How to Improve my blogs and Which topics should i Pick?

[virender]

Hello All
I am searching alot (google) about how to improve my Blog seaction.
It will be really a great help if someone experinced in writing blogs may help on that issue.
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I am into Software development not have technical knowledge about Seo.
Simplyfy your answer as much as can.

Thanks in advance.

[edited by: goodroi at 2:09 pm (utc) on Aug 20, 2018]
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[goodroi]

Profitable blogging is much harder to achieve today than it was several years ago.

When creating content for a blog or an information website that you want to succeed in Google SEO don't blindly follow old advice. Google has greatly evolved over the last 20 years and successful webmasters need to also evolve if they want to succeed.

Here are some general guidelines...
Think more about value and less about word counts.
Think more about answers and less about keyword stuffing.
Think more about real traffic sources & less about link counts.
Blindly following SEO checklists usually isn't the wisest option.
Don't ignore schema opportunities.
Consider non-text opportunities (video, podcasts, etc)
Integrate usability, speed, social sharing & other factors with your SEO efforts.

To find possible topics you can check out Google autocomplete, Adwords keyword data, questions being posted on Amazon for the top products in your industry, your own website search box inputs, articles on competing sites, trending twitter topics, top posts in relevant subreddits.

[lucy24]

Which topics should i Pick

“Topics that you, personally, are knowledgeable about and that you, personally, can write well on” is the answer that comes to mind.

[Rlilly]

> Don't ignore schema opportunities.

Can you give further details? What is a schema opportunity?

[goodroi]

Schema markup is additional code that you add to your page so Google can better understand it & possibly show a special snippet in the search results. Two examples of schema opportunities are a) adding the schema review code which can trigger the 5 review stars appearing in SERPs or b) adding recipe schema which can trigger your image thumbnail appearing in the SERPs next to your webpage. There are many others. For a full rundown check out [developers.google.com...]

[EditorialGuy]

If you have to ask "What topics should I pick?", you're probably in trouble, because you'll be competing with publishers who are knowledgeable about (and interested in) their topics.

It's like writing a book or starting a magazine: If you've never had any interest in horror but you decide "I'm going to write a horror novel so I can be rich like Stephen King," your chances of getting published (never mind making the New York Times bestseller list) are pretty remote.

[tangor]

Rule 1: Forget SEO!

Rule 2: Know what you blog about, inside out, love it, have the wit and skill to create text that is a) factual b) concise c) entertaining (ie. easy to read if nothing else, if you have humor as well that's a plus!)

Rule 3: See Rule 1.

[tangor]

Blogs are about passion ... the best ones anyway. Find your passion. If you don't have a passion don't do a blog (it will fail, big time).

[tangor]

Another oddity re: blogs ... the web at large, meaning users, think blogs are about personal stuff ... fall into a crack between mega sites and the rest of the web ... spouting off, peculiar, or (sadly) ideological. If "blog" appears in the site name you might have a kiss of death before anyone clicks through from an SE.

[virender]

Thank you all the forum members who posted their valuable replies. I have started working on them.

[vini project]

Make good content.
Use Search engine optimization plugin
Study your top deeply.
Take some time to post
Share your post at different niche forums that relates your blog.
Place Feedburner on your blog
Use short and sensible description of the post.
Comments on do follow blogs related to your blog.
Go to events related to your blog and share your blog using a visiting card and collect emails of people .

[JS_Harris]

Before you write a word have a look at Google's answer boxes and get a feel for the questions it has. Clicking on a question will bring up 2 more related to the question you clicked. Be ready to answer what Google thinks is related. Note: those answer boxes get less and less relevant the more you click on questions.

Expect to write 1000 words or more as well, the average wordcount of top ranked pages has increased greatly over time, in my niche anyway. Lots of headings and succinct 1-2 paragraph info/answers per heading.

As for the subjects stick to what you know well and you won't go wrong. Stating something that isn't fact seems to upset google a little.