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As a website owner if you want more traffic on
your web pages on your website the best thing And easiest thing you can do is to optimize your
content and your blog post for SEO and in this Video I'm going to give you 11 easy to apply
tips that you can do right now today on your Website and your blog post to optimize them for
SEO and get more traffic let's begin the first Tip I have for you today is to conduct proper
keyword research most beginners start writing Content because they think they know what the user
is looking for but season marketers and seos and Content experts conduct keyword research because
they understand that that is like conducting Market research for SEO when you find out what
keywords users are looking for you can get an Insight into what they're actually looking for
and understand exactly how to deliver it to them Now instead of just going to random tools and
get using guesswork to write content and figure Out keywords you can use actual tools that are
designed for this job one of the best tools you Can use is sem Rush it'll give you tons of data
on the keywords that your users are searching For give you insights about your website and
also help you write better content and if you Don't want to pay any money then WB beginners
free keyword research tool is here for you as Well just go to the link in the description or the
link that you see on the screen and you'll have a Completely free keyword research tool designed
for you just enter a couple of keywords click Search and then you'll have all the sorts of
suggestions uh searches made with prepositions Questions and all the different keywords that
users are asking for available to you right here On your screen for absolutely free use that data
and then figure out what users are looking for And only then start writing and optimizing your
content around this topic the second tip I have For you is to use semantic keywords to optimize
your content what is semantic keywords let me Give you a quick example if I make a search for
best wireless ears I'm getting a tons of results Here but the most important thing as an SEO you
should be paying attention to is scrolling down And figuring out this part related searches
because this is where Google is telling us That whatever you search for best wireless earbuds
in this case is also closely related to this that Means users who search for this information also
search for this information now this gives you Insights into how to write better content and
if you want to create separate content for any Of these blog post that is also very very useful
if you're using WordPress and you don't want to Conduct This research manually every time you're
writing blog post just use all-in-one SEO it has A fantastic Focus keyword tool built in where you
write your keywords connect your website with semm Rush and allinone SEO does the job for you it
finds all the related keywords the LSI keywords The semantic keywords for you and suggest you
right here on the screen so that you don't have To go to Google Search and figure out these
keywords yourself it's a fantastic tool check Out SCM Rush check out all ofo and of course
if you do want to do the manual research this
Process is available to you on to the next tip the
next tip I can offer you is absolutely very simple But very very effective write better headlines
now season marketing professionals understand The importance of headlines your users or most of
your users will read the headline and then decide If the rest of the piece that you written makes
sense similar thing happens on Google if I take My example of best wireless a the the title of the
blog post is the most important for me to make a Call if I want to read this blog post otherwise I
can't make any decision so when you're writing any Piece of content make sure the title is absolutely
optimized now thankfully you don't have to take Any guesses on what makes an effective title you
can get a fantastic tool like all in an SEO to Help you and guide you through the process it
has a fantastic tool built in which is called The headline analyzer all you have to do is
write the blog post as you usually would and Then just enable the headline analyzer and the
headline analyzer will go into action and give You an overall score on how good your headline is
it'll give you details about how effective it is In terms of the word choice how long it is is it
the right format is it evoking the right emotions All that good stuff all that recommendations
personalized to your content and headlines will Be available for you the best part it's completely
free to use with the free version of allino so Install allio make sure to go through all your
previous blog post and use the headline analyzer To optimize your headlines because that enough
can make or break the traffic that is coming to Your website On To The Next Step the next tip
I can offer you to write better and optimized Content is to make internal linking a habit why
is internal linking important let me tell you Internal linking first of all is a very underrated
thing that most beginners or say even seasoned Professionals when they're making the websites
forget about now it benefits the users and seos That means search engines alike why because
users can find the right piece of information Right from the article so it keeps them longer on
your website help them consume more content and It's more likely that they'll become customers or
take whatever action you're trying to get them to Do on your website that's the first benefit the
second benefit is from the SEO perspective when Search engines come to your website they discover
content through the links you have on your website So if you have internal links pointing to the
right Pages search engines will discover those Pages and more importantly contextually connect
those pages together so if they know what pages Are connected together they'll show up in search
or related searches and they'll direct users to The right place automatically in search so
it's absolutely important that that you have Right internal linking on your site and also make
internal linking and habit now if you have a very Large website it can be very difficult to create
internal Links at scale manage them and optimize Them that's where all in seo's link assistant
come into play it's a fantastic add-on to Allin SEO once installed it takes over the entire
process of internal linking it'll give you
Detailed reports about what you're linking to what
domains you're linking to Broken links suggested Links and fantastic just reports it's a fantastic
fantastic add-on and it saves so much time which You would have spent to find out internal links
and that's one of the benefits of using all SEO so Check out all SEO and the link assistant tool and
