How to write articles with SEO optimization?

With web and blog, every one can write on web. And this freedom further makes search engines a must-have in everyday life. In order to give high rank in search engines, We should take several seconds planning how to do the on-page SEO before writing.

The steps to write a good search engine optimized blog post / article:

Do your homework on search engines

1. Identify your goals: what information do you want to convey? How does that contribute to your business or website?

2. Based on your goals, try to come up your keywords set. Use google adwords tools or other SEO tools to expand your keywords, remember to include the long tail keywords too.

3. Search on Google, Baidu, Bing to see how these keywords are ranked (identify the competitions). Choose those with less competitions to be your focus.

Writing with SEO mindset

1. Make a title based on your key keywords set.

2. Try to mention the keywords naturally in your first paragraph.

3. use h1 or strong tag to make your page organized.

4. When writing to the end, remember to include your long tail keywords.

Going further

On page SEO is only part of the story, but it is important. So you will see the results gradually if you are persistent and consistent. The next step would be to improve your site's page rank...