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SEO Friendly Content: 5 Creative Ways to Increase Website Traffic

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Last updated on August 30th, 2023 at 08:13 pm

#2. Keyword Optimization

Knowing how to do keyword research is not enough, what really matters is knowing how to deploy those keywords into the right place on your website.

Whether it is on your homepage, your standalone pages such as the “About” page, or “Start Here” page, or even in your blog posts.

Just be sure you strategically insert these keywords on your website.

A little while ago, Jennifer Yesbeck published a post for Blog.Alexa.com titled “The Essential Keyword Optimization Cheat Sheet for Better SEO”

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  • The primary keyword is in the page title.
  • The important keyword phrase is near the beginning of the page title.
  • The most important keyword term is in at least one subheading.
  • The primary keyword is in the first paragraph of the body copy.
  • Content is between 300 and 10,000 words.
  • The primary keyword density is about 2%.
  • The primary keyword is near the end of the page.
  • Each secondary keyword is used at least one time.
  • The content uses semantic search phrases that reinforce your topic and primary keyword.
  • The primary keyword is in the permalink.
  • The permalink is under 128 characters.
  • The primary keyword is in the meta title.
  • The primary keyword is near the beginning of the meta title.
  • The meta title is unique and not a duplicate of other meta titles on your site.
  • The meta title is 66 characters or less.
  • There is only one meta title tag assigned to the page.
  • The primary keyword is in the SEO meta description.
  • The primary keyword is near the beginning of the meta description.
  • The meta description is 320 characters or less.
  • A least one image is on the page.
  • The primary keyword is in an image alt tag on the page.
  • The primary keyword is in an image file name used on the page.
  • There are internal links to the page from pages on your site that are relevant to your topic and primary keyword.
  • Internal links lead from the page to other pages on your site using the linked page’s target keyword.
  • There are outbound links on the page.
  • Outbound links lead to related content on high-quality sites.

Jennifer-YesbeckWhy to follow her:

Jennifer is Marketing Manager at Alexa. With a knack for syntax and passion for building connections, she drives daily content strategy to bring you the latest and greatest happenings within Alexa and the wide world of web analytics and marketing.

Use this checklist to make sure you cover all your keyword optimization bases. Share on X

In case you are wondering how to analyze if you have done everything from the above list or not, you can make use of these two nifty tools I use a lot here on my blog: Yoast SEO & Squirrly SEO.

The Squirrly SEO was first recommended by SEO Lord, Neil Patel a long time ago, and I thought if Neil can be using this beginner-directed SEO plugin, then who am I not to…

…that was my first experience with Squirrly SEO and I haven’t looked back since then. It has helped me tackle different personal and business SEO projects. All I have to do is insert my keyword in its search bar, and then it starts to analyze what I have done right or done wrong, and I can easily go back to my content to correct what needs to be corrected.

Is that simple?

Yes, simple as reading A B C… 😊

But let me do a quick walk-through on how to use Squirrly SEO to supercharge your content and be able to gain website traffic to every one of your blog posts.

Is that a good thing to do?

Here you go:

squirrly-seo

As you can see from the image above, all I had to do was plug my keyword into the Squirrly SEO search bar right inside my WordPress Visual Editor, and viola, it suggested other keyword phrases I could consider sprinkling into the body of my content to make it more search engine friendly.

After I press the blue button from the above picture, Squirrly SEO will then scan and analyze my content to see if it’s SEO friendly or not.

If it is, it will suggest other strategies you could deploy to make it even much better than it currently is.

If not, it walks you through all of the things you should do to make your content score high from an SEO standpoint.

So speaking of my content, it’s currently looking good and you can see that from the image below.

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Do you see how I score green on almost all of its analysis?

That’s what you should aim for when next you are planning to write an SEO friendly article.

As you can see, it’s suggesting other tweaks I should look into to have a better SEO score.

Now, guys, that’s how to use Squirrly SEO to supercharge your content in order to gain website traffic on a fleek.

squirrly-seo

And just like Yoast SEO, Squirrly SEO affords you the opportunity to edit your Meta Data Snippet by adding your content title, the description of your content, and the keywords people you want to rank for.

squirrly-seo

Also, like Yoast SEO, it shows you how your page will appear on Search Engines like Google, Bing, and many others.

The truth is the fact that if your content is written to stand the test of time, Google will have no hard time displaying it on the first page.

