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Sanchez01:
At the emboldened, I needed this relief tonight!

So how do you outrank a site with a higher PR, MOZ Rank, DR and DA, by out writing such blog to death?

Don't we all just love Nairaland?

I have been replying that guy just because I don't want him to die in his folly. Imaging checking all your competitors DA before you write an article.

Assuming your niche is in SEO, then you'll spend years writing an article that will never smell the 1st page of SERP

IamAtikulate:
Have you heard of linking building campaign?

Stop using Yoast but you no gree.

Lol, it's not about the jargons I tell you again. You can build links if you're a member of a PBN or guest post in high DA sites. I don't want to dabble with you in the first place, I wanted you to admit you're a learner but it seems you like blowing jargons you learned probably from bhw.

Go and enroll in pre SEO course boy

IamAtikulate:
You know this but you were running your mouth when I mentioned Google Penguin.

Why do you implement NF on outgoing links if not to shield from penguin penalty?

Next time understand context before criticizing.

If you read your books well you must have seen where big G said there are no penalties if you don't use nofollow, dofollow, sponsor rel tags. Read

IamAtikulate:
What is an SEO content if not a content you write to rank?

Off-page, technical and on-page are all part of SEO and you can't talk about SEO content without considering them.

SEO content does not stop at on-page SEO.

Be guided!

Who's scattering your brain? So you do backlinks on content you post on your own very blog or what?

What are you even trying to say? Where are you from exactly?

IamAtikulate:
Someone that is still using Yoast is advising me to enrol in a pre-SEO course.

LMAO.

Boss, when writing SEO content one of the first things you check is the DA of the top websites you will be competing against.

This will inform how you will structure the content.

I am out.

Don't bother quoting me pls.

Now I know you know nada!

Good no quotes, everyone to his own knowledge.

ainas247:

I give you 100 over 100
I rank busineness website on Google. trust me, content is king.
Nice one OP.

Do you write content?

Thanks

Yes, I write only for myself whenever I have time.

IamAtikulate:
This is SEO at its basic.

Believe me, you won't make frontpage with this unless you are competing with people that don't know what they are doing.

If you are still using Yoast to optimize, then you haven't started.

You even forgot backlinks, the third most important ranking signals.

You forgot LSI.

Focus keywords is bullshitt. Have you heard of Google's RankBrain algo?

You forgot schema markup.

You forgot mini-FAQ and FAQ make-up.

You didn't mention Google Panda and Penguin. You can rank without taking those things into consideration.

You didn't mention domain authority, you didn't mention canonical tag, you didn't mention https.

All these are just a few things Yoast won't point out.

What you pointed out was SEO 101.

SEO has advanced beyond that.

#Peace

Hey, I think you should revisit the title again, it says SEO articles.

Meanwhile you are free to come up with your own post explaining DA, PA, backlinks and all whatnot. It doesn't just stop at blowing the jargons, dish them out let's see if you're good at cooking something edible.

Again, visit the title. And if you see no difference from the title and your post, then you need to go register for a pre SEO course.

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So, I’ve seen many people claiming they can write a search engine optimized article. I have contracted some of these persons only to find out that just a few of them can write good articles close to being 'search engine optimized', whereas a good number of them can’t even churn up a readable content not to talk of coming up with a search engine optimized article. I’m not so sure if they know the full meaning of SEO... that’s by the way though.

Introduction

My main reason for writing this article out of my tight schedule is to help all writers/bloggers with the best practices of SEO. Ordinarily, some people will put up this info for sale as an eBook, but I’m sharing it to us without charge.

To begin with, you should know that if you claim to be a writer, but you don't make use of Grammarly, then you need to stop writing ASAP! I have received so many annoying contents from writers that one will wonder if the content is written by a human.

Many people don’t read the content they claimed they wrote, they just copy from different websites, put them together, move straight to the spinner tool, spin and send to their client. If you do such a thing then I advise you to stop writing immediately or register for a course on content writing.

That been said, find below the list that needs to be ticked, all of it, for your article, to be qualified as search engine optimized.

1. Outbound links: In simple words, outbound links are links from your content that directs to another webpage outside of your website. For example, if you’re writing an article for nairaland.com, you can link a person let’s say Seun Osewa profile on Wikipedia. In essence, when someone clicks on the name ‘Seun Osewa’, it will take them to Seun Osewa’s page on Wikipedia.

2. Internal links: Internal link is almost the same as outbound links. The only difference is that when someone clicks on ‘Seun Osewa’ (using the above example), it will take them to another page on the same website, nairaland.

3. Set a keyphrase: If you’ve heard of keyword, eventually, you should know what a keyphrase is. For your content to be search engine optimized, you should have a focused keyword or keyphrase. For this article, my focus keyphrase is “search engine optimized article”. I could have used Search engine optimization, but that would give me a 0.1% chance of ranking on search engine result pages (SERPs). This is another broad topic on its own, so my take home from this point is, use a long-tail keyphrase, like four words.

4. Keyphrase length: Using longer focus keyphrases will automatically optimize your post for the long-tail. The longer your keyphrase is, the fewer competitors you’ll have.

