3 🔥Tips For Better Paragraphs for SEO and Your Audience

What does a SEO-friendly paragraph look like? Its more than just a collection of keywords you want to rank for in search engines. Apply these tips for making the paragraphs on your website sing to SEO and your readers:

1. Cover one topic per paragraph

Don't address multiple topics or thoughts in one paragraph. A paragraph should be a thematic union. This means that sentences should belong together. Want to cover a new topic? Start a new paragraph.

2. Keep paragraphs short and sweet

SEO-friendly paragraphs should be short and sweet. Experts say we should aim for around 10 sentences max per paragraph. But even 10 sentences makes for a BEEFY paragraph.) Is your topic too vast? Consider breaking the copy up into multiple paragraphs with subheadings, or even multi-page blog posts.

Even a one-sentence paragraph can resonate and be ‘enough’ to get your point across.

See?

3. Use subheadings

Break up your story with subheadings. They help readers grasp the main points of your content. And they make it easier to navigate. Most people skim copy before they decide to read further. Subheadings help break up the content into reasonable chunks.

Did you see a pattern developing in this post?

Writing clear and SEO-friendly paragraphs will make your copy more readable. So it's worth the extra effort to learn how to write SEO-friendly paragraphs. Your readers will thank you for it!

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Lara Dickson

Now hailing from Oregon, USA (formerly Vermont) Lara Dickson is a ravenous Squarespace designer and enthusiast, Certified Squarespace SEO Expert, Squarespace Circle member, graphic designer, former organic vegetable and heritage breed pig farmer.

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