you'll never go back to manually creating internal Links especially if you have a large website on
to the next step The Next Step I can give you to Optimize your blog post for more traffic is quite
simple to implement just use images and videos and You already know the importance of using images
and videos heck you're watching a video right Now because you are trying to get educated about
a topic many people prefer blog post but a lot Of people prefer videos and if you're using
using videos and add them to your blog post You're giving them best of both words they can
read the piece of content that you've written They can watch a video or they can do both at the
same time if they like it and if you add images To your blog post it logically divides your blog
post it keeps it engaging and also some images or I' say an image is worth a thousand words so
sometimes a single image can communicate the Message that you're trying to communicate with an
entire blog post and the variety of tools that we Have now available with WordPress the block editor
seat prod and other tools they'll help you easily Create not only templates about your website but
if you just want to add a couple of images and Videos to your website we've created multiple
tutorials on the topic on how to add images in WordPress and how to add videos in WordPress and
what mistakes to not do when you're adding videos To your weest website we'll link some of those in
the description of this video and as end cards as Well so after you finish watching this video make
sure to watch those videos as well it'll help you Understand and optimize your blog posts the next
tip to optimize your blog post for traffic and SEO Is to write meta descriptions and add open graph
tags to your blog post let me explain what these Are in my previous example when I was making
the search best wireless Abus I talked about The importance of the title but what's next to
the title it's this section and this is the meta Description of the page which helps me decide if
they are covering all the important headphones or Head wireless earbuds that I want to search for
and this is what the meta description does it's a Accessory to the title and after the title that's
the most important thing on the page that you can Add to make sure that your users actually figure
out if they want to click through it so it's Absolutely important to optimize it for SEO the
second thing I was talking about was open graph Tags now you might have noticed that whenever
you share links on social media they just don't Get shared as simple links The Social Network
automatically detects information about the Specific page you're sharing and that displays it
on the page like a rich card or something how does That happen that happens with the help of open
graph tax now you'd understand the importance of Meta descriptions and open graph tax how do you
add it to your WordPress website well completely
Easy to do with allinone seo allinone seo has
Fantastic Tools built in to create new metat tags Edit it modify it and optimize them to your heart
desire it gives you a live preview of how your Meta descriptions are going to look like gives
you suggestions how to optimize it and also what's The ideal length for The Meta description and you
can also see a live preview of how your page will Look like when you optimize your page with the
right meta description inside allo you can also Optimize and create open graph tags that means
whenever you or users share your content on social Media Facebook Instagram Reddit even WhatsApp Rich
cards will be displayed for your pages which means That other users will be able to see detailed
information a your blog post and it's generally A best practice to have because it also helps the
social networks understand what your page is about So they can point the right users to that content
so optimize your meta descriptions write them in The first place if you don't do it and also add
open graph tags to your pages the next tip I can Offer you to help you optimize your content for
SEO and more traffic is to make them simpler to Read when given a choice most people will pick the
simpler route rather than the difficult route and That happens with articles as well if you have
an article on the topic which is simpler to read And one is which is harder to read most people
will pick the simpler article to read it doesn't Matter what your target audience is they can be
phds highly intellectual people but you should Still optimize and simplify your blog post if you
want to get more traffic now there are a couple of Ways you can do that first of all practicing how
to talk in simple language is the easiest way so When you write the content it'll come out simple
but if you have a habit of let say complicating It making it more difficult to read or if you
don't understand if your content is difficult or Simple to read there are a couple of tools I can
recommend to help you identify and also optimize And simplify your blog post the first one I can
recommend is the Hemingway app I'll leave a link On the screen and what you have to do is just
copy and paste your article right here and once You paste your content here this app will give
you a lot of details about what's your paragraph Length how complicated this is how simple it
is if you're using passive or active voice and Overall how simple is this copies of content to
consume for the audience now if you don't want to Copy and paste your articles back and forth from
your website to Hemingway all of n SE has a great Readability indicator which will give you details
about how long your paragraphs are how readable Your text is are you using any complicated words
are you using active or passive voice and right There you can get recommendations about how to
optimize your content for SEO as well so not Only will you be able to simplify your content but
also optimize adding the right keywords optimizing It for SEO whichever app you pick Hemingway or
build all Ino that's completely up to you but Make sure to simplify your blog post and add the
right keywords and you'll have more traffic in no Time the next step to optimize your blog post
for SEO is to use tags and categories and tax
Enemies to organize your content now everybody
prefers organized things if they want to search For something they would rather have something
that's organized rather than disorganized let Me give you an example this is WPBeginner one of
the biggest websites in the world when it comes To WordPress now think of this if I go here I can
find exactly the kind of information I'm looking For and it's very well organized if you're a new
user start here what are the best deals you can Score for hosting where's the video section what
are the product section and what can I find on The blog and each of these are actually categories
