Part of the guide: Blog Traffic
You have a blog and are consistently adding a new blog every day, or at least once a week. That is great that is the first step toward getting….. traffic to your web site. However, we need to think about, how potential readers will find your articles. That is what blog keyword-s are about.
Many people perform a Google search to find information that they are interested in. Google refers to these searches as a keyword (or keyphrase). Having your site optimized for the best possible blog keywords can massively improve your success.
Fortunately, there is a tool called Google Adwords that is free and is easy to use. It is very useful to see what phrases you are competing for.
BLOG KEYWORD SECRETS
- Find a Keyword that has little competition. Use Google adwords tool, to find some ideas that fit into the content that you are sharing. Enter your ideas into the Phrase or word box and select Search. You will have a list of monthly searches and competition. Below that, you have other ideas to look at. You want your competition to be low and the search volume to be high. You can even try some synonyms.
- Make sure to put your key words or phrase at least once in both your introduction and conclusion. This will let Google know this is relevant content to the keywords. Make sure to put the keywords in your title. If you can get it in the first or second word of the title, all the better, but make sure your writing flows.
- Make your Blog keyword pop. It is important to use Bold, Italics, and quotes on your chosen words. Skip underlining that makes it look like a link and can frustrate people.
- Enter the tags. They are useful.
- Title any pictures you add with your key words. Remember Google has image searches too.
- Make sure words are not run together. When you are separating a phrase or words use a hyphen (-) and not an underscore (_). Google doesn’t separate words that are run together or underscored.
- Don’t Stuff Your Article. Putting your key phrases over and over in your article will not win you any points. Let it be natural. You can get penalized by Google for that.
- Write your article with your keywords in mind. However, don’t force keywords on an article.
- Keep your keywords to 6 or 7 or less. If you have too many, they for sure will be irrelevant to your content.
There are some ideas to build on. It is time to get your blog keywords noticed by the search engines. Now remember this doesn’t happen overnight, but it will come. More traffic is what it is about.
Stephen Peters
P.S. Thanks for reading!
Comments
viktor, July 17 2024, 14:20
I just want to comment the part regarding “Find a Keyword that has little competition”. These keywords should also be relevant to your website and blog content for search engines. I can recommend a couple of tools which work well for this purpose: http://keywordsretrieval.com and http://keywordsrepository.com
4stephenpeters, July 17 2024, 14:25
You were never meant to do this alone
Reading this changes nothing. Doing it with people who show up changes everything. That is the whole difference between the people who transform and the people who keep starting over.
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Janet I Mueller, July 17 2024, 14:30
Great post Stephen enjoyed reading the 9 useful tips!
Emma Johnson, July 17 2024, 15:35
This post really clarified how to use keywords effectively. Thanks for the tips, Stephen!
Lucas Brown, July 17 2024, 15:40
Great advice on keyword optimization! I appreciate the detailed steps on finding low competition keywords. This will definitely help boost my blog traffic.
William Davis, July 17 2024, 15:50
Thank you for these tips, Stephen. This was exactly what I needed to improve my blog’s SEO. I will start implementing them right away.
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The advice about hyphens over underscores was new to me, and it is the kind of small mechanical point that makes you wonder how much else about search engines has quietly changed since I last built anything with a keyboard.
Arthur, the hyphen distinction is real but minor at this point — modern crawlers tokenize on the underscore too. The bigger unanswered question in this piece is why six or seven keywords is the ceiling. That number appears with no explanation of what actually breaks past it.
The best case for capping it at six or seven: past that point you’re not writing for a reader anymore, you’re writing a keyword list with sentences wrapped around it, and readers can feel that shift even if they can’t name it. Not necessarily my own view, but it holds up.
Sorry if this is a silly question, but when it says put the keyword in the first or second word of the title, does that mean the actual post title, or is there some other ‘title’ field I’m supposed to be filling in too? I never know if I’m doing both or just one.
Every anecdote about page-one rankings skips the reps who followed all nine steps and still sit on page four.