Blog Post Checklist: Do This Before Hitting Publish!

[@SportsSmartBetting]

KZbinrs like you would deserve more viewers! As a beginner I can say that the channels like yours have major impact on our success. Thanks for sharing these information!

[@PassiveIncomeGeek]

You're most welcome! Thanks.

[@sagardixit8432]

Fantastic video! There is a plethora of information for bloggers like me. I'd been waiting for the video since the morning. Thank you very much, Morten!

[@PassiveIncomeGeek]

Glad you enjoyed it! And happy to hear that it was worth the wait ;)

[@sagardixit8432]

@@PassiveIncomeGeek 😊 You are an awesome guy! Please do a live session soon

[@fiberfoodfactory]

Thank you for your great content. Just a note to the image size. If you want to appear in google discover your image needs to be 1200px wide. For example, food bloggers want to use this image size in their featured images. But it is good to compress the file size to under 200, plugin like imagify or shortpixel is good. Also tinypng works for this.

[@PassiveIncomeGeek]

Thanks for the tip. I have never had a site in the food niche or went after the Discover traffic, but it's definitely worth looking into, thanks!

[@tomcaldwell5750]

Thank you for these helpful pre-publication checklist tips for our blog articles. You are the man!

[@PassiveIncomeGeek]

Glad it was helpful!

[@tomcaldwell5750]

Awesome, just what I needed. This blog post checklist is very helplful. How do you get the 👍👎buttons for the your question " "Was this article helpful?" ?

[@PassiveIncomeGeek]

We programmed it ourselves. That said, it's not really worth it unless you have at least a couple of 100,000's pageviews - VERY few people interact with it.

[@PR4DE]

So I've been using Linkwhisper since your last video about it. What an amazing tool! I don't know if it had a direct impact on traffic but no doubt it's helping my pages rank. Before I had several pages which Google just didn't want to pick up, but after I made the links they got picked up by Google in a couple of weeks.

[@PassiveIncomeGeek]

Glad to hear it!!

[@jamesabuti6198]

Great video Morten. Love the channel as it keeps us moving and motivated to create awesome passive income websites that are fully helpful to readers and not sales focused. Cheers!

[@PassiveIncomeGeek]

Great to hear!

[@Dr-Sandip-Roy]

Definitely helpful - especially the meta-desc part. It's no use now wasting time crafting "perfect" meta anyone!

[@PassiveIncomeGeek]

I agree ;)

[@DanielWorkmanResearch]

Very helpful, thank you Morten! Just a quick note that I don't use any images within the article for my new website (although I do use thumbnails for the content category listings in WordPress). Part of the reason is that, as you say, most ads these days have great graphics including videos. Also, I hope that no image within the posts makes the Table of Contents plugin more attractive for navigating the content.

[@PassiveIncomeGeek]

Interesting, let us know how it goes :D

[@zac2k801]

Once again a very informative video, thank you for sharing 😊

[@PassiveIncomeGeek]

My pleasure!

[@himansukunwar6276]

THANKS 👌👌👌👌 please help me out with niche selection..got stuck in it,, what would u suggest if i were a mechanical engineer?

[@PassiveIncomeGeek]

I think it would be wrong for me to suggest niches here, as too many people would jump on it. But hey, go for mechanical engineering if you have passion there!

[@himansukunwar6276]

@@PassiveIncomeGeek thanks

[@alaminsagor7618]

Shortening url like that won't confuse google right? About what the post really about? I always put the long tail keyword that i target to write the post.

[@miamiles7996]

Which hosting site do you use for your blog posts?

[@richardleighton822]

Great video Morten - thank you very much!

[@PassiveIncomeGeek]

Glad you liked it!

[@TechSwanky]

Very nice content mr.mortan Can u please cover a video about how to write a perfect article without a SEO plugin. Hope this cmnt will not go unseen.

[@PassiveIncomeGeek]

I just did that. Check my latest videos (for a video about how to write a "perfect" blog post)

[@thierrydebelder2947]

Hey Morton, do you use a page builder for your posts or just the gutenberg editor?

