I have had a few people ask me what my SEO tips were so I decided to write a post outlining my SEO tips.
Blogging is not just about writing articles that your readers will enjoy. You also have to think about how to make your content visible to the online world. There are millions of people searching for information on search engines – Google, Bing and Yahoo. Search engines are a great
source of traffic to your blog. So understanding how SEO works and what you can do to rank your blog high on the search results will
help give your blog the needed boost.
When I first started blogging, I didn’t have a clue about search engine optimization, I didn’t even know what that was. All I wanted to do was to write, and write I did. I wrote without thinking of search engines, or stressing over how the online audience would find my blog. However, as Fashion and Style Police grew, I started to think of SEO. I studied what successful bloggers did, how they wrote their blog posts, and I also did my own research here and there. I always have these SEO tips in mind when writing a blog post:
1. Stay ahead of the search
Anticipate what the internet world will be searching for. Whenever you want to write an article, think about the possible words your ideal reader would be searching for. Write a list of these words and fit them into your blog posts. Those are the keywords you should add to your headlines, first paragraph, and other parts of your blog post.
2. Use long-tail keywords in your blog posts
Short keywords are heavily used and this makes it difficult for your article to compete with other similar articles on the internet. To get optimum benefit from keywords, you need to use long-tail keywords. These are a longer set of words that your readers may be searching for.
For example, “acne remedies” is a saturated set of keywords. Long-tail keywords like “acne remedies that clear acne fast” will have lower competition from other blog posts, but are highly searched for by your ideal readers, if that makes sense.
Keywords are important for SEO but you should also ensure you do not overboard using them.
3. Write attractive headlines
To capture your reader’s attention, write catchy headlines that inform them about what your blog post is about and make them curious enough to click your blog post. Attractive headlines give a tip of what the blog post is about, and they also help readers find your blog post.
4. Create quality content
Millions of people search for information on search engines daily. If you give quality information, this will encourage people to share and make reference to your blog post in their own blogs. References to your blog from other sources help to increase your search ranking. So create quality content so you get link backs an social media shares.
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5. Link to your own posts where relevant
Try as much as possible to make reference and link to some of your own blog posts on your site. This will help you rank higher on the search results. It makes it easier for the search engine to find your other posts. Plus, visitors to your blog will stay longer on your blog and go through your previous posts.
6. Optimize your URL structure
Just like your headline, the URL (that is, the link) of your blog post gives a little information about the post. Search engines favour URLs that make it easier for readers to understand the content of your blog. For example, you can guess what the content of my blog post is if I write my URL like this:
“http://www.fashionandstylepolice.com/2016/08/08/how-to- attract-new- clients-keep- existing-
clientele”. But you’ll have no idea what the blog post is all about if my URL were written like this:
“http://www.fashionandstylepolice.com/45860382624”.
Also, aim to have your url as short as possible. The shorter the url, the better.
7. Optimise your images
If you want your blog images to appear of Google, you need to rename your images with relevant search-friendly names and include a ‘image’, or ‘Picture’ at the end. For example, if you are saving a picture of a boy kicking a ball, you should name it ‘boy kicking a ball image’. Images saved properly will appear on search engines. You also include an alternative text image name.
8. Use relevant anchor text
When linking back to an old post or to another site, ensure the anchor text is SEO-friendly, and relevant to the page you are linking to.
9. Post regularly
Updating your blog on a regular basis will boost your blog’s SEO by adding relevancy to it in the eyes of the search engines.
10. Responsive blog
Having a mobile friendly blog helps your SEO. An easy to use blog will keep people visiting and clicking, which will eventually boost your search engine ranking.
These tips have helped me boost my SEO, so they are definitely worth paying attention to. You can read more SEO tips in my book – How to Cash In as a Blogger.
Do you have any search engine optimisation tips to add?
Thanks for this. I’m working on improving bit by bit. #babysteps
Cool..Thanks for reading.
I really struggle with so many of these (mostly due to time and my memory!) I try to link other posts when I can but I need a print out so I can check off what I need to do to publicise my own work..or I just forget! x
Yea linking back helps a lot.
