The ultimate SEO guide for bloggers aka how to rank on google

The ultimate SEO guide for bloggers aka how to rank on google

SEO Nerdow   6:47 AM

Don't you dream about this curve every night ?

Let's start our ultimate guide to SEO for bloggers. What ? You don't  know what's SEO ?

Hell yeah ! I'll have something to explain for today 😀. I'll tell you a story. But no blood, no dragons and no war for this one. Only search engine, numbers and keywords. Seems boring ? Totally false !

My little story to introduce SEO to you, dear peasant

Once upon a time we lived in a world where people didn't know anything. If they wanted to get some knowledge they had to open a book called an encyclopedia. Personnaly, do you often hang out with 3 books of 500 page on yourself ? I don't think so. These people may had note what they wanted to know on a paper and later on searched it through their only knowledge source.

Do you remember this world ? If you are older than 35 you probably do. This was the reality before what we call the internet. Now we reach the nearest screeny thing, open google and ask our question. The computer is so smart that by using internet it show you instantly some millions of answer to your questions. Great ! But which one do you choose to read ? If you're like me and 100% of the others human, you know that we are lazy. So what do we do ? We only read the top 5 answers on google. So... everything else is just useless and can't be reached using a search engine. Knowing this people wanted to know how does google rank the website which hold all the answer. Pretty sure we can answer all the question using the number 42, if you don't get it then read H2G2.

The second biggest question ever : How does google rank our websites ?

How ?! That's what people tried to figure out for over a decade. That's pretty hard as even the guy who build google's algorithm don't understand it fully. Same goes on for youtube. Just use your mind to picture an engineer who's there, lefting his computer saying : I don't know how this crap work. But it does quiet well his job. Let's build another algorithm for other queries.

If even the all mighty creator don't know how this work... It seems like we are all fucked. But you know it, when you search for something you find it. Search for the strangest fish and you'll find something like this :

Crap ! I'll need to clear my history

Even if you don't know how the system work, it works. It give you what you want using words you are giving it. Google is pretty smart ! Great ! Now you understand the purpose of SEO or more privately Search Engine Optimiser. It's a "science" to optimise - obviously - your rank on google. It's time to start our ultimate SEO guide for you, my fellow bloggers.

How does SEO work ? 

I'm not a pro here. I know things that may help you and that may help me by the way. It's quiet logical at this point. There is a lot to know but everything comes by gut.

I know you are like me. You are building a blog and want to reach the top rank on google search. That's normal and we all want it. Dont feel bad if you don't get it as there are a lot of factors in the game. I'll give you the main so you'll get it.

My list to help you rank on google. May not be the best one but will help you for sure.

1. Number one. You have to find some words you want to rank on. If you have no goals you won't achieve them ! You'll need your brain for this part. You know that when you search something you write what comes to your mind instantly. You don't search for hours to find the better words to describe your current situation so you use what's quick. When you are choosing your keywords just use the simplest one and elaborate arround.
2. To rank on google you'll have to use these words everywhere. When you tag a picture, use your keywords. When you are writting, use them. When you are naming your articles, use them. When you are choosing titles, use them. When you are making a list, use them... And so on. You know what's left !
3. You'll find it paradoxal. Having a popular blog is a good way to rank high on the web. That's where the problem is. If you are here your blog isn't popular so you can't rank in the top just using your name. You have to make your name using keywords and traffic. The more your site is visited, the higher you'll rank. Still logical ?

Now you know the basics. You know that you must choose a keyword and then use it a lot in your articles. Then you'll rank up and get more traffic. By getting more traffic you'll get a higher rank and everything will get better.

Now that you are on it I'll go further.

How to choose keywords ?

If you are like me you want this type of key. Don't ask me why 💲

It's a game about words. Some are still unused and other overused. We'll look for the less used. These word will give a chance to rank high on google for a not-so-popular keyword. How do you find them ? First you establish your brand name. I won't help you here to find it. Next you find words related to what you do. Perhaps you sell watch so you'll think about the best watch ever, how to choose your watch, what's the best watch etc...

