Hey folks ! SEO is the important factor to drive outside traffic into your blog if you do proper optimization and write the quality and informational post then it will rank easily because steemit is very high DA (domain authority) and authority so it will rank easily on the search engines on the web. along with this your post will get many social signals so that mean people will share your post on different social media sites.
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Quality post + on page SEO
On page seo means whatever you write in the post and optimize it by keyword is called on page seo optimization. Quality post is most important thing without quality post you can't implement on page seo in your post. So first and basic thing you must have capability to write informational, useful post so it will become a evergreen content and people will share it automatically.
So the combination of seo and quality is a great and it can make you famous person and your post. And this way you are also contributing to steem blockchain because the people come from the out and visit steemit and if only 1% will take interest, they will become a steemian. So this way you are helping steem also.
How To Optimize Your Steem Content ? let's check it
First and most important thing is keyword research if you are writing content then first thing is finding a keywords so how you can do it let's do it :
1- Go to https://neilpatel.com/ubersuggest/ and login with your google account and enter your topic keyword in the search box.
2- After that Click on View all keyword ideas
3- Now you can see many relevant keywords here
4- Pick all keywords that you want to write and must check seo difficulty (SD) and volume. You must choose the keyword that has seo difficulty less than 50 and volume more than 1000.
5- Now implement these keywords naturally in your post. Add h1 and h2 headings and subheadings in your post. And your keyword must included in first paragraph , last paragraph, h1 and h2 headings and title.
Once more, you must use it naturally do not over optimize your post. Because keyword stuffing is not allowed. And it is crime :p
Image optimization and other
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If you wanna optimize your image then first compress your image before adding it in your post. and Also rename your all images with relevant keyword. So these two things are required to optimize your image.
If possible then add infographics and video also because it will increase the weight of your post. And help you to rank your post easily in the search. Moreover, taking care of bounce rate is also very important thing.
Your post should have some gaps in the paragraph that mean don't write long paragraph and also add images so readers will not getting a bored and this thing will maintain your bounce rate so decreasing bounce rate is the plus point and boost your ranking in search. Writing all words together will bore your reader and second time it will not prefer to read your post. so keep that in your mind and add attractive images also.
You can also include the URL of other blog which has same niche like you and that blog should have high authority so this is also important factor as well.
Conclusion
That's all my friends, if you really enjoyed this post then upvote it and don't forget to share and one more important thing is question. just ask the questions in comment i will reply every comment ASAP.