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Top SEO Habits to Grow Rapidly in 2019

SEO world has changed a lot in past few years. Every year SEOs are facing new challenges to comply with the latest search engine guidelines. The easiest way is to adopt the top SEO habits. Here are the best SEO habits that you should adopt in 2019.

Top SEO Habits to Grow Rapidly in 2019

Monday January 21, 2019,

5 min Read

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is more than just a job. It is all about skills and habits that help you, your business and your client to grow rapidly. Every year you need to follow new things and leave old habits to boost maximum productivity. SEO agencies and individuals are trying to track every single guideline set by Google or major search engines.


Developing the best SEO habits is the only thing that you need to grow your business every year.


Let's find out what these SEO habits are and how they will help in the growth of your business.


Top best SEO Habits that you must develop in 2019:

When you are working as an SEO professional, there are certain things that you must do and a few things that you must avoid. That is the reason why most of the SEO actions fall in the categories of White Hat, Green hat, Grey hat, and black hat.


Today, I am sharing only the white hat SEO habits with you.


New Research Habits:

Research is first and most important factor of a successful SEO strategy. A professional SEO should develop the habits of extensive research.


To maximize your SEO efforts, you need to create original content and to create original content, and you must do research. There are multiple tools available online that you should use to gather impactful data such as


  • Google Keyword Planner
  • SEMrush
  • Ahrefs
  • Ubersuggest


These are few of the essential tools that every SEO professional must use. By developing research habit, you can not only find long tail keywords and LSI keywords, but you can also find details about search volume, keyword competition, and SEO trends etc.


You can use Eagle Eye Concept to make research effective.


You must develop the habit of doing research related to your blog niche only.


When you do the research, you should learn how SERP works and how your data will satisfy the need of a visitor.


When you have researched data, then you can filter out all the objectionable content and create the post with highly engaging data.


Content Scoring:

Content scoring is the habit that widely ignored by SEOs and professionals. Content Scoring helps you find out how your content ranks in search results and what type of content your readers find interesting.


If you are new to content scoring, then let me explain this with you.


Content scoring means scoring the content according to the performance.


To check content scoring, you need to manage an Excel file. In the Excel file, you need to maintain files such as Keyword, search rank position, social shares and likes, comments, and backlinks.


By creating the content scoring file, you will find out how your content is performing on various channels. You can also use this file to create a strategy that will help you rank on multiple related keywords and terms.


Once do develop the habit of managing content scoring file then you can easily create impactful SEO strategy.


Learning Habits:

This is the most common habit that is necessary for SEO's to develop. The more you learn, the more knowledge you gain.


Learning helps you stay up-to-date with the latest trends, terms, and technologies that you should use to grow your SEO strategies.


You should learn from popular SEO Journals, SEO blogs, and marketers like Neil Patel.


This is the habit that will help you get the latest updates faster than 90% of other professionals in the industry.


Long Term:

The real success in a business is that which stays for the long term. Usually, most of the SEO's try to rank for the keywords which are easily beatable by competitors. Such keywords only give you sunshine but not constant brightness in search results.


It is always good to rank for the keywords that do not only have good search volume but also not quite easy to beat.


For this, an SEO professional must develop long term SEO strategies. Developing long term SEO strategies help you to rank for the keywords for years without worrying too much about the competition.


Long term strategies compel you to create evergreen content marketing campaigns and bring positive results that you can measure using various tools.


Focus on Every Factor of SEO:

When optimizing a website, content or campaign, you may find it difficult to cover everything, but that is where your habits play an important role.


If you have the habit of optimization, then you will find it quite easy. Habits are that we love to do and if optimization is your habit then no one can stop you from growing rapidly.


When optimization a site or blog you should focus on;


  • Keyword Research
  • Rank Tracking
  • Content Optimization
  • Backlink analysis
  • Video SEO
  • Link Building
  • Technical SEO


When you optimize your site or blogs with these, then you will find a lot of difference between the results.


Final Words:

These are a few of the essential SEO habits that you must adopt this year. These SEO habits will not only help you to rank higher but also help you to show off your skills and attract more clients. Research habits will make you a better researcher; content scoring will help you manage record of your content performance, learning habits will boost your knowledge, planning for the long term will help you stay focus, etc.


Adopting these habits will stand you apart from amateur SEOs.


What SEO strategies you are following? Which SEO habits are new for you?


Do share via comments.


If you still have any question, feel free to ask me.