1. Make use of Udemy
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| You can use Udemy to find out which topics people are more than just a passive interest in. You can also use Udemy’s course structure to know how to structure your content. |
2. Increase time spent on page using ‘buckets brigade’
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| Applying ‘buckets brigade’ in SEO means using words or phrases that peak readers interest at points where they may lose interest. |
3. Latent semantic indexing
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| Google’s AI produces search results based on the keywords and words that are associated with the keyword. Make use of both. |
4. Come up with your own Keywords
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 If a keyword or phrase originates from you, there’s a good chance you will rank first when that word is searched. |
5. Find phrases people use in forums
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| If a phrase comes up several times in a forum, there’s a good chance people have been searching it on Google too. |
6. Use call to actions for more shares
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| While putting social media buttons on your page works too, adding a call to action that tells the users to share works even better. |
7. Use the CTR magnet method
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| This method involves finding Adwords ads related to your topic and using words that constantly appear in these ads in your titles and descriptions. |
8. Use Amazon to get traffic for e-commerce site
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 When you search a keyword on Amazon, it will give you suggestion with longer phrases. These phrases can be used as long tail keywords. |
9. Add Title Tag Modifiers
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| Title tag modifiers are words that when added to your title tag can improve your ranking. These include words and phrases such as how to, best, review, guide, fast, 2017 (the current year), easy, simple etc. |
10. Use the APP method to increase time on page
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| The APP method is a way of structuring your content to entice readers to keep reading. APP stands for Agree, Promise and Preview. |
11. Use ‘Searches related to’ to get LSI keywords
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| At the bottom of your Google search results, you will find the ‘searches related to’ section. You can use the displayed searches as LSI keywords. |
12. Use Buzzfeed’s title formulas
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| Buzzfeed’s titles may be considered click bait by others but they get a lot of traffic. Make your titles a little more like theirs. |
13. Use Keyworddit to get keywords
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| Keyworddit is a tool that helps you to find out the words and phrases people use when discussing a particular topic on Reddit. |
14. Break up your text
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| Use quote boxes, sidebar callouts, section banners and other techniques to break up walls of text and make your content more readable. |
15. Use shorter URLs
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| There has been some correlation seen in the length of URLs and the click through rate and rankings. |
16. Work on your title tag
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 Certain title tags appeal more to users and Google compared to others. Having a number in the title tag or using words such as ‘Shocking’ helps. |
17. Use Bloomberry to find long tail keywords
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| Bloomberry is a tool that will find long tail keywords for you depending on the topic you’re searching. |
