Writing for Web – My SEO tips revealed
Today, my web content and blog writing secrets revealed ...
Since I was so busy doing this process for my company blog this week, I decided to share my workflow for anyone else getting started in writing web content themselves. Nowadays, regardless of role - office junior to CEO, writing for the web is a valuable skill. Therefore if you are starting out or trying to improve your online writing, I sincerely hope this is of benefit.
FIRST STEP – CMS
I use WordPress for most of my writing. It is a useful purely as a CMS, not just for a website, although of course it is excellent for having your own blog (more on that in later posts). WordPress posts can also be kept private or scheduled to post at a certain time. Currently on my list of to-do is re-test the Steem WordPress plugins – you should be able to create a post in WordPress, and schedule it ahead of time to go to both your own blog and publish here on Steemit.
Wouldn’t it be great therefore, to sit on wordpress for 2 hours in the evening and create 4 beautiful posts to go over the next 24 hours, at intervals you set? Anyone keen on having that project working, please let me know. It was in need of developer fixes last I checked. Saying that, you can also google it and for all you know a new one has been released that I haven’t tried yet. If there is demand, a project could be made to happen here on Steem.
https://steemit.com/steemdev/@recrypto/wordpress-steem-update-and-statistics-as-of-october-2017 @recrypto many thanks and look forward to any new updates, I am available to help you test!Now onto biggest tip of the day: YoastSEO for WordPress
Yep, YoastSEO is the biggest help in a nutshell, although you'll still need to dig in to use it. If we want to get our content right, WordPress is the start. Your next essential is to install the YoastSEO plugin. If you have WordPress, go to your dashboard > Plugins and add it by searching there.
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Once installed, you will begin to get these little status lights on all your posts:
SEO AND KEYWORDS
Yoast does 2 major things for all my production work. First for SEO, Keywords. You set your keyword or key phrase, and then follow all the items with red or orange spots. It reminds you of everything from keyword density, to lacing alt-text keywords in images. You will then finally get the all green as shown here:
NOW FOR READABILITY
Once you deal with all of the SEO, it's time to start polishing the readability. However, this is the hardest to complete and takes a little bit of time. Leave it until last, or your SEO keywording could get messed up. If you spend a bit of time you will get a superb end result by perfecting your readability suggestions in Yoast. Nowadays, your content will not rank well if it is too difficult to read. We can't always achieve perfection however, readability is a balance. You don't wish to belittle the reader with too much readability, unless you are writing for children. For technical work, this gets even harder.
END RESULTS FOR OUR CONTENT
Eventually, we go through all our posts one by one. Correcting all the SEO checks and readability, and checking all the photos are optimized (that's in addition to yoast, another post!). Although not every item will be perfect, we do want to see the overall rating as follows – All green traffic lights means our content will work good with search engines. In the end, it is very satisfying feeling to see this:
THE BRITCOINS WRAP
Along with a new business website, crypto projects have been keeping me quite busy in the first week of 2018. One aim, is to finish a personal new technology and crypto blog I've been working on. I'll announce it here when it's ready, and it will be paired up with this steem account. One more post this week, will be night-owl @britcoins adventure photography from a Vietnam nightclub, with HOT pyrotechnical bar tenders! It's on fire! oh yes … Follow for updates!
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Looking forward to reading more dynamite content from you (yes, I have followed...and upvoted) and if you have any further tips for newbies like myself I am sure your words of advice will be helpful.
My writing and blogging is in the so called "consciousness" sphere (not so popular as cute pics of puppies or as lucrative as cyrptocurrency maybe😊😊😊) where I believe we are all already connected on some level or other, do you have any thought what SEO words will bring in more followers for this often neglected area?
BIG thanks for your thoughts here and best wishes for a steeming good 2018! In peace, Lily⭐️
I think Steem itself has excellent SEO for what you want to write, tied together with a blog and careful keywords you will find your niche audience ... being unique means less competition, when everyone else is posting cute puppies :) As for what keywords to use, it is also important to just choose ones that describe your content appropriately and go with them at first. You can also try Google keyword planner to find the right ones https://adwords.google.com/intl/en/home/tools/keyword-planner/
VERY kind of you to comment so fully, thank you!
What you say about being unique...is well...rather unique because I hadn't seen it in those terms. It is an advantage I had not realised, until you mentioned it. But I will now. ANd I take your point that what I am interested in writing is not mainstream stuff so finding the right niche audience is important.
Thanks also for the link. From what you're suggesting, it seems I have instinctively followed that advice already, using logic to determine what keywords accurately reflects my content.
Really appreciate your input, thanks lots!
Cool, very glad to be of some assistance. Will follow each other and grow our blogger profiles more here on steemit also :)
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