6 Tips to Optimize Your Blog Posts for SEO

Posted On 09 Mar, 2017 by Vishal V

Once upon a time it was easy to get the eyeballs to your blog. All you had to do was to create a blog, post regularly, and see your traffic zoom. However, gone are the days of “If you build it they will come”. Nowadays it is a trench war and according to latest statistics, more than half of the bloggers have already given up. As per the study conducted by blogger.com, 65% of blog owners have not updated their blog in last one year.

In this bloody war, the biggest gun is something known as SEO

The below 6 tips can help you optimize your SEO:

Do Your Homework: Use the Google keyword tool and find relevant researched keywords for your blog post and then add them to the content.

Spread the Keyword: You need to spread the keyword evenly in your post right from title to heading, subheading, hypertext, meta, links etc. This would allow the humans, search engines, and crawlers to hit your blog when they search for the keyword. But don’t overdo this and stuff your blog with keywords. This would not only irritate your readers but Google would penalize you as well.

A Picture is Worth: While uploading pictures on your blog, make sure to include the keyword in that as well. This would give your blog an edge.

Reference Links: Mentioning a link to another blogger’s post or information page to which you are referring is not only good etiquettes but also good Karma that might come back to help you as a back link. Google loves quality links.

Subscriptions: This one is a no brainer. If you have access to the mailbox of your subscribers, you can always send them a shout and tell them about the new thing on your blog. They would come.

Go Social: There is no escaping the social media. If you want maximum readership, you need to go where maximum people are, and that means social media. Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+ and so on. That’s where they hang out. With tools like Hootsuite you can use post your blog to all your social media sites at one go.
Follow the above and see your SEO gun fire rapidly. Google knows you need it.