Content for Search Engine Optimization

Content is a huge part of website development, but what is it? Lest you think I’ve gone and flipped my lid, let’s be honest: The definition and nature of content has changed since 1999. To hear some people talk about it, you’d think content was nothing more than words on a web page. But there’s more to it than that.
Essentially, content is anything that contributes to the essence of your website. By essence I mean its meta-qualities - not meta as in metatags, though it does include your tags - but meta as in over and above merely what you see on the page. There are three types of content within this definition:
On-page content
Off-page content
“Behind the curtain” content
Your on-page content is anything that is visible to the human eye on each web page of your website. That includes text, photos, videos, graphics, your template or website design, etc. Those are your visible elements. Off-page content refers to anything off site that contributes to the essence of your website. That includes inbound links, blog content on off site blogs that you own and link back to your site, articles, social networking content, wiki entries, directory submissions, etc. I include these elements in my working definition of content because that’s what they are - in a word, they are content and they work for you.
“Behind the curtain” content is a little bit more mystical. It includes meta tags, of course, but it’s more than just meta tags. It also includes link attributes, site navigation paradigms, XML pages for your RSS feeds, sitemaps, and anything that contributes to user value but cannot be construed as either on-page or off-page content. In other words, your “behind the curtain” elements are primarily content fed to search engine spiders, but that also provide your users with some benefit. It is essentially, code.
Now what is your content supposed to do? Ultimately, your content - all of your content - has one job: To lead your site visitor to implement some action. That action could be a sale, a newsletter sign up, post a comment, something. Whatever it is, there needs to be a call to action. But not every piece of content requires a call to action. Some content - called pre-sell content - should actually be used to channel your site visitor to the place where you want them to respond to your call to action. You are actually canalizing them into responding to you.
So when you develop your content - whether it be off site link building content, visible on site web page elements like graphics and page text, or meta-content - each piece must contribute to the whole. Every piece of content must do its job or be cut from the team. The bottom line is, content teamwork is the most important thing. Every individual piece must work for the good of the team either by closing the sale, delivering traffic, or contributing to your search engine positioning. If every piece of your content is working for the good of all, then your content is selling. If not, then you need to rethink your content.

Search Engine Optimization

SEO, to many people these three letters sound like a secret code. But, to Internet marketers these three little letters are priceless. SEO stands for search engine optimization. The process is one that is absolutely necessary for anyone trying to market their website and gain traffic.
SEO helps to make a site and its content highly relevant for search engines and searchers. It aids the searcher in finding your site by putting out specific keywords and phrases for your site into the search engines so that they can be found. Successful search engine optimization can help a site to gain high rankings in the search engines, allowing it to be found more easily.
Here are a few ways to easily search engine optimize your website:
1. Make sure the first 100 words of your website are full of keywords that you want people to be able to search and find your site using.
2. Be sure to use your top keywords in any links back to your site. Have those who link to your site use those top words when linking to you.
3. Target one keyword per page. You can't expect to try to cram every keyword on every page. It is much more useful to do one per page where once visitors are at your site they can more easily find the info that they need.
4. Use your top keyword in your header. Either as your title of your site or as a tagline works well.
5. Use top keywords in both the top and bottom sections of your web copy with a few keywords sprinkled in the middle as well. Keyword rich copy is very valuable for search engine optimization.
6. It is important also that when you do obtain links back to your site, try to only have sites which link back to you with the same information on their site that you are trying to target. It does not help to have a site about baby food with a link back to your site about how to sell computers.
7. Continue to have unique content by adding fresh pages to your site on a regular basis. Search engines love fresh content not "Duplicate Content"! This will increase your chances of having people find your site on a consistent basis.
These are just a few tips which should help to properly search engine optimize your website. Search engine optimization sounds scary at first but is really not so difficult once you get started and learn the terms and how to use them and put them into place on your website.

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