10 Latest On-Page SEO Techniques

SEO SEM Tutorials, up-to-date resource on on-page SEO factors in 2017. Find out what's important and how to do it well.

When it comes to optimizing a website or blog posts, there are two seo factors that plays the big role. These two factors are Onpage optimization and Off page optimization.

Now, lets not confuse onpage SEO optimization with Onsite SEO optimization. Talking about, onpage SEO, we optimise our content for our target  keyword. This includes use of proper heading, keyword placement, content quality and many other factors. We will look into them one by one in this detailed post.

10 Onpage Optimization Techniques for Better ranking

So here is the ultimate list of 10 On-page Optimization factors you should keep in mind while optimizing your blog posts:

1. Blog Post Title (It makes user clicks + SEO advantage when you use Keyword)
2. Post Permalink Structure makes article more user-friendly
3. Meta Descriptions
4. Meta Tags
5. Body Tags (H1, H2, H3, H4, etc.)
6. Keyword Density
7. Image SEO
8. Internal Linking
9. Linking out to External Websites

Here is the final checklist which you need to follow in 2017 to make sure your content rank higher in search engine.

Keyword placement:

1. Keyword in Title
2. Keyword in Permalink
3. Keyword in first paragraph
4. Keyword in Image Alt tag
5. Tweaked Keyword in H2 or H3
6. Bold Important Keywords and related keywords
7. Italics 1-2 important Keywords
8. Outbound Link to relevant high-quality sites
9. Internal links to related articles
10. Remove all stop words from Permalink
11. Add multi-media (Video, Slides, Inforgraphic)
12. Longer the content length, better it is. Minimum: 700 words
13. Optimize image before uploading (Compress and resize)
14. Page loading time
15. Use LSI Keywords (Use SEOPressor plugin to find related Keywords)

Other things:

1. Use Meta title in less than 65 character
2. Use Meta description in less than 150 characters.
3. If using any Social SEO plugin, make sure to add image for Facebook, Twitter. (Take advantage of social graph)
4. Make sure to have social sharing buttons at the end of post or floating social sharing buttons.
5. Have related posts after blog posts to lower down bounce rate.

Things not to do:

• Not more than 1 H1 tag (Your Post title is H1 tag)
• Don’t repeat H2 and H3 Tag. Read here about heading tags SEO
• Don’t increase Keyword density by more than 1.25%

Things to focus on:

• Try to use Keyword in Post Title at beginning
• Use Long tail keywords (You can use up to 65 Character in Post title)
• If writing in evergreen niche, remove dates from the posts. (Use Date Exclusion SEO plugin)
• Content length: The longer the length of the content, better it is. Though don’t try to uselessly increase the content size.
• At the end of blog post, ask users to take action.

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