Tag Archives: SEO

A blogger can spend hours writing a post, but without taking on the duties of a content manager, how many people will actually see it?

Many of us have noticed a WordPress field for images labeled alt-text. I suspect the majority don’t know what it means.

For recipe bloggers, it's not just instructions. Many like to tell stories behind those creations, even if readers don't want to hear them.

For search engine optimization, some problems could keep blogs from ranking higher with search engines. Should passive voice be one of them?

One of the things I use the WordPress Yoast SEO plugin is to make sure I reach its preferred word count. But did that count just change?

If you blog long enough, you'll begin receiving guest post solicitations from those hoping you'll allow them to contribute to your site.

Subheadings can be a valuable cool for bloggers for two key reasons. If you write long posts, you should definitely use them.

Yoast, a popular plugin to help bloggers build SEO, highly recommends using transition words when you write your posts. But what are they?

Would you say blogging changed a lot of the last decade or remained largely the same? Here's the biggest change I've seen and one constant.

If there's one kind of spam I receive as a blogger as often as guest post queries, it would have to be link insertion requests.

If you receive link requests in which someone asks you to add a link to their site to one of your existing posts, here's why they're asking.

Once upon a time, bloggers could use an unfortunate practice called keyword stuffing to improve their blog's search rankings. Yes,...

In the world of blogging, a broken link can hurt your SEO, so it's important that bloggers make sure to look for links that may no longer work.

So you want to increase your blog traffic? Should you focus more of your attention on your social media accounts or SEO efforts?

Search Engine Optimization tool Yoast SEO will celebrate its first decade of helping bloggers get better search engine results in April.

WordPress gives you several permalink structure options when you're setting up your blog...but which is the best choice to select?