If you’re running a WordPress blog you’ve had this question at one point or another: what is the difference between the tags and categories – and how to tag blog posts?
Let’s get this sorted in 370 words.Read More »How to tag blog posts for SEO in 2022 (checklist inside)
If you’ve landed on this page, you’ve probably heard of content planning.
This post will give you an overview of different kinds of content planning by type, purpose and technique.
Let’s touch upon the basics of content marketing and types of text content as well. After all, getting a content plan is absolutely crucial if you want to maximize the performance of your website and turn it into a lead generation machine.
Dive right in?Read More »Content planning for websites and blogs
As you are preparing a content plan for your blog, or just doing some research for a post?
Many keyword tools, like Ahrefs, will give you keyword suggestions that display 0 search volume.
Most beginner bloggers and SEOs will automatically discard these keywords.
It’s the wrong thing to do, however. You should examine these and use some of them to grow your business.Read More »Why you should still target keywords that have no search volume
Hubspot has a blog post that ranks high for search phrases like “SEO plan”, written by Drew Fortin. Here is the post.
Apart from some good advice the post also contains bad advice regarding blogging and content planning.
Sadly, the same advice is being repeated from blog to blog. We’ve come across the advice so often that the current blog post is long overdue.Read More »Bad SEO advice from Hubspot – do this instead
If you run a blog, we have good news and bad news for you.
Good news: Google loves blogs, and especially WordPress blogs, since a large chunk of the Internet runs on WordPress.
Bad news: you have to actually work on blog post SEO to get organic traffic.
But then again, you have to do the work anywhere to get results.
Since 2012 we’ve turned hundreds of blogs into traffic generating machines.
This list of best practices for blog post SEO is a way to give back to community, so feel free to share it.
Let’s dive right in and give you an actionable and 2023-ready checklist on SEO for blog posts.Read More »Blog Post SEO: The DIY Guide to SEO for Blog Posts in 2023
Most website owners see SEO as a complicated specific activity, that requires a large contract and a dedicated agency-level support.
Blogging, however, is viewed as a simple process that’s easy to do.
However, a blog is a powerful SEO tool that can both bring you tons of organic SEO traffic and hold your site down in Google’s result pages.
Here’s a list of the most common blogging mistakes we’ve seen our clients do over and over again. Avoid these and stay consistent with your blogging – and you will see more and more organic traffic and leads on your site.Read More »Your SEO sucks because of these blogging mistakes
Most of the guides dedicated to coming up with blog post ideas are missing the problem most bloggers have.
You will find suggestions like “ask your audience”, “ask your support teams” and so on – but what if you are only starting out and have no audience yet, let alone a support team?
Other blog post ideas tutorials will tell you to scrape a list of keywords related to your niche and go down that list writing a blog post for each keyword. This might work at first but it gets you to a blog full of thin, worthless SEO-content. And we told you why you should not go for SEO content.
In this guide we will give you several realistic approaches rather than specific ideas. Read More »Coming up with blog post ideas when there are no more ideas
Blogging tutorials and guides have been all talking about many things – keywords, media, topic selection, etc.
All these are secondary.
There is one thing that’s absolutely essential to the success of your blog.Read More »The most important thing in blogging
A lot of copywriting agencies and freelancers are offering creation of “SEO content” as one of their services.
This seems like a legacy of times over a decade ago, when stuffing keywords into web copy meant it was going to do well on Google.
Times have changed since, yet business owners still fall for the dream of simple traffic copywriters sell them.
Here’s a list of reasons you should never order something labeled as “SEO Content”.Read More »5 Reasons to never buy “SEO Content”
If there’s any advice we’ve consistently given all our clients – it’s
you need to start blogging ASAP.
Before you finish your blog theme.
Before you agree upon a logo with your partner.
Before you prepare your hosting.
Before you order a content plan.Read More »Why you should start blogging ASAP.