Writing SEO Friendly Articles "Checklist":

1. Keyword in the title.

2. Keyword in the first paragraph.

3. Keyword in the image alt tag.

4. Use long-tail keywords in the body.

5. Use long-tail keywords in H2 or H3

6. Add multimedia (video, slides, and infographics).

7. Minimum 3000 words.

8. Optimize images before uploading (compress and resize).

9. Optimize page load speed.

10.Create a meta description which is clicking worthy

11.Internal links to related articles with correct anchor text

12.Outbound links to relevant high-quality sites.

13.Content length: The longer the content, the better it probably is. But don’t

try to needlessly increase the content length.

14.At the end of the blog post, ask users to take action

15.Make sure to have social sharing buttons either at the end or floating on

the site of your post

16.Don’t put more than one H1 tag (your post title is H1).

17.Don’t repeat the same H2 and H3 tag.

18.Don’t stuff keywords.

19.Use SEO friendly URL, make sure your URL only contains your main

keyword.

20.No misspelling and or poor grammar.

21.Write 2 line paragraphs max, don't write long paragraphs.

22.Check your article on mobile as well as 60-80% of your traffic will be

reading your article on mobile.

23.Check your article in copyscape.com for plagiarism.

24.The best strategy is to look at your competitor article and make your article

10 times better.

25.·Fulfilling the intent of the searcher is more important than SEO

optimization.