15) Promote your content. The most important thing to remember is that content without promotion is well... just content. You need to get the word out that you have something important to say, get your site address in all of your advertising, get your site listed in search engines, write industry specific content that can be provided to other sites, and in general do everything you can to get people to your site where you do your selling. You can do a lot on your own but consider hiring a full time professional if your site is important to you. The money you spend will be returned ten fold (and I can guarantee it) if you follow the rules provided in this article.
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1 - Aaman
Great guide - ty - one for constant reference.
2 - DrPat
Good recommendations, especially #13; correct grammar and spelling are essential to readability.
3 - mary
ty for your site. its a big help ill be changing my site soon and adding more content and getting rid of alot of links and crap lol. again ty..
4 - hadeel
Thanks a lot. It is really good job.
5 - Ramesh Kommana
After the content of the above page fully read. But I am not statisfied of it. describe more....
6 - vanibala rambothu
Good recommendations.
7 - Website Content
Nice post. Producing interesting, relevant content not only encourages the search engines to position a website highly in the search results but also helps gain visitor loyalty with people visiting time and time again.
8 - Cr8ivebug
I had written an post on my blog regarding "Why Content is King" and this post complements the post very well. In fact anyone who wants a more detailed write up on what I started definitely must read this. I will try to link this to this post for my readers.
Thanks Chris
Pratheesh
9 - Writezilla
#3 - Kepp content short
SEO rules nowadays require your content to be "the more, the better", e.g. your blog post would rank better if you make it longer. Am I right or am I right?
10 - Martin Mosch
Very well written list of tips.
11 - Russ Aubrey
You have covered it like a blanket. A treasure trove of good advice.
12 - Writing expert
Very well written, Christopher. I would add, Make It Visually Scannable. Being Digg/Reddit/the like surfers, we these days don't have time to read looooong pieces
13 - college dude
Infographics are on the verge of great web content writing these days. Illustrious images along with catchy writing will surely gain you thousands of pageviews in a matter of hours.
14 - John
I hate website that make you click from page to page in order to read an article.
15 - qontent
"SEO rules nowadays require your content to be "the more, the better", e.g. your blog post would rank better if you make it longer. Am I right or am I right?"
actualy it is not a matter of length. it is more for relevance between title and article's keyword. it has no mean at all if you write 50 feets long if your article has no matching word with title.
16 - Greg @ essay writing blog
Qontent, you're damn right. SEO is pretty hard these days.
John, â€"me tooooo! And, you know, distributing your article between multiple pages doesn't really make your blog more attractive to the big G.
17 - qontent
greg, yea...it's somehow like "lucky strike". someday it could index you in couple of hours. but then when we try to apply the right same method to another site it has different in result, it takes days.
18 - Lisa
You are right, forcing music, flash ads and unsolicited excessive animation is very annoying. For me, it's the most irritating part of the website and I tend to leave such aggressive pages. Breaking text into small paragraphs also helps to scan the text and get the main idea really fast.
19 - Monkeywebster
Writezilla "the more content the better" is only true if it is great content and most with more are not. Usually people tend to ramble when they use the motto "the more content the better" just saying
20 - grave situation
hey guys....do you think it is ever worth outsourcing your content? i am a writer myself but i am just one man and have a lot to write about. I am currently using a content farm called independdent publishing for some articles and they are coming back great, but do you think this is a good long term solution?
21 - Pensioner
Great information Christopher. I think it is more difficult that just saying "Use humor and make yourself likable"-- creating a likable, humorous and authorative writing styles escapes the majority of bloggers. I've got to admit: I pay more attention to information which has a real personality behind it.
One thing you can control though, is your audience. You've got to research your demographic and write for them, not for yourself. Answer all their possible questions, and go the extra mile to make your content more informative than your competitors-- people will notice, and see you as an authority in your field.
Remember, quality is a relative and comparative term; benchmarking your competitors, taking all the great points they make, combine them and add your own to create an post which says to the user: 'You don't need to go anywhere else for information in this field'.
22 - Michael Cordova
Thanks for the advice. I didnt originally write the content for my site, but Ive been investing more time in SEO efforts. Ill use this as a starting ground for making some tweaks.
23 - Igor
If you have serious intent, then:
1-no moving or wiggling distractions on the page
2- use white or pale pastel backgounds ONLY. Never use black.
3-always use black typeface.
4-use a 'large enough' font, preferably serif (which improves visual cues).
5-technical material should be monospace.
24 - goose
I rarely drop responses, but i did a few searching and wound up here How To Write Great Website Content - Blogcritics Culture.
And I do have 2 questions for you if it's allright. Is it only me or does it give the impression like a few of the responses come across like they are left by brain dead visitors? :-P And, if you are writing on other social sites, I'd like to follow anything new you have to post. Would you list of all of all your communal pages like your linkedin profile, Facebook page or twitter feed?
25 - vigopan
nice advice thanks