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In this article, we are discussing How To Write A SEO Friendly Article.

Friends, knowingly or unknowingly you make such a mistake with your website or blog, due to which you lose the ranking of your website. 

In this article, I am going to tell you about similar mistakes which if you do not do then you can improve the ranking of your website to a great extent. 

Also, we will see how to write SEO-friendly articles, so that you can get any of your articles ranked in the top search results.

Along with this, we will also tell you how to write UFO-based articles. UFO means User-Friendly Optimization. 

All of you must have heard about Search Engine Optimization (SEO) but this is the wrong word because it means the optimization that you do for the search engine, Google itself is speaking in the recent Google’s Helpful Content Update. 

It is that you optimize your article not for the search engine but for the user.

In this article, I am going to tell you many Tips and tricks, with the help of which you will be able to optimize your content for your users. 

A lot of Tips and tricks means I am not going to tell you any Shortcuts or Tools, rather I am going to tell you 100% Ethical and Practical things that will definitely give you Better Results.

Read This: Why Is Over-Optimizing Bad In SEO

Biggest Mistake Of Beginner Bloggers

When a beginner comes to know that we can earn lakhs of rupees a month with the help of blogging, then he also starts thinking about taking advantage of this Opportunity. 

He searches about it on YouTube and gets very inspired by watching the videos of some Pro Bloggers, in which he is told that you can earn lakhs with the help of blogging and if seen then there is something wrong with it. Neither is it!

The mistake starts from there when the same person scrolls further below this video and he sees some videos where he is told that you can earn money from your website without writing articles. 

Now that person buys Hosting and Domain to set up his website and installs WordPress on it. 

Now after this, he searches for those videos that claim that you do not even need to write articles on your website.

Those Videos tell him that he should use AI-generated articles on his website or blog and his website will start ranking in Google from which he will get a lot of Ad revenue. 

Now here the person who could write articles or who could use his potential starts using shortcuts. 

This thing is wrong here because, in 2022, such updates are coming from Google that you cannot remain in the search engine for a long time by using such shortcut techniques.

Till 2016 all these things used to work well but now the responsibility of Competition and Search Engine has increased a lot. 

Just think, if you search your Query on Google and some such results come in front of you, in which useless things are written, that is, which are not readable, then why would you or people use Google?

That’s why Google uses its Secret Algorithm in presenting search results to maintain its quality and if you understand that Algorithm, then you can do SEO ie UFO of your website very well.

In today’s time, where the name of Blogging comes from, the most difficult article has to be written, if you use AI-generated or Spin content in your website.

Then your website will disappear in the search engine in such a way that your website searches results. I will not get the full 100 pages.

Let us now see without any delay how you can write a friendly Article –

How To Write A SEO Friendly Article

I will teach you mainly in three steps how you can write an SEO-friendly article –

• Competitor Article Analysis
• On-Page SEO For The Article
• Advanced Techniques For Better Traffic

In these three parts, the best part you will find is Advance Techniques For Better Traffic.

Which we will discuss further in detail. But in both the above parts also you’ll pick up a lot of fresh knowledge. Now let us look closely at these three points –

1. Competitor Article Analysis:

In this, you are being asked to analyze your competitor’s article. When you create your blog on a Niche or Topic, then you get to know that in your industry, which website is ranking better than you, and which website you have to outrank.

A. In this you can use two Chrome Extensions, in which the first extension is Detailed SEO. 

With this Chrome Extension, you can find out the Weaknesses of your competitor’s article. 

This extension tells you a lot about your competitor’s article like its Title, Description, Keywords, URL Canonical Page, etc.

With the help of this extension, you can find out what your competitor has missed in his article and you can make your article more strong by using it in your article.

B. Similarly there is another Chrome Extension named – SEO Quake. With the help of this extension, you can find out the Density of your competitor’s keywords and much more. 

With this extension, you can know your competitor’s parameters, backlinks, internal-external links, and keyword density.

Its best option in this is Keyword Density so that you can find out all the small and big keywords of your competitor and use them in your article, you can prepare an SEO-friendly article.

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2. On-Page SEO For The Article:

Finding primary keywords related to seed keywords:

In this, first of all, you have to take out one of your Main Keywords, about which you want to write your article. 

After that, you have to find keywords related to your main keyword, which you can find in many ways.

First of all, you search your Main Keyword on Google, and in the search results, you also get FAQ-type keywords in the middle, out of which you can remove some keywords according to your own. 

Apart from this, scroll down to the bottom of the same page.

