Good SEO tips

Good SEO tips for your website / blog / posts / etc.

Focus Keyword

The first thing you should do BEFORE writing your post is to choose a Focus Keyword.

A good Focus Keyword whould be the shortest and most common google search you would like to point to your post.
avoid using the same keyword in your website twice.

For example: The focus keyword of this post is “Good SEO”.

You can visit google and start typing “Good SEO” and you’ll see using the auto completion tool that this keyword search is the most common Keyword.

goodseosearch

Note: you can actually use other then the most common keyword (in our example, we could use the “Good SEO Tips” keyword, and It could be a great keyword too. It depends on you to choose what you think would fit best your post and is more related to the content of your post.

I could use also “Best SEO” keyword but as you can see below, is not so common used keyword:

bestseosearch

REMEMBER the keyword as you will need to use it in page title/url/content/etc.

Writing the article

Now you can start working on your article. Make sure you following:

Article Heading

In our example with the keyword “Good SEO”… our heading is: “Good SEO tips - Search engine optimization for your blog posts**”**

Your article heading should contain the keyword / Phrase. better when it at the beginning which is considered to improve rankings.
Remember that viewable limit of the heading in search engines is: 70 characters; some words will not be visible to users if it will be longer.
If you choose to set a longer heading, use a SEO Title

SEO Title

If you used title longer then 70 characters in your CMS (Like WordPress Page Title) use the HTMLto set a maximum of 70 chars title to your page.

this page title is:Good SEO tips - Search engine optimization for your blog posts

Page titles

Your page title (
) should contain the Keyword similar as the article heading.
Also make sure you have a sub header
with the keyword.

Page URL

The keyword should appear in your page URL.

for example: this page URL is: /good-seo-tips

Content

Make sure the keyword appears in your post content at least several times (at least 6+).
The keyword should appear in the first paragraph of the copy.
Write no less then 300 words in your copy.
run the Flesch Reading Ease test on your article. The copy scores 75.1 which is considered fairly easy to read.
add at least 1 outbound link(s). ()

Images

Add images to your article. at least 1 or 2. insert the keyword to the Alt="". Adding the keyword as a caption for the images would be great too. look in this example:

Meta Description

This article Meta is:

First thing you should do BEFORE writing your post is to think of a good SEO plan. good SEO will help your copy to reach more visitors from search engines!.

Which is exactly 156 chars!.