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Last month I reached 527k impressions on my business's blog. Here's how.

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Having a blog post is super important for a business. πŸ‘‡

Writing blog posts allows you to target specific keywords and phrases related to your business or industry.

By regularly updating your blog with new posts, you provide search engines with more reasons to index your website and display it in search results. This will lead to increased organic traffic to your site. πŸ‘€

As your blog gains traction and more search visibility, it can become a valuable source of new potential customers or clients. πŸ“ˆ

Publishing informative and high-quality blog posts positions your business as an authority in your field.

When people see you consistently sharing valuable insights, they are more likely to trust your expertise, which can lead to higher conversion rates and customer loyalty.

Here are some tips from my SEO specialist

Pick your niche and write blog posts

  • The more you write about travel-related stuff, the more Google looks at you as the expert in the field and tries to rank your blogs higher.

Keyword research

  • Based on how well-established your website is, you need to choose easy, medium, or hard keywords to rank. For starters, it is better to focus on easy ones because it is easier to rank. However, you need to make sure your keyword has "search volume" - if nobody searches for it, there is no point in ranking higher.
  • It is also important to look for keywords that aren't taken up by sponsored pages on top of a search engine's page.

keyword difficulty

H1 title and meta description

  • ....are important for getting clicks because these are the tags users see on search results. Optimizing them with keywords and "clickbait" words can increase CTR.

Tip: words such as "top," " best," and "2023" in the title can have a great impact on visibility

Content is king!

  • The content itself is really important. Your blog posts will rank higher if it is actually helpful and relevant to the user.

Good content = lower bounce rate, more engagement time = higher rank

Hope these will come in handy, Indie Hackers

on August 1, 2023
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    I think how much good content you have, without backlinks, won't reach the right audience. Rather than using Haro and other sites, engaging with website owners and writers is the way to bring the backlinks which support the blog.

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      While you do have a point, we've been doing just fine without any backlinks. The only backlinks we get are from PR getting Ratepunk mentioned in various articles, and that's not even remotely connected to the blog.

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    Thank you for this, I will share this with my team. I believe it will help us rank better

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      Happy to help! Let me know if you see an improvement.

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    Hi, thanks for your contribution. I am new here and just looking around. Trying to get a good overview of how I could best get started if I start a business. What tools could I fall back on and so on.
    A blog would be a good thing for me to include on the site. Thanks for the helpful tips. However, I have one question about keyword research.
    How do I know what category to put the words in? If it's easy, then that's on fewer websites. Do I understand this correctly?

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      I'm glad you found the tips helpful. When categorizing keywords by difficulty, you're essentially assessing the level of competition for each keyword. Easy keywords are those with lower competition, meaning fewer websites are currently targeting them, making it easier for you to rank higher for those terms. Medium-difficulty keywords have moderate competition, while hard keywords are highly competitive and may require more effort to rank well.

      You can use keyword research tools like Google Keyword Planner, SEMrush, or Moz Keyword Explorer to get insights into the search volume and competition levels for specific keywords. Look for keywords with a decent search volume that are relevant to your content, and try to start with the easier ones as you build your blog's authority. Over time, as your blog gains traction and authority, you can gradually target more competitive keywords.

      Hope this helps

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        That is great. Thank you!