[@PassiveIncomeGeek]

Today I just use the Gutenberg editor, to get better speed scores.

[@thierrydebelder2947]

@@PassiveIncomeGeek Thought so thanks. I have a lot of pages created with a page builder, any tips on how to recreate them in Gutenberg without it taking ages to do all that? Great checklist btw

[@akkawowa]

Hi @Passive Income Geek Thank you for the great content! Quick question if I may - If I tweak and re-edit the articles on an existing site (with the intention of improving the quality) will I need to wait 6 months to see if there has been an improvement in the rankings, or is Google generally quicker with articles that have already been indexed and ranked? Thanks once again for your content. I came across your channel through a video you did with WP Eagle and have been devouring your videos ever since. I hope to start your course this week. 🙂

[@PassiveIncomeGeek]

Thanks a lot! Great question. In my experience, it's not a new start with Google. If you only update like 10-20%, many times you will not lose anything. But with bigger re-writes, expect 2-5 months - depending on how established the site is. It's always worth it though! if you are improving the content!

[@akkawowa]

@@PassiveIncomeGeek Super, thank-you!

[@udaybeksravi4926]

Great content as usual, I would like to ask you about domain; which is better a new domain or expired domain with some authority and backlinks in order to rank in Google faster? I would be so happy if you answer to my question.

[@PassiveIncomeGeek]

I always choose a brand new domain. The benefit is minimal and it's risky if you ask me.

[@RMdar01]

Hi Morten. Great video. Any tip on how to pass the mobile test friendly for articles? My article sometimes do not pass mobile friendly even if I change it around

[@PassiveIncomeGeek]

Oh, that's a long one to answer here, I should maybe do a video about it!

[@RMdar01]

@@PassiveIncomeGeek if you can do a video that will be great (I am in your course) I’m learning a lot

[@alijee9443]

Great. What you think about surfer Seo and squairly? some youtubers are recommending this and saying these tools are best for on page optimization.

[@PassiveIncomeGeek]

I don't use these tools. I feel like (at best) they help me copy what others are already doing. I want to create something better and not just similar to what already ranks.

[@varunrai9339]

Bro, thanks for sharing the insights. I have a question, do you lazy load Ezoic ads and display them as the user scrolls down the page or all the ads are loaded on page-load? How do you optimize Ezoic ads for page speed? I was watching a video by Mediavine and they explained how they load ads on scroll, on page load they just load ads above the fold. Is this also possible with Ezoic?

[@PassiveIncomeGeek]

Yeah, with Ezoic we now have the free LEAP tool that takes care of all these things! It's free for all users.

[@varunrai9339]

@@PassiveIncomeGeek Thanks for your reply. Would you recommend sticking to Ezoic after 50k sessions or you suggest moving to mediavine? Many people complain that Ezoic shows a lot of ads on the page which ruins the page experience. Is this still true in your websites that you are running with Ezoic or the number of ads that show up with Ezoic and Mediavine are more or less the same?

[@klifwiepkema9788]

Heey Morten great and very helpfull video. Today I will publish a new article and I am going to use you checklist :) I also have an important question: in the last week I rewrote an article and now I also want to use a 301 redirect for this article because the url is very long. Does a 301 redirect harm my seo ranking for this page? Iam very happy that I found your youtube channel. Your video's are very helpfull for me and it motivates me to create a succesful blog.

[@PassiveIncomeGeek]

301 will force a reindex - and sometimes it's smooth - othertimes not so much. Changing the URL always will always cause that. However, I'd not redirect to get a prettier URL - just stick with it. The URL is a VERY small ranking factor. LOTS of huge sites have super-long URLs.

[@souravghosh2758]

Niches like tech need a lot of images in a content. Mostly they have tutorials. How can they manage images and ads simultaneously in a post to not make it long?

[@PassiveIncomeGeek]

You will maybe have to tone down the ads on such an article. Take a good look at it with all ads enabled and see if it makes sense, otherwise, make adjustments.

