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Hello Guys,

I have a new webmaster and web development blog and I was looking for advice on Do's and Don'ts of search engine optimisation for webmaster related blogs.

What are your personal experiences ? What techniques have you used in the past which were succesful ?

Thanks in advance for all your comments and suggestions.

Best Regards,

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Thread starter asked for do's and don'ts; the replies from , and raise good early points. The checklist below fills gaps those replies left open by focusing on three durable areas: demonstrable expertise, technical plumbing, and an editorial/process workflow that prevents common mistakes.

Demonstrable expertise and trust: publish short author bios with verifiable experience, include reproducible debugging steps or case studies, keep visible publish + revision dates and a simple corrections policy, and disclose sponsored content. Use structured metadata so crawlers can associate an article with an author and date; a minimal JSON‑LD Article payload looks like this:

{
  "@context":"https://schema.org",
  "@type":"Article",
  "headline":"Post title",
  "author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Author Name"},
  "datePublished":"2024-01-01"
}

Technical plumbing (practical checklist): serve pages over HTTPS, choose short descriptive permalinks, ensure unique title tags and meta descriptions, apply rel=canonical for duplicates, use semantic HTML and proper heading hierarchy, provide meaningful alt text for images, compress and lazy‑load assets, and use caching/CDN to improve load times and Core Web Vitals. Expose an XML sitemap and review server logs to spot crawling bottlenecks. Treat thin tag/category pages carefully (noindex where they add no value).

Editorial hygiene and growth: maintain an editorial calendar and periodically refresh evergreen posts with new findings; include real code samples and outputs so posts are genuinely useful to other webmasters; moderate comments to prevent spam from diluting site quality; pursue contextual, relevant links rather than mass linking schemes; schedule quarterly audits for duplicate content, redirect chains, broken links and backlink quality. These steps complement the readable writing and stats tracking already mentioned in the thread while addressing the practical setup that keeps a webmaster blog healthy over time.

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There really aren't a short list of do's and don'ts. Read Google's official webmaster blog for starters. Read for ideas (good ebook for getting your feet wet). Not sure what else to suggest ...

Content is king. Great unique content. Clean HTML code. Don't spam other sites. Keep it clean. Keep it simple. Start a blog or some other way of having frequently updated unique content that people are naturally going to want to link to (aka link bait) ...

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One tip would be to ensure your content is easily readable - too many people write based on keyword density & you can tell by the stilted sentences or pages that start with the keyword as a question, etc. Totally agree - content is always king. Esp since you're talking about a site for webmasters, make sure you know what you're saying!!

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Tracking your website statistics is the best way to track your SEO and know if your SEO efforts are bringing the desired results. Basic statistics are included in most hosting packages, or you can check out Google Analytics.

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