Blogging For Money: Basic SEO Blogging Tips
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Blogging For Money: Basic SEO Blogging Tips
If you want your blog to be found by the search engines, namely Google, you will need some basic SEO tips.
SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization. What that basically means is that your writing is full of content that Google will gladly share when someone is searching for the same information that you’ve written about.
Once you’ve answered the 6 questions we discussed in a previous blog post, found HERE, you now know what to write about in such a way that
people will get the answer to their problem.
If you have your keywords already figured out, now you need to apply a few elements that are necessary for an SEO ready blog post.
Basic SEO Blogging Tips:
1) You must know your keyword(s); the words a person will type in to the search box on a search engine.
2) Your keyword must be in your title, first sentence and last sentence.
3) You must use your keywords in your Header tags (h1,h2,h3)
4) You need an internal link to another of your blog posts.
5) Your keyword density should be between 1 to 2%; keyword appears once per 100 words.
6) Your blog post should be no less than 400 words in total.
7) You need at least one photo with your keyword in the ALT tag.
Now, if you are using a free blog, some of these elements will not be properly applied since they are intended to be online journals, not marketing pages. You can certainly try to use these SEO blogging tips and see how well it works out for you.
If you have a wordpress blog and “own” it, by having your own hosting, you will be able to install plug-ins that will assist you with all of these SEO blogging tips. Just find a plug-in that has great reviews and follow the directions to download it to your computer and upload it to your host provider.
I have learned much of these SEO blogging tips and even more information through Empower Network. Because of the system, I am able to have a wordpress website, hosted on an outside
server. There is a plug-in in the back office that simplifies this whole process. All you need to do is plug your keyword in to the box for the SEO plug in and then it will tell you what changes you need to make, to ensure it is optimized for the search engines.
Is all of this way over your head? It was for me too! Now that I am learning so much information through the Empower Network, from blogging experts to SEO experts, I can now write about anything I want and be in profit…BLOGGING FOR MONEY!!
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