Is your page not getting ranked well? (9)

So where is your keyword? Keyword placement is one of the keys I discovered that is important in creating SEO friendly content.

I touched on the subject before. You know your keyword needs to be in the title, sub title, and in the first paragraph. Your keyword is sprinkled in the body of your article. Finally, the keyword appears at the end of your article.

That makes for some good SEO friendly content.

Now I have another little secret for making SEO friendly content. I discovered an SEO friendly page has to have “h” tags. You know, h1, h2, h3, etc.

Have I completely confused you? What the heck is an “h” tag. Well, it’s no great mystery. The “h” stand for “heading.”

H1 is used to make a sub title look really big. H2 makes a heading look a bit smaller. H3 is even smaller. Search engines reward you when you use “h” tags.

How? For more information, here is the link to my post on “h” tags;
https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/grampamike/blog/h2-what-the-blazes-is-h2

I like to use h2 for sub titles. I use h3 for headings to each of the sections within my article. I don’t have much use for the h1 tags because it appears too big on my web page.

Okay, you have gotten this far. By now, you should be thinking, “that’s way too much to remember.” How is a person supposed to remember all this SEO stuff? Well, read on and I will tell you how I remember most of these technicalities.



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TheAnswerGal Premium
Wow! Thank you Grampa Mike. That was a lot of really great training. I see that my website needs quite a bit of tweaking. I think I had better add the Yoast SEO plugin to help me get it all right. Does this replace the All In One SEO that Kyle had us install in the training or do the two SEO plugins work together?
Linda
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grampamike Premium
I removed All in One because the two plug ins may conflict. Both are designed to insert meta tags into the HTML code. For my purposes, I thought it best to use Yoast only. All in One is great for a novice though. Just don't run both at the same time.
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TheAnswerGal Premium
Thank you GrampaMike!
Linda
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Funkydunc208 Premium
Hi Grandpa Mike,
That is one great piece of training. Your writing style is so easy to read. I agree wholeheartedly about Yoast SEO. I was using All-In-One but since changing to Yoast, I have gone through my website and worked to get those green buttons shining. I find it so helpful when I am writing a new post or review page.
Loved it. (never got bored once)

Duncan
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grampamike Premium
I was having trouble remembering all the SEO stuff when composing an article. Yoast is a real blessing. To your success!
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TheOldSilly Premium
Nicely done training. I'm a 60s Boomer/Hippie guy like you so I "grok" your thinking and writing style, lol. I do almost all of the things you recommend, but the linking images (in addition to having alt tags for them) was new to me, and it makes a lot of sense, thanks. I also like your simplistic yet elegant "formula" for writing a natural sounding article.

My nice site is less than a year old, so not as "trusted" as yours, but it is already getting pages and articles that show up front and center on Google searches - and I credit that to having been schooled well on SEO practices. This training adds even more polish, and is much appreciated.
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grampamike Premium
Groovy, man.

There are a lot of folks who don't know about the linking technique. I thought I had better get that information out there. One requirement for using this technique; don't beat my rank!

Later man. Peace.
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JanK88 Premium
Hi Grampamike, thanks for such great training.

By the way, when you mentioned "short descriptions which are less than 300 words. Normally, about 150 words" at lesson 2, is it referring to the description at the All-in-One SEO description of the post?
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grampamike Premium
I'm really happy you enjoyed the tutorial.

What I was referring to in lesson 2 was the text in the article I'm writing. It has nothing to do with meta tags.

I'm running a sweepstakes website and my descriptions are less than 150 words. I started looking up those keywords and found them ranking in the top 5 in Google searches. So word count may be a relative thing.

Yoast really scolds me for writing less than the minimum 300 words though.
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JanK88 Premium
Thanks, GrampaMike! Really enjoyed this 10-lesson training and learned so much. Appreciate your kind effort.
~Jan
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grampamike Premium
I'm really glad to help. I love supporting the WA community. Here's to your success!
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Judy-B Premium
Thanks for all the great information. I will bookmark for further study. :)
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I'm very pleased to have helped. To your success!
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