How to Write Blog Posts that Search Engines Like

Blogging for SEOSome say Blogging is an art while others claim it’s a science with well-defined logic. I personally believe writing blog posts that Search Engines like is a mix of both – your blog needs to be creative, but at the same time, it needs to adhere to SEO and SMM guidelines. Blogs are one of the oldest forms of social media and continue to play a pivotal role in any business’ social media strategy.

In this post, I present you tips on how to write blog posts that search engines like.

Platform

Of course, the starting point is to choose a search engine friendly blogging platform. I personally think WordPress and Blogger both rank high on the SEO scale. I’ve already written a post on where you should blog citing the advantages and disadvantages of each platform.

Keywords

Most search engines work based on keywords. Make sure you A) choose the right keywords and B) follow the right keyword density in your blog posts. If you stuff your posts with excessive keywords, they lose their essence. Similarly, if you don’t use the keywords enough in your post, it might not get indexed. Therefore, it’s crucial to maintain the optimal keyword density.

Title

Make sure that the titles of your posts are optimized for SEO. An optimized title will get indexed by most search engine robots while a run of the mill title might ruin your post’s SEO ranking. If you use a catchy and informative title, it will go down well with your readers as well as search engine robots.

Content

Most search engines are smart enough to detect plagiarism and would skip indexing your post if they find duplicate content. If you want search engines to like your posts, there’s no substitute to high-quality unique content. Most search engines know a way to determine the original source of any content so refrain from copying.

Links

If you want to get traffic for your blog, you need quality inbound as well as outbound links. If you get multiple quality inbound and outbound links, it will help boost your blog’s readership as well as improve the overall SEO rating. Most search engines value external links even if you are linking to competitor’s web site.

Images

While it’s true that search engines can’t actually see your images, they do parse the tags associated with your images. Make sure to use search engine friendly image names rather than using ones such as DSC0001.jpg straight off your camera roll. Yes, images do help your posts get noticed on search engines. Oh! One last thing, always include an ALT Tag to your images.

Do you have any other tips on how to write blog posts that search engines like? If so, please share with us by leaving a comment.

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  1. Another good tip that goes with the outbound links is to make sure they are not all NO FOLLOW!  A lot of people thinks that having follow outbound links they lose there juice, however by linking to authority sites and letting Google know you do you become a better resource!  

  2. I didn’t even know that outbound links helped. I write a weekly post that recaps all of the best posts from the previous week, so I guess I was using good SEO form without even knowing it. 

    (Oh, and this post will be on it next week).Thanks for the info, Douglas!

  3. Im surprised to know that outbound links can boost your rankings. Normally you loose ranking because of link juice flowing out. But if you link to high quality sites you can gain better rankings. What are the requirements of such a site? High PageRank and topical sites or are there other factors? 

  4. I disagree somewhat on the platform comment. If your blogging on a personal scale, then platforms like Blogger and WordPress are fine. But, if you want a company blog, it ought to be part of your website and share the domain name i.e blog.companyx.com. That’s way better for SEO then having the blog on a completely separate website.

  5. Good stuff – if we really think about it, it makes more sense from a natural standpoint to see both inbound and outbound links.  Helpful articles generally link out to references to strengthen their main points.  

  6. Hi
    I like thee post. Good and to the point tips. In my view good content is the key with a nice headline. If you have that then you’ll get quality links which all helps and of course you need to promote the post. The more hits it gets, the more you rise in the rankings . Cheers

  7. I think that its great to know how to write Blog Posts that Search Engines Like. I think that it would allow your blogs to get a lot of traffic with this great information. I know that it would be vital on your plant to improve and attract a lot of people to your blog.

  8. This is very nice informative post and i do agree with all the points raised in it. No doubt content is King but i would like to add that once you add fresh content and publish it, you need to spread it on social media sites so that it earn more views and comments.
    Thanks

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