SEO Tip for Blogs - Show Popular Posts on Home Page

I wanted to implement this since very long but did not made enough efforts to show the most popular posts on my home page to gain some search engine ranking benefits. Recently, I read a post from Matt Cutt’s blog and gone through his presentation on SEO tips for bloggers and one of the blogs that he referred to for SEO optimization of blogs was that of Stephan Spencer’s blog.

A big thanks to Alex King’s Popularity Contest plugin which was very easy to install and setup. It did not take more than 5 minutes to get it up and running and as a result my sidebar now also shows the most popular posts.

From Stephan’s blog:

Wouldn’t it make sense to take your very best posts, regardless of posting date, and endow them with a maximum amount of link gain so they have the most opportunity to rank well in the search engines?

Putting together a Top 10 Posts list for your home page will do exactly that, by strategically passing link gain from your blog’s home page directly to these posts.