But even with your keywords you won't go far as you didn't test them. We need to valid these words to be sure that you can rank on these later when you'll write an article. So let's go ubersuggest. This website will give you a lot of related keywords. They will help you choose better one and conqueer the search engine !

I typed how to choose your watch in their engine. It give me :

how to choose your watch

how to choose your first watch

how to choose your apple watch

how to choose your wrist watch

how to choose your first luxury watch

how to choose a watch for your boyfriend

Here are 6 long keywords we are going to test later. Anyway that's not enough. Let's go to keyword shitter. It's another app which do the same job but will give you more random words. Give it a try 😏

1) Test your keywords for dummies like me

As we aren't pro we will let an app do the job for us. Are we lazy ? Yes we are ! Just go to seoquake and install their app on your chrome navigator. You don't have Chrome ? Just download it...

Next time you'll search on google it will give you a lot of informations on the words you are using. Let's try it from our 6 keywords.

With seoquake you get instantly a lot of information. Just search the words and it'll give you the rank of the website on Alexa and other engine. But what's interesting is the word difficulty. So here is what I found :

how to choose your watch : 56,08 %

how to choose your first watch : 62,56%

how to choose your apple watch : 76,45%

how to choose your wrist watch : 63,46%

how to choose your first luxury watch 53,41%

how to choose a watch for your boyfriend : 43,19%

The higher the value is the harder it is to outrank the opponent of you keywords. Using these data we will write an article on "how to choose a watch for your boyfriend". It's the easiest of our keywords so we won't try to outrank the hardest. No goal at all ! It's way to better to have a high rank on 2/3 request than being 10th for 15 request. Trust me !

Want to know something fun ? You don't have the choice. The difficulty is about 98,78% to outrank google. Seems easy !

2) Let's rank those keywords like a pro

How do you rank a word ? Just use it ! The more the better. But don't feel obliged to place it at each sentence, it won't be fun to read. To be sure about your words, use them like this :

• In the title of the article
• At the start of a part
• To name your pictures
• Use it every 5 - 10 sentences
• Bold it if you can
• In the first paragraph
• The page contain original content not taken from elsewhere
• Write something long 1500 + words

Right. This sound hard ! Really hard ! Really impossible ! We shall all use SEO as it's not hard to use. It's relatively easy and give us a good approach on how to conqueer the web to get more views.

3) The ultimate SEO guide for bloggers last tip : Just wait

If you just started your blog you'll have to wait at least 6 months to the engine to rank well your content. Sorry but that's how it works. I can't help you ! Just write other articles on other keywords to wait your result. Then grow bigger and bigger and get more and more view which will increase your overall views.

Just for you

1. Find keywords
2. Use ubersuggest and keyword shitter to expand them
3. Test them using seoquake
4. List the best one on a google sheet
5. Rank the word by producing a fucking good article using all our tips
6. Wait for 6 months
7. Profit !

I'm sure you know some people who don't even know why they aren't viewable on google. Just link them here and they'll thank you for being the best human ever ! 👍

Precept number one and your idea finder

Precept number one and your idea finder

Tips Nerdow   2:31 AM

We don't use this anymore 

Precept number one

If I have one problem it's this one ! I don't find ideas to write on. I read a lot, I think a lot and I watch a lot of movies and videos but I don't get a lot of ideas. At least not in my theme range. If you want to suceed at writting quality article for a blog you must have knowledge in this area. If you don't have this knowledge for this domain you won't go up. You need targeted knowledge. I feel at ease when I write about tech, web and science. I started a blog, it was about knowledge. Do you think that I know some things on brains and memory ? Yeah ! Me too. Same goes for you. Don't go where you don't know shit. If it happen to you to read this and you are already doing what you shouldn't do. Don't stop there if there's hope for your project. I don't know everything and you shouldn't always rely on my stories as most of the times I forgot them. Anyway, you aren't there to hear me speaking about useless crap. You are there to learn how to skyrocket your blog. Like a rocket. It's all in the noun.

