Tricks to Great Blog Posts - #seopodcast 155

Episode28 min2012-08-23

Writing better blog posts for SEO requires studying your audience's social media language, using trending hashtags, doing interviews, and using Facebook Insights to understand what readers share and engage with.

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Key takeaways
if they're using them, then they're probably searching for them. And if they're searching for them, you have a higher likelihood of showing up if it's in your post.

About this episode

We discuss SEO focused in the Houston area. We also discuss a recent Panda update and the fact that it will affect less than 1% of searches. We also discuss a number of great tricks to a great blog post from an SEO perspective. We finally discuss Search Engine Optimization in Houston Texas. The most popular Internet Marketing Podcast on iTunes. E-Webstyle provides Houston SEO .

Questions this episode answers

Should I use keywords in my domain name for SEO?

According to this episode, keyword-rich domain names are no longer very impactful after recent algorithm changes. If a keyword domain is short and naturally fits your brand, it is fine, but branding your company name is a better priority. The hosts cite ranking well for SEO Houston without the keyword in their domain as proof.

How can social media help me write better blog posts?

The episode recommends studying the specific words your audience uses on social media and including those terms in your posts, since people likely search those same words. It also suggests using Facebook Insights to identify what types of posts your audience shares most, then tailoring new content to match that.

Should you use industry jargon in blog posts?

It depends on your audience. If you are targeting consumers, plain language works better. For example, use air conditioning instead of HVAC for a consumer audience. If you are targeting B2B buyers or industry professionals, jargon may be exactly what they are searching for, so include both terms.

How do interviews help with blog post SEO?

The episode suggests writing a post about an upcoming interview first, then having the interviewer link back to that post. This drives traffic from people who watch the interview video. Video also helps ranking. The hosts used this approach with thebusinessmakers.com to gain keyword anchor text links back to their site.

In their words

keyword-rich domain names aren't as impactful as they used to be. And so if you can get it and it's not that long and it's really a spinoff of the company name, great, fine, do it. But I wouldn't invest too much effort into trying to get the right keyword in your domain name

Host

remove jargon from your website. I think this is kind of suspect. Industry specific. Sometimes industry specific jargon may be exactly what you need if you're targeting, if you're B2B.

Charles Lewis
Terms defined in this episode
Facebook Insights
Described in the episode as the Google Analytics of Facebook, showing who likes and shares your content and how many people had access to a given post on their wall.
keyword anchor text
A clickable link where the visible text contains a target keyword, used to pass relevance signals back to the linked page, as described when the hosts requested specific link text from thebusinessmakers.com.
trending hashtags
Hashtags actively being searched and used across social platforms; including them in a blog post title can cause the post to appear in hashtag searches on search engines, not just on Twitter.

Full transcript is being added.

Matthew Bertram, host of The Best SEO Podcast
Matthew Bertram
AI keynote speaker · Owner & CEO, EWR Digital · President, ModalPoint

Matthew Bertram is an AI keynote speaker, creator of DIG™ (Digital Information Governance), and owner and CEO of EWR Digital. He helps energy and industrial leaders win visibility in AI search (GEO and AEO), is President of ModalPoint and CMO of the Oil & Gas Global Network, hosts The Best SEO Podcast, and has authored eight books including LLM Visibility. More about Matthew Bertram.

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