Here also Google suggests many keywords and these are the keywords that people search with your Main Keyword.

That’s why you can find some keywords related to your Seed Keyword from these.

Second, you can take the help of Keywordtool.io to extract related keywords. 

This tool shows you hundreds of keywords related to your Seed Keyword, which you can manually analyze and use in your article.

Post Title:

Always keep the title of your post in H1 i.e. Heading 1 and keep only one H1 in an article. 

Do not use more than one H1 on your page. 

Your Main Keyword must be in the title of your article. Apart from this, you can also put one or two primary keywords in your article so that your title is Catchy.

Always use Long Tail Keywords in your title because ranking on Long Tail Keywords is easier than Short Tail Keywords. 

And if you are a beginner, then you should keep your Seed Keyword or Main Keyword as Long Tail.

Article Permalink, URL, or Slug:

Some bloggers make their title a permalink link of their article, but you do not have to do this. 

According to Backlinko, which is a very big SEO agency, they say that when we take short URLs in our articles, Google does not get confused in understanding it and ranks it quickly.

That’s why try to keep the short URL of your article only and if your Keyword fits in your URL, then definitely use it too.

SEO-Friendly Article Heading Structure:

Keep Heading Structure, User Friendly in your article. Like, keep 1 H1 in your article, and after that keep your Main Headings inside H2, if there is any Sub Heading inside them then keep it in H3. 

In this way, keep the Heading Structure good in your article.

Second, you do not have to forcefully stuff your Main Keyword or Seed Keyword in your Headings. 

With this, your article will not be called a friendly Article. You will find many people who will tell you that you should use your Keyword in H1, H2, and H3, in Paragraphs, that is, sprinkle your Keyword in your article, but you do not have to do this at all.

Google has become more advanced than before, so by crawling your article, it can understand what your article is about. 

You always have to Improve the Readability of your article. 

Use keywords only where there is a lot of need and where it is Meaningful.

Solve Reader Problem (Intent):

Always write your article for your users and not for Search Engines. About which you are writing your article, try to solve that Query of the user after visiting your article. Your article should not have High Keyword Density. 

Google does not like it at all that you do Keyword Stuffing in your article.

If your article is 1000 words, then use your keyword only 4-5 times in your article. It does not matter whether Rank Math Plugin or Yoast SEO Plugin is saying that you should use your Keyword more in your article. 

Always remember that Google uses its Ranking Algorithm to rank an article or website, it does not look at the Green Score of these SEO Plugins.

All the people who are making all these mistakes that are optimizing all the things for Search Engine, Google is going to penalize all these websites under its new update Helpful Content Update. 

Now Google will rank your page not on the basis of SEO Score but on the basis of User Satisfaction. 

If your user is satisfied with your content, then both your Ranking and Authority will increase.

By Intent, we mean that whatever Keyword or Query you have used in the title of your article, its complete information should be there in that article, that is, your article should be Intent Based. 

You do not have to mislead your user, which is shown in your title, your article should also be related to that.

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Sentences And Paragraphs:

Always use short sentences and short paragraphs in your article. All the big websites use Short Paragraphs in their articles only so that the user is comfortable reading your article. 

Articles with Short Paragraphs, Meaningful Articles, and Articles in which there is nothing Extra, such articles are liked by both Google and the user.

There is no point in the website ranking on the first page for a Keyword that has written an article of 4000 words, then you need to write an article of 5000 words. 

You can also outrank it with a Meaningful and Intent-Based, 2000 Words article.

Use List And Tables:

Make sure to use Tables and Lists in the middle of your article. 

List And Tables give a very good preview in the search engine and it enables many Snippets of your article. We will talk more about this in the Advance section.

Show Table of Contents:

Must install a Table of Contents plugin on your website. It shows all your Headings together at the top of your article so that the user can directly reach the section of the same Heading by clicking on the Heading he wants to read. 

Its search engine also has many advantages, about which we are going to talk further in the Advance section.

For now, just keep in mind that you have to install a Table of Contents plugin, like – you can install a plugin called Lucky WP.

Use Images In Your Article:

According to this article titled How to write SEO friendly article, you do not have to use only text to make your article SEO Friendly, but you also have to use Images in your article. 

Use Optimized and Resized Images properly in your article. 

The image you use on your website should be your own image, that is, you do not have to download it from anywhere.

Image SEO:

After this, to make your article SEO-friendly, you have to do SEO of your image. Inside this, you must write the caption of all the images you are using in your article. 

