On Page SEO Techniques To Improve Website Ranking

Every blog requires proper SEO to gain readership. SEO mainly covers On Page SEO and Off Page SEO. This article enlists On Page SEO techniques to improve website ranking. Let’s start with this simple question – what is On-Page SEO? On-Page SEO refers to how you optimize your content for search engines to rank high.

Top On Page SEO Techniques

Below are the best On-Page SEO Techniques you should practice improving website ranking:

• Blog Post Title

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Blog Post Title plays a vital role in deciding how your blog posts will be performing on search engines. You should keep targeted keywords or phrases towards the beginning of the Title tag. Post Title holds a lot of value in on-page SEO techniques. Make sure you are not repeating the same keyword in the title tag with the intention to get better rankings on search engines. The ideal character length for post title is 65 characters including spaces. A title tag is used by search engines to display a page in search results and can also be found at the top of your browser. Title tags tell search engines and searchers what the page is about. Since Google will only display between 50-60 characters in the title tag, you should keep title tags under 55 characters and try to drive people to click on compelling copy.

• Post URL (Post Permalink) Structure

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The next factor while doing On-Page is defining your post permalink structure wisely. Similar to the post title, you should aim at using targeted keywords towards the beginning of the blog post URL. Never use special characters, symbols, brackets in your post URL. A URL is one of the first things a search engine uses to determine page rank, which is why it is really important to make your URLs easy to crawl. Try keeping the URL length to 4-5 words.

• Optimize Image Alt Text

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Search Engine crawlers do not understand images. They can understand the only text. To get your blog images better optimized, you should use the ALT tag. The alt tag should be relevant to your image. For instance, if you are writing an article on Blogging tips and inserting an image then it should have a relevant name not something like image.jpg or image01.png etc.

If you are using any CMS, it allows you to add the Alt tag while inserting an image. You can also add alt tag using HTML itself – <img src=”abc.gif” alt=”ABC”/>

ImageSEO is a good Image SEO Optimizer for Search Engines on WordPress. It Automatically optimizes your image ALT Texts and names for Search Engines to your organic traffic.

• Meta Description

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We cannot miss Meta Description when we are talking about On-Page SEO techniques. The key mantra is – Add unique and relevant meta keywords and meta descriptions with each of your posts. And yes, Use your targeted keyword in the meta description and meta keyword section. The meta description is of 160 characters and you should write this wisely for better Click Through Rate (CTR) which means more users will open your link. It should be promising enough to attract visitors. Also, Google and other search engines are noticing the CTR closely. Let us say, you have a webpage ranked in the 1st position in SERP. and 10 out of 100 users who see that webpage clicks on it, it gets a 10% CTR. At the same time, if a webpage that is ranked in the 10th position in SERP gets a CTR of 80%, Google is going to notice that. Since the webpage at 10^th position is getting better CTR it can be promoted higher in SERP and yours can be demoted as well.

• Role of Heading Tags in On Page SEO

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Heading tags are used to differentiate the heading of a page from the rest of the content. The most important heading tag is the h1 tag and the least important is the h6 tag. one of the main page SEO techniques. Heading tags are also  In HTML coding the header tags from h1 to h6 form a hierarchy. This means that if you skip any of the tag numbers the heading structure will be broken, and this is not ideal for on-page. The ideal way of using Header Tags –

<h1>Main Heading</h1>

<h2>Secondary Heading 1</h2>

<h3>Sub-section of the secondary heading 1</h3>

<h2>Secondary Heading 2</h2>

<h3>Sub-section of the secondary heading 2</h3>

• Keyword Density

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Keyword stuffing is a common SEO mistake that many bloggers do. You should keep the keyword density to up to 1.5% of the mix of LSI keywords. You should be using your main keyword once in the first paragraph and then in the last paragraph apart from regular use in the post content. Keywords should appear in important on-page elements like the page title, heading, image alt text. Maintaining your main keyword is a very remarkable thing. If your content is of 300 words, then your main keyword should be at least 3 times used. If it is 1000 words then your main keyword should be 10 times used in your whole content. I use SEMrush for my keyword research. (You can read SEMrush Keyword Research Tool Review)

Advice: Use Low competition keywords for better results

• Content Is King

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If you really want to compete for ranking higher in search engine positions, make sure that your content is too good. Gone are the days when short articles used to rank higher. (Looking weird to you?). But my friend, the SEO world is changed now. Google and Users both love to read in-depth and information-rich content. Short articles are not going to work in 2019. Instead, create more in-depth, comprehensive, and informative blog posts that are rich in content and total words. As a matter of fact, Google prefers 2000+ word blog posts. Such posts have a much better chance to be ranked in Google’s top 10 positions. Even I have experienced that mostly my long articles are ranking higher in search engines (I keep on updating my old articles when I find new information or do any research on that).

