When you run a search on any engine, such as Google, you likely assume that no one else really takes the time to look at it. It’s stored in your search history on your device, but you don’t think any outside parties are going to look at it or connect it with you specifically.
It has been shown many times that blogging is an excellent way to increase organic traffic and page rank. Blog posts help you generate consistent content, they allow you to add keywords on a regular basis and you can use them to answer questions and address issues that your readers are interested in.
Like everything, SEO evolves over time. It changes. Some of this is inherent to the practice itself; i.e., people learn more effective ways to do things and update their tactics. Some of it is due to the shifting algorithms.
You’ve likely seen predictive text suggestions or autocomplete suggestions when running a search. In some cases, these just make it faster and easier to type what you were going to type anyway.
We know well that having a blog attached to your site can do wonders for your SEO. There are plenty of stories of people doubling or tripling their organic traffic — or more. While you do need on-site SEO as well, one of the fastest ways to increase your ranking and make your SEO more effective is to consistently blog about the search terms your audience is looking for.
Google searches in 2021 are often framed around questions, phrases and other uses of “natural language” to get a result. In other words, users aren’t typing in keyword strings. They’re quickly writing out phrases or asking complete sentences as they search for an answer.
