Oftentimes I’m asked why our posts work so well at Need Someone To Blog. People wonder how to do it themselves and even question why plugins, geared especially for that purpose, are difficult to use. It’s hard for me to understand the struggle as I am a devotee of intentional blogging on websites.
What is intentional blogging you ask?
Well, it’s a phrase I recently started using to describe what we do and why our blogs work. Listed below are 7 steps to creating an intentional blog post that will help your website to rank well and make your SEO plugin shine with a green light (Yoast), a thumbs up or with any symbol that indicates the post is good to go!
7 Steps of Intentional Blogging
- Step 1 – Choose your keyword phrase.
- Step 2 – Include that phrase in your post title.
- Step 3 – Write a worthy post bursting with original content of over 200 words.
- Step 4 – Use your keyword phrase in the first paragraph and one other place in the post.
- Step 5 – Find a safe-to-use image and name it with your keyword phase. Make sure the image alt tag includes the phrase.
- Step 6 – Add a custom meta description using your phrase and get ready to publish the post.
Now, save the draft and check to see if you have the green light blessing from Yoast on your screen. If it says go, publish!
- Step 7 – Promote the post in at least 4 social media channels and submit the url for indexing.
Those are the basic steps of intentional blogging. Test it out and report back on your success!
P.S. If your post length warrants it, you can add an h2-6 heading in halfway through the post for even more punch.
Jen Miller has been writing since she was a child and spent her early career years soaking up all the information she could discover as a journalist of newspapers and magazines. Getting out the message and spreading truth has always been a high priority for Jen. Jen began writing website content for clients in 1996 and started blogging in 2008 for Today.com. That experience created a love for the blog and she has been an avid blogger ever since. Today she writes for her clients on a variety of topics as a ghostwriter/ghostblogger and connects their messages with personality through social media to deliver the most impact possible.
