Hey, are you new to SEO? Just learned it or maybe learning and trying to use Your SEO learnings to rank your website or blog on top of Google SERP (Search Engine Result Page).
But unable to get a top ranking on your website.
You did your best to get a high ranking for your website on Google Search Engine but didn’t get the results.
There could be many reasons behind why you didn’t get the results but one of the important reasons is you didn’t do the right things in the right way.
And if you don’t do the right things then you will not get the results even if you spend 15 hours creating or publishing your blog or you created hundreds of blogs.
So, to make your efforts valuable by putting them in the right direction and using the right way to make your website or blog on top of Google Search, you need to implement some Effective and Smart SEO Tips.
For Effective and Smart tips to Win SEO Game in 2024, Read my blog completely, the one you’re reading right now.
In this blog, I have mentioned the list of 7 Effective and Smart Tips to Win the Game of SEO for Beginners in 2024.
Contents
What is SEO?
Before talking about Smart SEO Tips I want to give you an Overview of SEO.
So, SEO is nothing but the process or we can say a skill to bring your website or blog to the top of Search Engine Result Pages.
SEO is an important skill because without SEO you can’t rank your website on top of Search Results.
Without SEO you will not get more organic traffic and visibility to your website that you could get by using the power of SEO.
List of 7 Smart SEO Tips for Beginners in 2024!
1). Long Tail Keyword
Before talking about the Long Tail Keyword, first, let’s understand what is a Keyword.
Words that people use to search for something are called keywords.
Let me give you an example to understand it properly. Just assume you have a question in your mind about “What is Digital Marketing?”
So, you opened Google and typed “Digital Marketing Meaning” “Digital Marketing in detail” or “What is Digital Marketing in Hindi”.
So, whatever the words you typed in Google to know your answer is Keyword.
There are two types of Keywords, to be honest, there are more than two but these two which I am going to tell you are the most commonly used.
- Short Tail Keywords: These Keywords are short in length such as Digital Marketing, Business, SEO, etc.
- Long Tail Keyword: These Keywords are long such as ‘Digital Marketing Course in Delhi’, ‘Best Digital Marketers in India’ etc.
Why should you use the Long Tail Keyword?
It’s easy to get rank with Long Tail Keyword because in Long Tail Keyword you use Long, different, and specific Keywords those others don’t use.
So there’s not a tough competition for that Keyword.
That’s why it’s easy to rank on Top with Long Tail Keywords, but maybe sometimes your Long Tail Keywords can be the same as your competitors.
In Short Tail keyword, you just use common Keyword like “Digital Marketing” that so many other people are using.
So, there is a lot of competition that’s why it’s very hard for you to get a high ranking for your website with Short Tail Keyword.
Difference Between Long and Short Tail Keyword:-
3 Platforms for Keyword Research:-
1). SEM Rush
2). Ubbersuggest
3). KW Finder
Also add Your Keyword in the Title, Meta Description, and Permalink.
You also have to mention your Keyword in the Intro and in body of the content of your website or blog.
Don’t mention the Keyword again and again in one sentence or para but at optimum distance, you can mention your main Keyword in every para but don’t do it forcefully.
“The best way to rank for competitive terms is to start by targeting long-tail keywords and building your authority.”
2). Unique Content
To get a high ranking on the Search Engine Result Page you need to make your content unique how can you do it?
You can do it by making your content humanized.
It means if you write your content by your own-self or with the help of any other human then your content will be unique because all the humans think, write, and speak differently.
So if you get any ideas then there are too less chances that other people and even AI will get that same Idea (But Your Idea should not be too generic).
Whatever content you’ve written for your blog or website will be different and unique from your competitor because your competitor would have used his/her different ideas for the content of the blog or website.
(Unique Content or Humanize content is a game-changing SEO tip for beginners and for experts as well in 2024).
3 Tools that you can use for Content:-
- Grammarly: To correct all the grammar errors in your content. The free version of this tool will help you a lot. I am also using its free version.
- Small SEO Tools: You can check whether your content is plagiarised or not with this tool.
- Quil Bot: You can know whether your content has AI-generated content or not. Why did I tell you about this tool? You will know it in the para below.
(I also use all these tools that’s why I am recommending you to use)
Sometimes it’s very hard to write the content by your own-self.
So, what can you do when you don’t get ideas or just don’t want to write the content by your own-self?
You can do one thing which is Curate the Content but what does it mean?
It means you can see, read, and observe other people’s content and can use that content for yourself.
But don’t use exact content, you can use different styles, tones, and most importantly different words and sentences to use that content for yourself.
Let me give you an example for this:
Assume that you want to write a blog on Digital Marketing Trends for 2024 but you’re not getting ideas and you don’t have much knowledge about this topic.
So, you can just search in Google ‘Digital Marketing Trends in 2024’ and then whatever blogs you’re getting just read and observe them and use that same content for your blog.
But don’t to forget to change the style, tone, words, sentences, and stories.
If you don’t want to do it with Google then you can do it with ChatGPT just search your topic on it and you will get the content and then just change the tone, style, stories, words, and sentences of the content.
Now You will need to use QuilBot, after curating the content just check whether it is AI-generated or not with the Quilbot AI detection tool.
If it still shows Ai generated content then you need to change the content again and then re-check again.
“Unique content is the key to standing out in a crowded digital landscape.”
3). Image Optimization
You can’t ignore image optimization and if you’re ignoring then it’s like you’re not using the thing is which is important to do to get the result that you want.
First, let’s understand what is image optimization. Optimization means the best or improved version.
