Blogger vs WordPress Blog

Search engine plays the vital role to get organic traffic on your blog site. To make the blog site optimized for search engine, you need not be an expert. As you are a newbie as a blogger, I am going to share my own thoughts about SEO Tips to get best out of the organic traffic. If you follow these SEO Tips, I can assure you, that your blog will do good, and you will be getting lots of traffic from search engine. So let's go for implementing some catchy, and effective SEO tips into your blog.

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#1. SEO Optimized CMS

There are lots of blogging or content management system out there like WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, Blogspot, Tumblr, and much more. Sometimes, it's difficult to select the right one as per your need. So here comes the question, which one is best for SEO? WordPress is #1 for easy SEO. By default, WordPress is optimized for search engine, and a lot of plugins are there for further featured optimization. "All in one SEO" and "Yoast SEO" are mentionable SEO plugin for WordPress. It will help you from page analysis to sitemap creation of your blog site.

#2. Minimize Load Time of Your Blog

Site load time has a great impact on search engine ranking. If your blog takes more time to load, then search engine ranking or SEO of that blog will be lower. For the WordPress, try to use "WP super cache" or "WP total cache". This will obviously lower your blog site load time, and have better SEO.

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#3. Keyword Analysis

You have to do a keyword search before going to start writing. In this regard, the free "Google keyword tools" can help a lot. Use it for searching, which keyword is having more quantitative volume and frequency of queries about your desired topic. If you can implement the right keyword into you post, then the search engine ranking of that post will be good.

#4. Keyword into Content Heading

When you have the best keyword, start writing the content focusing the main keyword into the post. It's better to have the main keyword into heading ( H1, H2, H3 ). This will have a good impact on search crawl.

#5. Headline and Title Tags Headline and Title Tags for Easy Attention

A post's title is important to have the attention of the audience towards content. A reader will have a first impression about your topic by seeing the post title. So try to include your main keyword in the title. Though it's not that much important now, because google has changed the search algorithm, encouraged the blogger to think about their reader, and less of the keywords.

#6. Use of Paragraphs

While using paragraph, you should be more careful about making sense of writing. Make the paragraph when it's necessary. Each paragraph should have a main idea or subject to discuss.

#7. Content Internal Linking

On Page, internal link building always remains an important factor for SEO optimization. Its helps the audience to easy navigate inside your blog. This helps the reader to get important information about the related topic. If you can make a more relevant internal link inside your post, that will obviously boost your authorship, and help the search engine for easy crawling.

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#8. External Link Building / Backlink

External link building or backlink has always remained an integral part of Search Engine Optimization. Before making any external link, you must consider some important information about that site, like the popularity, relevance, and trustworthy authorship. This link helps the search engine to find your blog. Popular backlink will have proofs, that your content is appreciated by others, and improves social authority to a particular relevant field. You must avoid making too much backlink with less original content. This will be marked as an unnatural link, thus will have a bad impact on search engine ranking. Always remember external link with good quality is welcome and it gives a dividend.

#9. Add Content Regularly

Everyone likes fresh content, good quality content including the search engine. If you can write content regularly, that will help you to be an authorship in the relevant field, and your blog will have lots of traffic. But everyday content writing is really difficult, and you need not do so, rather make content on a regular basis with consistency and relevance. Regular and consistent writing is always welcome by the search engine and your audience. Don't compromise the quality over quantity

#10. Length of the Content

Remembered, that content can't be less that 300 worlds. Google likes long contents. Long articles can help you to grow your authorship and credibility in the relevant field. But too long content may seem to be scary to the audience. Normally, the reader does not like to read the long story, they don't like to scroll to read more. So it's better to have written between 300 to 1000 words. But make it long, if your ideas demand that to be.

#11. Naming Images and Use Alt Tag

Images always get more attraction from the audiences. But never forget to use specific "image name" and image 'alt tag' in accordance with the relevant topic. This will boost your search engine ranking and have more traffic from google image search.

#12. Build A Reliable Social Authorship

Now the general people is giving more time and emphasis on social media. So social authorship and credibility are utmost important in the blogging sector. Full utilization of social media can help you to build authorship, and stand out from other bloggers.

Google+ authorship is a new concept, made by google. It helps to combine the post with the information of original author into the search result. So the post with authorship will outrank the post without the authorship. To get best out of google+, you must take more  active participation on google+, and publish all the content regularly.

On the other side, there are plenty of other social networking platforms like Facebook, twitter, medium, Pinterest, Instagram, which can also be used for getting solid authorship and content traffic.

#13. Use Social Media Share Button

Using social media share button, inside the content, helps to get more readers and views. If you use WordPress, then "Jetpack Plugin" can help you to share your content on social media, like Facebook, twitter, google+, path and much more. No manual work is needed on "Jetpack" because it makes the content sharing automatic when to get published.

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#14. Opportunity to Subscribe

Your readers should get an easy way to subscribe your blog. When any post published on the site, subscribed members are going to get that content directly into their inbox. This will make royal readers and increase search engine ranking. You can put this subscription module at the left or right sidebar, or even at the lower part of your blog content.

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#15. Guest Blogging

Guest blogging helps to get more traffic and quality external link. Ezinearticles.com, Articlebase.com, Medium, Flipboard, Quara, all are very popular content sharing site, that can be used for guest blogging. You must post your content according to your subject niche. Try to invite other authoritative and relevant blogger to write on your site as a guest blogger, this will increase social share and lots of traffic.

#16. Review SEO Link on Webmasters

Google webmaster tools, bing webmaster, and Yandex webmaster, these three webmaster tools can help you understanding many SEO aspects. This webmaster analytics help to know the details about the user's demography, age, which OS they are using, when they visit and much more. You can learn which links outperforms on your site. If you find any page or post leads to 404 error page, then do rectify that. You can find many online video tutorials on YouTube about learning these webmaster tools.

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#17. Make an App for Your Blog

Today is the era of mobile technology. Lots of traffic is coming from the mobile devices. So if possible, try to make an android, and IOS app of your blog site. This will definitely increase your website audience and credibility.

#18. Make Use of Videos and Video Site

Video content and video sites have an enormous effect on our daily life. Peoples are spending much more time to watch videos on YouTube, Facebook. So it would be better to make some video tutorials with your blog links inside, and publish those into different video sites. These will bring more traffic to your site and make you a solid authorship on the relevant field.

#19. SEO Agency Red Flags

There are many freelancer or agencies out there to perform all the above Blogging SEO tips and tricks for you in exchange for huge money. But you should always avoid those people who will be promising to offer something like # 1 ranking of your blog or lots of external links, does not offer any documentation on how to do that, don't give detailed reports on activity, and does not have any good clients.

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I'm sure there are lots more great blogging SEO tips out there for optimizing and getting organic traffic into a blog. So What's your favorite? Feel free to share you best blogging SEO tips to include in this list in the comments section.

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Source: Scary about SEO? 19 Magic SEO Tips that Every Blogger Need To Know