monichannel:



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

LMAO

The emboldened is new! Dude prolly has no idea. How many competitors is he aware of that he'd look up? Perhaps he'd out write his competitors and then Google will look his way for having over 3000 worded content

Dude is as clueless as Jonathan and Buhari combined. And to think he is an avid Atiku follower says a lot!

IamAtikulate:

I told you to stop using Yoast but you no gree.

If you know how to do content analysis, have a strong budget for link building and social signals, use schema and AMP you will give them a run for their money.

If even you don't beat them, you will compete favorably.

Here's the catch; I don't pay for links. My contents get lifted without my permission and I ask the thieves to reference which they do out of fear. I don't have ANY social network in my site's name but the shares are something these days. Plus, I ditched AMP after two days of test but no AMP enabled site comes close in rank. Would you like me to explain further?

Looks like something copied from Yoast
Nawa

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

Ehn explain them na
Abi ewo ni story

IamAtikulate:
SEO doesn't work for every niche. Run from Yoast plugin.

1. How... and 2. Why

Looking for a reliable Nigeria ads network for my blog...
Kindly suggest for me.
Thanks in advance

Blogging don reign pass

Quite impressive...But when doing SEO consider the whole thing to be 90 percent content structuring and 10 percent link building..when you consider that to be, you got yourself some link authority juice. Otherwise that content sucks.

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!

Omenkata:
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Guy weytin be your issues with this lol you just dey counter the guy for every thread

Mind you..Don't try to argue blindly we all know the importance of backlinks, in the same time,
everything boils down to quality content. If you really indeed know about what pogosticking means to website on SERP, that way, your backlinks mean nothing to search engines than to drop its ranking shoulder. Also, some website that rank on the first page of organic search engines doesn't seem to have much more of backlinks but they made it through the first page based on the click through rate and time spent on the site metrics. Try and read about pogosticking scenario.

IamAtikulate:

Says someone that is still using Yoast plugin.

You think twerking content until you get all green is SEO?

Drop just any of your keywords on frontpage.

You are still using Yoast. I pity you boss.

Very good writing. All excellent point, I just have a problem with number 10: keyword density.

The keywords being used should just appear five times, but should fall between 0.5% to 3% of your article length and this also includes variations of the keyword.

kinzation:

Guy weytin be your issues with this lol
you just dey counter the guy for every thread

i don't know who's
thanks

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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

He made valid points with the basics.. You claim to be a pro. You can create a thread that advances what he started.
Till then, keep your unproductive ego to urself

damilare442:


He made valid points with the basics.. You claim to be a pro. You can create a thread that advances what he started.
Till then, keep your unproductive ego to urself

Do you even know what basic on-page SEO is?

Op should have changed his topic to

How to write Yoast SEO optimized content

destindd:
Mind you..Don't try to argue blindly we all know the importance of backlinks, in the same time,
everything boils down to quality content. If you really indeed know about what pogosticking means to website on SERP, that way, your backlinks mean nothing to search engines than to drop its ranking shoulder. Also, some website that rank on the first page of organic search engines doesn't seem to have much more of backlinks but they made it through the first page based on the click through rate and time spent on the site metrics. Try and read about pogosticking scenario.

You mean Google's third most ranking signal doesn't matter?

Picking a long-tailed keywords with zero search volume and competition and ranking it using Yoast doesn't make you an SEO person.

When you compete with people that spend over 5000k USD monthly to just to maintain their productive keywords on the SERP then you will ditch your Yoast plugin.

Sanchez01:

Here's the catch; I don't pay for links. My contents get lifted without my permission and I ask the thieves to reference which they do out of fear. I don't have ANY social network in my site's name but the shares are something these days. Plus, I ditched AMP after two days of test but no AMP enabled site comes close in rank. Would you like me to explain further?

Nigerians and mouth.

Drop the link to the article boss.

AMP is for big boys. Not everyone can set it up.

Google uses about 200 ranking signals and AMP is one of them.

Beating a site with AMP is nothing exceptional.

Drop the link let see with our eyes

Sanchez01:

First off, Panda and Penguin are not algorithms but algorithm updates. Perhaps you had no idea that with the many quality contents on legit and other huge sites, they got sized recently. The essence of the algo updates are to thin out lesser quality contents and reward rich contents. This does not imply you must put algo updates at the back of your mind if you're writing. Plus, no matter how rich your content might be, if you are content farmer, your blog will be duly slapped with a penalty.


Mr. Atiku, I never said this. Note I mention they only make sense on specific content types to enhance results on SERP.



One of my sites is littered with results on Google's FAQ and I don't markup using schema. I won't share my trade secrets. As a matter of fact, FAQ accounts for my second traffic type on SERP after featured snippets.

It is only normal to believe we know. But a couple of the techniques you think you know are not necessarily trendy. The essence of algo updates are to reward new sites with good contents rather than allow old sites with outdated, long aged contents sit on Google's first page.

Don't pretend as if you don't understand what I meant.

Lol.

When you hear of Google updates what do you think they are updating?

Google updates their algo over 3000 times every year.

Panda, Fred, RankBrain, HummingBird, Penguin are part of the Google algo (extra line of code sequencing how tasks are to be completed)

You don't markup yet you get you featured snippets?

Drop the link and keywords or tell us another lie

monichannel:


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

You are still doing PBN?

Are you aware that practice is blaaaaaaaaaack hat?

Anyway, it will not take Penguin more than 3 months to identify all the blogs in your network and if it finds out, your Yoast will not save you.

IamAtikulate:

You are still doing PBN?

Are you aware that practice is blaaaaaaaaaack hat?

Anyway, it will not take Penguin more than 3 months to identify all the blogs in your network and if it finds out, your Yoast will not save you.

you seem to be a pro

Jm879316:
you seem to be a pro

Certified B2B SEO Specialist.

IamAtikulate:

Certified B2B SEO Specialist.

okay

Godmother:
Very good writing. All excellent point, I just have a problem with number 10: keyword density.

The keywords being used should just appear five times, but should fall between 0.5% to 3% of your article length and this also includes variations of the keyword.

Keywords density doesn't matter. Just write naturally.

Have you heard of RankBrain?

LSI matters alot

Sanchez01:

LMAO

The emboldened is new! Dude prolly has no idea. How many competitors is he aware of that he'd look up? Perhaps he'd out write his competitors and then Google will look his way for having over 3000 worded content

Dude is as clueless as Jonathan and Buhari combined. And to think he is an avid Atiku follower says a lot!

Lol

Two Yoast SEO Specialist.

In SEO your competitors are those occupying the first 10 positions for your intended keywords.

Be guided!

MD2080:
Looking for a reliable Nigeria ads network for my blog...
Kindly suggest for me.
Thanks in advance

Don't waste your time.

setup a campaign in GDN, create 2 ad groups using managed placement and custom affinity audiences.

Use responsive ads format.

Create a remarketing campaign to re-engage the visitors immediately.

Thank me later.

TemmyT002:
Looks like something copied from Yoast Nawa

The thing weak me.

Unfortunately, only few people can write SEO content

This is well detailed.
Using these strategies, even a 600-words article will rank well.

monichannel:


Thanks

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

okay!

monichannel:
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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

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Omenkata:
i don't know who's thanks

Really?? You've been crossing his comments on every front page topic

kinzation:
Really??
You've been crossing his comments on every front page topic

which means he's a troll because i only counter trolls