How to Optimize Blog Posts for SEO

If you do not optimize blog posts for SEO you are missing out on tremendous opportunities for organic traffic to your website.

I’d go as far to say if you are not optimizing your content, you are wasting your time writing. If it can’t be found, why write content in the first place?

Without SEO, you could be losing thousands, even tens of thousands of eyeballs on your content, representing a tremendous lost opportunity. With all the competition out there for readers, it is vital your posts show up high in Google searches.

Most online experiences begin with a search engine, and nearly 75% of them use Google. In addition, the first five results of a Google search get 67.60% of all clicks, making search engine optimization crucial. Page two and three of the search results only get 5.59% of the clicks.

There are many factors that go into the effective optimization of a blog post, I will cover them all in this article. I will start with the debate of the ideal length of a blog post, I’ll also outline each of the optimization tactics you must implement if you want your blog posts to rank on page one of the search results. After that I will share with you why optimizing your blog posts is more critical than it’s ever been.