In the caption, you write about that image, and what that image is about, and here you can also put the source of that image.

Now you also have to enter Alt Text or Alt Attribute of your Images. 

In Alt Text, you have to enter only the text related to the image that you do with that image. 

Many people and SEO Tools themselves say that you should put your Main Keyword in the Alt Text of your image, but you do not have to do this. If your Main Keyword matches your image, then you can feel free to use it. 

Read This: What To Do After Keyword Research

But you do not have to put your Seed Keyword in the Alt Text of every image without any meaning.

Internal & External Linking and Rel Attributes:

Internal Linking:

Wherever necessary in your article, you must link your other articles or posts. 

When you give a link to another article on your own website on a keyword or text in your own article, then it is called Internal Linking.

When Google crawls a page of a website, it also crawls all the links present in it and when you link your own articles in your article, then Google crawls your articles again so that they can be ranked. 

Chances increase. By doing this, you can keep your other articles alive as well.

External Linking:

Suppose you wrote about something in your article whose information is not available on your website. 

In this case, you link that particular keyword to any other website where complete information about it is available. We call this process External Linking.

Rel. Attribute:

The other website you are linking to your article if you do not trust the quality of its website.

Then you can give it a No Follow Attribute so that the Link Juice of your website will not pass on its website, but if you are on a trusted website you are giving a link to it, then you should give him a Do Follow link only.

Self Linking:

You might not have been told about this process anywhere because very few people know about it.

By self-linking, we mean that in whatever article you are writing, you will definitely have a Main Keyword and it is also certain that you will definitely use that Main Keyword somewhere in that article too.

So wherever you Use this Main Keyword of yours in your article and link it to the Permalink or URL of your article.

Now when Google comes to this page of yours, it will crawl all the links present in it and when it crawls the link of your same article on this keyword, then Google will come back to the same page after being Reflected. 

This enables your 2 Crawl. That’s why you must link Self’s keyword to Self’s post to get your page re-crawled.

Use FAQ Schema:

If you use the Rank Math SEO plugin on your website, then you can easily add FAQ Schema to your article. 

You must add some FAQ questions at the end of your articles that are related to that article. 

If you use any other SEO Plugin in which you are not getting this feature, then you can install a separate plugin for it.

If someone searches that question in Google which you have put in your FAQ, then it is possible that your website may start appearing outside the Search Results to that user.

Read This: Surfer SEO Vs Ahrefs

Add Last Word or My Opinion Section:

When your article is complete, at the end you must add a section of your Last Word or My Opinion. 

In this, you must give your view about your article that whatever information you have given in your article is so trusted and what are its advantages and disadvantages. 

With this, your user will be able to connect well with you and your website.

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Meta:

Meta Title:

Use Power Words in the Meta Title of your article. Keep your Meta Title Meaningful. 

Many times people add the title of their article to their Meta Title, you do not have to do this, but you have to make your Meta Title more Catchy with your Creativity.

Keep the Meta Title short, but as long as your SEO Plugin is showing the Green Score of your Meta Title, you should keep the length of your Meta Title.

Meta Description:

You should also keep your Meta Description short and simple and you must add your Main Keyword to it. 

You must also make it a bit Clickable because the user sees only your Title and Description in the search results. 

That’s why you must keep them Meaningful.

Feature Image:

You must also create a Featured Image of your article because sometimes your Feature Image also appears along with your Title and Description in the search results. 

You can also call it the Thumbnail of your article.

3. Advanced Techniques For Better Traffic:

This part is going to be the most dangerous part of this article because in this you will get all the information of the completely different types and from this part, you’ll pick up a lot of fresh knowledge.

Let us now see some advanced techniques to increase our traffic and take forward this concept of our how-to write SEO-friendly article –

Add More Content After Publishing:

This Heading means that you do not have to publish your entire article in a single day. You have to publish your article in pieces so that you can easily update your article. 

You add something to your article every 7 to 10 days, like – adding some paragraphs to it, adding a new Heading, or adding a video to it, etc.

When you do this, whenever Google comes to crawl your article, every time it gets to see something new on your article, it gets to see new information every time and Google likes this thing very much. 

You must have also seen that many Pro Bloggers say that keep updating your article in between, so by this process, you are updating your article every time, the only difference is that in this you use your Techniques. have been

Just think, a website puts its article once and never updates it throughout the year and there is a different site that is adding something new to its article every week. 

Let me tell you a way of this when you have the complete structure of the article ready, do not publish it completely, stop some of the Headings without which your article can work, or put two in your article every time. 