Few More Tips on Content Strategy –

• Keep Original Content
• Publish Content on your website first
• If you post videos on your website try to add a text description as well. If you add images, try to describe in words what the image is all about.
• Maintain Your Posting Frequency i.e. Keep updating your website at regular intervals.

Word Count Per Post

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Avoid writing small posts. Ideally, your post should contain a minimum of 1000 words. If possible, write long and well-researched blog posts while targeting highly competitive keywords in your niche. Moreover, if you write naturally and cover everything related to the topic, your topic would be of great length.

There has always been discussion on the word count and there are always exceptions. If you want to know idle word length for perfect SEO, I recommend using SEMRush.

• Linking out to Internal Links and External links

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Link to internal pages within your site wherever necessary. These types of links have more weight from a search engine point of view. It will also help to decrease the bounce rate of your blog. and will help to improve link juice of your website.

Link Whisper is a wonderful tool to manage internal links and many pro bloggers recommend this. Check out Link Whisper Plugin.

Apart from linking to your own blog posts, it is a great idea to link out to external websites if you feel the addition of links for them will help your blog readers find more and relevant information about the topic you are currently blogging about.

• LSI Keywords

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To start with, LSI stands for Latent Semantic Indexing. Did not get it? In simple words, LSI keywords add context and meaning to your post. These are relevant keywords that are supposed to be used along with your main keyword. Search engines like to see LSI keywords in a post. For example, Search engine discovers a page with the word “Apple” on it, how does it differentiate whether Apple is a fruit or Apple is a brand? It uses Latent semantic indexing keywords if there are words like fruit, taste, flavor in the article then it would be easy for the search engine to determine that the article is all about the “Apple fruit”. Hence, in this example fruit, taste and flavor can be termed as LSI keywords for the keyword “Apple”. LSI keywords have been gaining more and more popularity. In 2024, they are only going to become more famous and common. This is a powerful technique to outrank your competitors.

You can use SEMRush to find related keywords.

• Long Tail Keywords

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Long Tail keywords are one of the important on-page SEO techniques. The SEO competition is tough these days. Lots of blogs are writing the same content as yours and targeting similar keywords. It is not easy to rank higher in the SERPs. This is why you are going to need lots of long-tail keywords in 2019

The longer and more specific the search terms are, the higher the chances of conversion are. One of the benefits of long-tail keywords is you can create different variations of the same search phrase, but it’s important to think about what people would actually look for in search. You can read this article on Tricks To Use Long Tail Keywords.

• Increase Website Speed

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Users don’t like to wait, and we are becoming more and more accustomed to the fast load times, which means your site will be left in the dust when a user must wait. There are plenty of other articles similar to yours. If your web page load time is high, the user will close your web page and will try alternative pages available.

You can read this article Top 6 tips for decreasing web page load time to increase your website speed.

I am using WP Rocket Caching Plugin to speed up my website.  I recommend the same.

• Mobile-Friendly Website

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This is the mobile era and most people carry their mobiles and access the internet through their mobiles themselves. If you do not offer your visitors an optimized mobile view of your website you are degrading your SEO Ranking. No one will come back to your website again if they are finding it hard to traverse and check your articles. The article How To Make Your Website Mobile Friendly In 5 Minutes might be helpful for you if your current site is not mobile-friendly.

These were basic and important tips for On-Page-SEO Tip. But always remember you are writing content for humans not for search engines. Do not hurt your visitors by overstuffing these rules. I personally use SEMRush & Website Auditor for on-page analysis of my blogs. (You can check these too). These will help you to improve your search engine rankings and to generate a lot of organic traffic.

That’s all in this. While writing an article you should keep this checklist in mind. Also, share your suggestions/feedback or any other On Page SEO techniques.

Also Read: 23 Black Hat SEO Techniques 

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