Are you confused on how SEO works? Wonder how other blogs and websites boost their organic traffic and show up on search results?
Well, if you are you’ve come to the right place! In this post, I’ll show you how you can make super simple changes to your blog and get serious results, because SEO is not as complicated as you think it is.
8 SEO Tips To Boost Your Organic Traffic
Search Engine Optimization is the process of maximizing the number of visitors to a particular website by ensuring that the site appears high on the list of results returned by a search engine.
1.Install the Yoast SEO plugin
I’ve talked about the “most useful” plugins every blogger or biz owners must have last week and of course, this bad boy is included there. It makes your life so much easier and it’s free! This plugin allows you to do a lot of stuff that will help in search:
- You’ll be able to create an XML sitemap
- You can modify whether your categories and tags are crawlable
- You can verify social accounts for additional social exposure
- You can install breadcrumbs
2. Nail every URL for every blog post
Did you know that your URL is actually as important as your title? Your URL should contain keyword/s regarding your blog post. Take note that only “words” to get the maximum effect.
For example, this post URL is something like (below) because I am talking about SEO.
http://beautyandcherries.com/seo-increase-organic-traffic
But if I used this one – my blog post will be entirely invisible!
http://beautyandcherries.com/best-ways-to-use-seo-to-increase-organic-traffic-to-your-blog
BONUS TIP: Go to your WordPress Dashboard > Settings > Permalinks > Choose Post name
This will help your posts generate better URL’s going forward.
To update your old post permalinks, simply click on the ‘edit’ button next to the URL below your post title in WordPress.
3. Install the Redirection plugin
Don’t go crazy and change every URL in your blog without this plugin. This will automatically 301 redirect your old post to the new address whenever you change it. This plugin will help prevent annoying 404 “page not found” errors.
4. Add Image ALT Tags
I’ve preached a lot on why you need to stop being lazy when it comes to your images because it actually makes sense! I’ve written a post on how you can master image optimization and speed up your blog.
Do you remember when WordPress prompts you to add a text after you upload an image but because you don’t understand it, so you simply click away and leave it blank?
Yes, don’t give me that look..I know. 😛
Google cannot understand your images alone, so you need to describe it using the Alt Text. But please don’t just throw away some random words, be sure to add descriptive words to the images you uploaded, otherwise people can’t find them when they search.
5. Speed Up
Mobile browsing is definitely the new thing. In fact, it accounts to whopping 70% of daily searches.
And if you’re site loads after 48 years no one will have the patience to wait for it.
It’s even crucial for Google ranking. If you’re site loads between 8-12 seconds you need some serious help.
BONUS TIP: Go ahead and check the speed of your site at Google’s PageSpeed Insights.
You are targeting the score of 75 or above both on desktop and mobile. Don’t worry too much about making any gigantic changes in your site as this is a good score.
However, if you’re site got a score below 75, you may want to consider making improvements based on the tool’s recommendations.
BONUS TIPS:
Need to compress the size of your images? Try the EWWW Image Optimizer plugin.
Need to enable browser caching? Try installing WP Super Cache.
Want to find out which plugins are slowing your site down? Install the P3 Plugin Profiler.
6. Give it space
Seriously, white space is your friend. No one (yes, even you!) wants to read huge chunks of paragraphs.
When your readers stay longer, this signals Google that you’re producing high quality content compared to other online creators. Which in turn, they will reward you with higher rankings in search.
7. Increase Internal Links
When you’re creating a new blog post, its always better to link a few resources that you already have.
Like what I did to items #1 and #4 since it is a related topic.
Not only will it benefit the reader, but it will also benefit the site’s search rankings.
Finally, you have to take note that you can also link to other high quality external resources. This will show Google that you’re a trustworthy site. Again, this will all boil down to the “benefits that you give to your readers.”
8. Update Meta Titles & Descriptions
If you already installed the Yoast SEO Plugin, this step will be a piece of cake! So here’s how you do it.
The Meta title and description is what shows in Google’s search results.
Instead of showing your entire content they show your title and a brief snippet of text.
By default, Google will grab your blog post headline and a some text from your post to use in its results.
So if you have truncated headlines and unoptimized descriptions it will NOT tempt anyone to click on it.
Here’s an example of a truly optimized URL + Headline + Meta title and Description.
