This year on Copyblogger, each month has a theme — and in March, it’s search engine optimization.
That’s great news for some of you, and terrible news for others. If you’d rather eat a bug than think about SEO, you and I have much in common. On Monday, I wrote about some solid SEO advice that won’t have you contemplating a heaping bowlful of breakfast crickets.
I also gave you some simple, “you-can-totally-do-this” suggestions on Copyblogger FM. And on The Digital Entrepreneur, Sean Jackson and Jessica Frick talked with SEO wizard Eric Enge about how search optimization has matured over the years and why it’s still important.
On Tuesday, Beth Hayden gave us a little gentle, user-friendly advice on keyword research. Finding your keyword phrases shouldn’t be a robotic process — it’s really about learning more about your audience and how they think.
Everyone on the editorial team has decided that Stefanie Flaxman won the week, with a Loverboy headline reference on Wednesday, combined with the subhead “The eye-roll heard round the world.” Well-played, Stefanie. This is a great post, too, about why writing actually is a pretty cool and amazing thing to do with your life.
Today we also published a new pair of Content Challenge prompts! These are exercises we do together as a community to get better at what we do … and more productive so we can make more great things happen.
Keep those creative thoughts flowing, and don’t overdo it on the breakfast crickets …
Chief Content Officer, Rainmaker Digital
Catch up on this week’s content
![some of us would rather eat a bug than try to figure out what headless crawling means]()
The Wise Content Marketer’s Guide to Sensible SEO
by Sonia Simone
![this is not a time to guess or assume you know your audience so well that you know what they’re thinking]()
3 Simple and Effective Keyword Research Tips
by Beth Hayden
![find the space where hard work and fun coexist]()
Everybody’s Working for the Weekday
by Stefanie Flaxman
![2017 Content Excellence Challenge: The March Prompts]()
2017 Content Excellence Challenge: The March Prompts
by Sonia Simone
Does SEO Still Matter?
by Sean Jackson & Jessica Frick
Brian Clark on the Productive Insights Podcast
by Caroline Early
10 Quality Factors Search Engines Need to See on Your Site
by Sonia Simone
Designing Your Lifestyle with Entrepreneurism
by Brian Clark
How the Author of ‘The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can’t Stand Positive Thinking’ Oliver Burkeman Writes: Part One
by Kelton Reid
9 Steps to Becoming a Better Podcast Listener (And Why That Matters)
by Jerod Morris & Jon Nastor
Reader Comments (7)
Hello Sonia,
Thanks for the weekly digest. I have read some of the articles and its really informative and helps me a lot in my blog SEO.
This month’s theme really comes at a perfect time for me. SEO is that scary three letter word, but I know I need to tackle it and understand it better to increase my blog’s growth.
I have been struggling to get my SEO together for my blog. It’s not always so easy to write an article with a title that includes a keyword. But I do my best.
If that keyword is the topic that your audience cares about, it shouldn’t be hard at all.
Thanks for this Sonia. I really need to get the SEO going on my blog, or just get my blog going really. This was helpful to me and looking forward to more of your articles.
Why not keep the Loverboy theme for this post? I suggest, “SEO: Lovin’ Every Minute of It” – (that album released 1985) Although, kids these days wouldn’t get the reference 🙂
You guys are on a roll! Solid posts all related to my favorite topic – SEO. Thanks a ton.
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