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I have compiled a list of 10 easy and quick ways to improve your blog. Each one should take no more than 20 minutes and could help to improve or optimize your blog.

Check for old links - As mentioned in ‘Give Your Site an SEO Service‘, removing old links is handy for spiders as well as your blogs visitors.

Subscribe To Other Blogs In Your Niche - This allows you to keep up to date with events in your niche and also helps to breed new ideas for your blog.

Make Your Feed Accessible - Make it easy for your sites visitors to subscribe to your blog by making logos stand out, and by linking to your feed whenever you get the chance. Subscribe To My Feed

Optimize Your Permalinks - Dont stick with the standard WordPress link structure as this is not good for SEO, instead change the links from this: http://www.yourblog.com/p?=89 to something more focused to your posts title: http://www.yourblog.com/killer-blog-post-title. This will help a little with your SERP rankings.

Stay Clear Of Unnecessary Widgets - Sure you may think adding lots of cool widgets to your blogs makes it look alot better, but what is the benefit to your blogs visitors. My advice would be to keep to simple widgets that are useful and relevant.

Link To Other Blogs In Your Niche - Your blog might not be able to offer everything your visitors are looking for, but you may know a blog that has information that is useful, my advice would be to link to that blog. Sure you may feel like you are sending visitors away from your blog, but the visitor will remember that you provided them with good extra material. The owner of the other blog may even link back to some of your content.

Install The Related Post Plugin - This is something that I have covered on my blog, it makes a big difference to your blogs page views per visit. ‘Related Post Plugin Can Boost Page Views‘.

Create A Contact Us Page - Make yourself available to your blogs readers, don’t shut yourself away, open up for questions, it could even lead to great post ideas, or links with other blogs. Contact Me, if you would like to ask any questions.

Reply To Comments On Your Blog - This is a really simple way to help grow your blog. Your visitors will be more likely to comment if they think that you will reply, and it can also help to build a community on your blog. I would also recommend the ‘Top Commentators Plugin’.

Optimize Your 404 Page - I did a guest post over at bloggingtips.com about this very item. Stop people hitting the back button when they arrive at a 404 error page, make them read your blog instead. Here is my post over at bloggingtips.com: ‘Improve Bounce Rate by Optimizing 404 Pages‘.

You now have 10 great ways to improve your blog, that are simple and quick to perform. Do you have a quick and easy tip that can help improve your blog? Post them below.