Start a blog – 30 point checklist and resource pack

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.

Blog Post Tasks To Apply For Maximum Optimization
Keywords

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

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

Links

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.

URL’s

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

Image

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.

Content

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.

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