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Ask Nile: Is it Possible to Blog without SEO?

By Nile Flores 35 Comments


Hmm… is it possible to blog without SEO? That’s a really good question. Yes, you can. Should you? Probably not, especially if you are wanting to rank well in search results on search engines, like Google. If you aren’t trying to rank well, or worried about being seen, then go ahead and blog whatever you like.

Wait! You might be reading this article and wanting to know what it means to blog without SEO, especially if you’re fairly new to SEO. SEO, or search engine optimization, especially in regards to blogging, means that you are creating content around topics, or keywords, that you want the search engines to possibly pick up and list. In return, there are hundreds or maybe thousands of people that may be searching for that topic, or keyword.

Is it Possible to Blog without SEO?

As a blogger, especially if you’re ambitious and want to reach a wider audience, you have to write about things that your readers or your niche are interested in. Not every blogger starts with knowing what they should write about. It comes with time, and research. Being passionate about what you blog about is nice, but it can only take you so far. Researching keeps you on top of what people want to read, and open to tackling topics you would’ve never thought about blogging about. It also fuels your blog with more content.

Aside from that, if you’re using a content management system, like WordPress, a SEO plugin helps you focus on writing blog posts. Some, like Yoast SEO, guide you to writing better, while focusing on a specific keyword. A SEO plugin also has tools to help structure your website, like titles and metas, and give Google a suggestion for using your blog posts’ descriptions. Some of them, you can set up to automatically add things like Open Graph, so your social handles appear in your search result’s Knowledge card, and help make your articles display well when shared on social networks.

So, the choice is up to you as a blogger. Do you want to grow your audience? Are you running out of topics to write about? Then yes, you’re going to have to use SEO techniques.


Filed Under: SEO Tagged With: ask nile series, blogging, keyword research

About Nile Flores

Nile is a 42-year old female from the greater St. Louis (Southern Illinois side) area. Nile is a mother of 1 son. She is also a web designer and developer, a graphic designer, and a public speaker, who exclusively designs and develops using WordPress. She also blogs at GoDaddy's Blog, Verpex Hosting's blog and her very personal sites, Pixelled and Nail Polish Happy.




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  1. Sagar Nandwani says

    September 26, 2017 at 1:16 am

    There are some great tips in here – loved this post and will be discussing some of the recommended actions with my team the next time we promote some new content, as it’s easy to overlook some of these actions, but they do work!

    Reply
  2. Soumya Roy says

    November 27, 2017 at 6:43 am

    You are right, there are many bloggers from different niches who may not be aware of SEO at all or have minimum knowledge on this, but still they are blogging. But in reality if someone wants to build his brand and make his blog reputed and profitable, then most probably that’s not possible without SEO. Personally I have seen bloggers on travel, interior designing, finance domains who blog without any SEO. But after they got the training from me, they got the actual view of how blogging can be a profession or business.

    Regards
    Soumya Roy
    Founder & Lead Coach
    PromozSEO.com

    Reply
  3. Rama Krishna says

    November 29, 2017 at 4:33 am

    Hi,
    I got good idea form this post and having great tips that can help to everyone, Looking for promoting blogs without SEO . Thanks a lot for sharing with us !
    Regards
    Rama Krishna

    Reply
  4. Terria says

    December 5, 2017 at 8:13 pm

    I think it is best to optimize for more than one platform. I need to be ready for Google to hit my site or for Pinterest to fail. It is never good to have all your eggs in one basket. So I do both SEO and optimizing for Pinterest.

    Reply
  5. Richard Juwah says

    January 1, 2018 at 6:53 pm

    Hello Nile.

    Virtually every blogger that starts out (usually on blogger or wordpress.com) just begin writing with no clue whatsoever of seo.

    Is it important? Yes. Bit then again, if you just want to keep a personal blog that isn’t commercially inclined, then it isn’t important really.

    Anything otherwise and it is.

    Cheers.
    Richard
    http://www.richeetech.com.ng

    Reply
    • Nile Flores says

      January 2, 2018 at 12:37 am

      Not every blogger started on WordPress.com or Blogger. Some of us started elsewhere, like b2 cafelog, Drupal, Joomla, tumblr, LiveJournal, DreamJournal, etc.

