SEO Tips

All In One SEO Pack and SEO Yoast are two good plugins to use if you're using the WordPress platform. I highly recommend you install one of them, whichever you choose both are free and works great to boost your SEO content. Although they're different with certain features, they both have the same output which is to streamline the on-site SEO process by generating automatic META tags, optimizing titles for every post, and optimizing SEO descriptions.

Both of them are easy to use, and it's easy to learn how to use them. It's best to use these plugins because when you do you can give your content a better look than other bloggers who don't take the time master this greater advantage. When using SEO plugins it can make your site appear on the first or second search results page instead of being further or last on the search results page. You should also use Google Adwords Keyword Tool to help you with keyword research. When you enter a word or phrase, it will give you a list of good potential keyword ideas that you can use in your blog posts or titles.

I suggest that you pick some good potential keywords and use those keywords wisely when placing keywords in your content. Don't use the keywords over and over too many times, and don't use the keywords just once or twice. Use the keywords enough so that the keyword or words stand out. Years ago placing keywords over and over in content was common and popular, that would result search engines to be manipulated. Now today things have been updated within google and this little common trick is more harder to do. When Google catch on that your content have the same keyword placed in it too much you will be notified by google that you're violating the content policy. I'll show you some of the best ways to insert keywords.

-Put your main keyword (the keyword you want the post based of) once in the main title of the post

-Use the keyword once within the first 100 words in the post

-Use the keyword once in the final paragraph

-Place the keyword in the title tags and the meta descriptions

-Place the keyword in sub titles when appropriate

-Use related keywords or pharses throughout the content

Get your site up to speed because that will be a key factor in growing your site and getting your site to rank at the top. Google gives emphasis to site load times. Most of the users will leave from your site if it takes more than 5 seconds for your site to load up. You can use Pingdom's speed test tool which can tell you how long it takes to load up your site. If it takes longer than 5 seconds, you should use new hosting provider or make some changes to your site to make your site load more faster.

When writing content, you should focus on the length of each posts There can be a difference in the length of each post. You can keep it brief with 300 words or less, or you can go all out with 1,000 words or more. We can go on forever on how long the post length should be, but a study showed that choosing how many words should be in a post depends on the keyword that your post is based upon. They pulled this information from the top 5 blogs in each niche. Here's the results:

Keywords:

-"Gadgets" 183 words in the post
-"Gossip" 185 words in the post
-"Web News" 326 words in the post
-"Politics" 468 words in the post
-"Health" 666 words in the post
-"Marketing" 1,087 words in the post
-"Finance" 1,228 words in the post
-"Personal Development" 1,475 words in the post

So when you're tyring to determine how long your content length should be will depend on the keyword you're looking to stay on subject with in each posts. But it's best to keep posts at least at 250 words or more. If your posts is less than 250 words, the search engines might not pick up your site due to other sites using the same keywords or post titles but longer theirs have longer content. It's a known fact and have been proven that sites with longer content length ranks better and these sites gets pulled up first in the search engines. I think Google rewards sites with longer content because longer content equals more quality vs shorter content length.

Each of your post shouldn't be the same amount of words as all the others. If all of your posts was 300 words that wouldn't be a good look. It would look as if everytime you blog, you only want to stick to this 300 word count no matter what the keyword or topic of your post is about. That wouldn't be good quailty to the users which can result in your site not building.

When blogging, include images and pictures in your posts that related to the content to give readers something to look at when they want to stop reading for a 1 second glance when they want to think over a sentence they've just read. This trick will give your blog post more SEO benifits. You should also include the keywords in the image or picture that you insert, and put ALT tags in the HTML code by putting alt="keyword within the HTML code. Make sure you keep the keyword very brief and use it enough in your content so your site can be picked up by the serch engines.

Try not to use links to other pages or sites as much because this takes your users to another site or page. Once your users are gone, there's no guarantee that they'll come back. This is my own personal SEO Tip which helps my blog rank higher than other blogs in the search engines. You should also have your site set up on the sidebar with different widgets as far as different categories, recent posts, about me, subscribe, and different other widgets that you feel is necessary to give the users beter navigation on your site to get to where they wan to more quickly on your site.

Blog and post new content as much as possible. The main mistake bloggers make is not blogging or putting fresh new content on their site as often. This mistake can make your subscribers unsubscribe, it can make users who looked forward to you putting new content up become less interested in your site. It can also drop your site lower in the rankings of the search engines. You should update your content more because it will result in search engines sending crawlers to your site more. When you update your content often, your new content could show up in the index more faster. Instead of weeks that it will take for your content to show up in the index, it could show up in days or hours.

You should post blogs often and avoid going a long period of time without posting fresh new content. The average blogger with good content and a great niche posts between 2 to 5 posts a week. Share your posts with social media like Facebook this can give you an advantage if your content is good because when your friends like the posts it allows their friends who might not be friends with you, at least see the post and read it and if they like it too then it passes on to their friends and so on which is a great SEO Tip. This will also help improve your rankings in the Search Engine which will result in more audience.

There's a lot of talk on Google's SearchWiki and how it effects SEO. Most bloggers says that it will ruin SEO, and that Google's new SearchWiki sucks. Most bloggers are scared and they think the world will end tomorrow, lol. The outcome of SearchWiki and what people think can go on forever, but people might be missing the point of Google's latest idea for their search engine. It allows users to edit the search results that shows up on the search results page, Google helped make SEO a high needed tool for any online site. Any user can now be able to edit the results they see in the search engine results page. For instance, if users thumbs up a site in SearchWiki that site will move up on top of any site that will show up in the search engine results page. So if a site is constantly getting thumbs up to their site and your site is in competition with that site in the search engine results page, chances are that site will out due yours and rank higher than your site which will result in their site showing up first in the search engine before your site.

Your site must be of great quality, user friendly, and easy for the user to navigate because if your page and your competitor's page shows up in the SearchWiki search engine results page and the user visits your site and didn't like it and they hit the back button to get back to the search engine results page then go into your competitors page and liked it and thumbs up their page, you can be ranked low by the search engine and your site can be buried in the pile on the search engine results page. If this happens you will lose traffic to your site as well. This is why bloggers and sites in the SEO field are bad mouthing SearchWiki, they think SearchWiki will take their SEO sites downhill. Will Google's new SearchWiki be good or bad for your site? Go find out.