SEO Made Simple: A Step-by-Step Guide

Guess how many blog posts are published each day.

Any ideas?

Over 2 million.

That means 46 people have pressed publish by the time you read these 4 sentences. This makes it kinda tough to stand out. But you have to, if you want to make your blog a successful one, that is.

While I often spend 4-5 hours on writing my blog posts, the 10 minutes I spend optimizing each post are easily the most important.

No wonder millions of people google the term “SEO” each month.

In a world where over 90% of online experiences start with a search engine, showing up on the front page of Google can be the deciding factor between a business that’s thriving and one that’s, well, bankrupt.

But what does SEO even mean?

Sure, you know that it stands for search engine optimization, but what gets optimized?

Is it the design? Or the writing? The links maybe?

Yes, yes and yes. It’s all of them and more.

But let’s start this SEO guide at the beginning.