How important is content on your website

Rania Mdimagh
IndiaNIC
Published in
5 min readAug 14, 2020

Design, interface, functionality are the elements present, and crucial for the existence of every website. yet, what makes it actually work is another element that some people might not pay much attention to it :

website content!

Everyone wants their website to be minimalist, modern, and attractive until they completely focus on visual appearance. but when it comes to certain dimensions like credibility, ease of use, and most importantly your search engine rankings it is determined by the content you present itself.

This blog is all about how important is the website content in determining its success

Reasons why your website content is so important!

Communicate your website purpose

Content provides the information your user is looking for. You should always make sure whether it accurately communicates your website’s purpose. It can be to offer services, sell products, or even simple educative purposes. The user should know what the website is about from first sight and should not require any extra guidance using it as it is all clear through the content provided.

Check IndiaNIC website how their “about page” communicates their purpose.

Increase your website’s conversion rate

Providing the necessary details and information about your products and services in a clear and easy way can help keep users on your site as they get all the informative content they are looking for which eventually increase the potential of converting them from visitors to actual customers.

Guarantee good rankings on search engines

Yep, it is all about SEO (searching engine optimization).!

Content provides relevant data that can be used to educate search engines and crawlers about your website.

With the right content, search engines will know when to show your website and its pages in the search results for relevant search queries. This means no matter how good looking your website is, if it does not have enough quality content then it simply will not rank highly within search results.

Add value to your business and increase ROI

it’s important to remember that any content on your site is primarily there for one reason; to generate revenue for you and your business.

Content creation is a sort of smart marketing and like any other marketing strategy, it gives in return on your time and effort investments. Blogs for example are meant to attract unaware audiences.

Here are some tips to excel your web-content

Keep it Original and Varied!

Boring, repetitive long content won’t catch anyone for 2 seconds to check it!

It is important to vary your content formats: there are numerous choices from blogs, videos, short animations, explanatory posts illustrations, infographics, diagrams, and interactive presentations are often used to explain difficult concepts and assist users in their decisions.

Internauts need a reason to keep visiting your site. It’s important therefore not just to have original content, but also to vary the content and update it regularly. it depends on the type of website: for example, an informative or news website needs daily updates and add-on while an e-commerce site needs to update a few pages a month.

Optimize your content regularly

descriptions, tags, links, keywords are the essentials to stimulate Google to rank your site highly. Optimizing your content is all about adding the right value to it. with improvements in computing power search engines now have algorithms to properly analyze the entire content of a page and extract what should be visualized on their pages.

Great ways like :

Internal linking

The Principle is simple: one content promotes other content and one web page promotes other pages through hyperlinks. Internal linking is a great way to lead users to additional information that they may be looking for.

Keywords

Keywords are like tracking terms that help your website to be found. Smart Content is a great spot to feature and highlight those keywords in a significant natural way and to help web indexes make the association between your site and the words that you need to be ranked for.

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Filter keywords and follow trends

Try t think like a customer and find what potential keywords they might be using to get to your services. Keywords are the king of the SEO world and they should be highly highlighted within your content.

Generate customer-centric content

First, you should determine the high-value needed by your customers (HVC). your Taglines and slogans should customer-centric and able to capture the attention of your prospective customers. The content on your website should target your audience, engage them, and persuade them to take action.

Contact the right content writer/ creator

How do I get content for my site? Clearly the first cheapest option is to write the content yourself. It might be possible to generate necessary content on your website but when it comes to entire pages /blogs you certainly need the help of a professional. While developing your website try to opt for an IT firm that helps with the content itself in the first development phase. Later contact a professional content writer that can come up with catchy attractive simple content for your website based on discussed topics on regular bases.

As a conclusion

Good content is what sets your website apart from the market and conveys the correct message to your current and potential clients. The success, popularity, and greatness of your site are determined principally by its content in addition to the good combination of design visuals and functionality.

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Rania Mdimagh
IndiaNIC

Marketer, Blog /content writer, and creator for IndiaNIC and Cohort believing that marketing is the art of selling potatoes ;)