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19 SEO Tips for Beginner Bloggers – Double Check for Experts

June 5, 2014 By admin 11 Comments

Are you suffering from lack of traffic?

Or maybe you don’t know, how to start making SEO for your blog?

Or, in worst case, Google Penguin or Panda affected your site?

Below you will find 19 simple SEO tips, how to beat your rivals in Google.

In this post I wouldn’t write about obvious things – content.

It’s common knowledge, that content is the king and if your articles are low quality, even these tips will not help you.

I’ll focus your attention on three parts of SEO: onsite tips, offsite tips and general tips which can help you in making SEO for your blog. 

 

1. Plan your SEO

First of all, you must answer on some crucial questions:

Why you need traffic from search engines?

What’s your competition?

How much time and money you can spend on it?

How long you can wait for results?

Do you have knowledge about SEO?

After answering on these questions, you will have wide picture of your “SEO plan”.

To have your plan more detailed, you must go to the next step.

 

2. Think about employing SEO specialist or outsourcing this type of activities to SEO company

I’m not joking.

These days SEO isn’t “fast and easy”.

It’s not enough to create great content with proper keywords and put some links.

Google reveals, that for creating their SERPs, their engineers take into consideration some hundreds factors.

And more than one hundred of them is changing each year.

Do you really have time for following them?

 

3. Perform competition research

Ok, you decide to do it by yourself.

Now you have to check your competitors.

It’s long way  ahead of you, but there are some services, which make it easier.

http://www.alexa.com/

http://www.semrush.com/

http://www.majesticseo.com/

"SEO tips" orange words

 

4. Make keyword research

After recognizing your competitors, their “power” and keywords, you should try to find proper keywords for you.

Proper means with low competition, connected with your niche and with a lot of performed searches.

Google Keyword Tool

Market Samurai

Google Keyword Tool is totally free, but isn’t so complex like Market Samurai.

If you want to learn more details about keyword research, you can read this post from CopyBlogger:

Keyword Research for Web Writers and Content Producers

Keyword research should be performed alternately with competition research, due to changes in SERPs.

 

5. Create your site in proper way

Some bloggers (especially web designers) totally forget about SEO during creating their websites.

So below there are the most important elements, that you don’t have to forget!

– don’t use FLASH;

– make your navigation bar easy to use;

– place in your sidebar, header and footer right information for your readers;

– create a sitemap for your site (both as normal page and as xml format).

 

6. Make your content SEO friendly

It means you should use your keywords (researched in 4th point) in proper way.

So your keywords must appear in:

-your content (post, articles)

-titles

-URLs

-image names

But remember : they should look naturally.

Avoid keyword stuffing (putting too much keywords to the text) in your articles, as Google may penalize you for this.

Concerning URLs – there are two more tips about it

  • your URLs have to be SEO friendly, that means they should looks like

https://www.smartmarketerz.com/proper-url-name

  • use hyphens, not underscores

Hyphens are treated as spaces between words.

 

7. Make your Titles and meta description tags unique for every single page

It helps Google and other search engines to find unique content on your site.

You may be interested in reading this popular article on SmartMarketerz about blogging tips:

18 Blogging Tips To Get Your Site Noticed By Your Target Audience

 

8. Use internal linking

Internal linking is very important onsite factor for your site.

Besides, you can use proper anchors here.

 

9. Link to other sites in your niche

Linking to other sites is good for you ranking.

You must only remember about two things:

  • don’t link to low quality sites
  • your links should be related with topic of your blog or article.

 

10. Try to mix type of content on your side

Google loves various type of content on your site.

So you can add:

  • text
  • video
  • pictures
  • tables
  • lists
  • podcasts
  • social content

 

11. Get a lot of different types of links driving to your site

Getting different types of links makes it “natural” for Google.

So, you can try to get links:

  • dofollow
  • notfollow
  • with anchor text
  • with name of your blog
  • with address of your blog
  • with text: click, here, read

 

12. Different sources of links driving to your site

It is similar to point 11th, but it’s not the same.

Here are some examples:

  • links from blogs
  • links from article directories
  • links from forums
  • links in press releases
  • links from blog carnivals
  • links from social sites

"SEO" word under lens

 

13. Don’t link only to your homepage with only one keyword

Take special care to vary your anchor text and targeted pages.

Especially now, Google is monitoring it very strictly.

And if you don’t want to be penalized by Google, you can learn some more things about it in this article from KissMetrics :

50 Reasons Your Website Deserves to Be Penalized By Google

 

14. Update your site often and regularly

If you want to show that your site is worth to be visited by search engine spiders, you must update it often and in regular intervals.

 

15. Use social media

Google and other search engines place emphasis on social factors – so you must adapt to it.

Besides, it has more advantages, not only SEO.

 

16. Try to trigger linkbaiting for your site

Prepare competition, great video, infographic or killer article.

Internet readers will link to your site spontaneous.

 

17. SEO and linking needs a time

Unfortunately SEO needs time.

In contrast to PPC, it couldn’t be performed in one day or even a week.

So you must be consistent in your work.