      Reply
  6. Rahul Parmar says

    January 5, 2018 at 5:14 am

    HELLO ,Nile this is really good one and very useful for me ,thanks for sharing and please do it more on it too..thanks again …..

    Reply
  7. Jack Edward des says

    January 21, 2018 at 9:49 pm

    Hey,
    In simple words yes, But at least do share your blog on social media to get some traffic.
    And as far as SEO is Concerned, There is no need to do it. It gets done automatically if the content is good, and is engaging. It will get your blog on 1st page of google for the relevant keywords and you don’t have to do anything.

    Just write useful and great content that your visitors would like and the benefit is that google love such content.

    Reply
  8. Christopher Charles says

    February 23, 2018 at 11:51 pm

    I think that’s one of the biggest misconceptions about starting a blog – write it and they will come. Not true. Google is a popularity contest (not the best answer to your question as they claim) and you’ve got to get out there and fight for attention or you’re not writing for anybody but yourself.

    Reply
  9. Michael says

    March 27, 2018 at 3:14 pm

    Great post! I agree completely. Ranking on search engines is very difficult without proper SEO tools such as Yoast. The only way to drive traffic without SEO would be word-of-mouth. Thanks for the read!

    Reply
  10. Stephen says

    May 21, 2018 at 3:53 am

    Online marketing techniques have evolved. Thus, to stay relevant and visible a blogger should have a clear plan of SEO. This will help in designing content optimized for the general audience

    Reply
  11. Imran Soudagar says

    May 30, 2018 at 8:37 pm

    It is not possible to reach a wider audience without SEO and other forms of marketing. I once had a poetry blog and just to test it out I didn’t do any SEO and didn’t share the posts on social media. To be honest, I did rank for a few keywords but these were low competition keywords that not many people searched.

    Once I ended up on the first page of Google for a keyword that had quite a few hundred searches a day. But that too didn’t last long. And after about three months I started making backlinks and started sharing the links on FB, Twitter and other social networking sites.

    And with this little SEO, I started to get a few hundred visits a day.

    Reply
  12. Louis Cook says

    June 8, 2018 at 7:30 pm

    Great tips. I agree. When I was started blogging I used to write 300words content.
    I think nowadays SEO becomes harder and If you know how to write great content and know the content marketing strategy then you don’t need SEO.
    Thanks

    Reply
  13. sachin khosla says

    June 11, 2018 at 6:55 am

    Yea! this is good information or also true, but sometimes without SEO, it can’t be possible to rank. Many people do blogging with different niche but they are not successful every time. Maybe by luck one or two blogs get famous, but it did not happen every time. So, according to if you really want to rank on Google SEO is the must.

    Reply
  14. Emeka nwaeze says

    June 28, 2018 at 5:55 pm

    I started blogging in xtgem. And by back then, I don’t even know what is called SEO and I manage to handle it and also get much traffic as well. So I believe that there are so many ways to blog without seo

    Reply
  15. Stephen Davison says

    July 5, 2018 at 4:03 am

    Hello Nile,
    Well Said, blogging is possible without SEO as many bloggers use various platforms like WordPress, Tumblr, doodlekit, Drupal, etc. for blogging. If the blogger is sharing his thoughts or opinions on his personal blog, then there is no need to go with SEO.

    Very informative post. This will help all marketers who plan for blogging.

    Reply
  16. Nihal says

    January 21, 2019 at 8:27 pm

    Hii Nile,
    There are some usefull tips and information for blogging begginers about seo .
    Informative post.

    Reply
  17. Levin Cooper says

    July 30, 2019 at 1:08 am

    All around Stated, blogging is conceivable without Web optimization the same number of bloggers utilize different stages like WordPress, Tumblr, doodlekit, Drupal, and so on for blogging. In the event that the blogger is imparting his musings or insights on his own blog, at that point there is no compelling reason to go with Web optimization.

