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.
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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. You should also learn how to optimize your blog post title.
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. You should try Google Analytics for keyword research best suited for your article.
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. You should learn how to optimize images.
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. Check out the importance of internal linking in SEO and
Blogging.
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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