By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

What do you do when you’ve made it almost all the way there?

You know, you’ve got all the page titles optimized, keywords in the titles, great content, high keyword density, expert in your niche.

You are almost there! There are some tweaks that you can make that will get you there, my friend. Are you ready?

Here are 3 SEO tips to get you all the way there.

1. Drop the subdomain

If you’re blogging from a subdomain it is time to stop it. Unless you have a massive network of blogs that aren’t splogs you might have a shot with this one. It is more difficult to raise your PR from a subdomain that it is to do so from a subdirectory.

What you need to do is go from http://myblog.mydomain.com to http://mydomain.com/myblog

It is a subtle difference but one that can mean the difference between search engine traffic and sitting on your hands wondering where everyone is.

2. Auto-discovery RSS on all pages

This code needs to be on all of the pages within a site. If you blog simply has the discovery on the homepage you’re off to a good start. However, when a search engine is indexing your site it goes to post pages looking for data. Your homepage means almost nothing to a bot except a viable redirection system to the content.

On these pages the auto-discovery RSS feed should be relational to the content. Meaning that if it is a search results page the feed should be for the search term, if the page is regular content it should be for the main feed and if it is a category . . . you get the idea.

3. Categories and Tags

Add these to every post on your site. Then make sure that they are links to category and tag pages. When you are feeding the bots you want to give them variety and new places to find something they might have missed the last time through.

The best way to describe bot activity it to look at it like being a child and entering a department store during the Christmas holiday season. There are toys, people and opportunities that are missed simply because there is so much going on. It is impossible to take it all in. Bots are the same way. They’re eager, excited and with your guidance you can get them everything that they want for Christmas.

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