11 easy-to-follow tips to optimize your blog posts for SEO

If you want your blog posts to get search traffic, optimize them for SEO.

But that doesn’t mean you have to shoehorn in as many keywords as possible. Keyword stuffing no longer works.

How do you optimize your content to be search-friendly? You will learn how in this post.

If no one is searching for your keywords, you often can’t get search traffic.

So before you do anything content optimization, you first need to make sure you are targeting topics that people are searching for.

Here’s how to find these topics:

1. Go to Ahrefs’ Keywords Explorer
2. Enter one or more relevant keywords
3. Go to the Corresponding terms report
4. Adjust the tab Questions

Go through the list and select the ones that are relevant to your site.

Google wants to serve its users with the most relevant content. It does this by understanding why a searcher is looking for a specific topic. This is known as search intent.

If you want to rank higher on Google, you will need to match search intent.

To identify search intent, you’ll want to analyze the three C’s by looking at the top-ranking pages for your target keyword:

• Content type – Are they blog posts, product pages, landing pages or something else?
• Content format – Are they tutorials, lists, how-to guides, recipes, free tools, or something else?
• Content corner – Is there a dominant selling point, such as low prices or how easy it is?

For example, let...