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How One Amateur Blogger Improved Her Writing with an SEO Plugin – ALWAYS WRITE

January 26, 2017 /

Today I’m sharing another interesting article from my blogging friend Marsha Ingrao’s blog at Marshajustwrites.com. Marsha has been working diligently to discover the world of blogging and how to get more traffic to our blogs using SEO (search engine optimization).

Ya, she gets as freaked out as we do when it comes to learning new things and methods to build our blogs and readership, that’s why I love her articles because she’s no different than us when it comes to being overwhelmed by all this information and as she learns things, she shares by breaking things down into bite sized pieces. While I have chosen to use the “Ultimate SEO‘ plugin instead of Yoast, the same info applies except for some varying features on both.

Have a look at Marsha’s article below:

Attention Amateur Blogger!

An amateur blogger can benefit from plugins not available on WordPress.com. Adding the Yoast SEO plugin improves and focuses writing skills.

What Is Your Blog’s SEO Score? As an amateur blogger, I paid very little attention to anything SEO. If I saw those three letters together, my eyes glazed over. Continue Reading….

Source: How One Amateur Blogger Improved Her Writing with an SE O Plugin – ALWAYS WRITE

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22 Comments

D. Wallace Peach

January 26, 2017 at 11:16 am Reply

Thanks for the info. 🙂

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- dgkaye
  
  January 26, 2017 at 11:50 am Reply
  
  Most welcome Diana. 🙂
  
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Tina Frisco

January 26, 2017 at 10:38 pm Reply

If I understood Marsha’s post correctly, I can’t use Yoast on WP.com. Can Ultimate SEO be used on WP.com? Another great share, Deb. Thank you ♥

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- dgkaye
  
  January 26, 2017 at 10:41 pm Reply
  
  Thanks T. I’m no authority on Yoast, Marsha would know more, and I think, I’m not sure, you may not be able to add Yoast on .com But the good news is, WP.com already has an SEO program built in. 🙂 <3 Hope that helps somewhat.
  
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  - Tina Frisco
    
    January 27, 2017 at 12:18 am Reply
    
    Thanks, Deb. I’ll look for it ♥
    
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    - dgkaye
      
      January 27, 2017 at 9:40 am Reply
      
      Welcome T. You know where to find me if you have more questions. <3
      
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  - Marsha
    
    January 28, 2017 at 1:16 am Reply
    
    Here is the link to the WP article about how WP.com uses SEO assistance. https://en.blog.wordpress.com/2013/03/22/seo-on-wordpress-com/ It’s a great post. 🙂
    
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    - dgkaye
      
      January 28, 2017 at 10:27 am Reply
      
      Thanks Marsha. I’ll check it out. 🙂
      
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    - Tina Frisco
      
      January 28, 2017 at 10:22 pm Reply
      
      Thank you, Marsha!
      
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- Marsha
  
  January 28, 2017 at 1:11 am Reply
  
  The Ultimate SEO is also a plugin, so it can’t be used with WordPress.com. I did not know that WP.com had an SEO built in. I have not noticed it in use. I learn something every day! 🙂
  
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Marsha

January 28, 2017 at 1:08 am Reply

Thanks so much for sharing. I did not know that WP.com has the SEO program built in. How do you know when you have done all the SEO tasks correctly?

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  January 28, 2017 at 10:29 am Reply
  
  Well, I’m self hosted, so mine works differently than .com. But I have access to my analytics, as I hear WP.com users do. I can go to my SEO settings and check things. Although I don’t believe the built in SEO in .com acts like Yoast, helping with headlines etc.
  
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  - Marsha
    
    January 28, 2017 at 11:08 am Reply
    
    WordPress.com SEO does nothing to inform the user of why or why something is not effective. I used to get emails all the time from companies wanting to help me improve my SEO when I used WordPress.com. Now I use CoSchedule’s Headline Analyzer on everything. and I do the same things I do for Yoast on my .com posts. I just don’t know how I did. Does your service rate each post? Yoast rates SEO and readibility with a green, yellow or red dot. It lists the criteria for both the same way, so you know what to change. Good, ok and stop! I love that!
    
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    - dgkaye
      
      January 28, 2017 at 12:18 pm Reply
      
      Yes, my service rates posts, but not with color codes. And I too use CoSchedule (lol, when I remember) which is most helpful. I learned that from Janice Wald. 🙂
      
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      - Marsha
        
        January 28, 2017 at 9:52 pm
        
        I love Co Schedule. Janice is awesome.
        
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      - dgkaye
        
        January 29, 2017 at 11:53 am
        
        🙂 🙂
        
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February 18, 2017 at 10:04 am

How to Share Your Purpose on an About Page for Your Website? – ALWAYS WRITE
- dgkaye
  
  February 21, 2017 at 10:43 am Reply
  
  Thanks so much Marsha. <3
  
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L. T. Garvin, Author

August 18, 2017 at 9:39 pm Reply

Very interesting article, Debby. I’ve heard a lot about the term, “SEO” before. I do know what it means. It will be good to know if I ever change over to an actual website instead of WordPress.

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  August 19, 2017 at 10:20 am Reply
  
  Thanks Lana. Your WP is an actual website, lol. But becoming self-hosted is a whole new beast of babysitting. I have no regrets just lots to figure out when things go wrong. 🙂
  
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  - L. T. Garvin, Author
    
    August 19, 2017 at 6:00 pm Reply
    
    See, there you go, now you know how I am such a blogging wonder and so fluent in SEO, lol! 😀 Self-hosted, that’s the word, wink, wink 😀
    
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    - dgkaye
      
      August 19, 2017 at 6:26 pm Reply
      
      Lollllllllllll 🙂 🙂
      
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