Hello, I was wondering what you should do when you make blog posts. Do you target keywords in your writing that you want your website to rank high in? Or how do you write blog posts for SEO purposes? Alex.
i assume you mean posting in blogs for link building purposes ? if that's the case the best way to do it is to write synonyms and related keywords arround the main "targeted anchor text" link, the article should be very relevant to the link too. good luck!
If you mean about optimizing a single post page for better seo than the first thing you need to pay attention to is the title, and than you need to work with keywords within the content and keep the needed density of the keyword in content of that post. Also make sure the blog post doesn't get repeated several times over the blog (for example, show excerpt of the post in archives or categories and in the paged sections of the homepage, archives & categories). You might want to give a read to this post, which examples how to prevent duplicate content in wordpress blogs. Thats what it regards the on page optimization, some back links pointing to that post will definitively help.