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Use These Blog Post Templates to Write Better SEO Content

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Swipe our blog post templates to write better SEO content for your website and to rank higher in Google.

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Additional Content Writing Resources

Content Writing for SEO: How to Create Content that Ranks in Google ► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BdZ0dUu7VQ

How to Create Content that’s “Better” than Your Competitor’s ► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5KKbPS6N-g

How to Scale Content Creation ► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQmH8LH9p20

Blogging Tips for Beginners That Actually Work ► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ml4mQJjgX6g

How to Write a Blog Post That Actually Gets Traffic ► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kOT39l0omU

Fractured Search Intent: Understanding Mixed SERPs ► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGm17ERgqTw

SEO Course for Beginners (by Ahrefs) ► https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvJ_dXFSpd2vk6rQ4Rta5MhDIRmakFbp6

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The four blog post templates we’ll cover in this video are:

– list posts (listicles)
– step-by-step guides
– definition posts
– beginner’s guides

Listicles usually consist of non-chronological lists such as tips, product recommendations, tools, techniques, myths, mistakes, etc. You’ll learn how to write a compelling title and intro for list posts and different ways to craft your subheadings.

Watch the video to learn how to create list posts.

The next blog post type is the step-by-step guide. These are usually your typical “how-to” posts where you run through a series of steps to teach how to accomplish anything. Here we’ll cover how to write an intro using the PSP method.

Want to learn about this method and the template for the “how-to” guide? Watch the video.

The third template is for the expanded definition posts. This type of posts is meant to give a high-level overview of a topic. The best thing about expanded definition posts is that they have a clear format you can follow:

– intro
– main content
– and conclusion

Watch the video to learn more about this template.

And finally, the beginner’s guide post. It’s an educational resource that offers a comprehensive guide to a topic. In short, a beginner’s guide is detailed, teaches people things in a logical sequence, and it’s written for beginners.

Want to learn more about the template for this type of posts? Watch this video.

Whether you’re new to blogging or a seasoned blogger, you’ll find helpful templates in this video that you can use in your content marketing efforts.

Timestamps

0:00 Intro
0:16 List posts (listicles)
4:00 How-to guides
6:13 Expanded definition posts
9:01 Beginner’s guide posts

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Content Writing for SEO: How to Create Content that Ranks in Google

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In this video, you’ll learn how to do content writing for SEO that engages your audience, satisfies search engines, and drives consistent traffic.
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Additional Blogging and Content Marketing Resources

SEO For Beginners: A Basic Search Engine Optimization Tutorial for Higher Google Rankings ► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvwS7cV9GmQ

Keyword Research Tutorial: From Start to Finish ► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMJQPqG2Uas

Keyword Research Tutorials for SEO ► https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvJ_dXFSpd2u5JCtiYWfvnSvAkoPwg5VY

Link Building Tutorials (Step-By-Step) ► https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvJ_dXFSpd2tjUTuAHpHidz5e2hAedP_m

How to Measure Keyword Difficulty and Rank on Google ► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSOq3ysvBk8

Blogging Tips for Beginners That Actually Work ► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ml4mQJjgX6g

How to Write a Blog Post That Actually Gets Traffic ► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kOT39l0omU

What is Content Marketing and How to Crush It on a Tiny Budget ► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XrtVkhOBfQ
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Whether you’re writing for your own site or for a client, you should have 2 objectives for your content.

► The content should drive traffic to the site.
► The content should turn people into customers or push them further down the sales funnel.

With these objectives in mind, here’s a simple process to achieve both of these goals.

The first step is to write about topics people are searching for.

Most people like to write about topics that excite them. But these posts often have a short shelf life.

When you create content around topics that people are searching for, then you get the opposite effect: free, passive and consistent traffic that usually grows over time.

How do you do this? This video will show you how.

The second step is to assess the type of content Google wants you to create.

Google’s job is to deliver the most relevant results for any given search query. And they do a pretty good job at this.

So naturally, if you want to rank for your target topic, then you need to know the type of content Google will rank for that query.

This is called search intent. Watch the video to find out how to determine search intent from any query.

Step three is to create a data-driven outline.

Content is like a puzzle. There are a lot of different pieces and it’s tough to assemble without some kind of framework. Outlines are like the edge pieces of the puzzle. They help to form the base and all you need to do is fill in the missing pieces.