that you can find on our website we will give you Detail information about that specific category so
if I go to the theme section you will find all the Content about themes same with tutorials plugins
beginner guides news and opinion pieces and if You go here this will give detail instructions
on how beginners can get started with what press So this content being organized makes it very
easy for any user to find the information they Are looking for and if you organize your content
the same way on your website your users will thank You because if they're looking for a particular
piece of information on your website and you have Covered it they probably look for more information
from your website in the future so if they get to Know that this information is present on your
website next time they might not make a search If your content is good enough they might just
come back to your website book Market or even Share with others that means more traffic for you
and happy and satisfied users and who doesn't want That so make sure to use taxonomies that means
categories and tags to optimize and organize your Content for more traffic and happy users The Next
Step I have for you to optimize your content for More traffic is to aim to rank in these featured
Snippets now what does this mean now Google is The only company in the world or only website
in the world which does not want its users to Stay on the website longer they want to give
the users the answers they're looking for as Fast as possible and in this Quest they introduce
new features in search all the time one of those Things that they've added recently or I say a few
years ago is featured Snippets now what does that This do or how does it affect you as a website
what Google aims to do especially for how to Related questions is answer the question right
in Google search rather than people going to the Website let me give you a practical example if I
go to how to or if I search for how to register a Domain name you see the information right here
available on the screen you can just use the Steps and actually register your domain name so
for most howto queries if Google can understand The page they'll use this kind of a snippet
and display it in the the search results and Users can just F the information and instantly
just take the steps and get the job done so if You're writing pieces of content and you want to
rank higher in the search results and get featured Snippets then you need to write in a way so that
you can answer question in few different steps So whenever you're writing a blog post around how
to do something make sure to think about the user
And think about the experience that Google gives
them in the search results and write at least one Paragraph or a couple of paragraphs answering
those questions in a format that Google just Can look at and then instantly put in the search
dolls now doing this will won't guarantee that you Will get the feature snippers but it'll increase
the probability by a lot that your website will Be per picked for featured Snippets in Google and
other search engines so make sure to do that and Enjoy more traffic and happy and satisfied users
the next tip I can offer you to help you write Better content which is optimized for SEO which
gains more traffic is to write in a comprehensive Manner now some people might think that this is
conflicting advice because I said hey make it Simple now I'm saying make it comprehensive well
simple and comprehensive are mutually exclusive They can both exist at the same time something
that's comprehensive doesn't mean have to be Difficult and something that's comprehensive can
be simple as well so let me give you a practical Example we recently wrote a blog post on how
to register a domain name and get it for free In 2024 now you might think that we we can just
cover this kind of information in five steps as I showed you in the snippet previous example but
what we did was we made it extremely comprehensive Not only we going to details about what is domain
name when do you need to register a domain name How to choose the best domain name how to get a
register or how to register domain name for free We go into a lot of detail that most people or at
least people searching for this information will Find benefit from so if I scroll down you'll
see not only is this just information on the Screen we are using illustrations images videos
we giving important statistics for the users To understand and also help decide how they can
choose the right domain name for the business or The website we even include a video which explains
all these steps in a more visual Manner and once You go through all this information then you come
to the steps on how to actually registered domain Name and it just doesn't end there we give you
complete details here we show you the step by step With illustrations arrows no stone unturn when it
comes to this information so even if you're a newb You just know how to use a computer and you're
trying to get a domain register you can find this Information and you will have no questions about
how to get this job done and that is the meaning Of comprehensive and if you're paying attention
even though this is very very comprehensive it's Actually very simple to understand and follow and
that is what I mean make it comprehensive you you Can still keep it simple so make sure your blog
posts are simple but they're comprehensive that Means it answer all the questions that your users
will and might have about your topic the last and The most important tip I can give you to optimize
your blog post for SEO and more traffic is to keep Them updated most beginners focus on writing
more content but if your content is getting Outdated and it's factually incorrect and it's
not optimized for the latest trends latest things That happened then your content will not rack
in the search results and even if it ranks then
Then users will come to it figure out that's
an outdoored piece of content and then never Will return to your website so don't just focus on
writing new content also focus on how you can keep Your existing content updated just as an example
at WB beginner we spend considerable resources Spending time and effort and human manp power to
make sure that every piece of content that we have On our website is up to date with the latest
changes and updates that have happened that is Why millions of people trust us to find Reliable
trustworthy and accurate source of information on The web when it comes to WordPress so if you want
become that kind of an authority in your space Make sure that you write new content but also keep
your existing content up to date and optimize it For SEO with all the tips that I've given you all
right which of these tips was your favorite if you Have any questions leave them in the comments
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