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Much has been said

about SEO that leaves

the reader wondering what

type of animal it is.

Unfortunately SEO is not an animal but

a method of optimizing

your content for

search engines.

There tends

to be a

certain

style

that

ensures one

optimizes his blogs

in order to appear in

search engines and therefore

monetizing the content.

Content can easily elevate you in search engines or push you to the bottom. The determining factor is how well you know how to develop your article to be SEO friendly. There are set rules to follow. There are writers who try these rules but if they do not do them right, they end up hurting their reputation.

Website owners need to learn the SEO tricks so that their blogs rank high in search engines. While the website owner can do the SEO themselves, they may hire experts to do it for them. There is another method where one can buy SEO content at a cheaper price and resell them on their sites for profit. This method is known as dropshipping. It can be used to your advantage.

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What Is SEO?

Search Engine Optimization abbreviated as SEO may in simple terms be set rules to be followed so that your content may be seen by search engines. Every blogger or website owner needs high-quality content on their blogs. Since most people associate and relate more to high quality content, search engines have designed rules in which they gauge one content from the other. Those with high SEO rank high while those without proper SEO rank low. The higher the ranking the more it attracts traffic. The more the traffic the more a website or post is able to be monetized.

Search engines are trusted by users a fact that should not be ignored by freelancers, writers and website owners. If your articles and websites are SEO friendly then you are likely to rank high in search engines. SEO therefore is a framework with guidelines that ensure optimization of your site in search engines and a controlling factor in your ranking. Often one will search keywords that are among the top in Search Engines Result Pages(SERPS). It is therefore of paramount importance for an article or website to feature among the high-quality SERPS. This can only be possible with good SEO, therefore all freelancers must endeavour to have quality articles on the web.

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The best policy is for your blogs to be able to solve problems faced by people. There seems to be so many Frequently Asked Questions(FAQ) that people are often seeking answers. Do provide answers while putting SEO in mind.

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Topmost Search Engines

Here is a list of some of the topmost search engines.

• Google

• Bing

• Yahoo

• Ask.com

• AOL.com

• Baidu

• Wolframalpha

• DuckDuckGo

• Yandex.ru

The above is a list of some the top search engines that are concerned in evaluating top articles and websites depending on their SEO. It is therefore paramount to ensure your content ranks well with them. A website should also ensure that all their content is SEO friendly.

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Some Advantages Of SEO

Supposing there are more websites that are selling similar commodities or services! Normally the website with good SEO may have an edge over the others. SEO will assist in the sales of the website. It does not only put you at the top of competition but ensures your sales have improved greatly. Earlier in this post we talked about SEO making you appear among the top in SERPS. This is a great advantage to a website or a blog.

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Good SEO articles or websites may be promoted on social media like Facebook and others through search engines. As mentioned before, search engines are always on the lookout for high-quality content online in order to prote them. Google, Yahoo or Bing might promote you on social media. It is not only a matter of SEO but we need to practice writing the best for our audience or readers.

Are Keywords Important For SEO?

What a question? It is like asking whether legs are important to human beings and animals or wings to birds or fins to fish. Keywords are the propellers which make SEO oriented websites and blogs click.

You want to search for a certain item on a search engine like Google; how will Google find it? The keywords that you type in the SERPS will make it possible for the engines to come out with the relevant information you need. Normally the pages appear with the best at the top and the less important ones at the bottom. Now let's say that your content depending on SEO is at the top and somebody types the keyword you have used in your articles, the searcher will land on you first making your content to be read thus increasing your traffic. If the reader gets your content to be desirable then they will come for more.

One is likely to get appropriate keywords in adwords. Keywords are words or phrases in your SEO content that make people find your website in search engines. Any search engine optimization initiative needs to develop a list of keywords that will market you and your blog in search engines.

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Are Backlinks Necessary

As the word suggests this is linking your blog or website to others with similar information. It can be done either by building links to other wendites, articles or companies. Backlinking is amarketing strategy. Your backlinking is like creating a chainlink. One blog rolls into another just like the links in a chain.

Backlinks are therefore very important as they increase the lens and perspective in which your blog is seen.

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How Does SEO Become Awry?

Nobody embarks on a journey in which he anticipates an accident. Never! You always expect to arrive safely. The same happens with blogging! We expect our blogging to take us into a final safe landing.

It comes with great shock when an accident occurs as one is travelling. The destination is never arrived at. Travellers end up being casualties in hospitals or even may end up morgues. The journey that was to be never really happened. SEO can become awry.

Backlink And keyword stuffing.

Stuffing is when you overuse keywords or links in a post. Too many of them may mar the flow of of the story. They may also act as put-off. The story becomes unreadable and uninteresting. There is a gauge on how you should place your keywords. One must often read the hoogle updates to be sure.

Keywords stuffing

One may put too many keywords into one blog. The article becomes jammed with keywords that the article refuses to make sense. Mostly it is advisable a person to use his good judgement of the keywords to be used in an article. The title, meta description, opening and ending paragraphs are mandatory.

Backlinks Stuffing

Backlinks should also be used with moderation. Too much of something is poisonous.

Creating Bad Content

It does not matter how hard you try to build a high-class SEO if the content you have created is bad. Content that is full of obscene images and language is already in bad taste. I do not know how much SEO can save such content.

There are also other posts that are full of grammatical errors and typos. These articles are bad and SEO cannot help them.

Plagiarized And Copy Pasted Articles.

Have you ever been in a place where you were not wanted? Your being there is already a mistake. The mistake cannot be rectified with make-up proper dressing.

Plagiarism and copy-pasting of articles are already a mistake punishable by a ban. SEO will not help you in any way. Aboid these practices in order to ranl high with your freelancing.