Are blog posts good for SEO?

Blogging helps boost SEO quality by positioning your website as a relevant answer to your customers’ questions. Blog posts that use a variety of on-page SEO tactics can give you more opportunities to rank in search engines and make your site more appealing to visitors.

How often should you publish blog posts?

To maximize organic traffic, HubSpot recommends that small blogs post three to four new posts per week, and large blogs try for four to five posts per week (including updated posts). A small blog is considered one with a limited team and writing staff.

Should blogs be indexed?

If you want your site to show up in the search results at all, then it needs to be indexed. However, you don’t want your site to be indexed just once. That “new stuff” can be a new page on an existing site, a change to an existing page, or an entirely new site or blog.

How often should I blog for SEO?

Blog posting once per day is a good maximum, as most websites begin to experience decreasing marginal returns after ~30 posts per month. And, without a good disciplined content plan in place, blogging too frequently may actually create keyword cannibalization issues.

Does NoIndex affect SEO?

However… The NoIndex tag can be GOOD for SEO. Yes, you read that right. While you need to be very careful with how you use it, the NoIndex tag plays an important part in search engine optimization, and you would be wise to understand it, rather than simply assuming that it’s always a bad idea to use it.

What pages should not be indexed?

Pages that Google will often not index include:

• Blog category pages.
• Blog author pages.
• Pages that are indexed under another domain (www.example.com and not example.com)
• Pages with 404 or server errors.
• Pages with coding or a canonical tag that is telling Google to ignore it.