How people find your blog : blog basic SEO

 

How people find your blog : blog basic SEO 




You have write a blog and also publish it but you know how  can make it easier for people to find your blog on search engines like Google . people will easily find your blog when you make basic SEO of blog. You are thinking what is SEO …….?  and how we can do SEO ……? right 


Let's first look at what is SEO


SEO_ Search Engine Optimization:


"Search engine optimization is the process of improving the quality and quantity of website traffic to a website or a web page from search engines. "


SEO targets unpaid traffic rather than direct traffic or paid traffic for website. 

Wikipedia


In simple words , SEO is basically ranking your website or blog on top 10 results of google search results. So by doing SEO setting ,you can get your blog on top of all search results of google.


But now you are curious how do I make SEO in order to rank my blog on top of the google pages……..


Let's come here to dive in the process of SEO means ranking your blog 


SEO  of  blog : 


A. Making blog visible to google :


 You can start doing SEO of blog just by making your blog visible to google .

 

Steps for visibility:


To let search engines find your blog:


  • Sign in to Blogger.

  • In the top left, choose a blog to list.

  • From the menu on the left, click Settings.

  • Under "Privacy,"   turn on Visible to search engines.


B.  7  Ways to Optimize Your Blog Posts for SEO :


  1. Add keywords to your post and page titles

  2. Add meta description


  1. Add headers


  1. Optimize image


  1. Hide pages from searches


  1. Tell search engines not to follow certain links


  1. Change or redirect your URL

Add long tail keywords to your post title tags:

To improve the ranking of your posts and pages in searches use long tail keywords instead short keywords as SEO starts with finding the best keyword for a particular post.

For example, 

Short keyword title   is     blogging

Long tail keyword title is 


These keywords  explain what the post is about.

Try to keep your titles under 60 characters. Short and concise titles are more readable.


Add Meta Description:


The meta description on pages of your website gives search engines a little more insight into what your page is about.


Add an optimized meta description that has fewer than 320 characters, includes the primary keyword


 You have to write your meta description with a human audience in mind that includes the page’s main keywords, as the meta description does show up in search results.

Also,it includes a soft call to action encouraging readers to click.


How the Title Tag & Meta Description Looks in Search Results



Here Sega Genesis- Wikipedia is title tag

Remaining content below title URL  is meta description.

Add headers:

There are 6 heading formats styles for SEO .Using header tags helps both readers and search engines break up your content into scannable sections.

In order to get ranking , apply header to main heading and subheadings and further subsections.

H1: main title heading

H2: sub heading

H3: sub section heading

To tell search engines what your post is about, you can add headers like H1, H2, H3, and more. 

How to apply header :


  • Sign in to Blogger.

  • In the top left, choose the blog.

  • From the menu on the left, click Posts.

  • Click the title of the post you want to edit.

  • Highlight the text you want to make into a header.

  • In the menu, click Paragraph Menu.

  • Choose the type of heading you want.


Optimizing image :



To make your images searchable and accessible to all readers, you can add a short description, alt text, or title:


  • Sign in to Blogger.

  • In the top left, choose a blog.

  • Add an image to your post and click on it.

  • Click Edit 

  • In the text box: 

  • In the “alt” section: Add a long description.

  • In the “title” section: Add a short description.

  • Click Update.



Hide pages from searches

If you don’t want search engines to find certain pages or posts, you can hide them. 

How to hide pages :


  • Sign in to Blogger.

  • In the top left, choose a blog.

  • From the menu on the left, click Settings.

  • Under "Crawlers and Indexing," turn on Enable custom robots header tags.

  • Click Home page tags, Archive and search page tags, or Post and page tags.

  • Turn on “noindex.”

  • Click Save.

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Tell search engines not to follow certain links



  • Sign in to Blogger.

  • In the top left, choose a blog.

  • From the menu on the left, click Posts.

  • Click the post you want to hide.

  • At the top, click Link Insert link and then Create/edit URL.

  • Check the box next to Add ‘rel=nofollow’ attribute.

  • Click OK.

Change or redirect your URL

Create a URL for the page that includes the primary keyword.Avoid adding any stop words, special characters, or unnecessary words in the permalink.

  1. Rewrite your URLs

To make your posts more readable and help search engines understand what they’re about, you can rewrite the URL of your posts: 


  1. Sign in to Blogger.

  2. In the top left, choose a blog to update.

  3. From the menu on the left, click Posts and then New Post New post.

  4. On the right, under "Post Settings," click Permalink.

  5. Select Custom Permalink and enter the URL you want to use.

  6. Click Publish or Save.


    2.Create a redirect for a URL

To redirect URLs from your blog to new posts or pages:


  • Sign in to Blogger.

  • In the top left, choose a blog.

  • From the menu on the left, click Settings.

  • Under "Errors and redirects," click Custom redirects and then 


  • Add the deleted URL and the URL you want to redirect it to. 

  • If the original article was deleted, turn on Permanent.

  • Click OK and then Save.


Conclusion:

If you can make the basic seo of post, you will definitely start off on the right foot when it comes to your website’s search engine optimization. And eventually getting more visitors through search engines too .


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