What Is The Best Way To SEO Your Blog?

When you have a blog, it can sometimes be hard knowing the best way to make it search engine friendly and optimised. After all, a blog is supposed to be a natural stream of thoughts, like a diary right? Of course, you can adopt this structure for a successful blog, but there are also some other elements you need to consider. Here we detail what the best way to SEO your blog is.

Find Keywords

Okay, so you’re going to write a blog post but where do you start? The first thing you need to do is find keywords. We recommend using the Google Keyword Tool to find low-level phrases to optimise your blog posts for. If your blog is still in its infancy, choose keywords that have search volumes in the hundreds rather than the thousands. Longtail keyphrases are a great way to SEO your blog because they are often overlooked yet can drive excellent, niche traffic.

Alternatively, you could use the Firefox SEO Blogger add-on. This tool optimises your blog posts for you as you write and can prove useful if you’re short of time to do any keyword research before you start writing your blog.

If you have thought of a topic for your blog post, the next thing you should do is think about how people will find it. If you use a blogging platform like WordPress or Blogger, you have the benefit of taking advantage of the tagging system where you can put keywords in related to the blog to help people find it. In truth, the Bloggger tagging system is still quite weak and it is WordPress that has the gold tagging system. There a lot of weight in WordPress tagging for SEO purposes, so make sure you don’t ignore it.

Don’t Forget Your Images!

Another good tip is to remember to tag your images. Geo-tagging is a great idea if you’re looking to attract locality targeted users. By simply keyword optimising your images, you increase the chances of your pretty pictures taking pride of place in a Google Images search. Having seen first hand the traffic from Google Images to a client’s site, this is one element definitely worth taking into consideration.

To SEO your blog, you don’t need to be an SEO guru or even the best writer in the world. Blogging is all about reaching the right audience with what you have to say, and that’s why simple keyword research can prove highly effective.<-->