If you want your blog to rank on Google, establishing your authority is one of the most important things you can do. But don’t let imposter syndrome set up shop…I’m going to give you some tips to help you blog with authority.
Episode Highlights:
Focus on Depth vs. Breadth
Don’t Hide Behind Anonymity
Build a Brand, Not a Blog
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Transcripts
Stephanie 0:00
If you want your blog to rank on Google, establishing your authority is one of the most important things you can do. But don't let imposter syndrome set up shop. I'm going to give you some tips to help you blog with authority.
Stephanie 0:14
Hey there, teacher, business owner, it's time to give your bank account a break and pause that ad campaign. I'm your host, Stephanie Royer, and I'm going to show you how to pay less for traffic.
Stephanie 0:25
Welcome back to the podcast. For the past few episodes, we've been talking about things you can do to set up your blog for success, specifically when it comes to search engine optimization. These are things that ideally you put into place from the very beginning, but these are things that can be fixed if you've been blogging for a while. But if you want to boost your SEO, one of the most important factors in getting Google to like your content is to blog from a place of authority. Now you're a teacher blogging about teaching, so I know that you're an authority on this topic. The key is to prove it through some of the blogging decisions that you make. So in this episode, we're going to talk about three things you can do to blog with more authority.
Stephanie 1:16
The first thing you can do to send signals to Google that you know what you're talking about is to focus on covering fewer topics in more detail with more posts, rather than using that same quantity of posts to cover a lot of topics with just general less detailed information. So just as an example, if you wanted to get travel tips before a vacation to Spain. Would you be more likely to trust the information from a blog written by a local who writes weekly posts about different points of interest in their favorite cities? Or would you trust the information in a one time blog post from a home decor blogger who went on a vacation to Spain five years ago and shared some pictures in a post? I've mentioned it before on the podcast, Google has trust issues. You need to show that your content can be trusted to give people accurate and relevant, up to date information. So when you're regularly writing and updating blog posts that cover a topic from many different angles, you're showing Google that you're an authority they can trust. The way that you do this is by sticking to those content pillars you've chosen for your website. If you missed last week's episode, episode 22, we talked about content pillars and how it's important to make sure every post you write can fit into one of those buckets. This ensures that you're focusing more on depth than breadth.
Stephanie 2:54
The next thing you can do to blog with authority is to avoid hiding behind anonymity. I know that it can be tempting to blog without identifying yourself - using illustrated avatars instead of actual pictures of yourself or using a pen name instead of your actual name - but I will say that the tides are changing. With the increase of AI, people and Google want to see the human behind the content, they also want to see that you have actual hands on experience with what you're writing about. And like I said, it's not just readers who want to see the person behind the post. Google wants to see it too, and you can do this by having an About page on your website, where you have a picture of yourself and you talk about your experience and credentials. You can also have an author bio box on each of your posts, like at the bottom, and that will highlight the person behind the content, and again, your experience and your credentials. Other ways that you can help people see that there's an actual human behind your website content is to have brand photos throughout. Show your face in some of your pictures with your products. You can, if you have a YouTube channel, you can embed some of those videos into your content, and also putting testimonials for your products in there can also be helpful showing that people actually do purchase your products because a real person created them. Now, again, I know this can be uncomfortable, but you're not sharing your mother's maiden name or your social security number or your home address, but you are giving basic information about yourself to show that you are a human, that you are an authority on what you're talking about, because you have experience on this topic.
Stephanie 4:48
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Stephanie 9:48
I hope that this episode has helped you feel less like an imposter and more like an authority because you are one by covering topics with more depth and breadth identifying yourself as the author of your content and treating your blog as an extension of your brand, you're going to be well on your way to getting Google to share your content in search results.
Stephanie:
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