How To Use SEO In Your Blog

If you are blogging for a website or company than it is almost mandatory that you use SEO in your blog, however; even if you are just blogging for personal reasons, SEO can help you to get more views and more attention for your blog. First; about SEO:  SEO or Search Engine Optimization is the process of using keywords to direct search traffic to your blog. In example, if the keyword is SEO content, than you would use it in your blog to the point where it reaches a certain density.

Choosing Keywords

Choosing keywords is the most important part of SEO because the keywords are what you will use to actually attract visitors. Is your blog about fashion? Fashion for college students? Each of these could be a keyword, remember to always use a keyword that fits well into the subject of your blog because no one wants to search for something and come up with a blog that is completely irrelevant. Keywords that are suitable for use with a college fashion blog include cheap designer fashions, alternative fashions, fun fashion, college fashion and etc. Try mixing and matching and not always using the same keywords unless of course, you want everyone on your blog to be looking for the same thing!

Keyword Density

In general, using to little keywords is almost as bad as using to many keywords. Here is why. If you have to little keywords, your blog post will not come up because of keywords but if you have too many keywords, search engines will see it as spam and not bring it up either. A good level of keywords is anywhere between 1.5 and 2.5% that is 6-9 keywords per 350 words. 

Blog Length

Believe it or not, the length of your blog is an important part of SEO. Did you know that in order to come up in Google Search, a blog should be a minimum of 350 words? This is because anything smaller is considered to be irrelevant because it is not long enough to be informative. Try aiming for 350-650 words per blog post because no one really wants to read anything longer!  Keeping your blog length within these limits will help you to come up in search and help to keep people interested because it is not to long!

Relevance

Another important part of writing SEO content is that it should be relevant to what people are looking for. This means it should be an interesting keyword that people will search for. This doesn’t mean you can’t write about what you had for breakfast or what you are doing after school, it just means that instead of using ‘What I had for breakfast’ and ‘What I’m doing after school’ as your keywords you should use more relevant versions of the same thing, ‘ Student Breakfast Idea’ and ‘Things for Students to do after school’ this makes your blog more searchable and more readable and informing rather than coming off as all about you (Even though it is!) 

Now that you know the basics of SEO, try it yourself, use SEO techniques in your blog and see what happens. If you do it right and write about interesting topics you will most definitely get more views for your blog! Who knows, you might even get followers to!