SEO Basics: How to Optimize Your Contents for Search Results
You’ve just put the finishing touches on your story. You’ve taken into account the guidelines for quality and exercises to further improve your story and are about ready to publish. Before you do, take a few moments to ensure this story gets the reach it deserves. Help it stand out in search. If your story looks great to Google, more readers will find it. The SEO team here has been hard at work making improvements to give your stories more visibility. Here are a few best practices, tools, and tips from Medium's SEO product manager. Make sure to follow these guidelines — these are simple ways to further grow your readership. Update the SEO settings for your story Set the SEO Title Before we dive into setting the SEO Title, take a look at your story headline. It should be clear and tell your readers what the story is about. Make sure this is the case. Now we’re ready to move on and see how Google will present it. In most cases, Google will truncate your SEO Title if you enter more th...