“Sadly, much of the content being published is simply not worth linking to. 75% of it is getting zero inbound links. So forget the ‘more is better’ approach to content if you want links. Go with quality instead. Your content will generate links only if it is truly exceptional—’remarkable,’ as Seth Godin would say.”

— Brian Sutter, Forbes.com

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39 thoughts on “SEO Friendly Content: 5 Creative Ways to Increase Website Traffic”

  1. Dipendra Neupane

    Hey sam!
    Really amazing and detailed content on writing SEO friendly article.
    You have really made to easy and simple to write content that are search engine friendly with these tips.

    Reply
  2. Aadarsh Roy

    Hey Sam Adeyinka,

    Great post with helpful tips to write an seo friendly content and to increase the website traffic. As this post is seems to be much informative and lots of things to consider. Creating seo friendly content is really important so that the users and people can find it through search engine like google. Seo friendly article also helps to make money by generating a huge amount of traffic through the content. I also like the 5 easy tips to write seo friendly blog posts that you ave listed, whereas the seo tools to gain more website traffic are great and will helps many users to generate more traffic. Keyword research and the content structure are also important. Writing the content structure that attracts more readers and liked by google will be helpful. A unique and attracting structure of a content attracts more readers,users and generate more traffic. The pictorial representation for creating structure to blog post is great and will helps many users to create a blog structure. The list of seo friendly content checker that you have provided will helps a lot, your all the mentioned tools are helpful but i really like an idea of using LSI checker, Grammarly, Keyword density checker and seo rambler.

    Really helpful post with effective tips and helpful tools. Thanks for sharing.

    Reply
  4. Moss Clement

    Hi Sam,

    Your article is excellent, and the tips are actionable. Nevertheless, I also want to add that putting yourself in the position of the reader will help you to write practical SEO-friendly blog posts. In this context, user intent is crucial, meaning that you have to figure out what your ideal reader may want to search next on Google and use that in your content. This tactic makes your posts appear on top of Google.

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    1. Sam Adeyinka

      Hey Moss!

      Thanks for the heads up man.

      I really heartpreciate your kindness!

      Yes, user-intent is really crucial in writing SEO friendly content.

      That’s why I don’t joke with the “People also Ask” section on Google.

      I make sure to spend a good amount of time in that section as I do on other SEO tools I make use of.

      And that has proven to be very effective in writing a great masterpiece.

      Thanks for visiting my blog to drop this submission brother, and I hope to see you back here and as often as you can. 🙂

      Sam

      Reply
  5. Rahul Ahlawat

    What really matters is that a user has to make content engaging to their audience so that they can connect properly. Use proper images and infographics surely grabs the attention of the reader.

    Reply
  10. Malik Usama

    Hey Sam,
    Amazing post. It’s my first visit on your Blog but it seems like there is plenty of nice stuff scattered around. I will certainly refer to it gradually.
    Thanks for this wonderful blog about SEO content, it is indeed a great help and a time saver. Gladly shared it on my timeline ?
    Cheers!

    Reply
  11. Fiemo favour

    Thanks for this helpful and useful article on how to write SEO friendly contents. At least with the knowledge I gained for reading this article, I can write SEO friendly contents and rank.
    Thanks for sharing

    Reply
  15. M. Hridoy

    Hi,
    Thanks for sharing. I think the hardest part is keeping the reader happy and much of that is writing for, and reaching, the right audience.
    Sue Bride

    Reply
  20. manjusha sharma

    What an awesome resource, point to point details. It is very helpful to me. Great tips, some of which I had not heard about, and will spend the afternoon tweaking some of my blog posts to see if it helps. Thank you for this amazing post. Thank you for sharing your expertise. This post is very helpful. It’s informative too!
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  21. Kiran P

    Thank you Sam Adeyinka for writing this article. This article helped me to write SEO-friendly content. One line which I like most from this article is ” Content is King and that Value is the King Maker”.

    Reply
  23. Ephraim danlami

    I love the way you write articles on this website and most of your articles have really be of help to me and my clients. Thanks.

    Reply

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  28. Aqib

    SEO-friendly content should be well-researched, optimized with relevant keywords, and structured with headings and subheadings for readability. It should also include high-quality, valuable information that engages the audience and encourages backlinks and social sharing

    Reply

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