So... I know that you are there because you can't find inspiration on your subject. Maybe it's computering, maybe beauty, maybe other thing that I can't even figure out. I don't know that too. But what I know is that I can help you create and build your website. Anyway, you have to figure out that you can almost write on everything, no matter the subject of your blog. The subject is only where your articles are gravitating, the theme is how you illustrate them and then there is what yuu write. It may be something related or totally abstract. What you hav to keep in mind is that whatever you are going to write you can connect it with the purpose of your website. It's just harder to connect video games and knowledge than to bring together beauty and eyeliner.

Precept number one : You can write on whatever you want when you give your audience tips on what they want to do.

Let me say it by another maneer. You can literraly choose every subject till you keep an eye on your subject. That sounds complex right ? I'll give you my example. Here, on this blog I'll speak about how to rise your blog on blogger. Additionaly the theme is space. I'll draw some illustration to hang out them together. Now I have two ideas :

1. Give bloggers tips and ideas to gain a better comprehension of blogger
2. Build a theme upon space travel which is draw by myself

I'm relating two subject that are at light years from each other. I have nothing to think about them together but I'll speak about these. The theme will display something strong. Do you know that hand drawing something looks much better for a blog than a random picture found on the web ? Moreover it's insanely fun to do it and people love to see them - only if well done -.

What I'm saying is that by using a theme you can link two different ideas. It's just a matter of investment as you can do great things using a lot of time. That's our only problems. By following this blog you'll also learn how to manage your time. But that's another story, I'll share it later with you.

How to find fucking ideas ?

You wanna know how did I come up with these ideas for the blog ? Easy ! I'ts not my first blog. I'm writting a lot on the web so I want to share my point of view and everything I learned through this web travel. Then, what's about space travel ? Recently I read about Elon Musk. You must know, the guy who wants to conqueer interplanetary transport. Yeh ! Writting this blog seems boring compared to his project... So I found some great pictures on space travel and I figured out that I can draw most of them on the computer. I'm not - yet - an expert but I'll learn as this blog will live. Just a matter of time as I always say !

What about you ?

Here you are. Facing your white paper and not knowing what to write on it. It may seem difficult at first but it'll become way easier with time. Do you have a theme for your blog ? Do you know what's your subject ? If you don't I can't help you. But if you do, stay here with me. Before I wanted to know what can I write today for the starter of this blog. I searched : find good ideas for articles. It show me lot's of pictures with some matrice and others tips. None of them where useful to me so I decided to write my own guide. My own idea's finder. I'll use it later when there won't be the same motivation that there is now. Here we go ! I wrote [ X ] sentence, you just have to complete them.

• How did I manage to [ do something extraordinary ]
• Why am I [ fun action ]
• I'm using [ tools ] to [ something interesting ]
• Everything that I wanted to do before I started to [ an activity ]
• [ Your blog idea ] 101
• A comprehensive guide to [ Your blog idea ]
• Why am I writting on [ Name of your blog ]
• Everyone don't know how to [ activity ] but I do !
• I'm launching it [ something exciting ]
• 50 ways to [ keywords ]
• [ blog idea ] for dummies 
• How [ blog idea ] using [ strange object ]
• Tips on [ blog idea ]
• My ideas to [ interesting subject ]
• Following me through my day
• How to use the best from [ tools ]
• The [ X ] books which bring me there
• Whatever you want :D

You can use all these ideas to create new content on your blog or website. Most of them won't help you. But I'm sure at least one will enlight your inspiration. If you keep finding difficult to have an idea for your next blog post I suggest you to consider again your blog. That sound like this doesn't interest you as much as It should. Just enjoy yourself when writing !