subject: Optimize Each Blog Post Using A Keyword Suggestion Tool [print this page] Optimize Each Blog Post Using A Keyword Suggestion Tool
These days no one blogs just to have a blog, otherwise it would be like talking to ourselves or writing down our thoughts in a diary and stashing it under our bed. Real bloggers want readers and want feedback from the readers in the form of comments. However, it's getting harder and harder to obtain readers from Google these days due to the extremely high competition in just about every niche it seems like. This is exactly why it's important to optimize every aspect of every blog post using a keyword suggestion tool to help you make the most out of your hard work.
Optimize your post title with the correct keyword phrase
Though you may have an idea for a blog post and already have a great title picked out, it may not be that great for search engines or the people searching for your topic. Before you write the blog post, think about the main keyword phrase that will be used throughout the article. Plug that keyword phrase into your keyword suggestion tool and see how many searches it gets per month or per day depending on your software. You will also want to check and see how many competitors there are for that keyword phrase and just how strong those competitors are. Choose a keyword phrase that is on topic but has low competition and a respectable amount of searches each month. Your keyword suggestion tool should come with plenty of tutorials on how to do this. After you analyze this data and have chosen the best keyword phrase for your new blog post be sure that it is included in your title exactly as it is searched. Most blogging platforms by default will make your blog title your title tag as well. Check your source code to make sure.
Write your article with your main keyword phrase in mind
The same keyword phrase you have chosen for your title should also appear in your article body a few times. Try to write naturally without over stuffing your keyword throughout your article. Anywhere from a half percent to a four percent keyword density should be fine keeping in mind to put the phrase exactly as it is searched. It's very important that you do not add anything in between the words of the phrase you have chosen to optimize your blog post for.
Don't be afraid to tag your blog post
Those tags are an excellent way to rank for multiple keywords. When tagging your blog post be sure to include your main keyword phrase. Try to take the time to come up with about 8 to 12 tags per post. This means going back to your a keyword suggestion tool and finding more highly searched and low competition keywords to include as tags. Make sure your tags are relevant to your post and that they are related to the main phrase in some way. Also try to target common misspellings of any words related to your post topic as well. Make sure that your blog is using post tags as meta keywords. You can check this in your source code. If you find that it is not, then either manually add them or install a plug-in that will automatically do this for you.
Double check your meta description tag
An often overlooked optimization you can easily apply is making sure that your main keyword phrase is in you meta description tag. The best way to do this is to grab a good snippet of text from your article that contains your main keyword phrase and manually adding it to your meta description tag. Letting a fancy SEO plug-in create your meta description for you is not a good idea, as most plug-ins available will not know what your main keyword phrase is. Always check your source code and make sure that everything is where it's supposed to be.
Apply the above tips to your next blog post and you will have more readers and more people commenting on it. If you monetize your blog than you know that more traffic means more revenue.
