SEO Tips to Help Rank in Google

SEO Tips to Help Rank in Google

1. Pick Good Keywords
The first step is to simply pick the search term or phrase you want the post to show up for. Do some research and identify what people are actually searching for. The easiest way to do this is use Google Keyword Planner, a free tool that will show you an estimate for any search phrase.

2. Write Great Content.
You need to create good content, key phrase relevant and written for the site visitor. This is perhaps the most difficult part, but it’s very important.

3. Include Your Keyword in your Page Title.
Your page title should contain your keyword. this is very important.

4. Include the Keyword in your Header.
You can organise webpages by having a page title at the top of each page, followed by several sub-headers throughout the page. This organisation is helpful not only for visitors, it’s helpful in showing Google exactly what your blog post is about. Therefore, be sure to use your exact keyword phrase at least once in your sub-headers.

5. Include the keyword in “alt-tags”.
Next, if your blog post contains images, you can use those images to cement the idea to Google about your post’s topic.

6. Try to Include the Keyword in the URL and in Post Title.

7. Insert internal links.
Link your most important pages internally from other pages on your website.

8. Try to Get External Links.
External links are links from websites other than your own. Google relies heavily on external links to determine how good a post is.

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