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Top 10 SEO Articles of 2015 - DailyBlogTips

Top 10 SEO Articles of 2015 - DailyBlogTips


Top 10 SEO Articles of 2015

Posted: 19 Mar 2016 08:44 AM PDT

There have been thousands of articles published on SEO over the past 12 months. Many I've read, some I've written and a few I've bookmarked for safekeeping. Here is a list of my 10 favourites from 2015:

1. 5 SEO Myths to Forget in 2015

All the way back in January 2015, Kristine Schachinger wrote an article on Search Engine Watch to put an end to six myths that some junior or less-informed SEOs may have believed were true.

In her article, Kristine gave an idea of the cost of SEO, the importance of our Google ranking and put to bed any claims that SEO is dead, among other topics.

2. Improve your local SEO with these citation essentials

Back in February, Darren Shaw wrote a detailed article for Wordtracker on improving your local SEO to help potential customers find you or your client's business in the local neighbourhood.

Darren goes on to explain the importance of listing all of your current contact information, phone numbers and locations to help Google better understand where the business is located. As well as this, the blog post has lots of information on local citations.

3. 4 Technical SEO Issues That Often Go Unnoticed

Daniel Bianchini published this insightful piece on State of Digital back in May, going into some less-discussed aspects of SEO.

In his post, Daniel goes into good detail about Redirect Chains, Layered Navigation, Robots.txt and Schema Mark-Up and their importance to your website.

4. Announcing the Web Developer’s SEO Cheat Sheet 3.0

Cyrus Shepard's SEO cheat sheet also published in May remains printed and pinned to my note board for being such a simple but genius piece of work.

The information is short and sweet, making it easy to digest. This cheat sheet serves as a great checklist when you take a new SEO client on board.

5. The Periodic Table Of SEO Success Factors: 2015 Edition

Danny Sullivan's periodic table of SEO from June makes it into my list for being an awesome piece of linkbait as much as anything else. It's a pretty clever adaptation of the original periodic table, don't you think?

The article on Search Engine Land explains that it was published to help "focus on the fundamentals needed to achieve success with search engine optimisation" and that "the table is designed to broadly guide those new to or experienced with SEO into general areas of importance."

6. The Top 5 Ranking Factors for 2015: How Strong is Your Hand?

Marcus Tober published the exciting Searchmetrics Ranking Factors study back in July this year. With the mass data they have to analyse I recommend you download the Whitepaper from their website to give you a greater understanding of what the important ranking factors in Google.

The top five are:
1. Relevant, holistic content is more important than ever
2. User experience – beyond the desktop
3. Keywords are becoming increasingly obsolete
4. Backlinks – correlations are decreasing
5. Social signals – a bonus for organic rankings

Data is from the US and as they often get Google updates before the United Kingdom and Europe, it's an opportunity to get ahead of the game.

7. 11 Factors That Could Be Killing Your Rankings

Time for a bit of self-promotion. Back in August I published an article explaining lots of things you may be doing to your website that are potentially killing your Google rankings that you may not be aware of.

This has been the most shared article on Receptional.com in 2015, so I like to think my name was worthy of being included in this list.

8. Top 5 Google SEO Performance Indicators

SEMRush have a wealth of great content on their blog and my favourite SEO-related post from 2015 came from Fili Wiese in September.

Fili went into great detail about page download speed, indexed pages and structured data among other information to help Google better understand your website.

9. International SEO: How to Fix & Prevent Duplicate Content Issues

In November, Shane Barker published a guide on Search Engine People to help fix and prevent any duplicate issues SEOs may have when it comes to international SEO.

Aside from an issue with the language barrier which could cause duplicate content issues in Google, Shane produced an in-depth guide to help with managing multilingual versions of your website and targeting specific countries and more.

10. SEO Campaign Case Study: 1,117 Social Shares and 15% More Organic Traffic

Brian Dean updated his SEO campaign case study recently so I couldn't resist included it in this piece.

All of Backlinko's blog posts are flagship content and must read pieces but this one falls into the SEO category. Brian's case study goes into detail about how he helped increase one client's traffic by 15% in only two weeks, explained in a way you can recreate for yourself or your clients.

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6 Effective Tips on Blog Writing - DailyBlogTips

6 Effective Tips on Blog Writing - DailyBlogTips


6 Effective Tips on Blog Writing

Posted: 18 Mar 2016 06:59 AM PDT

You can’t be good at blog writing without making efforts.

