Ensure Each Page is Targeting a Specific Keyword

A specific keyword is a title or phrase that has a high traffic potential.

If you want to get more organic traffic, always target meaningful keywords from your page title.

Make Sure Your Page isn’t Ranking in the Top 3 for its Target Keywords

Minor updates are usually fine. But generally speaking, if you’re already ranking in the top positions, you probably don’t want to do a full rewrite and lose those rankings.

To locate the pages that aren’t ranking in the top 3 positions, simply use Google Search Console.

Republish Your Post and Submit for Indexing

If you’re exploring a Content Management System (CMS) like WordPress, set your updated/published date as the current date, and hit the Update button.

Once you’re done setting up your date, resubmit your post URL in the GSC and manually request re-indexing.

Conclusion

Google pays close attention to how often you produce content, and also how often you update your content. Now, everybody gets the former but the latter seems to elude everybody.

When there’s no new content on your site, traffic starts declining. Every year or every month, you see the organic traffic reducing. But when you continue to write more content, the traffic either stabilizes or goes up, depending on your content’s quality.



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FKelso Premium Plus
So, are you saying that after making all the changes you want, you republish, just as if it were new content?

I've done a few updates on content, thanks to the new AIO SEO plugin. The SEO ratings this plugin gives are most helpful. If your SEO rating is too low, these seem to me to be the ones to update.

That plugin has helped me improve my rankings by working to make sure I've made all the changes the plugin recommends.
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Israel17 Premium
That's a remarkable observation, FKelso! Using the new AIO SEO pack plugin has helped me and a lot of people out there fix many SEO issues. Special thanks indeed!

Israel Olatunji
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jd500 Premium
Thank you, Israel, for reminding me to request indexing after I published my post. I always forgot to do it.
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Israel17 Premium
Yeah, there was a time when Google suspended the "Request indexing" feature. Good to know this feature has now been restored fully. Go ahead and request indexing immediately after hitting the Publish button.

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lesabre Premium
Hi Israel, thank you for this training. I think I will be putting it to use as of today.

All the best,

Michael
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Israel17 Premium
Terrific, Michael! Putting this into action is the only guarantee that you'll get results from your regular content marketing efforts.

Israel Olatunji
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Jenny28 Premium
Thanks for this Israel. It’s a tough balance between writing new posts and updating old ones. I have been in the process of updating my old posts, and I have seen the rewards. More traffic and higher rankings.
Your tips are great.
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Israel17 Premium
Correct, Jenny! It'can be very challenging to balance up between hitting the Publish button for new content and hitting the Update button for old posts. But doing it the right way will pull tons of organic traffic. Google loves it, I bet!

Israel Olatunji
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baughsten Premium Plus
Excellent post. I learn something everytime I read your blog.
Thanks for sharing..
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Israel17 Premium
Thanks for the compliments, baughsten! Much excited! Glad you found my today's SEO training handy!

Israel Olatunji
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