BONUS TIP:
If you need to check out how your Meta information will look in Google, you can make use of Portent’s SERP Preview Tool
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Natalie Portman
This is an awesome post filled with tons of great tips and SEO is so important that all bloggers should read this! I really liked how you explained everything in so much detail yet it was so easy to understand. Loved it and thanks for sharing,
Emma
Nice article. Seo is my key traffic driver. The better SEO is the better ranking/traffic will come.
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Amidu
Thank you for the seo tips.
I think consistency in posting in some way may boost your blogs also i think site wide relevance of what you post also matters.
Nica
Hi Lea, how are you? I’m thrilled to see you here! Glad this post was helpful to you, if your looking for more tips on growing your traffic, checkout our newest guide here: https://beautyandcherries.com/content-clarity/
Lea Louise
#5 is a huge take away for me! I didn’t realize all the areas of improvement I could work on. Thank you for the info and including the how-to links to do it. I can’t wait to see my numbers climb. 🙂
Terrah LynNee
I loveeee this! It is crazy that I found all the amazing SEO guide post after I learned SEO. This is one that was so easy to understand, I had know idea about the Redirection Plugin, I just installed it ! Thank you !
Priyanka Shah
Hi Janica Khemlani
Thanks for such a great post. I need your help.
As an SEO i working as an SEO i have to handle multiple keywords and i also do this but i acing following two problems which is:
1. few keywords results are not stable in google ranking for ex if you search today it will show the position of my domain on 18th no, if i search next day for same keyword and domain i will find the position is on 32th.
2. Keyword which rank on first position are not in entire google search page. why that happens i don’t know
Please help me …..
Mark Henry
This is what I was looking for. My website is WordPress based and these tips are really beneficial for me. So many doubts cleared! Thanks!
Shannon Geurin
Hi there! I am coming at you from the WOmen Winning Online FB group. THis post was so helpful to me! Thanks for the info!
Janica Khemlani
Hello Shannon! Glad you find this helpful 🙂 Lemme know if you need anything else I’m akways happy to help! 🙂
Angelica Sereda
Thank you for this. I need to step it up with my images!
Janica Khemlani
Hey Angelica, yes yes yes! Go work it girl 🙂
The Sunday Mode
Can you change the URL’s and permalinks through Blogger? I’d love to know how!
Julia // The Sunday Mode
Janica Khemlani
Hey girl, do you mean you are using blogger.com account? I wasn’t able to use that platform only wordpress.com but I can check for you 🙂 I’ll keep you posted on this! 🙂
The Sunday Mode
Yep I’m using a blogger.com account and thank you! That’s really nice of you 🙂
Feuza
I teach DIY SEO and these were indeed great tips and easy to understand good job. .
Janica Khemlani
Girl thank you! I’m so happy that you liked it and yes- My aim is to really make this as easy as possible! 🙂
Unstoppable Family
Great tips, lovely lady! Keep up the great work here, and live unstoppable!
Janica Khemlani
Thank you! Happy you liked it! OH yes I’m gonna live unstoppable! 😀
Travelerette
Thanks for these suggestions! I agree that the Redirection plugin is so helpful! I don’t feel very good at SEO, but I have the Yoast Plugin and I’m trying to learn. I’ll look at the copywriting tips too!
Janica Khemlani
Great happy you find this post helpful 🙂
ASKSonnie
Let me add one tip- To increase loading speed, cloudfare may help. Very helpful tips here.
Sonnie | ASKSonnie.INFO
Janica Khemlani
Thanks Sonnie 🙂
Janica Khemlani
Thank you Robert for your kind words. This post was a highly requested one from my readers. Happy you enjoyed reading 🙂
Emma Lenhart
Never heard of the redirection plug-in before! Getting it now.
Janica Khemlani
That one is a life saver – trust me. Let me know if you need anything else that I can be of help 🙂
Jaear Paguio
Nice post! I’m actually starting a new blog and it’s going to be helpful since i never bothered doing optimization. I just learned today about that tag and meta thing. 😀
Janica Khemlani
Happy to hear that from you Jaear! Let me know if you need anything – I am more than happy to help you out!
Leah Clayton Prescott
Thank you, this was very helpful!!
Janica
You’re welcome!!! So happy you liked it 🙂
Janica Khemlani
You’re welcome Lea! 🙂
Gregorio Jay
Simple But Very Clear and Detailed Articles 🙂 Thanks for Sharing Nica…
Janica Khemlani
Always welcome Jay! Happy you liked it!