Thank you for sharing your tips, they are very useful! 🙂
Glad you found them useful Nikki.
SEO is very important and it’s helpful to know that there is more to just having a blog and writing. To gain exposure you need to know more about the technical side too!
Yea you need to or get someone who does.
Fab tips! Especially loved the “using longer post titles”. Will keep that in mind 🙂
Yea longer keywords though..
This is such a useful post and I am so glad I have come across it .I am book marking for future reference.
Glad you found it useful Nayna.
These are great tips Stella, thanks so much for writing the post. I have also shared this on a couple of my Twitter feeds.
Thanks for sharing Joanne. Glad you like it.
Great post Stella!
Thanks hun x
Some great tips, I must admit SEO fails me at times but I have a better understanding now x
Thanks Cathy. Glad you do x
Some great tips. My husband deals with SEO so I’m lucky I have an expert on hand x
Yes you are x
I’m still learning but bookmarking this as it is really useful! Thanks
Glad you find it useful.
Love these tips – one of the things I’ve really enjoyed about blogging is learning about SEO and the technical side of things. It’s like a whole world I never knew existed!
Yea it is so cool once you understand it. I am still learning myself.
Great tips am going to come back and refer to this as it will be useful
Thanks x
I am still learning about SEO after 5 years of blogging. I have had a lot of traffic come to my blog through using good titles for my photos.
Ah nice.
These are some awesome and useful tips, I am still working on improving my blog SEO. I need to start using longer keywords, I didn’t think much about it before. I figured having keyword was enough but you’re right.
Glad you found them useful Miranda.
Fantastic post! Some really great tips, I’ve been looking into this more so this has really helped
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Thanks Jordanne.
What a great post – lots of brilliant tips, thank you. Some I knew, some i didn’t. Kaz x
Thanks Kaz x
Really interesting to read these tips. I have been blogging for five years and still don’t know everything and SEO can seem a little scary at times. It was great to pick up a few new tips though, thank you
Thank you for reading.
I wish I knew some of these things when I started. I spend a lot of time on SEO now but it’s not my favorite thing to work on.
Yea it ia mine too.
Great tips, it took me ages to get my head round SEO but once you have grasped the basics it is easy enough.
Yea it is Ali.
Great tips. The world of SEO can be a tricky and murky one and too many people are in the shadows about easy things they can do x
Yea it can be tricky.
Great tips, thank you for sharing this. While I understand SEO I am not very good at putting it into practice!
Thanks for reading.
Great tips these. I had no idea about including the word image or picture in the images – I’ll start doing that from now on to see if it makes a difference.
I bet it would.
These tips are great, actually I think I try to follow all of them. I may have some issue with the keywords, but I guess I’m improving 🙂 x
Ah nice Natalia.
These are great tips, thank you! I have always been worried about learning SEO’s as I didn’t get them. You made them sound so much easier than I first though 🙂
They are easy once you understand it. Thanks Claire.
will have to try longer tail keywords, always thought you had to keep them short and snappy
Yea I thought so too until I realised longer keywords in a post brought me more traffic.
I am definitely going to take on everything you’ve mentioned – I have been trying to get better with SEO!
Thanks for reading Hannah.
Good stuff. It might be worth to notice that Meta description affect the seo. Best Seo Company gets you good SERP with good Meta description get you higher CTR.
Ah fab tip. Thanks.
Longer tail keywords!! Woweee we just learnt something – thanks for sharing and we’re going to start implementing at once 🙂 Great, informative post
Thanks for reading..Glad you like the post.
Great tips for new bloggers, thanks for sharing!
Thanks for reading Sarah.
Good tips – one of mine is make use of schema or other structured markup data. Google loves it.
Ah thanks. Will look that up.
Thank you for sharing such fantastic tips as SEO is something that I really struggle with xxx
Thanks for reading Laura.
You’ve got some really useful tips here, thanks for sharing xx
Thanks for reading Charli.
