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April 29, 2016 lifestyle•tips and tricks

3 Tips for SEO you might not know

easy SEO tips for bloggers

I promise this isn’t going to be a rehashing of other SEO tips posts, because I know we’re all pretty bored of seeing the same things on different numerical lists, with the order being the only thing changed. I’m bored of them too.

But there are some that you don’t see often at all, some that I’ve only really found out about recently and, well. Yo. Despite the fact I kinda want to rank first across all search engines, I thought I’d share. Because what sort of blogger would I be if I hoarded all the good stuff to myself.

If you knew these already, fab! If you’ve got any others leave them down below so I can start making changes. If these are completely new to you, never fear!

3 LESSER KNOW SEO TIPS FOR BLOGGERS

optimise your blog photos

 

as well as the obvious ‘rename because zero people are going to search ‘IMG_1903”, you should reduce the size of your blog images so that your website loads quickly and so search engines are happy. I’m not necessarily talking reduce the dimensions of your image, but the file size. Say you’ve got some beautiful holiday snaps that are a whopping 6GB each. And you upload even 5 of those to one post. That’s 30GB of images in one post.

30 gigs.

In one post.

Not to mention sidebar images, header images, social media buttons, widgets, other posts and their images if you don’t use a read more…

That’s a lot of load time.

The average person will wait about 6 seconds for your page to load before they get bored and tab out, and the slowest things to load are almost always images. So you’ll want to be reducing those file sizes. There are some fab programs out there that do it for you, and two of my favourites/most used are tinyPNG and compressor.io. I also have a desktop app called JPEGmini if I need to reduce twice. You want to aim to have the smallest file size possible without losing quality, so that your page loads faster.

With a smaller load time, you’ll be retaining more newer readers with your content, and your bounce rate should reduce to reflect this. Faster loading images are more likely to appear in the top spots of website image searches… so even though it’ll add some time to your post writing, it’s well worth it.

write longer posts 

ah, a picture is worth 1000 words. True, but longer content generally does better in the online world. Unless it’s tweets, facebook posts or G+ headlines, then it’s better to stay short and snappy. The ideal blog post length is about 1600 words, according to buffer, which takes about 7 minutes to read. Buffer also suggested if the post is image heavy it takes the written requirement down to about 1000 words. If you’re writing in an area that is very competitive, you might want to bump that up to 2000.

In all honesty, this kind of depends on the content – I wouldn’t expect a product review to be 1600words unless it was really in depth, but I would also feel shortchanged at a couple of sparse paragraphs. If I wanted to read the press release I would reread that email. It’s kind of proven that longer content generally invokes more of a reaction in a reader, considering they’re thinking about what they’re reading, and are therefore more likely to share – and social shares show that your content is worth knowing about, which helps your SEO.

google+ is actually great for social sharing

wait what g+ isn’t dead? Nope, it isn’t and Google does like to play favourites. Social status and SEO are not mutually exclusive, despite what some might still say, and content that is shared is content that is noticed. And SEO is all about getting noticed. If you share a post on G+ and it gets a rush of +1’s, you’re showing the internet that ‘hey, this post here is really relatable, useful and valuable’.  Google also indexes things put on G+ quickly, sometimes faster than content shared on Twitter and Facebook, because it owns G+ and knows the coding.

While GFC may very well be dead and gone, G+ is not.

I hope that you’ll find this somewhat helpful! These 3 things seemed to be the ones that hardly come up on others posts about SEO best practices, and it’s a good idea to start getting to grips with it all if you haven’t already. It’s also wise to keep tabs on what’s happening in the world of SEO from time to time, to see what’s changed or now considered to be bad practice.

If you have any extra info or suggestions don’t forget to share them 😉

[read more SEO: why you should learn SEO]

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  1. Colli Stars says

    April 29, 2016 at 12:56 pm

    I really like G+, but I don't think that GFC is dead already!Great tipps, bloggers should really be interested in SEO!xoxo, Collitobeyoutiful

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  2. Kathryn O'Connor says

    April 29, 2016 at 1:30 pm

    I'm either really technology challenged or just super slow but I had now idea the file size of photos effected the loading time… But now I think about it, it does make sense. Duh.I need to get to grips with how to work Google+ too as I've heard before it does help and brings in quite a bit of traffic! Great post gal. xKathryn | Chapters of Kat

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  3. Saara Sofia says

    April 29, 2016 at 2:43 pm

    Such a great post! I don't really use G+ just because I don't have anybody in my circles and I don't know where to start… But I'll take a deeper look and try to figure it out! I need to start resizing my images as well, I know the file sizes are huge at the moment.www.saarasofia.com

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  4. Daniel Poon says

    April 29, 2016 at 5:09 pm

    I'll probably use more google+ now!Daniel x The Daniel Originals | Instagram: danielpoonvignezNew Post: Oversized grey coat for spring

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  5. Martha Edwards says

    April 29, 2016 at 5:47 pm

    You mentioned compressing images in a previous post, and it has been a gamechanger for me. Such great tips in general! xMartha Jane | http://www.marthajanemusic.com

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  6. EmsAlice says

    April 29, 2016 at 7:29 pm

    Love these tips – I need to start remembering to rename my images as well as changing the alt tag on them but I am still learning 🙂 xoEmily | emsalice.com

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  7. Carolina Pinglo says

    April 29, 2016 at 9:25 pm

    loving these tips! super helpful post! http://www.carolinapinglo.com/

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  8. The Makeup Aficionado says

    April 29, 2016 at 9:44 pm

    Awesome post! xwww.themakeupaficionado.com

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  9. TAPEPARADE says

    April 30, 2016 at 10:05 am

    Thanks Fii for helping SEO retard face over here (that's me) out! My pictures are all like 500GB big :S xxxx

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  10. Lottie things says

    April 30, 2016 at 11:50 am

    Thank you so much. I find all this SEO stuff really confusing and although I have Yoast installed and I use it for every post, I am not seeing much difference as to when I didn't use it! What size would you say you should change your images too, i am waiting on actually getting a good camera so for now I am only using an IPhone, but I find my images sometimes come out rubbish! And I have no idea how to make them better. Please help! Lottiethings.com Charlotte xx

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    • Fii Cridland says

      April 30, 2016 at 11:54 am

      I'd say try and get your images to under 1GB each, preferably as small as possible in file size (rather than dimensions) so that your page loads quickly. It's def not about the camera you're using though – and practice is the thing that I and most people would suggest! :)xo

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  11. Meg Siobhan says

    April 30, 2016 at 12:16 pm

    I should probably use Google+ more as I did when I first started my blog, but then kind of…stopped. These are some great tips that I should most definitely try and take on board!Meg | A Little Twist Of…

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  12. Megan Elizabeth says

    May 28, 2016 at 12:38 pm

    Ooh thank you for this post! I have been wanting to find out more about SEO and I have! I always use Google+ for sharing my blog posts xxwww.itsmeganelizabeth.blogspot.co.uk

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