So, Image Optimization is making your images the best and improved for better SEO that will ultimately lead to boosting the ranking of your website or blog.
To optimize your images for better SEO you need to make sure that images you’re using have a size of less than 100kb otherwise images would take a lot of time to get shown on a blog or website.
You can use WebP and JPEG or JPG image formats.
Also, optimize the name of the image. If you have used an image in your blog that shows the Rise of AI then name that image Rise of AI itself.
You can’t use the spaces in the name of the image but you can use a hyphen like this ‘Rise-of-Ai’.
There is one website called online-convert.com that you can use to convert any image format to WebP, JPG, and many more.
“Optimizing images is essential—fast-loading pages and improved user experience are just a few benefits.”
4). Technical SEO
You also have to optimize Technical SEO. There are so many things that come under technical SEO but I am going to tell you three of them.
1. Site speed: Your site speed is an important ranking factor. So, try to increase it and how can you do this?
You can do it by optimizing images just keep the size of your images under 100kb and just delete the unnecessary images that your blog or website has.
Also, use the Design and other items that don’t have large sizes.
2. Sitemap: It is an organized way or structure of your website that helps crawlers index your website quickly.
If your website is not indexed then it will not show on the search result page or it will take a long time to get shown.
So, you need to do sitemap submission so that crawlers will index your website quickly and it will be shown on the search result page in just some time.
To submit your sitemap you need to integrate Google Search Console with your site.
And then go to Google Search Console click on the sitemap option type ‘sitemap_index.xml and then click on submit’.
You have to submit 2 more sitemaps ‘page-sitemap.xml’ and ‘post-sitemap.xml’.
3. Permalink: Permalink or we can also say Permanent link.
It is a URL for a specific blog post or web page. For Ex = www .me.in/blog/post-tittle.
The permalink of a blog or webpage should have that keyword in itself such as ‘www.abdulsamad.in/blog/SEO-for-Beginners’.
“Technical SEO is the foundation. Without it, you might as well not have a website.”
5). Microblogging
It’s an off-page SEO technique to get backlinks for your site.
In microblogging, you have to write blogs on the platforms that allow blogging like Medium, Tumbler, and many others.
You need to do it to create a backlink for your website or for the main blog that you uploaded on your site.
You can create a mini blog on a related topic to your main blog for Medium, Tumbler, or any other blogging platform to promote a main blog and then link it to those mini blogs and that will be a backlink.
(For a Backlink Purpose You can use Ai or ChatGPT content to create a mini blog or even a long blog as well).
You need to keep these 3 things in mind before creating a backlink by using any technique:-
1. Content Relevancy: The content of that blog or site that is giving you a backlink should be relevant to your niche or with the content of your blog or website.
2. DA: It stands for Domain Authority which is a ranking factor in SEO.
So, make sure the site from where you are getting the backlink that has good domain authority is at least more than 20, and the maximum DA that any website can get is 100.
By the way, I want to tell you the Domain Authority of medium.com which is around 95.
3. Anchor Text: It’s a text of backlinks. For example, this one 7 Digital Marketing Trends for 2025 to Get ahead of others.
So, it’s a link for my last blog and if you click on this then you will go to that blog the anchor text for this is ‘7 High-Paying Digital Marketing Skills in 2024’ which is the exact title of the blog.
By the way, you can read my previous blog by clicking on the the link.
Types of Anchor Text:
- Generic: Read more, click here, and learn more, etc.
- Same: Those are the same with the title like the link example that I gave you above.
- Brand: Your brand name as an Anchor Text.
- Naked URL: Exact URL like ‘chatgpt.com/c/66e32198-c5e4-8007-94ae-de55f8db3059’.
“Microblogging bridges the gap between quick updates and deeper engagement.”
6). Quora Blogging
It is also one of the off-page SEO techniques to create a backlink.
In this, you answer a question on Quora related to your blog for which you’re creating a backlink.
You can get an answer from chatGPT but you need to change the things as we discussed in 2nd point.
But you can’t put links in Quora from starting I would recommend you start creating a backlink on Quora after writing around 20 answers and 4 weeks.
After completing these numbers don’t put the backlink in every answer because Quora doesn’t allow us to do this otherwise it will ban the account.
So, when you have to create the backlink then you can just write 5 answers and include the backlink in just one.
Also don’t just answer the niche-related answers but generic ones as well. You must try this Effective and Smart Tip of SEO for Beginners to create backlinks because it’s too easy to do.
“Quora blogging helps position you as an authority by providing valuable answers to a vast audience.”
7). Mobile Responsive
Mobile Responsive websites are the sites that look good on mobile devices as well along with desktops and also work well on mobiles.
You should focus more on the Mobile version of your site because Google indexes your website in the mobile version first then the desktop version.
80% of Traffic comes from mobile and 20% from Desktop.
You can use any mobile responsive website theme to make your site mobile responsive as well.
“70% of the searches made on mobile lead to action within an hour.”
Bonus Tip
Use these two Plugins on your website:-
1). Rank Math: It will help you with the SEO of your site.
2). Lite speed cache: It will super fast the speed of your site from second-time people open that.
When people open your website the first time it will take the normal time but from the second time speed will be fast.
Bas, that’s it
Now, I am pretty sure that you can win the SEO Game as a beginner in 2024 with all the Effective and Smart Tips that I Told You.
Now don’t just let the learnings in your mind but in your actions as well.
If you want me to make my next blog on ‘How to Write an Amazing Blog in 2024?’, then drop ‘Blog’ in the comments.
If I’ll get more than 5 comments then surely I’ll do it.
See you next Friday, till that implement whatever you learned.
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