Free Basic SEO Tips, with Selected Links

SEO (search engine optimization) Writing

Your writing should be search engine friendly. Learning the basics of SEO writing, is highly important. Although, you are really writing for your readers, a few tweaks to an article before publishing, can make a big difference, in whether anyone sees you work. Good search results are the best free promotion you can get. Pick a few keywords, that pertain to the article, then replace a few of the vague terms like: it, one, this. Etc., with a keyword or synonym of the keyword. Your primary keywords should be in both you title and the first sentence of your article. Don’t go crazy with writing for SEO, remember your writing still needs to flow easily. Here is a good no-nonsense article on SEO writing, from CopyBlogger.

SEO Plug-ins

If you are using Wordpress, it is essential that you install SEO plug-ins. Wordpress is a great platform, but the simple addition and use of a few plug-ins, will vastly improve the SEO of your site. Two very popular and effective plug-ins are: All in One SEO Pack & Google XML Sitemaps, used together you should have the basics covered. This free video series by Andrew Hansen is perfect for new Wordpress users, as well as those who want to make sure they have the basics covered.  Video series article.

Internal Links

Once you get a visitor, your next task is to keep them on your site and not bounce right off. In addition to good written content, internal links, will help guide readers further into your blog/site. There are a couple plug-ins that will do this automatically on Wordpress, but sometimes it is best to specifically point readers to a related post, even if you are using the Wordpress platform.  You should find this article  from SEO Design Solutions  helpful, in improving SEO through internal links.

Don’t get overwhelmed

Although  SEO techniques may seem difficult at first, once you have learned the  basics,  the rest will be far easier.  Soon you will find yourself, naturally  writing for SEO and plug-ins will make many of the tasks far simpler.   By using basic free SEO, your site traffic will steadily improve over time.

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