Writers, what's your favorite SEO tool?

@hamedbaatour True, but valuable content needs to be discovered and without SEO, it won't be, unless you have a pretty popular blog already. I'm sad that it is this way too, because I'd much rather use only those keywords that come organically. However, in the current environment of articles full to the brim with all of the possible keywords, it would be unreal to get reads, if you didn't use any keywords at all.

@hamedbaatour @anna_mandziuk I'm not sure that keywords are that important. I guess that off-site SEO factors like inbound links from websites with good authority are way more important than selecting the right keywords, but of course it's something you don't have direct control on.

@anna_mandziuk @costasathan your point Costas further supports the point that the only thing you have control over is the quality and how valuable the content is. search engines algorithms got so good at ranking the most useful content first to the point it is completely useless to try to trick it or go around it by focusing on trivial things such (tags, keywords...) as you said, of course, links are important but it's a buy product of having great content in the first place. no one will ever link to a post if the written content will not entertain or teach people something. period! anything else doesn't matter at all.

@anna_mandziuk @hamedbaatour I agree. The quality and the usefulness of a product are very important, but I'm afraid marketing is more important in the end. When a company can spend thousands and thousands on marketing it is obvious that they can reach way more people through advertisement, than someone who starts an effort on a limited budget. Also in many cases you may have to buy inbound links tοo, especially if you aim to get published by websites with a very good domain authority and very high daily traffic.