All of us associated with the Search Engine Marketing (SEM) industry would agree that content continues to rule. Writing engaging, keyword rich website content is one of the most important practices that can help create a successful website providing a great online experience - both to human visitors as well as search engines.
It’s very aptly said “the best SEO is good content.” However, despite this, a majority of website owners underestimate the importance of good quality, informative and original content and the profits it can bring to their online businesses. A lot of webmasters follow black-hat Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and link building tactics acquiring hundreds of worthless links which do more harm than good for a website’s rankings. It really is essential to understand that content is the key to gain maximum trust with search engines like Google. Well-written, keyword rich, informative website content has many benefits. Let’s quickly go over some of those benefits:
- Builds Trust: Search engines highly rate websites which help in spreading accurate information with the purpose of educating other web users. Quality content certainly helps in building trust among search engines as well as your website’s human visitors.
- More traffic doors: More content on the website means more website pages for search engines to index. This increases your chances of being ranked for more of your targeted keywords in the Search Engine Results pages (SERP’s). It’s also worth adding that higher the number of website pages listed in the SERP’s, better the chances of attracting wider audiences to your site.
- Enhances Link Popularity: If top search engine rankings is what you’re aiming for, then quality incoming links are the way. On the web, people are looking for useful information and are willing to link and share it with others. The best way to acquire quality and industry relevant topical links is to put rich, informative content on your website written with the purpose of sharing useful information with other users.
In the age of linkbait and social media, a well written and compelling copy of content can get your site hundreds and thousands of incoming links; that too at an incredible pace without being considered as spam by search engines. - Blogging advantage: I’m all for blogging! Blogs being dynamic in nature definitely have an advantage over static website content. A regularly updated blog can bring instant visibility in search engines and social media websites building trust with search engines and allows you to bond with other web users.
- Attracting focused traffic: Search Engine copywriting or content written with relevant keywords is one of the best ways of improving search engine rankings and attracting focused audience. Attracting relevant audience base helps in boosting your website’s sales conversion rate.
Explosive traffic flow
As a combined benefit, quality content can result in an explosive traffic flow from multiple sources i.e. search engines, large number of authority websites, blogs, forums, social media sites. But more often then not, site owners are unable to tap into its potential and gain conversions. Unfortunately, a lot of website owners have a lop-sided approach when it comes to writing website content. While SEO copywriting is highly beneficial, keyword stuffing only for better search engine rankings is frowned upon by leading search engines. Website owners should not lose sight of the purpose of writing website content - which is to engage and attract human visitors with the aim of providing genuine information.
As webmasters, content can be your trump card that should be utilized to communicate with your target audience to convey your sales message. Strategically written and placed content can play a major role in improving sales conversion rate and consequently boosting profit volumes.
Few pointers that should be kept in mind while writing your website copy
- Write for Human visitors: It is important to understand that human visitors are your target audience not only searches engines. Keyword stuffed content written solely for search engines fails to engage human visitors. Besides, search engines also consider such content as spamming. So, it’s not helping you either ways. Writing for human visitors while making a conscious effort to use your important keywords creates a win-win situation.
- Write quality content: Write content that is worth reading and offers some unique information that might be useful for target readers. This is the only way to attracting quality incoming links and high profit volumes.
- Avoid misrepresentation: Always offer correct and trustworthy information and avoid misrepresentation and publishing false or untrue information
- Present it properly: With so much information spread over the web, it is difficult to engage visitors for even a few seconds. The solution lies in writing compelling headings, making use of pictures, videos and presenting information neatly. Also, be sure to avoid grammatical or semantic errors.
- Make it easy to locate: Little point writing great content that cannot be even accessed. Make the information easy to locate for search engines and human visitors. Content should not be more than two clicks away from the homepage and the link should be placed where it can be easily located by search engines.
Whether you are a webmaster writing for yourself or are engaging a copywriter, it’s a good idea to keep the above mentioned pointers in mind. If you cannot, contact us and we’ll be glad to help!
). Even with the best of intentions, we’ve been absent from the blog for way too long. However, not without good enough reasons – last month has been rather eventful with many firsts. We attended workshops on Agile, organized by the Agile Software Community of India (ASCI) to get familiar with the most discussed topic in the software development community - Agile framework. The reason to cheer, however, is that the team did great sales wise. It’s worth mentioning that we over achieved the sales targets for the month and are absolutely thrilled with the performance. Another very exciting first – we’re learning a new language (no, not a programming language) and have cleared the first level exams. A true sense of achievement and more on this in a later post 
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