[@switspot]

Thank you, saved me tons of stress👏👏😊😊

[@football-planet22]

Hi brother 💖 do you use some of seo plugin yoast or rank math. I want to switch from yoast to rank math it's okay with that can't hurt my Site

[@PassiveIncomeGeek]

I have a video about why I'm not using ANY Seo plugins, check it out ;)

[@kashyapjigyash]

Hi Morten, what your views about adblockers, can they affect in the future

[@PassiveIncomeGeek]

I think they matter very little. Unless you're in the programming niche, I've seen them use them extensively among a few sites.

[@kashyapjigyash]

@@PassiveIncomeGeek gotcha:D

[@Telluwide]

Some great tips Morten! Thank you!

[@PassiveIncomeGeek]

My pleasure!

[@famifami5771]

Which theme has used on this website

[@sagardixit8432]

He uses Astra( Free version). He did mention in a few of his videos.

[@PassiveIncomeGeek]

yeah, Astra it is.

[@Jattashishchahar]

Sir, I have written 50 articles on my site and Google was indexing my new post in just 24 hours but suddenly Google is not indexing my new posts even after a week, Sir please help that I can do to make Google index my new posts? I have checked everything robots.txt and meta tags, everything is fine but still Google is not indexing my post 🙏🙏❤️

[@PassiveIncomeGeek]

Not much you can do rather than what I do in this video. Google has lots of "glitches" right now... kinda wierd.

[@Jattashishchahar]

@@PassiveIncomeGeek Ok, thanks Sir, I really love your kindness ❤️

[@makingsensewithrobbie4396]

Headings are also good for accessibility.

[@PassiveIncomeGeek]

can you clarify?

[@zakaria_chana]

So that letter you put in the mailbox, did it arrive and who did you send it to? :D

[@PassiveIncomeGeek]

HAHA, it was just a piece of paper - so the mailman must have been confused :D :D - luckily I got this clip in the first take ;)

[@koody1833]

Your videos are informative, while many other SEO experts just repeat the same things

[@PassiveIncomeGeek]

Thanks! I really try to say something "new" in all my videos so they are not the same information getting spinning in circles ;) So I really appreciate you saying this ;)

[@famifami5771]

I daily check KZbin just for your new video.

[@wastedtalentinc8007]

Just subscribe and click the bell to get alerts when he posts a new video. Easy

[@PassiveIncomeGeek]

Thanks, glad to hear it ;)

[@ShareMyGadgetHouse]

Great content, as always!

[@PassiveIncomeGeek]

Thanks!

[@WendyTomlinson]

Always helpful. Thanks

[@PassiveIncomeGeek]

Glad to hear it!

[@jeremyjordan6786]

Hey, Morten I am having some issues with the search console articles getting rejected (5xx server error) Everything is okay may be it's a glitch I am just not sure what's happening some of my sites are getting indexed others are rejected it's just weird

[@PassiveIncomeGeek]

Hmm, there has been glitches. Check my videos about Search Console.

[@safarsgaming]

good one!

[@ibexkid8002]

Thanks a lot.

[@PassiveIncomeGeek]

Most welcome!

[@WasimAkram-gu7bp]

I loved your process

[@PassiveIncomeGeek]

Thanks!

[@madhusankakumara7303]

Great content. Thank you

[@PassiveIncomeGeek]

My pleasure!

[@JoshuaGK]

Another great video, thanks!

[@PassiveIncomeGeek]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@DeepakKumar-ox5ti]

Nice video.

[@PassiveIncomeGeek]

Thanks!

[@Rahuluk-qg3xb]

Welcome you a lot to bring a new video

[@PassiveIncomeGeek]

Thanks.

[@CristianGonzalezGuasch]

Image size matters for google discovery as well as AMP. Google says: "Include compelling, high-quality images in your content, especially large images that are more likely to generate visits from Discover. Large images need to be at least 1200 px wide and enabled by the max-image-preview:large setting, or by using AMP. Avoid using a site logo as your image."

[@demo7191]

Thanks for this comment! How about videos?

[@PassiveIncomeGeek]

I don't care about AMP, now we can all rank up there and AMP pages are not that relevant for us using display ads.

[@famifami5771]

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