As you can tell by the different title in this daily post, I have done a bit more research on SEO Friendly websites today. Again, the goal of this blog is not to gain followers, but instead to give me a medium to practice how to do that.

• First of which, the obvious one, is using numbers and brackets in your titles. Numbers are attention grabbing and will make more people more inclined to click on your link. It is very simple to rework your title into having numbers and parentheses to make it more appealing.
• A great way to find key words is to search your content topic, and scroll to the bottom of Google to see what other words or phrases are related to that search.
• Meta descriptions (the blurbs under each google result when your search something) can influence a reader to click on your site. There is nothing to gain from including key words in those descriptions, however, those that are written well and satisfy what the user is searching for make them more likely to get clicked on.

I’ve also learned that using an SEO plugin may be an advantage as well, given that there are a few effective free options. I am going to hold off on installing one for this website however. I have almost a fully conceptualized idea of the website that I want to make that I would like to go “all-in” on. Once that website is built and launched, then I will use a plug in to see the true difference that something like that can make.

Just using these few simple tactics that I was reading up on today, my posts are already looking more internet friendly. Still a long way to go, but already seeing improvements from my day one post is a positive sign. (using internal links such as that one is another thing I learned today)