Writing for SEO is a different ballgame altogether as it’s done mostly for the audience. The right SEO content helps improve your website’s visibility, driving a good amount of traffic and several leads.
If you’re looking to become a seasoned SEO writer, here are some tried-and-tested tips that will add to your craft, helping uplift your web page on Google.
- Write to the Right People with Targeted Keywords
Your SEO content is not likely to reach the right people if you are unable to optimize it with targeted keywords—key terms and phrases for which your audience niche is aggressively searching. To find these terms, you must first appreciate who your audience segments are; the kind of information they need; why they need that information; what keywords they are using to find it, and more.
This may appear like a great deal, but it really isn’t if you break it down into a few activities, including audience search, keyword search, and topic research.
- Focus on Legibility
SEO content that climbs to the top of SERPs should have the most important feature: it should be highly readable. You ought to ensure you write content in way that will make your audience stay and read every single element on the page as soon as they click it. And, when the page makes for good reading, this registers well with the Google, which then gives a go-ahead about the relevance of the information the reader is looking for. Remember that, to be readable, your content needs to convey all types of information in a comprehensible way: the more gripping and understandable a page is, the longer it will make the reader stay on it, leading to better Google rankings.
- Write Longer Blogs
To rank higher on the search engine, you should steer clear of a low word count. Rather than go for a 300- or 500-word writeup, stretch your word count a little bit, ideally to a minimum of thousand words. The longer your blog is, the better it will rank on Google. Explore topics that have many diverse viewpoints and angles.
- Improve Your Page Speed
One of the best ways to enhance your SEO content is to improve your page speed, helping your content fully load and display faster. A slower page speed will make your readers frustrated, for no one wants to sit around and wait for a glacial website to load. According to research by the Nielsen Norman Group, most users will leave pages within 10-20 seconds.
- Focus on Visuals
A body of research suggests that articles containing relevant images enjoy 94% more views than articles without images. That’s because people tend to notice images and respond to them. Nevertheless, the effect of including catchy, high-quality images in your content is much greater than flinging in a couple of haphazard, overused stock photos. Visuals help make content look more organized, professional, and imposing, so it’s a good idea to invest in them for better SEO Services.
Author bio: The blog is written by John Smith, a seasoned journalist and author associated with premier cybersecurity company in Pakistan AMSAT. He has a number of articles and blogs to his credit, including related to the field of cybersecurity. John also works for a number of prestigious publications and newspapers as a freelancer.