FAQ Questions can be added.

If you use this technique, then you will definitely get to see good results.

Install Table Of Contents For Snippets:

As we have talked about it above that with the help of a plugin called Lucky Wp, you can enable Table Of Contents on your website. 

One of the biggest advantages of this is that when you install this plugin in your website.

Then these Headings of yours appear in the search result as Snippets, so that the user will directly click on this and reach the same part of your article.

This increases the chances of a user clicking on your website because the Headings of your website are visible to him outside so that he understands the Intent of your article.

Text Snippets:

When you write your article and you add such a heading in it, which you can also write like a question if you are going to add a heading called No-follow Links in your article, then you write it like this – What are No Follow Links. 

And you must give a short answer to this heading in 50-60 words. After this, you can make another Sub Heading and explain it Deeply.

When a user searches this keyword of yours in the search engine in which you have made your Heading, then this section of yours i.e. your Heading and your Answer is visible outside in the search results which are called Text Snippets.

If you keep its length more than 50-60 words, then Google may not be able to show it outside in search results, so you must focus on it. 

One advantage of this is that when the text snippets of your article appear in the search results, your website covers more space, which increases the probability of the user clicking on your website.

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List And Table Snippets:

Often you must have seen that when you do some search in the search engine, then you see some list or table outside in the search results only. 

If you use List or Table in your article, then when someone searches Keywords related to that list in Google, your website can also appear in List Snippets or Table Snippets.

That’s why you must define the Headings which you can explain in Lists or Tables in your article, this makes your article more SEO-friendly.

Benefits Of Video Snippets:

You must embed some video related to your topic in your article. If you can shoot a video on your own and put a video in your article.

Then definitely put it and if you do not have a YouTube channel or you are not a video creator, then you can get permission for someone else’s video related to your article in your article.

There are two big advantages of putting a video in your article – one, that video of yours appears in the search result when the user searches for the related Keyword, which increases the chances of clicking on it.

The second advantage of this is that if the user watches your video after coming to your article, then if the 15-minute video is watched even for 6 minutes, then your Bounce Rate is very well maintained. 

This can help you a lot in ranking. Only these small things can boost your ranking because Google has become so smart that you can never get your website ranked with the help of any tool or application.

Using Schema Generator With Rank Math:

If you are using the Rank Math SEO plugin on your website then you can generate Schema for your articles. 

If you have Rank Math Pro, then you get a lot of options in it, but even if you are using its free plan, you still get the option to generate Schema of many types.

You get a lot of benefits from Schema Markup. This makes it much easier for Google to understand your article. 

Also, by using this, your article starts appearing in Google Search in the form of Snippets, due to which a lot of information is available to the user from your search result only.

If your website is related to any other Niche but any of your articles or pages is based on any other topic bar, then with Rank Math Plugin you can generate a different type of schema only for that article, whatever category that article relates.

With this Google can easily understand that article of yours.

SEO-friendly article writing tools

• SurferSEO. SurferSEO is an AI tool for producing and revising material that is effectively search engine optimized.
• Frase. Using the application Frase, you may create short content outlines and write SEO-friendly material.
• KWFinder for Mangools
• Grammarly, 
• Google Search Console, 
• Semrush Writing Assistant, 
• Google Analytics, and 
• Hemingway App is a few examples.

SEO friendly article checker

• SemRush
• SEO review tools
• Yoast

How to write SEO-friendly blog posts

• Before you write, consider! …
• Make a plan for the organization of your post.
• Use headings and paragraphs.
• Use transitional phrases.
• Use words that are relevant.
• The length of your post should be optimized.
• Link to already published content.
• Allow readers to view your 

How to check if article is SEO friendly

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Conclusion

In this article, we are discussing How To Write A SEO Friendly Article.

Friends, I hope you got to learn something new from this article. 

All new bloggers are keen to know How to write SEO-friendly articles and they watch videos upside down for this and use AI Tools so that they spoil the quality of their website in the eyes of Google.

Always remember that SEO is not magic because it will come to you only through experience. 

That’s why you kept trying new things on your website. While writing your articles, keep in mind that we have to write for the user and not for the search engine.

We talked about this in the beginning as well which makes your article UFO (User-Friendly Optimization) Based because Google has become very strict towards the websites that are being made only for Google Adsense. 

You have to help your user and the Intent on which the user has come to your article, that Intent should be completed after coming to your article, and do not do Keyword Stuffing in your article, that is, put your Keyword wherever it is needed.

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