    Reply
  18. Natalie Portman says

    December 31, 2019 at 12:33 pm

    Excellent article as usual. I understand how blogging frequency helps to tract user’s credibility and hope on us. I’m sure your ideas will help many bloggers to take their blog to its next level. I have got recently used Trello. It’s awesome.

    Reply
  19. Priya Singh says

    March 16, 2020 at 6:51 am

    Thanks for writing such a wonderful and informative article. I really learned from your blog. I am a regular reader of your post. Keep going with the same. Thanks again

    Reply
  20. Surbhi says

    May 18, 2020 at 12:16 am

    Great article and information you have shared about seo yeah you are right blogging can be profession if you do seo

    Reply
  21. rohit modak says

    August 22, 2020 at 11:41 am

    This is a really awesome blog post i have to say. Learned alot from this one. Thank you so much

    Reply
  22. Ankit bhoj says

    November 25, 2020 at 12:55 am

    nice article i read your some post very nice please write more content about seo i will waiting your next post

    thanks

    Reply
  23. Pardeep Kumar says

    November 27, 2020 at 4:03 am

    Hi this is a good article on SEO

    Reply
  24. Ankit says

    November 27, 2020 at 4:04 am

    Thanks for writing such a wonderful and informative article. I really learned from your blog.

    Reply
  25. Abhishek Tiwari says

    December 7, 2020 at 8:04 pm

    hello nile, I read your blog post here and I want to ask is it possible to run a blog without SEO? because without SEO it will rank never in search engine pages. Please answer.

    Reply
  26. Ankit bhoj says

    December 12, 2020 at 9:02 am

    Hey
    NILE FLORES

    nice article i read your some article very nice please share more article about long tail keyword i will waiting your next post

    thanks

    Reply
  27. Peter thomas says

    December 21, 2020 at 1:23 am

    No it is not possible i think so. SEO is the main body of a blog.

    Reply
    • Nile Flores says

      December 21, 2020 at 11:03 pm

      SEO is not just the main body of the blog. In fact, it makes little sense to state it that way. There are people out there that are killing it without having done keyword research, and just know their niche that well, or they’ve added a lot of value that people have connected with.

      Reply
  28. Chris Pineson says

    December 29, 2020 at 1:12 am

    I am totally on your side, especially this one “Do you want to grow your audience? Are you running out of topics to write about? Then yes, you’re going to have to use SEO techniques.” If you hope other users to hear your voice or your opinions, well, SEO is inevitable, and if you just want to solve a problem or just want to express your view and do not want to be responsible for the consequence, well, that SEO means nothing to you.

    Reply
  29. David Vardy says

    January 21, 2022 at 4:24 am

    Greetings Nile,

    Good Piece of content, SEO content writing is important to increase one’s site’s organic visibility and SERP Ranking.

    However, I strongly believe that the content should be user friendly. It should resolve the user query.

    Thanks
    David Vardy
    Digital Marketing and SEO expert

    Reply
    • Nile Flores says

      May 2, 2022 at 9:37 pm

      Hi David!

      I agree with you on most things, but in some personal sites, it’s not necessary to think too much on SEO. How do I know, I started off as a blogger 20 years ago, and some people just are using their web space to share random thoughts…and surprisingly, not too concerned about monetizing. So, there are cases where SEO doesn’t apply.

      Interestingly enough a lot of us oldies in the blogging world never really thought about SEO until later. Now, with changing my focus to my biz blog and monetizing, I’ve had to learn a lot about SEO that I get to speak about it at conferences across the US. 🙂

      Reply
  30. Owenayuk says

    March 23, 2022 at 12:30 pm

    If you ask me, no seo, no blogging. Blogging without seo is like living without life. Every blogger needs search engine optimization.

    Reply
    • Nile Flores says

      May 2, 2022 at 9:43 pm

      This is way too extreme in thinking and tells me you’ve not been blogging for a long enough time, to have experienced visiting enough sites in different niche that may not even use SEO at all.

      Reply
  31. arjun says

    October 20, 2022 at 1:46 am

    This is an good information,There are some great tips in here – loved this post and will be discussing some of the recommended actions with my team the next time we promote some new content,keep in touch

    Reply

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