SEO for Everybody - In Blogging and In Life

Recently I searched for the term" everyone is an seo" and stumbled upon an interesting article entitled WordPress SEO for Everybody.  This article lists basic strategies for optimizing your blog, greater link building and stronger communication opportunities with your blog readers.  


Links to detailed SEO strategies are listed:

WordPress SEO for Beginners

• Beginner WordPress SEO (Part 1): How to Optimize Your Blog Posts
• Beginner WordPress SEO (Part 2): 9 Ways to Optimize Your Blog for Search Engines
• How to Optimize Images for Better Search Engine Rankings

Advanced WordPress SEO Topics

• How to Interlink Your WordPress Articles the Right Way
• How to Make Your WordPress Category Pages Search Engine (and People) Friendly
• The Secret to Getting More Links and Social Media Love
• How to Optimize Your WordPress Archive Pages for SEO

As a blogger, I can understand and appreciate these tactics and hope to employ them here myself.


But when I review just the titles listed above, it makes me interested in the broader communication strategies at play here.  Most of these tactics are teaching bloggers how to organize their thought process and how to properly categorize and label content.  This is Librarian School and Creative Writing classes all-in-one! 


I love SEO and I'm so happy that I work in this field that celebrates rational thought and organization as well as creative expression.  It just still always strikes me as funny that SEO is really at it's core, a communication strategy.  When you employ all the technical analysis and code your page correctly and label things properly, it really all boils down to making yourself heard - clearly and succinctly.


Isn't it funny how bloggers still need help to organize themselves, to rationally think through the user experience and make their pages function in a rational and easy to use manner?  If only we all properly communicated our ideas in clear and rational ways.  Wouldn't life be less complicated and easier to understand? 


But life is not so simple....and maybe all the incorrect communication that goes on in the world today between people, politics, and religion only serves to keep life interesting.   Yes, the world would be a more peaceful place if we learned to organize, label, and communicate effectively....but where's the fun in that?  For now, learning a few helpful lessons to better organize and communicate online will serve the bloggers purpose.  Next we need to learn to organize and communicate with each other in more personal and meaningful ways.