Top Tips For Developing SEO For Bloggers

If you have any sort of online presence whether that be a website or blog you need to understand SEO. So what is SEO?  Search engine optimisation (SEO) looks at increasing the visibility of a website/blog in a search engines with unpaid results ie. natural or organic. Basically making your content hit the first page in searches without paying.  It’s the holy grail where all bloggers/website owners desire to be.

For some bloggers/businesses this will be super easy, my Dad for example restores and sells vintage Dinky Cars which is quite a niche market.  He doesn’t have many competitors and through great copy, keywords, and blogging he soon hit the first page for the majority of search terms. Charlie Moo’s on the other hand sells party supplies which is a saturated market. For products like our handmade fabric party bags we rank high first page but for products like our Frozen party invites I’d hate to actually know what page we are on!  This is much the same for bloggers those who have a niche and a target market will do better in SEO than those who blog about everything and have a wider target audience but one that might not be interested in every post they write.

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Bloggers/website owners don’t want to have to pay companies to do their SEO for them so learning how to be an SEO ninja is a really useful skill.  Here are 4 basic tips to get you started aimed at novice bloggers.

Top Tips For Developing SEO for Bloggers:

  • Plugins: If you are using wordpress.org then having a plugin is a great resource. The aim is to set a keyword and have a green light for SEO, this is achieved through using said keyword, meta tags, descriptions, outbound links, and much more.  Using a plugin, like Yoast, enables you to visually see that each post is green and therefore great for SEO this can be much harder to achieve yourself.
  • Backlinks: When a site links back to yours this is known as a backlink. Backlinks are only good if they are natural.  As a blogger you can increase your backlinks easily by 1) linking back to content you have already written. I try to link to at least one blog post.  2) Commenting on other blogs, especially those using comment luv. 3) Writing cracking content that people want to share!
  • Developing A Social Media Presence: Social media is a great way to redirect traffic to your blog but we also looked before at how these profiles/updates can sometimes rank higher in searches than your actual blog content.
  • Submit Your Site: Search engines – Google, Yahoo, Bing all have a facility for you to manually submit your site. Also look at blog directories such as Bloglovin, Teads.TV, AllTopBlogs, and GlobeofBlogs to name a few.

Being aware and planning SEO development should be part of your weekly to-do list.  What top tips do you have for developing or what works well for your blog in terms of SEO?

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15 Comments

  1. August 26, 2015 / 11:22 am

    Hello Joanne,

    Very Informative Post! I believe social media and blog commenting is very important part of SEO! A lot of people get caught up in “creating content,” but don’t necessarily realize that these things are part of that creation process.

    Another thing we need to do as part of our ongoing SEO is to submit our content to Google plus and and other blogging communities. The more eyeballs who see it, the more likely it is to get linked to. Always a good thing.
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  2. September 20, 2015 / 8:46 pm

    Great tips – I really need to get on top of SEO!!

  3. September 21, 2015 / 6:42 am

    I’ve been dabbling with SEO since I first starting building websites 10 years ago – so many things have changed, and continue to change! It’s important to stay on top of it – great set of tips!
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    • September 21, 2015 / 8:17 am

      So true! Online marketing changes so rapidly! It’s hard to keep up!

  4. September 21, 2015 / 2:33 pm

    Great post! I’m a fan of getting SEO right although sometimes it doesn’t quite work the way you want it to. Working for an SEO agency helped me, that and Yeost 🙂
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    • September 22, 2015 / 12:20 pm

      So true I think you need to have a good balance of both. I think blogging is a case of sowing your oats everywhere rather than having all your eggs in one basket!

  5. September 24, 2015 / 9:42 pm

    Very helpful tips, I would love to do a SEO course,among so many other things, in order to improve my blog!xx
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