Writing Web Content For Search Engine
In the present era, the world of quality search engine optimization depends on the key mantra of genuine and fresh content on the website. Without quality content on the site concept on search engine optimization is a myth. The content, playing the role of a silent salesman can either make or break your website. So, here we present to you a few effective ways which will definitely help in persuading the users.
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1. Identify A Topic
This is of course key when it comes to developing a successful series. Pick a manageable topic that will serve as your website niche. An SEO (Search Engine Optimized) website has a defined niche. Pick one topic or theme that will be covered on your website. If you are targeting leads in a specific geographic location, then choose one and I do mean the one main area that will serve as your niche.
2. Do Keyword Research
Use a keyword research tool to determine what keywords and keyword phrases are being searched for most. I recommend the following tools: Google Keyword Research Tool — Free Wordtracker — Free Trial (I find that it’s a bit overkill for typical SEO jobs) Yahoo! Keyword Tool — Gives precise numerical activity of searches. The goal of your keyword research is to obtain a list of keyword phrases relevant to your website’s theme. Note the levels of searches being conducted for the various phrases. This will help you determine what you want your keywords to be. TIP: Google’s Keyword Research Tool allows you to add your keywords to a list and export them into an Excel file.
3. Determine Main Keyword Phrase (Main KP)
First, rank the keyword phrases you discover in the order of importance. The keyword phrases that are searched for the most should get a higher ranking than the ones with no searches. Second, you should always rank the keyword phrases in terms of competition. If you find a phrase with a high search volume but a small amount of advertiser competition, you can bet that it will likely have less competition in the natural search area as well. Choose your keyword phrase to be the Main keyword phrase of your site that does all of the following:
- Have the most searches with the least competition
- Accurately describe your web site’s chosen theme
- Describes your product or service in a very common way
- Includes your main geo-target (city, state, country)
4. Determine Your Secondary Keyword Phrases (Secondary KPs)
The remaining keyword phrases play an important role in the content of your website. Keep your ranked list handy for integrating into your website’s content. In fact, these secondary KPs will later become your main KPs of the interior pages of your Web site.
5. Pick A Title
Start writing the content of your websites interior pages before you write the home page. Decide how many pages of content your site will have and select one keyword phrase from your research that most closely relates to your theme and meets your objectives. Starting with only 3–5 pages when you first launch the website. You can always add more pages later.
6. Start Writing Interior Pages
Start by putting your keyword phrase on the page. This will be your title. Research your page topic and write basic facts pertaining to the keyword phrase. Keep in mind that it’s facts that people are looking for and stay away from all forms of puffery. Give the facts without a lot of hype. This will naturally pull more keywords into the equation. Feel free to weave keywords into your content, but be careful not to overdo it as you can set-off Google’s penalty triggers. If you find yourself writing sentences just to incorporate keywords-don’t. Stop yourself and get back to the topic. If you are really writing on the topic, keywords should flow naturally.
WEB CONTENT WRITING TIPS
Write scannable text! People scan the web; they don’t read it so write text that can be scanned:
- Use bullets like they are on sale two for one.
- BOLD KEYWORDS.
- Use a combination of compelling and keyword rich headings.
- Use headings liberally (practically for each paragraph).
- Write short and choppy sentences (long ones are for print)
- Use the shortest word possible to get your point across.
- Write at the 9th-grade level.
Remember Your Goal Is To Provide Information
The search engines today have become answer engines. People come online wanting an answer to their question. Providing the answer to these information-hungry visitors will help you put them at ease, gain credibility and build rapport. Credibility online can lead to the same in person when that visitor becomes a lead. Incorporate KPs and Keywords — Add keywords liberally, but don’t make it sound unnatural. It’s wise to add them to the beginning of sentences, paragraphs, and headings. The very end of the page is also important. Staying on topic is one sure way to get more than enough keywords on the page. Be sure not to over do it you need a keyword density of 6% per phrase to get real recognition from search engine crawlers. More than that can get you penalized. Don’t try to sell too soon or too hard! — Save your sales copy for the end. “Give to get.” Provide the information they crave and at the end, offer your services. Do this as opposed to selling from line one which puts people off and puts them on guard. Be the one to give people the answers they are looking for and they’ll respect you for it and be more open to your soft sell approaches at the end of the page or in the right and left columns. Keep your opinions to yourself — Using words like “fantastic” or “incredible” too often sounds fishy. Take a look at the successful Wiki’s and notice that there is very little opinion going on. Of course, your opinion is valuable, but it’s more important to give the facts. Edit to the bone- Please do not put copy that’s destined for print on the web. Yuck! Copy written for print is just totally different than that on the web. The web is more succinct, choppier and less visceral, so get out your pencil and click “delete” to many of those extra words you don’t need. Be original- You can’t get away with copying the content of someone else. Google will catch you, and if they even remotely THINK your content is duplicated, your page may never see the light of day. Try to take an angle that no one else is taking. Be thorough and go the extra mile to bring content to the table from sources other than the web (like the newspaper, the tv news or Barnes and Noble). Do a spelling and grammar check — This goes without saying since it’s easy to get in a hurry when writing on the web.
7. Write An Introduction To The Series
In it basically, 2 main things are done- Firstly it is outlined where one will be headed over the coming days. This might even include announcing your actual topics (if you are that organized) but could be more general also. Secondly (and more importantly) the main focus of the introductory post is to help highlight the need that the series will help to address.
8. Interlink Your Posts
Always apply interlinking whenever you can. Here are a few of them: Central Page — In this case, you have one page/post on your blog that you link to from each post in your series that lists links to each post in the series. For examples of this check out my blogging for beginners series central page and the 31 days to building a better blog central page. Another variation of this is to make your introductory post the central page and as you write other posts add them to it.
Linking at the beginning and or end of posts
In this strategy, each post in your series will link to other posts in the series. There are two ways of doing this. You can either just link to the post before and after the post in the series or you can link to all the posts in the series from each post (for example my AdSense for blogging series and my blogging for change series for two variations on this).
9. Finish Your Series Well
While it might sound obvious to finish your series It’s important to do this well. Readers like closure and so do bloggers. it’s often good to finish a series with a short summary of what’s been written and/or some reflections on the process of writing the series itself. Especially helpful in a concluding post (or just a concluding paragraph in the last post) is the invitation for readers to add their own thoughts and points. In my experience, a series could have other posts added to it and so it’s a good thing to acknowledge this and invite others to continue it in comments (or on their own blog). In this way, you not only get reader interaction but also develop a more well-rounded coverage of the topic as your readers add their own expertise and experience.
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