9. Check Spelling and Grammar
You have probably heard this too many times but it is worth repeating. No one enjoys reading a post that is full of spelling and grammar mistakes, it is hard to read and annoying.
Your goal is to want people to come to you as an authority site, make it such a pleasure that they keep coming back often.
Make use of free tools such as Grammarly and Yoast, they can be your best friends.
10. Add 3 External and 7 Internal links
Links are your highway to gaining more traffic. So, it is crucial that you take the time to include a wiki link and two other external links to those top articles that you used for reference on Google's first page.
7 Internal links will keep people on your website for longer and will help you rank higher because you are offering quality knowledge and Google takes note of how long people stay on your website reading and their click-through rate (this all shows in your bounce rate.)
11. Add Optimized Images, Graphs and Videos
We are all visual beings and some of us prefer to learn through video. 3 – 4 small images in a 1500-word post will break up the text nicely. You can even create a banner to encourage them to read a post on joining Wealthy Affiliate.
A graph as an illustration really helps or screenshots to highlight a point or a video specific to the problem can be perfect. All this is noticed by Google and affects your ranking.
Make sure you condense or reduce your images for fast loading. You can do this for free with BeFunky, try to resize them to about 1000 x 250px around 75kb.
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Lily
Marc
I'm like you so I too found it hard to write more than 500 words but over time I've improved. I've found that breaking the points down into headings and then writing concisely for each section really creates a 1500 word post very quickly.
Get stuck in and let me know how you go.
Lily
Just a question though, why so many internal links? As every time Jay gives a class, he says that just using one internal link and 1 external link is enough? I am a little confused now. Usually I do use more than 1 internal link though, but hardly 7.
Thanks!
When you think of your website content it is important to understand that you are trying to keep people on your website for longer and you can do this by giving them relevant information in your other posts.
i.e. a post about marketing might talk about creating an email list, you would then have an internal link to a post about an autoresponder.
This builds a network of links between your posts which tells Google that people see you as an authority in your niche. So it doesn't really matter how many internal links you put in, it's a personal choice. It won't harm your website.
Lily
After new posts age and there are other related posts added, they can be interlinked which results in more internal links..
The only question I have is around the amount of external and internal links, I'd be afraid that to many could be seem as scam. I only add more than one external link unless the article is a review. Am I wrong in doing this. Jim
I also add as many relevant internal links as I can, around 7 and when I look on my flowchart in GA people are clicking through.
Lily 😁🎶
