17 Simple Tasks To Optimize Your Blog Posts

Blogging is a great way to get visitors to your website, and to see want products and services you offer. However, writing and creating great blogs is one thing, getting them seen is another. Use these 17 simple blog post tasks for maximum optimization and enhance your chances of getting seen.

Blogging is now very popular for businesses as well as bloggers who have something to say. Whatever niche you are in, if you are spending time and effort creating great content you want people to see it ... Don't you !

I'll take that as a YES then... 🙂

Before you create any blog post there are certain simple tasks you can do to your posts even prior to hitting publish.

Let's run through these so you can optimize your next posts. Remember also you can go back to older posts and check through these too. Adjusting and adding just some of these could result in more eyeballs on your content... 

Think about for a moment if you have 50 blog posts and you could get another 300 views per month (that's only ten per day per post) That's another 15,000 views a month not bad huhhh !

• Use relevant, top performing keywords that people are likely to search for in your blogs. Use tools such as Google Keyword Planner or Market Samurai
• Include these keywords in the title of your blog (at the front if possible) and in your headings too.
• Use your main keywords in the first and last paragraphs of your blog
• Use LSI Keywords (these are keywords that the search engines would expect to see with your main keywords) use this site to help you find these words http://lsikeywords.com/ 
• 93% of people start their web experience searching the search engines so to give yourself every chance of being found is vital.

The best plugin that will help you when it comes to using keywords and SEO in your posts is Yoast SEO. Read this article to discover this plugin and 6 more you must have to help build a blog 

•  Cross linking to relevant internal pages spreads authority across your site.
• Focus on just one keyword per post, you may find long tail keywords work best for ranking in the search engines.
• Link to relevant external web pages
• As you add new blog posts add the links from old posts to the new blogs posts.

• Use your main keyword or phrase in your URL and try and use these keywords in the beginning of the URL.
• Keep URL's as short as possible

• Use relevant keywords in your image file names, if using more than one image use variations of the keyword or phrase on different images.
• Add an alt tag description for your images 
• Keep the file sizes of your images to the size you need in the posts larger images will slow your page load time down and could result in readers leaving your site. This videos shows you how you can crop and edit images direct in your blogs dashboard.

Remember search engines can not read images so adding these keywords is a great way of telling them what your post is all about. 

• Keep your content unique don't just copy and paste from other sites, this would be frowned upon in the blogging communities and the search engines alike.
• Focus on quality. Write as if you are talking to a friend in the pub. 
• Don't skimp on the length of posts look at a minimum of 500 words but if needed write 1000 -2000 words.

What ever you blog about whether it be business or pleasure the main thing is about enjoying your blogging journey. Blogging is a great way to meet other like minded people who are interested in the same niche as you. If you found this article interesting on how to optimize blog posts.

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