Of course content is king (no one will disagree with it) but your king is useless except peoples know he exist. You are in grave trouble if your prospective readers can’t find your super charge content in Google and other major search engines. It is no big secret that majority of internet users starts their day with Google, that’s how they find all the information they need.

Don’t get me wrong here, but you should write your content from humans point of view rather search crawler’s. I know few people who write exclusively for search spiders (stuffing their contents with too many keywords) and end up with massy, unclear and boring content. But you can save your self from such blunders if you are aware of some basic SEO principles. You can tweak your contents without sacrifying quality and users reading experience. Here are such tweaks that will make your content search engine friendly as well as user friendly.

Use keywords that readers search for:
Lets see if you were writing this article which of this 2 title you would use?
1) How to write search engine friendly article? Or 2) how to write search engine friendly contents?From readers point of view both titles are probably the same but if you picked 2^nd title your chance of receiving search engine traffic is higher because the term “content” is searched 49 times more then articles.

Focus on one topic:
It can’t be batter then that if you can write about several topics in one article and rank high on Google SERP for all of those topics. But that happens once in a blue moon. So focus on one topic at a time this will ensure that you are using keywords with consistency.

Use your important keywords in title:
Your title is perhaps the most important factor on search engine algorithm. Because Blogger and Wordpress (if you are using custom permalink structure) include your title text in URL. And Google use it in search engine result pages. And keyword reach title gives hint to your prospective reader what they can expect from your article. And it indirectly suggest an anchor text to other who might want to link back to your post.

Use keywords in Opening paragraph:
Your opening paragraph is crucial from reader’s and search crawler’s point of view. Well described opening paragraph will encourage your visitor to read further. And just like Title your 1^st paragraph is very important from SEO point of view because Google use it as description of your content and includes it in SERPs under Title (usually first 50 words of your opening paragraph).

Alt and Title tags:
Whenever using image in your post you must include title and alt attributes search engine use it identify images and for keyword density process

These are my 5 ingredients for SEO what is your recipe for SEO

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