Each time you write your blog post use these blog posting 7 tips checklist.
They’ve helped my readers get more from my posts and have helped my search engine rankings as well.
Gotta love that!
1. Find Your Best Keyword Phrases
Take a few minutes to research the keywords that people will type in to find your your post.
For example, at first you might think a blog post about the 7 best blogging tips might be titled ’7 best blogging tips’. Makes sense, but after checking with the Google keyword tool, the phrases ‘successful blogging‘ and ‘best blog tips‘ get more searches with about the same number of competing web pages.
So it make better sense to choose a title that gets more searches without being any more competitive.
2. Title Your Blog Post Carefully
Your post’s title is what grabs attention, so craft your title using your keywords but add to those words something enticing that will get your reader excited or curious. Even better add an attention getting benefit.
Here are some useful ideas and tips on crafting great titles and headlines - How to Write a Headline that Attracts Attention
3. Keyword Optimize your Post
Keyword optimization means optimizing your post for your best keywords.
To help take some of the guesswork out of optimizing your posts for your keywords, download the WordPress SEO plugin by Yoast. I just recently switched from using the all in one SEO plugin to this and I love it because in addition to lots of other features, it also tells me if I’m using my keywords correctly. There’s no making mistakes:
4. Deep Link your Posts
Deep linking is where you link each of your web pages or posts from several other pages of your site or blog using anchor text, or the keywords phrases you want to target.
So in other words, if your blog post keyword phrase is ‘green apple blossoms’ and you want that post to rank well for that term in the search engines, then find other relevant posts or pages on your site to mention ‘green apple blossoms’ and link those words back to that post.
5. Drop the Lengthy Introduction
Keep your introductions short. Long and wordy introductions put you at risk of losing your readers, so keep it short. Ideally, your intro paragrah should quickly tell the reader what they’ll learn in the post, so one or two concise, to the point sentences is really all you need.
6. Optimize your permalink with your chosen keyword phrase
All this is saying is that you want your keyword phrase to be in the URL of your blog post. To do this you’ll first need to configure your WordPress Permalink settings so this will happens automatically.
Using this blog post as an example, you can see that the URL of the post will include the post title that contains my keywords. You also have the option of editing it as well.
7. Publish Your Post When You Can expect the most traffic
Before you click the ‘Publish’ button, think about publishing your post at a time when you can expect the most traffic. When to publish your post is different for everyone because it depends on when people visit your blog. Having said that you want your blog content ready before they arrive.
The easiest way to do this is to check your hosting logs and find a traffic pattern. For example, my highest traffic days are Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, and my peak hours most every day is from 9 -10 am and 4-6 pm.
So for me, at the very least I want to make sure my blog is ready with a new post at those times.
Let me hear your thoughts. What are some of YOUR blog posting tips? Do you find checklist like this help you?
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