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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AHaliburton Premium
Sorry Lily, been busy; I have just read this post and it is very helpful as a new guy. Now, I have a very good idea of a few things that I was wondering about on my edit content pages. I would like to know your superhero name, as I only know of two superhero names, and that would be the Blogg Dogs, and the Queen of No Fluff. I wouldn't want to blurt out your real name for everyone to see. OH, wait this is public, oops.
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Aussiemuso Premium Plus
You gave me a good laugh thanks so much.
My friends call me Princess Lily (shhhhh)

Lily
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AHaliburton Premium
LOL, now I know three superhero names. yippee!!!
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Butch1947 Premium
Wow. Read every word. I am always been a direct person. Get my point across and leave it at that. Just like going to the store to buy something, go in, find it, pay for it and leave. In school, I always had a tough time in English, teacher said write a 500 word essay on something, didn't teach how just said write it. I really had a bad time with it. Your post here gets me a little closer to the "how". I thank you so much for that, you just don't know.
Marc
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Aussiemuso Premium Plus
You are very welcome 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
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Butch1947 Premium
Thank you
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Lizken Premium Plus
Another fantastic tutorial 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!
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Aussiemuso Premium Plus
Hi Liz, that is a good question.
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
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jghwebbrand Premium
From our perspective there is a difference between a new post and a seasoned post. A new post will have fewer links which keeps the "ranking juice" within the new post so it ranks.

After new posts age and there are other related posts added, they can be interlinked which results in more internal links..
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Aussiemuso Premium Plus
That's interesting.
Thanks.
Lily 😁🎶
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Lizken Premium Plus
got it, thanks!
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jghwebbrand Premium
You are very welcome.
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JKulk1 Premium
Excellent tips for blog writing Lily. I have been working on a rather large article around this for some time. So far it's around 6000 words. At this stage I'm thinking of using it as a free pdf offer on a landing page or pop up.
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
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Aussiemuso Premium Plus
Hi Jim, I remember a big debate on WA about this about a year ago. No one could agree, so I can only say for myself that I recently noticed I have 600 backlinks to my website and the only thing I changed was putting 2 links to a similar article from page one of Google and a Wikipedia link. They have also improved my ranking. So I don't think that Google is seeing it as spam at all.

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 😁🎶
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JKulk1 Premium
I guess the best way to find out if it works is to try it out.
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Siobhan3 Premium
This was quite helpful in giving me some ideas about how to write better. Thanks.
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Aussiemuso Premium Plus
Excellent Siobhan.
Lily 😁🎶
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