When looking at a blog page from a browser, you can't tell which HTML tags and elements are where, apart from title tag (which usually is visible on the browser title bar, at the top left corner of the browser), so to check what your blog actually "looks like", you have to look at the source code.
In most browsers, you can find it from the View-menu and look for source code. In FireFox, just hit CTRL+U. When looking at your own blog, look for the title tag, the different headlines and the image ALT-texts.
I have created websites using just HTML, so I know how it works, but I think that with the tools we have today it is not necessary to know how to make a web-page with pure HTML. So HTML for bloggers is easy, we just need to know how these things work, not actually do them (unless we're developing a blog theme or template of course).
But we need to know about SEO. And for that, we need to know how to do keyword research. With keyword research, you can find good keywords for your blog. And after reading this post, you have better understanding where those keywords should go to. To name the top 3:
The title tag.
The H1 headline.
The anchor texts in the links.
Because of this I focused on that, and the things that matter to bloggers who don't have to touch the actual code, but maybe do a little bit of tweaking outside the visual editor when editing their posts.
What do you think? Did I miss something every blogger should know about HTML?
Go ahead, leave a comment and let me know, OK?
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