How to Make Your Blog Posts SEO Friendly
To make blog post more optimized for SEO and more SEO friendly bloggers can do several things. The reason we should do this, is to allow us to attain better search engine positions naturally (organically). With SEO optimized posts the changes for this to happen is actually a lot more possible.
But SEO optimized posts alone won’t get you to the top position of Google. Initially when your posts gets indexed and cached it is very much possible to snatch a number 1 ranking. But this ranking is only temporarily. Great for niche marketing, SEO optimized posts can bring you targeted traffic fast. If your niche site is optimized to sell Adsense, then you might be able to earn a bit of short term income the moment your SEO optimized posts hits the front page.
To keep that SEO optimized post in the tops of the SERPS, we need good quality incoming links. The higher the PR (Page Rank) of the incoming links are, the better our own PR will fare. This process of building incoming links is often long term and boring. In the bigger scheme of things however, it is essential if you want to dominate Google and/or your niches.
Writing a SEO Optimized Blog Posts:
Title: SEO starts with the title of the post. You main keyword needs to be incorporated into your posts title to have the most effect. A great tool already part of WordPress is the slug. You will find the slug in the right hand side column of your WordPress editor (where you write your blog posts.) By using your keyword in your slug, it will read better for SEO purposes but nevertheless you won’t loose your nice post title.
Just take a peek at this posts title and then take a look at the actual URL of this posts. The end behind the blogs URL (seo-optimization) is the actual post slug I chose to use.
Blog Post: The next part of your SEO optimized blog post is the actual blog post. You will need to use your keyword in the very first sentence of the post and either use the bold, italic, or underline feature ( please note that in the default WordPress editor you can only underline whilst going to the code view and then place the <u>keyword</u> tags around your keyword like this. I’ve used this example throughout the whole blog posts here to give you a better idea on what I mean.
Note: Please be careful on not to overdo this otherwise the search engine bots will mark you as a spam blog and instead of ranking well, you will be buried.
Your first paragraph also needs to contain your keyword in the last sentence. Ideally you will use the keyword twice or three times in the first paragraph, depending on length.
Throughout your posts sprinkle your keyword further. It is very important, that the very last paragraph also contains your keyword since the search engine bots often spider the beginning and the last bit of every blog post.
Tags: Tags are also an often overlooked part of the whole SEO optimization process. Please USE them at all times if you try for SEO. It helps to use your main keyword as a tag first and then some variations. Ideally you want around 5-10 tags.
Hyperlinks: If your posts contains hyperlinks to other pages in your blog, or to affiliate programs that are related to the topic, then use the keyword to hyperlink to them. It will carry more weight for SEO optimization purposes.
Images: Images need to be tagged with the keyword to have the highest possible effect for SEO. You should use images in your blog posts since a picture often speaks a thousand words and by tagging it the right way it will give you SE juice.
All in One SEO Pack Plugin: An absolute must to have, if you are working at SEO optimization. You can download this Plugin on the developers website and read all about why you need this.
Optimizing your blog posts for SEO really isn’t that hard and is the first step in your endeavor to snatch the top spots in Google. SEO optimization has resulted in many of my own blog posts hitting the number one spot and combined with niche marketing, this is a killer way to generate some income fast.
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thanks for the tutorial, it’s helpful but could you please tell how to submit our blog to hundreds directory?
I would agree with a lot of what is said here. The title tags in Wordpress blogs is often the most lost potential for SEO for sure.
If you get them right it will be big help to your blog.
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I agree with the above comments, however their are a number of black hats who will use automated pregrammes to submit none related comments to blogs and forums, it is for this reason I have used no-flow attribute within one of my forums - to reduce the amount of none related posts to the site, some of which contain adult content.
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It’s very interesting, thank you for the post!
This is a good beginners guide for SEOing your Wordpress.
This is great and I go back and refer to it each time I write a blog so thank you!
I have a problem in blogs there is so many poups and extra openning urls so can any one please guide me. Is it possible to get it done in a search engine friendly way?
For some reason some Wordpress blogs will index into search engines while others just don’t… does anyone have a good idea about why?
I have the same problem with 2 of my blogs, my piling equipment blog is indexed and page 3 for that search term, however my other piling rigs blog with as much content is not indexed, not sure why?
My underground garage parking system blog is unique content and one which many would find interesting, built with wordpress but not indexed?