When you don't see any results it's disheartening and it's the reason why so many people throw in the towel. They give up even though success would change their life for the better.
Maybe there is something you can do instead of just writing down a few words and hitting publish. If you started writing articles with search engine optimization in mind you would eventually see the results even if they took a while to come. Do you have any idea how you would get started? If you want your articles to eventually get great search engine rankings then follow this advice.
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Write long content
It didn't really matter what your visitors used to think because you could easily reach the first page of Google with silly little 200 word articles. The only thing you wanted to do was publish as much crap as possible because it would mean more visitors. Try doing that today and you won't get any results. You have to start writing engaging content that is over 500 words long.Choose your keyword wisely
You can go after the most impressive keywords you can find that have a huge amount of people searching for them every month, but what are the chances of you reaching the top spot for any of them?If it does happen it's going to take you years, but there is only room for one person at the top. You should aim for keywords you have a better chance of ranking for because that is where you'll get the results you want.
Don't forget pictures
There are lots of different ways to end up at the top of the search engine results. If you have lots of pictures inside your articles you could easily rank for those. It's another way to build up the monthly traffic and it seems a waste to ignore it. That isn't even taking into account the fact your articles will be much more enjoyable and it means they will be shared more.Deal with the meta tags
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Don't ignore the meta tags if you're interested in getting traffic from the search engines. Make sure your main keyword is inside the title tag. Write a great meta description with a couple of long-tail keywords and make sure it's interesting enough that people will want to click through to your site. You can even fill in the meta keyword tag because it can't hurt to tell the search engines what you're trying to rank for.
Start building good links
Once you have finished writing your article you shouldn't just forget about it. You've only done the easy part by hitting publish. You now need to go around the Internet linking to it. That can be done by writing guest posts, creating videos, and anything else that will let you leave a backlink pointing back to your article. Spend twice as long marketing your article as you do writing it.
Ben KirstenAbout the Guest Author:
Ben Kirsten is an SEO at linkremoval.com. He has ample experience in this industry and suggests useful tips on how to increase SERP's on his blog. He also warns people against overdoing it so that they don't end up incurring an over optimization penalty.