Creating SEO Friendly Content – Some Top Tips From Our Content Team

Creating search engine-friendly content, optimised for your website is crucial for improving your online visibility within the search engine results pages and helping to attract organic clicks.

Here are a few tips on how to create SEO friendly content that should rank well and importantly engage with your audience, helping to generate you more traffic directly from the search engines.

You should start by conducting thorough keyword research to identify hot topics that your target audience may be searching for.

Consider focusing on what we call long tail keywords that are more specific and have less competition. Long tail keywords can be easier to rank for and can help to drive really targeted traffic.

Consider using keyword research tools to help find relevant search terms and questions relevant to your industry. This should be the foundation of the project.

Once you have these you can start to create compelling titles for this content.

Your blog post title should definitely include your target keyword and be engaging enough to entice clicks when it does rank.

You should aim for a title that is clear and concise and accurately represents the content of the post.

This is really important. Avoid creating content that can be seen as clickbait.

You should then organise your content using H2 H3 and H4 tags.

These will help the search engines understand the structure of your blog post and make it more scannable and easier for readers to digest.

You should include keywords in your headers which make sense naturally.

Optimising for search engines is important but your major goal should be to create high-quality content that is valuable for your readers.

We always say that you should write for humans and not write for search engines.

By default, if you have written great compelling content that people will like to read, search engines will naturally pick it up.

You should always use clear and concise language and avoid technical jargon.

Consider breaking up extra long paragraphs and using bullet points or number point lists to improve content readability.

Nobody wants to sit down and just read 3000 words! – so you should always write it in a way that people can digest it in easy chunks.

Using your target keyword in the first 100 words of the post is also important as well as throughout the content, however, definitely avoid something called keyword stuffing which is where your target keyword is just overused in the content.

Search engines will detect this and not only does it reduce the quality of your content and make it look almost spammy, it is also less likely to rank as a result. Search engines reward high-quality content not keyword-stuffed spam content!

Once the content has been uploaded to the website you should write compelling meta descriptions that include your target keywords and provide a brief summary of your post. This will help to improve the click-through rate from the search results pages.

You should also use internal and external links within the content linking to other relevant posts on your website as it will help to keep readers engaged and improve your overall website structure from an SEO perspective.

Consider including links to high authority external sources as well, to support your content and where relevant provide sources of what you have referenced.

Including relevant images within your post is also important, this will help to improve the quality of the content on your site and again help to make it more user-friendly.

We also recommend that you regularly review and update your roller blog posts to keep them relevant and accurate, this can help to maintain and improve their search engine rankings over time.

These are just some handy guidelines about how you can help improve blog content on your website from an SEO perspective.

Please remember that search engine optimisation is an ongoing process so continue to monitor your website performance and make adjustments as needed in order to improve click-through rates, time on page and user engagement.

Search engine optimisation can be daunting, but in order to rank organically, it is definitely something that you should invest time and effort in.

As a specialist provider of search engine optimisation, we help small and medium-sized businesses get found online with a “done for you” search engine optimisation plan.

This includes all aspects of search engine optimisation including the technical optimisation of the website, content writing and link building. All of which are crucial to helping your site rank online.

Feel free to get in touch with a member of our team to find out more, or alternatively head on over to our SEO page and download our handy e-book packed full of useful hints and tips about how to improve the SEO of your website.

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Remember, SEO is a journey and not a destination and it requires time, effort and determination (and patience!) to rank your site better online.

Search engines results pages are really competitive, so your site needs to outshine your competitors to achieve better and sustained online rankings.

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