Dear Fellow bloggers, I would feel indeed the pleasure to write this article about the five things which is necessary for great SEO Content Writing. Everyone was starting a blog to make money, but after some time, they leave because they don’t know how to write better content that should rank well and at the same outrank their competitors.

This is often a common problem to every newbie blogger, even I had the worst experience in my early days of blogging. Always remember before writing an article that should be optimized both for search engines and also most engaging with users.

Information Rich Content

The information you are going to share in your article must be more interesting and useful. No one is interested to read boring content even if you optimized the contents well. So, if you want your article to become viral it must engage users or readers.

Presentation of the article, another important fact that makes users sit back and spend the time to read what you have shared. Outline your article and present an entirely new angle on the topic. The face is the index of the mind, the same way a good hook at the beginning with useful information will make people want to read furthermore.

This also makes them share your article that will attract more traffic. Keyword Research is considered to be an important factor because Google search engine calculates the relevancy of the keyword in your SEO content writing and then index your content.

You can optimize each article for a specific keyword that’s why everyone was insisting on Keyword research before going for SEO content writing. Involve several things related to your article which makes readers more interesting to read throughout the whole article.

Add Proper Meta Tags

Google search engine puts great weight on Meta Tags, Header Tags, and headings in the article for indexing. Meta tags are described as Metadata that contains entire information about the article or content in a simple short sentence. There are some important meta tags to use: Meta Title, Meta Description, Meta Keywords.

• Meta Title: It is the title of your article which Search Engines show in their search results. It can be around 55 – 60 characters including space. Normally, the Article title (or) H1 tag will be used as the Meta-title, and in blogs, we can see the different titles for better CTR. Include focus keywords to tell the search engine that you are mainly targeting this keyword.
• Meta Description: It describes the entire information in the article in about 320 char and it is what shows in search snippets by search engines in their search results.
• You should add your focus keyword, keyword phrase, LSI keyword in your description meta tag so that it increases keyword relevancy and also, pull people to click your result in the SERP pages.
• Meta Keyword: It is the word which your entire article is focused around. Tough Meta keyword is not such important you can still use for ranking. Hence, there is no need to describe more on this.
• Meta Robots: It tells the search engine to either index the article and follows the links (or) pass the article while they were fetching your site data to index into their database.
• Canonical: This tag is used to inform the original source URL of the article to index. This will be much useful in E-commerce sites. It helps to eliminate duplicate content issues.

Proper use of Header Tags

AS you see, a perfect optimized SEO content writing is all about the proper presentation that will get better ranks because of more user engagement in the article. Header Tags are therefore called Emphasized text on the page that stands out from the rest of the content. They are used to differentiate the heading and sub-headings in the article from the rest of the content.

H1 is the most important header tag and it should be the Title of the Post. Remember, header tags are for people and Meta Tags are for robots. Both contents should be similar, so add the content in the H1 tag to the Meta Title tag also. Add your Keyword in these two tags.

Other header tags will occupy order as H2, H3,H4,H5, H6 and they should be a Heading or Sub-heading of each paragraph section in the article.

Break your lengthy article into sections and provide heading and/or sub-headings using these header tags will give more value to your article. Header Tags must be written in sequence, that is Article title must be H1, and the very next heading or sub-heading must be H2 and then H3 and so on.

H3 Tag should not occupy the first position before H2 or H1 and this may lead to warnings. By default, the Post title will be the H1 Tag and the next heading will be H2, and so on so.

Image Optimization

Too much text is too boring to read and people usually leave too sooner. It’s not a college admission test or an academic exam that grades you based on the amount of content you were written. It is somewhat different and if you want your readers to stay longer and read your content, you should support it with proper appropriate Images and Videos. 100Lines of the text were instantly observed with one image, a famous saying.

You can add support images for each paragraph to let readers know what exactly they will be going to read through. Always write content about something you care about so that it may engage visitors. So, images can be easily understood by readers. What about search engines in this case and how will they understand images? The answer: – Add Alt tags in the images.

Use Alt tags in your Images will help search engines bots to understand what your page is about? Include Keywords in those alt tags will improve your page rankings. Google won’t understand the content in the images so you must add proper image names and alt tags.

Many people making a big mistake in naming images, so remember to always add relevant names(Usually sub-heading or keyword or key phrase) to the images. Use the same name in Image Alt tags also so as search engine bots also can read exactly what users were reading and what the image is about?

This will help you in Google image search. When people search for an image name, more chances for landing on your article page through that image.

Anchor Links to Other Pages [Internal Links]

Anchor Links (Hyperlinks) are the links to another web page or an article that is relevant to the present topic. It helps readers to stick around your blog post for the longest time. Whenever you write a new article, remember to give a link back to old articles that are related to any keyword or key phrase in the article.

This will make readers stick around your blog posts for a longer time and it may lay a chance to search engine bots to re-crawl these old posts.

These five steps for a perfect SEO content writing were all about Formatting.

It expresses how well you are engaged in the Research and presentation of a particular topic. This is the formula I am using for every piece of a blog post in my blog and I assume it may surely work for your blog too.

Hope this informative article has given you a perfect tip at the right time. Well-written informative content is what Google and other search engines mostly like to rank.

Still, there is a lot of work to do after your successful article publishing. The work I meant was On-page SEO and Off-page SEO. I have given an explanation in another article about those SEO activities and I wish you will be interested to read that too.

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