However, there are many useful tips that might help you improve your writing to keep your audience interested and, therefore, achieve success in a blogging niche. To build authority online, your content should be interesting, unique, and reliable. Thus, it’s important to do research and post up-to-date information that suits your readers’ needs. To become a better blogger, you’re welcome to pay attention to the following tips on blog writing.

Be an Expert of Your Niche

To be helpful for you audience, you need to be an expert in your niche. If you know how to do research to find handy tips, that’s great. If you have an experience, that’s even better. Obviously, it’s impossible to build an authority online in one day, so you need to keep developing your skills, sharing tips, and growing your audience. No matter what you are writing about, just know your theme from A to Z.

Write For Your Audience

A proficient blogger would agree that your readers first. To become a guru, you need to think about your audience: analyze their preferences and predict their expectations, find out what they are interested in, and write for them! Read their comments, communicate with them, and create other topics relevant to their queries.

Avoid Making Mistakes

The better you write, the more readers you have. A blogger can’t make spelling, grammar, or stylistic mistakes, as it’s important to show your expertise and produce high-quality content only. Although all people make mistakes, you’d better learn how to avoid doing it in the future: use tools and apps to proofread the text, ask for the help, or give it a time. All in all, do your best to craft papers on a high level.

Enhance Readability

Even if your text is full of actionable tips, nobody will read it to the end if your writing is boring. With all the information we have on the web, it’s important to write short but not complicated sentences to be read. To keep your audience, remember that you need to enhance readability: use short sentences, divide your text into chunks, write subheadings and bullet lists. If your text is easy to read, the number of your readers will be growing.

Add Visuals to Capture Interest

As people perceive visual information better, it’s important to include media blocks to your article. No matter what the theme is, just find a relevant picture (or craft it) and add it. If you’re good at design, do your best to make an infographic that is both useful and interesting. There is no need to write a book to interest your audience, just shift the textual and visual information.

Follow-up Communication is a Must

Good blog writing is not just about crafting the text. It’s about attracting readers, being useful, and growing your community. All in all, it’s not enough to post an article and become a guru. To learn something new and keep developing, you need to communicate with your audience. Cause a buzz and reply to every single comment you get. Listen to your readers and learn from them. It’s a key to success, indeed.

The Bottom Line

Being a modern blogger means analyzing your niche, reading a lot, writing day in and day out, boosting inspiration, and perceiving a lot of information daily. It’s hard to stay focused and inspired with all these things in mind. Thus, you should have a plan how to write a media-savvy blog post to save both time and energy. The above-mentioned tips can help you improve your blog writing and get an insight on successful blogging.

Give it a try!

Emily Johnson is a writer who loves to share her views and experience. She runs OmniPapers blog that is aimed at giving tips and pieces of advice for students and all learners. To keep in touch with Emily, drop her a line at emily.johnson@omnipapers.com

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Don’t have a terms of service or privacy policy yet? Check out this tool!

Posted: 17 Mar 2016 08:25 AM PDT

As you probably know it’s very important to have essential legal policies available on your website. This includes privacy policy, terms of service and a refund policy in case you sell any products or offer services online.

This is so important that some advertising networks, like Google AdSense, will require its publishers to have an easily accessible privacy policy, or else their accounts will get suspended.

It might sound complicated, so how do you go about getting one? Hiring a lawyer is the first option you probably think of, but it’s quite expensive to hire one especially if you’re just starting out or have a website that doesn’t bring you any money yet.

Is there an alternative? Yes. I recently came across WebsitePolicies.com and found it to be a pretty interesting and more importantly useful tool. In short they help you create all necessary essential legal policies such as:

1. Privacy policy
2. Terms of service policy
3. Refund policy

Here’s how it works: Once you choose the policy you need, you’ll go through a very simple questionnaire where you provide some details about your website and how you operate it. It looks like this:

website-policy

Once they have all the details about your website and/or business, they will automatically create a customized policy to reflect and cover all aspects of how you run your website. This is by far the best feature of this tool – a custom tailored policy created specifically for you. Unlike generic templates you may find elsewhere this policy will cover all aspects of your website and business.

And here’s an SEO tip you might not be aware of: having privacy policy and terms of service not only increases the number of pages on your website, but also influences how Google sees it, and improves your rankings and authority!

Did I mention that the service is free for personal use? You can use it for your personal websites without having to pay anything! Policies for commercial websites require a small payment but you will receive a wide range of additional disclosures that cover a variety of commercial related aspects of your website. And of course it’s just a fraction of what a lawyer would charge you.

Quite a useful tool to have, so check it out.

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