 

18. Don’t use Black Hat SEO methods

In some niches it’s almost impossible to use only White Hat, but you should try to avoid some actions.

So:

-don’t duplicate (steal) content from other sites;

-don’t buy links;

-don’t sell links;

-don’t participate in links and content farms.

 

19. Be up to date with changes and trends in search engines

The world of SEO is changing very quickly.

Just remember all the latest changes in Google algorithm : Penguin or Panda, just to mention the big ones.

Something, what was working some days ago, may not work today.

So you should monitor it.

This is a great resource to check the latest changes and also the history of Google algorithm – from MOZ :

Google Algorithm Change History

 

Conclusion

And what about you?

Do you know SEO?

Can you add something else, maybe some other tips and tricks about SEO?

Please let me have your suggestions in the comments below, thanks!

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Comments

  1. Ryan Biddulph says

    June 6, 2014 at 8:30 am

    Get serious about keyword research. Thanks Erik!

    Reply
  2. Sunday says

    June 6, 2014 at 10:27 am

    Without a good SEO practices, any website would be lost in the oblivion. Most of the notable websites we see today are purely SEO friendly.

    So, it becomes crucial for every blogger or webmaster to make good SEO a top priority.

    Onsite and Offsite SEO should be considered and applied at whatever cost. Thankfully, a post like this reveals some of the best practices that work.

    Whatever be the case, the blogger must ensure that SEO practices employed meet the yearnings of the visitors as well as the search engines.

    The 19 tips shared here are spot on, and it is important to develop a good way to scale or measure the effectiveness of the strategies applied!

    I left this comment in kingged.com where this post was shared for Internet marketers.

    Sunday – kingged.com contributor

    Reply
  3. Nirmala says

    June 7, 2014 at 3:28 am

    I’d say that this is an awesome SEO guide Erik sir 🙂

    Not only for beginners, every blogger should follow these tips to take blogging to next level and grow it effortlessly.

    Reply
  4. Reginald says

    June 11, 2014 at 2:23 pm

    Great article Erik!

    Thanks for sharing. Personally, I think SEO is pretty clear cut. All you need is to pump in some good planning, understanding of what Google wants and on top of that, some good on page SEO.

    The rest? That’s history.

    Top notch writing Erik!

    Reply
  5. Ann07 says

    June 11, 2014 at 6:59 pm

    Hi there, Erik! 🙂

    You’ve just listed simple, yet valuable tips on how to make SEO in your blog. This article of yours would surely be a big help for every beginner in blogging.

    As what I’ve read from the article shared above, you should first plan your SEO. Create logical WH-questions about doing SEO on your blog, and then answer it one by one. As what is said above, this step would help you see the wider picture of your SEO plan.

    The rest of these tips given are remarkable and important, such as making your content SEO friendly and using internal links.

    You’ve used bullet points in your article, and I must say that it’s helpful and it made your content much easier to read.

    Thanks for the post! I’ve indeed had a good read. 🙂

    Best,
    Ann07

    By the way, I found this post shared on Kingged.com

    Reply
  6. Rohan Bhardwaj says

    June 19, 2014 at 6:53 am

    Wow, that was a feast of tips. I need to include various types of content on my blog. It has been a long time, since I have only articles.

    Outsourcing to a real SEO guy, will ease the work, but as you said black SEO tricks and we are gone for sure.

    Great tips, man.

    Reply
  7. Harish Bali says

    July 14, 2014 at 9:51 am

    hi
    Market samurai and sem rush are good tools mentioned by you. I am using these tools. SEM rush is free plus paid and market samurai is paid only, they do have a trial version for 7 days. good post

    Reply
  8. areesha Noor says

    September 20, 2014 at 7:29 am

    Hi Erik,

    First of all thanks for sharing such great tips.
    I am new to blogging. I have purchase a new website and I hope these techniques will be very helpful for my new blog.

    Number 3 points are very important. Because we can analysis of our competitor where they are getting backlinks etc.

    In this point opensiteexplorer is also best for checking competitor performance.
    most of on-page SEO techniques is also good. for this purpose I am using yoast plugin that help me a lot.

    Anyway thanks for sharing such great tips.

    Areesha Noor

    Reply
  9. Akshay says

    January 29, 2015 at 10:52 am

    Very useful article for new bloggers. Blogging is one of the most popular way to make money online. SEO is an essential part of blogging business and one must need quality and quantity back linking for making his blog reachable to more and more people. Your article on SEO is very informative..Keep it up…

    Reply
  10. Roy says

    February 17, 2015 at 12:43 pm

    Thank You for sharing this awesome tips with us
    I really appreciate with your work. Great article. Love that website & bookmarked it too. Also Share more so we can read something new.

    Reply
  11. Matija Zajšek says

    June 22, 2015 at 7:26 pm

    Hi, thank yoz for excellent post, speccially the tip about mixing content. It looks truly funny how I used only classic text writing for my blogs on small Slovenian market. But, on the other hand, it is true that, different kind of content takes more time. Sometimes even impossible for one freelancer to cover it all by himself. Regards, Matija, Slovenia

    Reply

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