Increasing Your On-Page SEO
By now, you have probably heard about SEO and how beneficial it can be for your site. SEO or Search Engine Optimisation can either make or break your site. Having good SEO practices can lead to an increase in traffic from Search Engines. It can also consequently lead to an increase in following. On the other hand, your site not being SEO friendly can lead to less traffic and followers.
SEO is generally measured in two different ways, general/overall SEO and on-page SEO. Since I already have a number of posts on how to increase overall SEO, I thought today we could focus on how to increase your on-page SEO which does lead to an increase in overall SEO too.
What Is On-Page SEO?
“On-page SEO is a fundamental part of everyday SEO. They are the on-page factors that can make or break your SEO success.
On-page SEO is the practice of optimizing elements on web pages for SEO– but it’s more complicated than you might think.
It’s an overarching name for the combination of technical and content SEO that revolves around optimizing individual pages. This practice includes content, but also meta-tags, titles, links and anchor text, and more.
On-page SEO has changed a lot since the beginnings of search engines– while some of the fundamentals stay the same. Having core competency in on-page SEO while keeping up with newer techniques is invaluable to keeping your competitive edge.”
Source: https://www.searchenginejournal.com/on-page-seo/
How To Increase Your On-Page SEO
Now that you have a better understanding of what on-page SEO is and why it is important, lets get into how we can increase our on-page SEO. These methods are how I increased my SEO and how you can too.
Keywords/Key Phrase
Keywords, sometimes also referred to as key phrases are absolutely vital for on-page SEO. A keyword or a key phrase is the word or phrase that you are hoping your post will rank for. In more simple words, it is a word or group of words that describe the topic of the post. When people search these words on a Search Engine you are hoping your post will pop up. For example, if you have recipe post with a vegan lasagna recipe your keywords will be “vegan lasagna recipe.”
The first thing you want to do when writing a post is to figure out what your keyword or key phrase is going to be. Once you have figured that out, make sure this keyword or key phrase is in your title and in the first paragraph of your post. You also want to make sure to try to use this word or phrase a few times in the post itself but not too many times. If you use the keyword or key phrase too many times Search Engines will mistakenly mark your post as spam.
On more thing you want to keep in mind about keywords and key phrases is that you want to pick those that are popular but not so popular that it is near impossible to rank very high for them. You want to find that sweet spot in the middle.
Subheadings
Subheadings are very important for on-page SEO and just SEO in general. In fact, Search Engines often favour posts with more subheadings. According to the latest information on SEO, it is advised that you use subheadings each time your post becomes longer than 300 words. That means use subheadings between every 300 words max. It’s okay to use subheadings after less than 300 words but make sure no section of your post is more than 300 words. Because that will make it less reader friendly which will subsequently decrease your SEO.
Another thing to remember with subheadings goes back to keywords and key phrases. You want to use your keyword or key phrase at least once in a subheading. This makes your post more SEO friendly. Don’t ask me why, I’m not a Search Engine and SEO makes no sense to me. But the crawl bots love it.
Images
It is highly recommended that you use at least one image in each of your posts. The more images you use the better but you should attempt to have at least one. And using images alone is often not enough. How you use these images makes a big difference too.
When you open the image to edit, you will notice an option for “Alternative Text” as well as other options such as “Image Title Attribute.” This may sound very foreign but these features are very important. They tell Search Engines what this image is and what it is about. Search Engines than show your images in the results when people search for your keyword or key phrase. Make sure not to leave these sections empty or you will miss out on a lot of Search Engine traffic. You can get a lot of traffic from images and it’s a good idea to take advantage of that since it’s pretty simple.
Conclusion
I hope you enjoyed this post about “How To Increase Your On-Page SEO.” I know that a lot of my readers enjoy my posts about SEO. In fact, they are some of my most popular posts. As you may have noticed, I always try to keep it very simple and not too tech-y. Most SEO posts are very unnecessarily complicated and that’s something I personally struggled with when I started learning about SEO. That’s why I wanted to create posts everyone can follow along with. Because I know the majority of us are not pros at technology related things.
Had you heard of on-page SEO before this post? Do you try to make your posts more SEO friendly? What are some ways you increase your on-page SEO? Let me know in the comments below! Seriously, leave a comment I don’t bite (because my lawyers told me not to).
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Interesting post
Thanks so much.
Great post. I’m still learning about SEO. It’s new to me but I’m enjoying trying it out.
I really feel that Pooja’s multiple blogs on SEO made a lot of stuff clearer. I didn’t know about this SEO thing and I didn’t even know what to search about it. But, her blogs helped me a lot.
Thanks so much and hope these posts are helping.
This is such great information and I have read your other posts on this before. However, is it a bad thing if I don’t care about SEO? I just write for fun, just trying to educate and help as many as I can in what ever way I can. I don’t get into all the hoopla on SEO. I just post when I want and if I help at least one person along the way then I feel like I accomplished one of the things I set out to do. 😁 From my understanding SEO is for writers that are trying to make a living off their blog Pooja am I way off in saying that? I love and trust your advice, information, and if I am wrong please let me know 🙂 😊 ❤❤
Wowza didn’t realize my comment was so long 🤪
SEO will help you reach more audience. But, as you are doing it for fun and really enjoying it, you don’t necessarily need to worry. You can do several other things to get a positive interaction. I would surely check out your work. ☺️🔆
Thank you DEVANG for taking the time to answer my questions 🙂
Pooja will answer your question properly, as she has much more knowledge in this regard. I replied as I enjoyed your comment. 😊
Aww thank you 😊
Lol no worries 😂
This makes so much sense!
