I was meeting with a client the other day and was asked what are the most important things to consider when writing a blog post. There are two ways to look at that depending on whether you are trying to write a great post that is interesting for your reader, or simply righting for the purposes of SEO…huh, you actually do that? Hopefully each post you make meets both criteria; being enjoyable for your reader and also help you or a client with their SEO. At least that is my goal when blogging…I certainly don’t do it just because I love to type. So in answer to that questions, I have posted below.

Top Tips For Blog Posting and Reasons to Back Up Your Blog:

1. Most importantly make sure your post is worth reading. You want you readers to enjoy reading your posts and find them helpful so they’ll return and read you again.

2. Make sure your posts are related to the subject of your website or blog. If you have a website about money management or household budgeting software, then make sure to talk about that subject every now an then in your posts.

3. To make your posts SEO friendly make sure to include your main target keyword for the post in the title if at all possible. The title of your post is the most important piece of data to a crawler and hopefully it will help serve as link bait for other bloggers.

4. Make sure to use that main keyword and few others you are targeting in the content of your post and link those keywords up to another relevant page in your site or to a client’s site.

5. Try to make the post at least 400 words long…engines love content.

6. Try to use some kind of media in your post…either a picture or a video to make it more visually stimulating.

7. Make sure your content is unique, don’t copy it from your site or others.

8. Present solutions to your customers problems to help them love you.

9. Make sure to back up your blog. Not just blowing smoke here. If you have ever lost your blog content, it’s devastating. I’m actually running a full back up right now myself while I’m typing this. You can do it manually or use a company like Bloggled.

10. Last and not least, post regularly…not occasionally like me. Try to post 5 times a week.

There you have it. Hopefully these tips help you improve your blogging and helps your customer enjoy reading you more.