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Six Ways to Improve Your SEO Ranking

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I do not claim to be an expert in SEO ranking, however, after 15 years of doing this, I have learned one or two things. The SEO game continues to change, but some basics need to be done.

1) Create Quality Content

Seems pretty darn obvious to most folks out there, but let me tell you it isn’t to a lot of folks. Don’t just rehash crap you have read. Show an opinion, show you have ideas and don’t go with the herd. Don’t be stupid about it, but if you agree with everyone else, then why would anyone want to read your stuff?


2) Stay on Topic

If your site is about a specific topic, Stay on topic! Yes, occasionally, after success, you can add your favourite guacamole recipe or whatever, but stay on topic. I was guilty of wandering off-topic, and it has cost me repeatedly. Why would anyone read your stuff if you can’t stay on topic?

This site exists because my Personal Finance site was riddled with technology stuff, and nobody wanted that. Stay in your lane.

3) Make it fast

Nobody will wait for it to load if your site is as slow as molasses in January. People have no attention span these days, so don’t overload your site with crap that slows it down. Better still, use something to cache it and optimize the caching settings, too.

Google cares about this a lot too.

4) Make Your Key Content Easy to Find

Anything you think is good or important better be no more than 1 click from any page that any user browses. If you make things easy to find, people will find them, more easily (think about that one for a minute).

5) Get links and make good links

For God’s Sake don’t carpet bomb sites asking for Guest Posts and Links. I get inundated with that crap and I ignore it. People who I know that are successful just ignore them. Make contacts, but you aren’t going to make good contacts on cold-call emails.

6) Social Media

Seriously, I gotta put that one down? OK, here is a little more stuff, if you are using Social Media, SEPARATE your personal and business feeds. If you want to get up on your pulpit about a personal cause, do you want it to be associated with your site?

7) HTTPS – Get a Site Cert

If your site does not have an SSL cert, go get one. Many folks won’t go near a site without one, and if you are going to sell something you MUST get one. It makes you look like you are trying hard too.

8) Get your site Crawled

Set yourself up on Bing, Google and whatever other search engines you can think of so they crawl your site to find your great content! Install Yoast SEO , Rank Math or something like that, and it is automatic. They aren’t going to look for you, there is too much content these days, you have to tell them about yourself. Search on sitemap.xml and go from there! You need to set up a Sitemap.

9) Learn how to count!

Yeh, that is important too. I hate list posts, so I did this mostly as a gag (i.e. more than 6 points). Lean how to make sure your content is concise and easy to read. If you have a thesis, better put a sharp precis at the start or folks aren’t going to read 10,000 words.

Why are there 9 ways on a list of 6 ways to improve SEO?

Clickbait mostly, also six is never enough

How important is a sitemap?

If you want to have your site crawled by Google or the like, you had better have one. Plenty of utilities to do this for you, so it is the first SEO thing you should do.

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