Hello
Friends, in this post we will discuss what are the characteristics of a Quality
Blog post. Quality content is very important in blogging and SEO. You might
have heard it a zillion times that CONTENT IS KING. But the big question
is still unanswered how to write a quality post. In this post we will try to
find out the answer for the same. Quality articles can
increase the readership of your blog and you could drive plenty of Search
Engine traffic to your blog as well. If you are a serious blogger then you
should assure the quality of your blog post before publishing it. A good
written article can help you in many ways. You can get voluntary backlinks from
many websites, if you write a content that is worth linking to. By following a
systematic approach you can maintain the quality of your blog posts/articles.
We shall explore those later in this article.
As
we all know content is the soul of an article. If you want to write a quality
post you need to take care of every single thing related to it. Quality content
is something which is optimized for your readers as well as the search engines.
Don't ever try to put extra efforts and over optimize your content for Search
engines, because the algorithms like Google Penguin and
Panda could penalize you. By extra efforts I mean black hat SEO tricks, hidden texts, paid links etc.
These are bad SEO practices and you may be excluded from being indexed among
the search results. For writing quality content you need to take care of a few
things such as the size of content, content niche, keywords,
Images, internal links, external links etc. Now we shall discuss these things
in detail so that you could get an idea of what I am saying.
How To Write Quality Content:
Content
Size:
Content
Size is measured by the number of words it contains. It is hard to say what the
ideal size of an article is because it varies from blog to blog. Some blogs
write for breaking news and other information that could not be elaborated, on
the contrary some blogs write for tutorials, tips/tricks and reviews (like we
do) which takes comparatively higher number of words to explain everything. As
per some SEO
experts an ideal blog post
length should be at least 400+ words but as I said it totally depends upon the
blog niche, so you need to find out what is the ideal post length that you need
to write. I try to write 400-800 words articles for my blog. But sometimes it
is not possible to write even 400 words. In that case, do not try to repeat the
lines to increase the post size. It does not look good and readers hate it, so
as the search engines.
Keywords
density
Keywords are those few words around which your
article revolves. You need to maintain a healthy keyword density in your article. 2-3% keyword density is considered a good one. You
can mention these keywords anywhere in the article. But it is
recommended to use most of them in the post title and the introductory
paragraph. But do not over stuff keywords in your articles; it is not considered
a good SEO practice.
Language
Spellings, Grammar and
punctuation are very
important to write a quality articles. Your online users and search engines
like the content which is written in proper English. You need to take care of
the Grammar and spells as well. I recommend you to write your articles in the
Word processing software like Microsoft word and enable spell & grammar
check so that it could warn you when you mistakenly used wrong spells or
grammar.
Images
Images
are used to explain the article content. It depends upon the nature of an
article that how many images are to be posted along with it. Like in the
tutorials you need to write big articles and at the same time you need to post
more images than in simple articles. It does not only depend upon the number of
images you use in your articles but it also depend how optimized your images
are. Images without Alt and title tags are useless. You need to optimize your
article images as well. Image title tag will explain the content to your online
readers and alt tag will explain it to the search engine robots.
Internal
linking
Internal
linking is another factor that helps you write a quality article. Don't let
your user search for more explanations outside your blog. Mention internal
links to your old articles to explain your new articles in a better way.
Internal linking is also important in SEO optimization and to get better Google Rank.
External
links
External
links are the
links referring to some
other website or blog outside your blog. It is not recommended to include too
many external links in your blog. It is not considered good for SEO as well
because it will increase the bounce rate of blog. Try to mention external links
only in the guest posts. If it is required to add external links in your
articles other than the guest articles mark those external links nofollow, so that it
could not result in page rank sculpting.
I
hope by following these few but very important points you can assure the
quality of your articles. To summarize all in a few words, I would say that
Ideal/Quality content should be user friendly and optimized for the search
engines as well. If you think there is something left untold in this article,
you can comment here. I will update it in this article.
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