4 Ways to Optimize Your Blog Images for Search Engines

By now you probably have heard of the often repeated phrase that “Content is king!.”  While this is true, and you should pay attention to the content you create and keywords you use to write your blog posts.  Did you know that your photos and images should also be optimized for search engines and made seo friendly?

Many blog writers spend plenty of time making sure their blog posts are rich in keywords and full of helpful information for their readers.  Too often they are so anxious to get their blog or article posted, that they quickly insert their images (if they consider them at all) and publish their blog post without considering how search engines view images within an article.

You can make your photos, graphs and images much more seo friendly by doing the following:

4 Ways to Format Your Blog Posts So They’re Easier to Read

Back in the early days of online writing and web development (1995), formatting possibilities were very limited for most web content.  You had to be proficient in HTML (hyper text markup language) in order to change the font size of your written content which was beyond the technical abilities of many internet users.

There were only a few changes you could make to subheads and most text and online fonts were limited to Arial and Verdana.  However, now with all the Web 2.0 changes, many blog posts and online content is now being formatted with the beauty and legibility of layout print magazines. Web developers have developed these features into their blog themes so that the average blog owner doesn’t have to learn HTML and can take advantage of more advanced formatting possibilities.  Of course, their (the blog owners)  objective is to get blog readers to read their content, share their blog posts and/or act on the call to action.

5 Quick Tips to Generate Article or Blog Post Ideas

It’s a busy afternoon and you are sitting in front of your computer desktop or laptop, and are just stumped because you can’t think of anything to write for your next article or blog post.

You know what your niche is and you have studied your relevant keywords but you can’t seem to come up with a good article idea. You have a bad case of what is known in the business as writer’s block.  There is a way around this if you are willing to do a little research and follow a pre-planning trick that I learned,  an idea that will definitely boost your article writing.