5. Keyphrase in introduction: Whenever I receive an article from freelancers, the first thing I look at is if my focus keyphrase appeared in the first paragraph. With this alone, I qualify or disqualify you as a search engine optimized article writer.

6. Image alt attributes: If you are going to write a search engine optimized article, then you have at least one image in your article. Regardless of whether your client's requests for it or not, to prove your worth, always add an image in your article and as well providing the alt attribute. The alt attribute is mainly used for image SEO. Hence, for a musician image attached in my post, I will an alt attribute “image of a musician-focus keyphrase”. If I have up to 10 images in my post, I’ll add the focus keyphrase in at least 4 of the 10 image attributes. Don’t add it in all of them, 40% is good practice

7. Text length: For your content to rank better on the search engine, then you should have a text length of above 1000 words. In as much as this may seem small or big, some people believe having up to 3000 words per article is the real deal.

8. SEO title width: Your SEO title width must be H1 if you are so hungry to rank better on Google. Most CMS like WordPress, SMF machines, blog platforms like blogger, have this automatically set. So, if your blog is running on any of these platforms, lucky you, you have nothing to worry about on this.

9. Keyphrase in subheading: If you can, have your keyphrase in up to 60% of your sub-headings. However, this is not as important as it can be overlooked. Yeah, whoever uses Yoast SEO can confirm this.

10. Keyphrase density: Your focus keyphrase should appear at least five times within your content, but that does not mean you should use them improperly.

11. Keyphrase distribution: While it is a good SEO practice to have a good number of your focus keyphrase in your content, packing them in one particular part of your content should be avoided. You should be able to spread your focus keyphrase evenly in your content.

12. Subheading distribution: A section of your content should not be longer than 300 words. Instead, separate them with sub-headings.

13. Transition words: Make use of transition words always. However, this should not be to the detriment of your content reading ease. You should have up to 40% or more of transition words in an article. For examples of transition keywords, check this thread https://www.nairaland.com/5129903/examples-transition-words-spice-up

14. Reading Ease: Your content should be easy to read as well as flow naturally. Avoid using big grammar.

15. Passive voice: There should be at least less than 10% passive voice in your sentence. Writing in active voice makes you writing much stronger.

16. Consecutive sentences: Avoid starting consecutive sentences with the same word.

17. Paragraph length: Your paragraphs should not be too long, make it as simple as possible.

18. Sentence length: Try and make your sentence as simple as possible, avoid using long sentences.

If you can abide by the above, your clients will always come back for more and you won’t be the one begging for writing jobs. Also, you’ll have your fixed price, as you now know your worth. The truth is that no one can be perfect, but at least try to be able to come up with something close to perfection.

If you are a WordPress blogger, make sure you are using Yoast SEO premium. If you can’t afford the premium package, use the free one. Or visit my blog to see how you can get one.

May I also say that search engine optimization is a dynamic one; make sure you study online to keep up with the latest practices.

I hope this helps someone.


Source: https://www.monichannel.com/2019/09/how-to-write-search-engine-optimized.html

Nice one boy...

WhaYaSay??

State police springing up stylishly in some states already

This is the acidic rain Rochas Okoro... has been talking about

It should start already

The handwriting has been on the wall all these while

Is this forum too small for you to drop the biz here?

Congratulations to all the sellers. So much good news this last week of the month, Thank you even as we pray for more baba

I bumped on this http://mnmlicensing.org/attendee-list-2017 while going through my outbound journey , some people's buyers maybe there

henrynwafor:
show us your own,i go transfer 10 naira to you

Guy just transfer the 10bucks first, I need to drink chill sachet water for the muscle to show

Good as it may sound, but there are other critical investigations that are of more importance. eg. hunger due to the high cost of living. Abi person wey die get privacy rights for truecaller?

Small muscle

Osogbo weed dey travel fast I swear

My first time commenting on this show thread, it's for a reason shaa

Funny..

"Investors/businesses are leaving because they did not see money to steal"

So funny

Many times has my spirit-man told me this, I have always said I'll put it to practice but here I am, deeply introverted.

My finances are growing though.

ifeoluwa5050:
1: Pls am not good at writing, what other job can I do to earn money, I have good phone with laptop and glo modem, which job can I do( 2) how can I know how much to bid for a job so that I will not over big or underbid. Thanks

With those gadgets, you suppose to be making money daily online. If you can be disciplined and follow what is written in the below blog post link, you'll be making tens of dollars daily.

https://www.monichannel.com/2019/09/how-to-make-money-online-fast-with.html?m=1

Nice one. Make them raise it more by graduating as the best student ever in that school

paulsir:
any available promo for .co domains?
I can't be paying 29$ for a domain.

namecheap @ $6.48

They want you to go, yet they don't want you to go. Same thing one tribe is facing in Nigeria

npowerng:
The trainers have already been selected, they are experts in this field already, they are just been on the particular set of skills we would want them to impact to the beneficiaries and the timetable of the training session.

Good. Do let us know here whenever there's opening for trainers, some of us are experts in this field.

Thanks