{"id":212,"date":"2012-02-04T08:23:02","date_gmt":"2012-02-04T08:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crowdcontent.com\/blog\/?p=212"},"modified":"2021-03-16T08:27:30","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T12:27:30","slug":"successful-seo-with-articles-and-blog-posts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crowdcontent.com\/blog\/seo\/successful-seo-with-articles-and-blog-posts\/","title":{"rendered":"Successful SEO with Articles and Blog Posts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-214\" title=\"SEO Diagram\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crowdcontent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/seo-pencil-and-glasses.jpg\" alt=\"SEO with Articles and Blog Posts\" width=\"311\" height=\"206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crowdcontent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/seo-pencil-and-glasses.jpg 425w, https:\/\/www.crowdcontent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/seo-pencil-and-glasses-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.crowdcontent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/seo-pencil-and-glasses-350x232.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 311px) 100vw, 311px\" \/>Google rained a parade of algorithm changes on its search engine last  year, all aimed at improving the results by devaluing content mills and  link farms. This shook up search engine optimization (SEO) for many who  found old tactics no longer worked. Fortunately, you can still win at  SEO with articles and blog posts, especially guest blog posts placed on  authority sites.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>SEO with Articles and Blog Posts<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Content rules the search engines. Articles and blog posts are the  content that contain your keywords in context and can attract interest  in the search engines. Obviously, the more content you have on your  site, the more likely you have the exact content a searcher seeks.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond detecting keywords, search engine spiders cannot understand the  words in your content. This is why the search engines got in trouble in  the past. Low-quality sites were able to improve their SEO with articles  and blog posts stuffed with keywords but of very little value for human  readers.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>SEO Spun Out of Control<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>At one point, the situation was so out of hand that some webmasters were  spinning the same nonsense into new configurations over and over and  reaping the rewards of first page listings. At last, Google took drastic  measures to correct the problem.<\/p>\n<p>Going forward, Google and the other search engines are looking for cues  from readers and other websites to determine whether the content on a  website offers useful information for searchers. Inbound links from  authority websites will prove the value of a site and increase its  visibility in the search engines, while low quality connections may draw  penalties.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>SEO with Guest Blog Posts<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>One of the best ways to get inbound links from authority sites in your  niche is to place your quality content on those sites. Writing guest  posts for other bloggers gets you high quality links from respected  sites, while also building your visibility with your target market.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>SEO with Articles on Directories<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>The changes on Google have forced webmasters to be much choosier about  the directories on which they place their articles. Inbound links from  sites which have a tarnished reputation in Google&#8217;s search can hurt your  site&#8217;s reputation as well.<\/p>\n<p>However, if you place your content on sites that supervise the quality  of their articles, then you can improve your SEO with articles that link  back to your website in the resource box. Some of these directories  allow republishing as long as the resource box is intact. This can  greatly increase the diversity of inbound links your site receives,  another important cue for Google and the other search engines.<\/p>\n<p>Some websites have been doing the right thing all along by placing  quality content on their sites and others. These sites will continue to  rank well in the search engines regardless of future changes because  they understood all along the importance of improving SEO with articles  and blog posts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google rained a parade of algorithm changes on its search engine last year, all aimed at improving the results by devaluing content mills and link farms. This shook up search engine optimization (SEO) for many who found old tactics no longer worked. 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