How to maually Improve Your blog search engine rankings

How to maually Improve Your blog search engine rankings

SEO the accronym for  Search engine optimization. SEO is the activities of increasing the level of the number of people who visited your blog through search engine like google, bing, yahoo...

Dont miss my prev. Post  on how improve SEO using permalink

Below are some strategic practices that will help your blog optimized in no time. You will later gain upper hand in Search Engine Result Pages SERPs after reading.

Eliminate ineffective practices and replace them with strategic, content-focused tactics. Here are seven great ways to do that:

Rank more better on google

1. Do keyword Research

Keyword research is a practice search engine optimization (SEO) professionals use to find and research alternative search terms that people enter into search engines while looking for a similar subject. Search engine optimization professionals research additional keywords, which they use to achieve better rankings in search engines. Once they find a niche keyword, they expanded on it to find similar keywords. Keyword suggestion tools usually aid the process, like the Google Adwords Keyword Planner,which offers a thesaurus and alternative keyword suggestions or by looking into Google Suggest
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Improper keyword research resulted to failure SEO enhancement. Keyword research sets the stage and lays the groundwork for an SEO campaign.
If  you take a keyword phrase like “blogging tips” This might be useful to people searching for information on blogging tutorials.

Here are some Keyword reserch platform you can use to optimize your search engine ranking
- SEMrush.com
- KWfinder.com
- moz.com
- keywordtool.io
- Longtailpro.com


2. Avoid post duplication.
When it comes to SEO, post duplication means to duplicate content or the same text existing at two different URLs -- something that you should always avoid. Republishing post  from another person's blog is not only an act of fraud and   copyright violation as it makes duplicate of post and google who loves new and fesh post might not rank those content well.
This act of copying another person's content is called plagiarism. You can make  use of any of these tools to check if your content has been copied somewhere.

3. Make navigation easy
Navigation is also important in improving blog SEO. Proper navigation makes search engine index your inks with ease. Navigation also plays a vital role when readers come to your blogger or wordpress blog. It engage readers more on your blog. The more often a page is linked within your website, the more PageRank flow it has and the higher it will rank in search-engine results pages [SERPs] for relevant queries.
You can make your blog navigation easy with just simple way
- interlinking - linking older post with new ones, older ones with new ones. See full article below.
- the use of gadjet like blogroll, blog archieve, popular post and random post.
By so doing it will make google crawler crawl through links to post for indexing.
To optimize your site’s navigation, internal link structure and PageRank flow using a tool like SiteLiner or Screaming Frog.


4. Interlinking - linking older post with new once.

Interlinking simply means adding a link of an old post to the new ones, it is a very good techniques for your seo and rankings, so you have to always do that.
This also let search engine crawl your old post if you use the do-follow link for the link, that means google will crawl the link, and if you use no- follow, that means they won’t.
This is done by getting older post title and link. Logon to blogger dashboard -> New Post.

In the post editing area write up the title, highlight the  text and click on hyperlink icon on the upper tool menu

 then paste the link

 then hit 'ok' button. Then you have have it

5. Heading tags and meta description usage

TAGS
When talking about tags we will be reffering to tools like headings, bold, alighment, paragraph, bullets, italics and so on...,

Heading tags starts from
Heading 1 refers to as h1
Heading 2 refers to as h2
Heading 3 refers to as h3
Heading 4 refers to as h4
Heading 5 refers to as h5
Heading 6 refers to as h6

Lets take a post as an example

「How to use permalink to improve SEO」 as my blog title and is to be bolder than any other text in the post. I will make use of Heading 1 by just highlighting the text and click Heading 1.

Now I will have so may sub-headings like 「What is Permalink?」 I will use Heading 2 because it will not as bolder that the main title

I still have another sub-heading like 「Power of permalink on blogs」 Heading 3

Another sub heading like 「How to use permalink on blogs」 Heading 4 and so on.

In a nutshell, the H1 tag will be taken for your post title, google and others search engines take h1 has the post title. You can use h2, h3,...h6, for other sub- headings

META DESCRIPTION
Meta description are still important for SEO purposes, meta descriptions have lost their influence in the ranking algorithm. Meta descriptions do, however, provide a perfect place to put some marketing talent to use, through the creation compelling copy that attracts clicks from the search-results page.
Meta descriptions should be present on each page of your site and should be relevant and optimized.

Note:- Too short or too long titles and descriptions do affect SEO alot so be vigilant to identify the title that best fit your articles.


6. Make your blog xtra faster

A site's load speed is a factor in search-engine rankings and it also affects the rates of converting visitors to customers.
The loading time a blog is determined by many different elements.

#1 template i.e the design of your blog - you must test a template on different browsers before selecting. This will make you experience what your readers will experience.

#2 Gadget and widget - avoid using unnecessary gadget they reduce blog loading time.

#3 Images - be vigilant on the type of image you will be using for your post, jpeg is faster loading on my blog that png or othe img format and even the size of the image matters. Blogger do take care of the size of your image in four ways. - Small - Medium - Large - xlarge.  Be sure to always set images to at least medium size so as to avoid slow loading.
Put your self in readers shoe, you're visiting a blog and the load time of the blog is taking a while (3-5 seconds) you will surely colse the page and left.

You can know how seepdy your blog is using a tool like Pingdom , which will give you a breakdown of each element and how long it takes your blog to load. Use the resulting information to optimize images or pieces of code that are causing long load times.

7. Don’t buy links. Earn them.
Because the quantity and quality of inbound links have a significant impact on a website's rankings, the temptation to buy links on other sites is strong. But link buying and selling are against Google’s Webmaster Guidelines .
Additionally, search engines are now very good at detecting suspicious, manipulative or unnatural links. The result? If you buy or sell links, your website’s search-engine rankings could fall significantly. Save your money and instead spend it on creating content that will earn or attract inbound links on its own merit.

How to earn links
Earning inbound links is simple except if you are lazy and ready to waste some dimes on buying links. There are many ways through you can earn backlinks.

- Social media posting : posting your blog links on social will allow readers bookmark such link for future poposes even if you've posted thousand of posts, they can easily refer back to the link.

- Blog commenting: commenting on other blog post will easily earn you backlinks. If commenting on others blogs, you will be prompt to input your name, email, website. Other poeple who are also commenting will then see your link and are likely to to check your link as well.

- Forum participating: be active in forums of the same niche with yours. Post tutorials with your links.

- If you are ebook writer, put your links inbetween the books either at the header or the footer of each pages. How do you get your own back links please share with us.

8. Be creative and Unique

Uniqueness and creativity must be the watch word of every so called bloggers. You referred to yourself as  a blogger who is ready to share effective information with the rest of the world because you are so passionate in the niche you selected. You must be able to source for information on your own without stress or copy from other bloggers. Do think deep down and ask your questions like; what information will be useful to my audience? How I'm I gonna write for readers love? How I'm I gonna write for SEO love? If I write, will readers will like to read? Is th post gonna be problems solving one? Will readers will like to come back for more?... Write posts based on what you know and your experience with plagiarism [Un authorized content theft]. Now you've created a unique content but you don't want to know weather the content has not being plagiarized. Here are the tools you can use

Best regards... Internet is a bae... Blogging is fun... Don't buy links, earn them.

There is love in sharng.