Demystifying SEO – Easy Keys to Implement Into Your Online Content
Creating Online Content For Your Audience & The Search Engines
So you did it! You created an awesome looking website, have content that is valuable, and are now ready for the flood of traffic. Right?
You might want to hold on waiting for that flood, especially if you forgot one extremely important step–SEO.
Without taking a few key steps in SEO, it won’t matter how attractive your website looks, the traffic you envision will not find you.
Now before you run away, SEO is not as scary as it may sound. Intimidating, maybe, but after you learn a few easy to implement steps, you will understand the basics of getting your awesome site found!
Don’t get me wrong, there are experts out there that study SEO from the inside out and can tell you everything you want to know and then some. However, as long as you are able to implement a few key ingredients, you can easily get your site heading in the right direction.
Are you ready?
One of the most important places you need to focus your SEO efforts is through your content. With a little content tweaking, you can drastically change your SEO results.
3 Easy to Implement SEO Keys for Your Online Content
- Know your audience: Before you do anything with your SEO make sure you understand who you are speaking to. With each piece of online content, you need to know who your customers are and why they would want to read what you have to say. Your content is about them, not about YOU.
- How are they finding you: After you know who you are writing to, you need to understand how they find you. Think of it as if you are doing a Google search for your business. What would you type into the search? What words would your customers use to find what you provide. Make a list of 5 to ten keywords that you want to be found for online.
- Add keywords to your website: When your list of words is completed, you will need to go back through your online content and add the words into the pages. Any page that you want your audience to find needs to have keywords included. Make sure you include your keywords 3% of the time. Don’t use more than 3 keywords per page.
Yes, SEO can be extremely detailed and there is much more to learn, but if you are looking for a starting point, these keys are easy to implement and will result in increased traffic to your site. Add your keywords into any content you write online, including your blog, social media, and even press releases.
Whatever you do, make sure you are writing to your audience first, then write to the search engines.
Gretchen Pritts is a social media manager and online content writer, with a passion for connection! Whether she is meeting people face to face, or learning about someone through social media, she loves building lasting relationships!
Gretchen helps her clients build trust with their customers, by speaking their language and creating lasting relationships. She helps businesses who don’t have time to commit to their online growth, but want to reap the benefits of an online platform. You can find her at http://memarketingservices.com://gretchenpritts.com
Thanks for sharing!
great info and a nice reminder to actually incorporate SEO!!! great job!
I am not doing a good job of writtng for SEO in my new blog.. Tsk Tsk I know better! Thanks for the kick in the pants Mandy! I will do better next Time!
Good tip: 3 keywords per page. I wasn’t sure what the suggested usage of a keyword should be.
Glad I found your site…SEO has always made my head spin..Love this article because it explains it in a simple way! Great tips!
Yes, this is an article I need to bookmark and I have! SEO has been confusing for me! You’ve made it easy! Looking forward to applying this over the weekend! Thanks to Gretchen as your guest speaker, Mandy!
Great starting points, Gretchen. Keywords are a huge part of SEO. Thanks for sharing!
Have gain another helpful information. Thanks for sharing this..
Hi Gretchen,
Thank you for giving me some great starting advice. Its nice to have a step by step game plan. Thank you for sharing!
Be blessed,
Christy
Great post and great tips about what to add when it comes to SEO. It can get so confusing but I LOVE how easy Gretchen makes it! Thanks for sharing!
Yes, I really appreciate the last line of the post “writing to your audience first then write to the search engines”…I think that is so key! Great post on SEO, I am still learning!
Thanks, Gretchen! You’ve taken an extremely complicated subject and made it easy for the average person to understand. Great advice!
Love this post and the way you’ve presented it in an easy to understand format. I have printed this off and going to take action! THANK YOU
Great tips and thanks for the reminders 🙂
Thanks for this simple approach to SEO basics. I have keywords and phrases in my head but you’ve prompted me to write down 5-10 and make a better effort of utilizing them.
I needed this! Thank you for this post.
Writing to your audience. So many people forget how important that is. Thanks for the great post!
I think SEO can be very intimidating when you are just starting out and I love your simple tips! I am going to write down and focus on my my main keywords more.
Great post! I use 2 plugins that make sure I do my SEO right! It is very important to follow these tips. Thanks for sharing.
Excellent tips! It’s essential to implement the basics in order to be found online and you’ve shared why…thank you so much!
Thanks Gretchen for helping clear up the seo waters. The tip about no more than 3 keywords per page/article helps make it very clear. Understanding seo a little more each time I read your articles, thanks.
I did not know about 3 keywords per post. Interesting information.
This was right on time! Thanks for making sense out of SEO. Have a wonderful day!
Great post Mandy. SEO is one of the best techniques that is required for any kind of business website because without website visibility there is no chance to increase traffic. Thanks for sharing your helpful tips!
Keyword saturation has been something that I have heard varied views on. I appreciate that you adressed this topic! Great post…thank you!
Thanks Gretchen (and Mandy), I like your simple approach and I agree, these things certainly can make a difference. Even though I know a little about SEO, my head is usually spinning half way through an article on the subject. Yours was a pleasant surprise!
Thanks for sharing ,I will follow it.Love the way you write down everything in an easy and understandable way
Mandy, I totally agree with you because you have written the best thoughts an SEO need to work on and your guideline is perfectly helpful for the content writers and the bloggers. No matter how much your writing is creative and interesting if you do not have proper SEO of your content you will not get any traffic so be smart and do accordingly to get the best traffic.