and Blogging topics.

SEO Tips for Beginners

Whether you are building a website for the first time, or if you are optimizing your old site, there are some major factors that contribute to your overall ranking in Search Engines.  The two key factors for improving your ranking are: content and inbound links.

1. Website Content: First, content is very important because relevant content ensures a better organic listing on the search engines results pages and gives overall credibility to your website. This also means having keyword rich Meta tags and anchor links. While it is important that your content is keyword rich, it should also be readable, relevant and useful to your readers.
2. Inbound Links: The second most important thing to do to optimize your site is to have “juicy” inbound links. This is so important because the more relevant sites you have linking to your website, the more credible your website will be seen in the eyes of search engines, and your overall ranking will improve organically as well.
3. Link Building: The best way to start getting inbound links to your website is through credible directories such as DMOZ and Yahoo! Be very critical of your inbound links, because having inbound links from sites that are not credible will also bring your website ranking down.
4. Keyword Research: Keyword research is the foundation to a well-optimized website. Make sure you do proper keyword research by using programs such as Word tracker or Keyword Universe, or try some the free keyword research tool available through Google Adwords.
5. Site Design: The design of your site needs to be easy to navigate by your users and the web crawlers. It is also important that you have a “Call to Action” or a way your customers can call, e-mail, or make a purchase on every page. Have a clear navigation structure with important links to other pages of your site “Above the Fold” so that they are easily accessible and easy to see.
6. Pay Per Click: If you have a brand new domain and are having trouble getting traffic on your site, try a PPC Campaign to bring in traffic & test which keywords are and aren’t working.
7. Social Media Optimization: Also, don’t forget about social media optimization. Create a Blog on your site, or set-up a page on MySpace or Facebook. YouTube is also another hugely popular way to promote yourself, with 2.5 billion current users; you are bound to get your message out to someone.
8. Press Releases: Lastly, if you have press releases, be sure to include those on your website and optimize them with your most important keywords because they show up in search results just like regular news articles on Google News. This can be an easy way to build your online reputation.

Blogging Tips For Beginners

SEO is an important part of blogging. You don't just want to be writing content after content and no one there to read it, no one wants that to happen. So, there are some important white hat SEO tips that a beginner blogger must know and follow as well.

Now you should be ready to go through with SEO tips for blogging:

• Blogging platform: When you start blogging on platforms like Blogger, Wordpress, Typepad or anyother platform for blogging, your 80-85% of SEO work is already done by these blogs. Blogs themself are search engine friendly and all the search engines love to crawl blogs. So what you have to do is that try to fill that 20% SEO gap as much as possible.
• Quality content is the key: Provide good quality content in your blog, if the content is good then only your visitors are going to stick to your blog posts to read it, else they will just skip your blog and your bounce rate will go up.
• Unique content: In order to get a good content make sure you don't copy it from some other website or blog. Copying content will benefit you in no way at all instead it can lead your blog to be penalized by the search engines and the SERP (search engine result page) will go down.
• Quality keywords and phrases: Add good quality key phrases to optimize your page for SEO, don't just focus on single keyword, describe your page well in about 160 words and choose your keywords wisely. Don't stuff unnecessery key words.
• Use targeted keywords in Headlines: Use your targeted key phrases as headline tag(H1, H2 etc). This provides more value to your targeted keywords than that of other words.

Off page SEO (search engine optimization)

• Blog submission: Submit your blog URL to search engines and top directories on web.
• Get good backlinks: Ask other bloggers to backlink to your blog. Get links from blogs and websites related to your niche. Make sure you are reputed bloggers and websites to link to your blog. If your blog is referred by good and reputed websites then that will help your blog's creadibility in search engines and your content will also gain prefrence.
• RSS submission: Submit your RSS to RSS directories on web and blogs that take RSS submissions.
• Keep your blog updated: Don't make your site look static by keeping the content and not updating it. Also it's always good to provide your visitors with updated and new content. By adding new content you are allowing search engines to index more and more pages from your blog.

These are some of the most important SEO tips which you must follow and you should see results in 20-30 days if you do everything correctly and follow the process.
Never use black hat SEO methods to get top rankings in search engines as it can get your domain banned from search engines.

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