Page Content

If you want your website to be a success then you have to get smart with your content. The content is the text on the pages throughout your website. One of the biggest challenges that you will face is balancing writing good content that’s optimized for search engines, yet at the same time will also appeal to your customers and keep them on your website.

SEO is the most misunderstood topic when it comes to building websites. Let’s get one thing straight from the start – don’t be so naive to think you can design a website and be an instant success and generate thousands of sales or enquires from simply having a beautiful website. It just doesn’t work like that. You are also competing with other websites who have been around for decades so at the same time, writing good content for pages will not propel your website to internet stardom as there are other factors involved that we will cover in other articles.

Back to SEO content, this isn’t complicated at all if you apply the basic principle and understand that your customers come first way before search algorithms. This is why the most successful SEO firms make their money understanding these basic simple concepts that have always come first.

To achieve greatness in your online business means that you must go beyond simply “writing content”. As explained, your website content needs to accomplish two individual yet combined goals. First, you must appeal to your end-users so in this case your customers, clients, prospects, readers, etc. Secondly, you must appeal to the search engine spiders who will crawl your pages to see what every page is about.

Let’s start by addressing the main sticking point – Just what is SEO?

Every single one of us uses search engines daily. We go to Google and we type a search query into the search engine and hit “enter”. What we then get is a list or page after page of search results that are relevant to the search term that we just entered and searched for. In most cases if we can’t find what we are looking for on page one of the search results, then we will try a new search using more specific search terms. All these websites listed from our search appear as a result of search engine optimization (SEO).

SEO is a method of optimizing your website content for the search engines that will list your website in order to help it rank higher than content from other sites that target the same search terms.

Google displays web pages in their search results based on the authority and relevance of the page to enhance the user experience. Google determines the relevance of your page by analysing its content based on several factors, including where and how often you use certain words in that piece of content.

Google measures authority by the number of links pointing to that page and how trustworthy those links are.

The links to your website are basically like votes but with a slight difference. The winner is determined not just by the largest number of votes with the highest number of incoming links it has. It is crowned champion based on the quality of those links with the highest quality links making your website champion.

Quality has become the #1 ranking factor in Google, especially since the Google Panda and Penguin updates.

Bear in mind that there are many elements other than good content that will enable you to rank highly in search engines like Google. These will be covered in the next article.