For todays assignment on my class blog, I was asked to do a project on Search Engine Optimization (SEO for short). SEO on the simplest level is configuring your website or blog, and its content, in a way that leads to higher listings on search engines and more traffic to your site. One way you can do this is through keywords. Keywords are words you strategically place in whatever your writing, in my case my student blog, to make it possible for people to find your site using search engines such as Google or Bing.
For my assignment I was asked to generate my own list of keywords I think people already use to find my site and put those into an online keywords tool which in return gives me additional words to include in my posts to generate more views. My list of five words or phrases was: "personal blog", "free blogging", "blog", "class blog" and "student blog". (For this assignment I was supposed to connect each of the words on my list with its highest searched keyword match, but seeing as multiple searches yielded the same results I chose to eliminate the words I already chose and select the next highest option.) When searching "personal blog" the top return search was "free blog" with 1,220,000/mo, "free blogging" returned the search "blogs" with 30,400,000/mo, searching "blog" returned the keyword "blog site" with 1,830,000/mo, "class blog" returned the search "blog class" with 60,500/mo, and "student blog" returned the search "blog for teachers" with 40,500/mo.
After using the keyword tool, writers can then use their results in their free blogging to create more searchable posts by simply including words with higher search values. For example, the sentence " Use our blog site to create one of the best blogs you have ever seen" will yield higher results than the sentence "Start your own free blog at our blog class today".
By writing a post with the words "blogs" and "blog site" (with a combined search rate of 33,450,000/mo) the writer is able to yield higher results than a post using the words "blog class" and "free blog" (with a combined search rate of 1,280,500/mo).
I hope this assignment taught you a little bit about keywords and their role in SEO. If you are interested in doing this for your own personal blog you can find the tool I used here.
Did you notice the random black words throughout my assignment? Don't worry those are simply the keywords I slipped right into my post without you knowing. If I can do it, you can too!
For my assignment I was asked to generate my own list of keywords I think people already use to find my site and put those into an online keywords tool which in return gives me additional words to include in my posts to generate more views. My list of five words or phrases was: "personal blog", "free blogging", "blog", "class blog" and "student blog". (For this assignment I was supposed to connect each of the words on my list with its highest searched keyword match, but seeing as multiple searches yielded the same results I chose to eliminate the words I already chose and select the next highest option.) When searching "personal blog" the top return search was "free blog" with 1,220,000/mo, "free blogging" returned the search "blogs" with 30,400,000/mo, searching "blog" returned the keyword "blog site" with 1,830,000/mo, "class blog" returned the search "blog class" with 60,500/mo, and "student blog" returned the search "blog for teachers" with 40,500/mo.
After using the keyword tool, writers can then use their results in their free blogging to create more searchable posts by simply including words with higher search values. For example, the sentence " Use our blog site to create one of the best blogs you have ever seen" will yield higher results than the sentence "Start your own free blog at our blog class today".
By writing a post with the words "blogs" and "blog site" (with a combined search rate of 33,450,000/mo) the writer is able to yield higher results than a post using the words "blog class" and "free blog" (with a combined search rate of 1,280,500/mo).
I hope this assignment taught you a little bit about keywords and their role in SEO. If you are interested in doing this for your own personal blog you can find the tool I used here.
Did you notice the random black words throughout my assignment? Don't worry those are simply the keywords I slipped right into my post without you knowing. If I can do it, you can too!