Yes!! I participated in this year's Empower her Community Non-Tech in Tech Bootcamp and this is an article about my favorite topic. Every topic was vast, interesting, educative, and informative, and to think writing to me before all of this was just picking up your pen and putting things down in your notebook but this Bootcamp taught me that writing is beyond that.

WHAT IS SEO?

Search Engine Optimization, is the process of affecting the visibility of a website or a web page in a search engine unpaid results — often referred to as “natural”, “organic” or earned “results” SEO is making your sites and articles better for search engines. In general, the earlier and more frequently a site appears in the search results list, the more visitors it will receive from the search engine users. In a nutshell, Search Engine Optimization is making your sites or articles better for search engines.

Types Of SEO

On-page SEO: This happens on your website and examples are blog posts, product copies, how-to guides, images, and all of those things you would have in your article. In technical writing, this is the major type of SEO we use especially when we are not managing a company’s global site. Most of the things used in technical writing are on-page SEOs.

Off-page SEO; This means anything outside of your website that helps you rank an off-page SEO examples are; brand mentions, social networking, word of mouth advertisement, link sharing, forums, and so on.

Technical; This is the grandeur of all the SEOs. and people shy away from it because it is tedious to master. After all, it is where the major work is and also a faster route to ranking on search engines. Examples are; site indexing for google bots.

P.S: All of these SEOs work hand in hand but on-page and technical SEOs are more in demand.

Why is SEO Important to a Technical Writer

• It helps people to easily get your content

• Builds your brands and increases visibility

• Improves credibility

-Helps you compete freely with other competitors

-It shows the value, relevance, and quality of your work.

How to optimize technical writing

Content Structure

-Title: set a well-defined title

-Meta title, Meta description: a short description of what your article will entail.

-Headings (Title, sub-headings)

-Keywords

-Slug- URL

-Internal links - network your page

-External links

-Embed media - images- gifs, tweets, videos, codes.

-Responsiveness across devices

-Canonicalization

-Write a compelling call to action (CTAs)

-Continuous optimization

-Using SEO tools ( Ahrefs, Google keyword planner, Google search console, google analytics).

SEO TIPS FOR TECHNICAL WRITERS

-Add Google Analytics to your site

-Create value – Write on unique topics as much as possible.

-Avoid Plagiarism

Conclusion It still feels surreal to have been a part of this Bootcamp. But I am ecstatic and honored to have been selected and to have participated. And to think I did not know jack about being an idea writer based on my previous works that were just ads for a product but now I can work on an article with confidence and knowledge.

thank you to Empower Her Community, technical writing facilitators, and all facilitators in general for the knowledge you have impacted in me to start my journey in Technical writing. I am grateful and I hope to make you all proud.