{"id":826,"date":"2016-09-24T09:26:32","date_gmt":"2016-09-24T04:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stonemillkids.com\/?p=826"},"modified":"2016-10-01T23:52:25","modified_gmt":"2016-10-01T18:52:25","slug":"search-engine-optimization-seo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stonemillkids.com\/index.php\/2016\/09\/24\/search-engine-optimization-seo\/","title":{"rendered":"Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for your Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"

Search Engine Optimization (SEO)<\/h1>\n

How to Make my Blog Rank Higher in Search Engines<\/h2>\n

Now that I have enough content, I am trying to optimize my website with the search engines.\u00a0 My first step was to register with Google, Bing, and Yahoo.\u00a0 I then downloaded and installed the WordPress plugin Yoast SEO.\u00a0 As a baseline, I then looked at Google Analytics here are my current stats:<\/p>\n

\"Initial<\/a><\/p>\n

Once I had a baseline, I then found a few articles.\u00a0 The first three ideas, are easy to implement.\u00a0 So that is what I am doing now:<\/p>\n

1) Use the H1 headers – I am currently using them little to not at all.<\/p>\n

2) Add the “alt” tags and proper descriptions<\/p>\n

3) Compare the google analytics keywords to\u00a0each blog post and adjust accordingly.<\/p>\n

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\"Keywords<\/a><\/p>\n

Above are they keywords that for my blog prior to this post that I took from Google webmasters<\/a>\u00a0after evaluating my blogs original posts.\u00a0\u00a0Since I wrote without Search Engine Optimization in mind, you can see the content keywords are a little skewed.\u00a0 I would have expected Android development, Google Play, Game Development, etc. to be higher on the list.\u00a0 So, my goal moving forward is to make my blog post hit higher with search engines.<\/p>\n

Yoast SEO<\/h2>\n

Yoast SEO has a great “help center” at the end that integrated into WordPress.\u00a0 As such, I am able to get real time analysis while I write.\u00a0This means that this\u00a0post, and all future ones will be better optimized.<\/p>\n

\"SEO<\/a><\/p>\n

There are three main features that I use in Yoast:<\/p>\n

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  1. I can edit a snippet of the page if my introductory paragraph or sentence is two long.\u00a0 This is used for the summary under the link in a Google, or other search engine.<\/li>\n
  2. If you place the keyword you are targeting for the post, then the real-time feedback will be developed as the blog is written.<\/li>\n
  3. As you write, each of the dots go from Red to Orange to Green as the post becomes more optimized.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The other tab in Yoast is for “Readability.”\u00a0 While it is useful for editing\u00a0as you write,\u00a0I do not\u00a0find it as informative as the “Keyword” tab.<\/p>\n

    After Search Engine Optimization (SEO)<\/h2>\n

    <Insert screenshot of new analytics afterwards><\/p>\n

    Since, Yoast is helping me write better, I need to take some time and go back to optimize all of the earlier posts and pages.\u00a0 This will take some time, so for now I will post this page as it has some useful information without the evaluation of the SEO before and after.\u00a0 At least for now,\u00a0I can\u00a0modify the way I write to keep the search engines happy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Search Engine Optimization (SEO) How to Make my Blog Rank Higher in Search Engines Now that I have enough content, I am trying to optimize my website with the search engines.\u00a0 My first step was to register with Google, Bing, and Yahoo.\u00a0 I then downloaded and installed the WordPress plugin Yoast SEO.\u00a0 As a baseline, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":739,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[55,4],"tags":[59,58,57,56,60,61],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stonemillkids.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stonemillkids.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stonemillkids.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stonemillkids.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stonemillkids.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=826"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.stonemillkids.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":888,"href":"http:\/\/www.stonemillkids.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826\/revisions\/888"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stonemillkids.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stonemillkids.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stonemillkids.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stonemillkids.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}