Good SEO Content Requires These Qualities
This article was published on December 5, 2015
Categorized in: Content
Content plays an important role in SEO. Much of the organic traffic that comes to a website comes from search engines and sites that regularly publish new, authoritative content are most likely to rank. In order to generate this organic traffic, you must create content that is valuable to both SEO and to readers. Publishing content without taking either into account won’t do much for your SEO and organic traffic. As a website owner, you will want to make sure your content includes the following qualities:
Your Content is Optimized
Optimized content should include keywords as well as meta information when possible. Make sure that no title or descriptions are missing from the back end. If you create a lot of content simply for the sake of having a lot of content on your website, but don’t optimize it, this makes it difficult for users to find it. Implementing keywords means that users doing searches will see your results come up in the search engine results. Writing content without implementing a strategy to optimize is a waste of your time and energy.
Your Content is Easy to Share
When you post new content on your blog or website, it should be easy for visitors to share on social media or via email. You want to have social media sharing buttons that are simple to use. Someone who reads your content and wants to share it with their followers should be able to do so easily. This will benefit your SEO efforts.
Your Content is Easy to Use
Your content should be found on pages that load quickly. This improves the user experience. Other things that create easy to use content include easy to read content, mobile-friendly content, and pages that are free of unrelated sponsor links and ads. Your content can be well-written and authoritative, but if the user has trouble reading it because of any of the above-mentioned issues, they won’t finish reading and they definitely won’t share it with others. Regularly make sure that website pages load quickly and the content is formatted well.
Your Content is Valuable to Your Target Audience
Writing and publishing content on a regular a good addition to your website, but for SEO to really benefit from this content, it needs to appeal to your target audience. When creating content, make sure that you are thinking about your target audience and how they will benefit from said content.
Content should provide them with a solution to a problem, information, updates on your business or products, answers to questions, and, in some cases, entertainment value. While promoting can be a part of your content strategy, it should not make up the bulk of it. Your content should always consider the needs of your target audience.
Good SEO is comprised of a number of factors, all of which should be considered important to your efforts.
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About the Author: Brick Marketing President, Nick Stamoulis
Nick Stamoulis is a digital marketing expert and President of Brick Marketing. With 25+ years experience, he specializes in solving complex digital marketing challenges through SEO, content marketing, social media, PPC, email marketing, SEO for AI (GEO) and conversion optimization.
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