On page SEO- meaning, importance, how to implement

If you are a newbie when it comes to the blogosphere then you might need to consider reading this because here I am going to educate you some SEO setting you should apply for your new blog. Well before you apply this SEO setting you will need to consider To create a blog. Before we start let me tell you the meaning of SEO

Meaning of SEO

SEO- Search engine optimization is the process of Optimizing your blog in order to get traffic/views from search engine results.
Let me explain further. When you increase the quantity and quality of your blog making it suitable for (SERPs) meaning search engine results page.
There are different type of SEO that you can apply on a new blog. Before we start let me tell you something we would go through

• Types of SEO
• Meaning of the types of SEO
• Example and how to implement the types of SEO

Types of SEO

We have so many types of SEO example

• On page SEO
• Off page SEO
• Technical SEO
• Contents SEO
• Negative SEO
• White hat SEO
• Black hat SEO and so on etc.

We are only going to look into on page SEO

Meaning of on page SEO

On page SEO is the process of Optimizing your blog for high ranking in SERPs. When you use keywords, optimize meta description, HTML code, alt tag, title tags. You are just practicing what is called on-page SEO. On-page SEO means all the Steps/ measure you can take within your blog in order to make it rank higher.

How to apply on-page SEO on a blog

We have some basic steps and tutorial to follow in order for you to improve your on-page SEO. Here are the step

Adding keywords to your blog

A keyword is a term or phrase that describes the content of a blog post. Keywords is one of the major factor to consider if you want to rank well on Google SERPs. Why because it is through your keywords Google Identify what your blog contents is all about.
So wh

Add meta description

Unlike keywords that just describes how the contents of your blog with, Meta description description all the contents you will provide on your blog.

A meta description is a short description that appears below your url on a search engine results page.

How to add meta description on blogger

1. First and foremost you need to login to blogger
2. Secondly click on setting
   
3. Now scroll down to meta tag and fill in 
   
4. Now save and wait for some minutes

Make sure your site load fast

Site speed is the measurements of how speed your blog loads. Site speed is one of the main factor used by Google algorithm to rank pages. When someone visit your blog it takes them at list 2 second before they either continue reading or move back. If your site load so slow the reader might lose patience and move back immediately there by increasing your bounce rate which is not good.

How should I check my site speed

There are so many free tools that you can use to check your site speed but here are just Five (5)

1. Isitwp: this was made for WordPress site but can also be used on a blogger blog. This show you your site speed and also what to do in order to increase your site speed
2. Google page speed insight:this is one of Google made tool, this will give you the speed of your site in both mobile and desktop. And will also give you some things to do so that you can increase your blog speed.
3. Gtmetrix: this is another free tool to check your site speed. It offers a lot of stat when compared to Google page speed insight, it is more better it offers stats like page speed, Yslow and waterfall under your performance score.
4. Pingdom: this is a well know website performance tool. It is easy to use and you can also choose different geographical to run tests. It offers you some things you can do to help improve your website performance. You can also use this to spy on your competitors to know there weak spot.

Internal linking

Internal linking is any link from one page of your website to another page of your website. This is like adding a post link you have already post In another of your post. When you do this this can help boost your traffic

External linking

External linking is means linking to another site outside of your own blog. This also means linking to other blog I your blog. When your add a link that goes out of your blog is an external link

Make sure your blog is mobile friendly

Making your blog mobile friendly means, making it easy to navigate in a mobile device

According to Google about 67% of all browser that browse the internet are using a mobile device. So let me say your blog is not mobile friendly, your blog is hard to navigate in a mobile device and one of the 67% of people comes to visit your blog. You will just see that you are driving out traffic out of your site and your are also increasing your bounce rate which is not good at all.

How to know whether you website is mobile friendly

There are some various tools we can use to know whether our site is mobile friendly but you can easily tell if your blog is hard to navigate. Some tool we can use are

1. Mobile friendly test-google search console
2. Rank watch

Header tags

Hearder tags are HTML element (H1-H6) used to identify heading, subheading, Minor heading within a content of your blog. Hearder tags are not that important for your SEO but it serve as an important factor to help your user and user experience is an important factor in Google algorithm.

Image optimization

Adding image to a blog post doesn't only help improve you on-page SEO but also help get more traffic. Try adding catchy thumbnail so as to make your readers read the post. But let be warned not all image are the same, some images also slow Down our blog.

Conclusion

So far so good we have talked about on page SEO there are still so many things you can do to increase your SEO but with this step I think you should be able to know more about on page SEO. Thanks for reading and remember sharing is caring

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