So you just wrote an awesome blog post? Now what? Before publishing it, you need to make sure that your blog post is SEO friendly so that it brings a lot of organic traffic which is residual and does not depend on your efforts in promoting the post. Here is a ten 10 step guide to make sure that you are doing your SEO right:
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Write engaging and natural keyword rich title for the new post.
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Write unique and catchy meta description for the post.
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Exploit interlinking, link to old blog posts from new blog post and vice versa.
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Use keyword rich title and alt tags for your images.
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Give out relevant external editorial links that relate to your post.
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Properly use heading tags hierarchy, H1, H2 etc. in your new blog post.
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Ask your friends and circles to share and comment their views on the new blog post to begin engagement.
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Follow and interact with influencers and write relatable contents to have a chance to get backlinks to your new blog post.
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Write for other blogs on the same niche, and try to get an editorial link back to your new post.
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Think of going viral by creating social media oriented posts and promoting them in Social Media so that you get natural shares and reshares, and links for the blog posts.
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thanks for the advice. Im going to implement it in my next blog post. Thanks !