Hi stella (feel like i haven’t been on here for ages!) very nice blog post. Seo is just important to bloggers as the blog theme or post. xx Don’t ignore it. xx
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Hi Anna..Yes so true.
Linking to your own posts is a good one. I try to do this as much as possible, but mainly just to give my readers more value.
Yea it does give the readers more related posts to read.
I’ve recently become a lot more serious with my blog so this post is perfect! I’ve noted down a few of these tips!
Ah great stuff.
Adding image or picture is a great tip, thanks for that x
Thanks for reading x
Thanks for all these tips, although yoast still tells me i’m rubbish!
Don’t worry, you will get there.
Thanks for the great tips. I am trying to boost my da and am covering most of these but I can’t seem to get it to budge any advice?
Just keep trying. You will get there.
Some really amazing tips. I pretty much do all of these. I optimise my images with the post title, but never add image to the end. Will definitely be doing that from now on.
Yea it helps Chloe.
Great tips! I already try to implement all of these so that’s good 🙂
Thanks Becca.
Good read!! very Informative..
Thanks.
Very very helpful and clearly explained 🙂 thank you xo
Glad you found it helpful. Thanks for reading.
Posting relevant content is so crucial for SEO. Thanks for the post. Heads up on the title for #8, “optimize”. Bookmarked, thanks.
Thanks for reading John.
Well said. Very useful tips!
Glad you like it.
great post!
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Thanks.
Nice! Thanks for the tips.
Thanks for reading.
Helpful tips!
Thanks.
Thanks for the post! I’ll read this as often as possible.
Ah cool..Thanks for stopping by.
Awesome post.
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I actually read this report and it is a great report and very informative.!!
Thanks Nikola.
Wonderful and helpful blog posts to help me understand a bit more!
Glad you found it helpful Ted.
Very Useful Post. I think its right to improve SEO.
Yea it is..
Thank you! 👍
Thanks for reading.
😄 with pleasure! Nice work.
Oh thank you, I will pass this along to other bloggers.
Thanks Polo..
Good stuff. Keep up the great content. 🙂
wow great post friend i really impressed by your article
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Thanks for share. https://seo-rank-my-business.business.blog/
Thanks for reading Kelly.
Great info! I’m fairly new to the SEO phenomenon, I went to WordPress Conference and the information was informative, but I found your post to be quite helpful! Thanks
Glad you found the post useful.
Wow,its very useful.Thanks for your share.. i love it.. i am a newbie in SEO.. 😀
Glad you found it useful.
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SEO isn’t that complicated. It’s hard work, yes, but it’s not rocket science.
This means that the SEO agency you’re looking to hire should be able to explain in simple terms what they can achieve and how. If they make it sound like it’s complicated or aren’t willing to get into the details of their “scientific” techniques, then they are probably trying to pull the wool over your eyes.
sound great..i am use long tail keyword for optimisation my web..thx for sharing
Great. Thanks for reading.
I very much Appreciate the SEO arrangement that you already made, though I’m sure the new offering will be used with thanks by many.Very Useful Post. I think its right to improve SEO
Yes it is.
Great seo tips
Thanks Anthony.
Nice tips for seo bloggers.
Great advice. How many times can we post in a day? Is there a limit? Say, we post every 15 minutes or every hour in the hour. I would like to boost my stats and followers. i write about my Thoughts and Views.
I post almost everyday, 1 minimum, 3 maximum, depending on how busy I am.
Thank You, that’s what I figured but how long do you wait after each post to post again?
I try to space them out as much as I can. So on days where I post 3 times, I post 1 around midnight or early morning, second around midday and the last in the evening or so.
Thanks, I think it all depends on our schedules. But spacing sounds like an idea. I post every 60 minutes with 4 to five post minimum. Sometimes I post 11 in a 24 hour period. I’m a full time blogger.
I do this and other online jobs full time too but I don’t post that often. Off to check your blog out.
Ok, I’m the same way. I have a busy life but blog via my cellphone.
It was helpful. thanks for the post.
Thank you.
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