They also help make sure you’re including all critical points worth communicating on the topic.

This video will show you how to easily create a blog post outline.

Step four is to create a click-worthy headline.

A headline is important because it’s what stands between you and a visitor. Its main job is to convince people to actually click on your result. Then it’s your content’s job to keep them reading.

Watch the video to learn how to write good headlines.

Step five is to write a killer intro using the AIDA formula.

The introduction is arguably the most important part of your content. Its job is to hook your reader, tell them they’re in the right place, and convince them to keep reading.

Fortunately, there’s a tried and tested formula you can use called AIDA, which you can use.

What does it stand for and how do you use it? Watch the video.

Step six is to make your content actionable and easy to digest.

So your outline should act as a nice skeleton for your post. And to add meat to those bones, you need to do two things.

► Make your content as helpful as possible.
► Make it easy to digest and read by focusing on your communication and writing skills.

Watch the video to learn some tips on how to do this.

Timestamps:

1:11 Write about topics people are actually searching for
3:50 Assess the “type” of content Google will rank
5:18 Create a data-driven outline
7:15 Create a click-worthy headline
8:04 Write a killer intro using the AIDA formula
9:47 Make your content actionable and easy to digest
11:25 Get unfiltered feedback

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How to Grow Your SEO Traffic by Updating Your Old Content

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You write all this amazing content, and after putting in months and months of hard work, you start getting rankings, but then you fast forward a year. A year later, what happens? Your traffic starts going down. Today I’m going to teach you how to grow your SEO traffic by updating your old content.

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With all the content out there, Google is going to rank the content that doesn’t just have the most links or the best on-page SEO. More importantly, they’re going to rank the content that has the best user experience. And usually that means that’s the content that is fresh, up to date and the most relevant. With one of my earlier websites, Nutritionsecrets I no longer own it. I was able to build up literally over 100,000 visitors a month.

And the main strategy that I use wasn’t just cranking out new content, it was continually updating and expanding my old articles to get them more and more traffic.

So how do you go and update your old content and figure out which pieces to update? Which ones not to update? And heck how do you know what parts to update and how it works? Do you just add a sentence? Do you add in paragraphs? Do you add in more images, videos? Well, I’m going to walk you through that right now step-by-step.

The first thing I want you to do is to log into Google Search Console. And when you log in, you go to your website, I want you to click that on the pages link. You’ll see that, right? It’s already highlighted here under or right next to the queries.

The next thing I want you to do is adjust your date range. And you’re already on the pages section of Google Search Console, and I want you to sort by the last 28 days over the previous year. And when you do that, it’ll show you the articles that were the most popular to least popular in the previous year.

Now, going through that list, what you want to do is look for the posts that have lost traffic.

So there’s quite a few terms that I was getting more traffic from. So what you’ll want to do is start Googling those terms to see who’s ranking above you.

So let’s Google schema markup. As you can see, there’s an article by Moz, there’s an article by Search Engine Journal, then there’s Schema.org. And what you’ll want to do is click on each of those articles and analyze them and say, “Huh, what did they have that I don’t? What is making their article better than mine?” And you want to take that information for all the sites that rank above you, and then you’re going to want to modify your content. And you do this by making yours better than there’s.

You also want to delete anything that’s irrelevant. If something doesn’t make sense anymore, delete it.

When you update the article, I want you to also update the publish by date, so searching engines know it’s updated. And don’t just think about word count, think about user experience. You need to do what’s best for the user and not obsess or worry about word count.

And lastly, I recommend that you don’t change your URL. If you want to change your URL, that’s fine but just 301 redirect the old URL to the new one. And once you update it, go back into Search Console, type in your URL in the search bar at the top, it’ll start fetching the page and then boom, request it for indexing, and then you’re off into the races and within 30 days you should start seeing increase in SEO traffic to that page. It literally is that simple.

Now, if you need help updating your old content, you can check out my ad agency, Neil Patel Digital or go to NPdigital.com. Or if you have any questions and you want to do it yourself, that’s great as well, leave a comment below, we’ll answer it, I’ll help you out, and I’ll try to do my best to grow your SEO traffic as well.

If you enjoyed this video, like it, share it tell other people about it. And again, if you have any questions just leave a comment below and I’ll answer and help you out. Thank you for your time.

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