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Thanks so much. I don’t think SEO should be your primary concern if you’re just writing for fun. But if you’re still hoping to get more traffic SEO doesn’t hurt. But yes, SEO is mainly for more professional sites rather than hobby blogs 😊
I have read all your posts on this on the past and I really appreciate the way you explain every angle and on a way that is understandable 😊 Thank you Pooja 😊
Thanks, I’m glad to hear that because I do try very hard to keep it simple 😊
A great blog Pooja as always.
I will try to add more images. Do you think, the images I’m making are useful in this?
Also, keywords matters a lot. I’ve seen people using 100 of them in a single blog and they site getting good followers. But, also when I was starting out with these blogs, I have read that on WP 15 is a safe number for keywords/tags. Do you agree? Can you guide little bit more about it.
I can also, use 100 of tags, but then I don’t want to overuse anything.
I also believe in interaction. I have seen that I can better interaction than people with more followers than me.
I will look more about this blog of yours. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks so much. Yes, I think images always help posts boost SEO. Just make sure to use the image features too.
I think using 100 keywords is a bit much but I think keywords are definitely vital. Yes, 15 is the maximum on WP (categories and tags combined). If you use more than 15 your post is marked as spam and will no longer appear on the Reader and hashtag pages.
Ooh I didn’t know it was categories and tags combined. Thanks Pooja 🙏🏼
Yeah I only recently found that out when one of my posts didn’t make it to the Reader lol 😂
Good to know, thanks Pooja 😊
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Yes, SEO is difficult to master, I have used Yoast Premium in the past, and you had a lot of things on the list to do before the red text would turn green which meant it was SEO optimized.
Yes, I have recently started to use Yoast too. A. lot of those things are vital for good SEO.
I found this really interesting and am going to try them out.
Thanks so much, hope it helps.
Great tips here certainly. Always tricky but vital to select helpful keywords for your audience 🙂
Thanks so much, yes keywords are so important.
Welcome 🙂
These are amazing tips. SEO is still new to me and sounds a lot sensible when you explain better. Thank you ❤️
Thanks so much. Glad these posts are helpful 😊
This is definitely a great blog. I have also read your previous posts about SEO but still it’s difficult to understand and I don’t pay a lot of attention to it. But I have seen that I got some views on my site through Pinterest as I have account there and some from other search engines so maybe that’s bc of SEO. And this On page SEO like How to open that setting? Or what I need to do?
Thanks so much. Only Search Engine views are due to SEO. On-page SEO isn’t a setting but rather a general assessment of your post done by Search Engine crawl bots. I would recommend implementing the tips I mentioned on SEO posts like adding images, using keywords, subheadings etc. Hope that helps 😊
Okk thanku very much pooja dii. I’ll add keywords and images related to the post hope that’s will good for my site.
Thanks for the suggestion.
Hope it helps 😊
Yess😊
Hi, I have shared this blog with you on your latest blog. You can see Pooja explained everything that is needed in a very easy manner.
There are more blogs from her about “keywords”
Yes I read the blog 😊 very informative
Thanks
Educative post, I think I have a lot to learn about SEO.😇
Thanks so much 💕
Great post.. I’m a slow learner… did you say you can have more categories or more tags..?
Yikes is there hope for me? Don’t answer that!! 😹
More tags (upto 10 is what I would recommend). Of course there’s always hope! 😂
Wow, thank you for teaching me subheadings and alternative text. I often read your “tutoring” posts which is something I don’t usually do, lol, since your post is often very precise and concise.
Thanks so much. Yeah I try to keep it simple because I myself find posts that are too technical hard to follow lol.
“Don’t ask me why, I’m not a search engine.” 😂🤣
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This post actually breaks down general SEO into the little bits that we can follow. At first, I didn’t want to learn about SEO because it seemed like a lot of work, especially when I found out what it meant. But you’ve really helped me understand better, thank you.
Yeah I wanted to make the content easy to follow. So glad it was helpful!
It’s good that you post about SEO from time to time because I’m not very good at remembering to do it. Very helpful as always Pooja, thank you.
Glad this was helpful, thanks so much 😊
Thank you so much for sharing! This was, by far, the most helpful article I’ve read about SEO. Others use all these terms that I don’t understand, but you broke it all down so nicely. Thank you again!
I’m so happy to hear that. I know some articles about SEO can be unnecessarily technical and that doesn’t help everyone. Thanks!
I enjoy all of your SEO posts because you give such resourceful tips! Thank you!
Thank you!
Here’s the thing about alt text. You have to consciously make it accessible for people with disabilities. It’s a big problem that SEO isn’t accommodating that
Yes, I have read about that and it definitely sucks that SEO isn’t accommodating that but honestly I can’t say I am surprised.
SEO is definitely helping me! Thank You Lawd!
That’s awesome!
Thanks for a very detailed informative post with lots of Helpful Tips to Increase that all important SEO
Thank you and hope the tips help!
Those tips help a lot. I have an SEO plug-in on wordpress and it helps a lot. I still have trouble finding the perfect titles and subheadings though. It can be time consuming.
Yes, having a plugin for SEO is super helpful.
I have more trouble coming up with titles, but the plug-in helps
Oh I see, makes sense cos titles can be tough sometimes.
I’m not good at titles
Yeah I struggle with them too but I feel like I’m getting a bit better at them.
I hope to improve too
Thank you for sharing 😊
My pleasure and hope it helps 😊
Thanks for sharing great article on page SEO is very important
Thanks and yes it is.
I use images free from pixabay. Don’t know if they allow to change the ‘alt’, the description of the image. Because the image really belongs to pixabay.
Yes, all images added to WordPress have an “alt description” no matter what their source is. It’s a feature on WordPress itself.