Content is king: SEO-driven blog writing techniques

Hello 2.0′ers! Today we are going to look at ways you could improve your website, as well as your outlook on your site in general through SEO-driven blog writing techniques and more importantly linking techniques with search engine optimization (SEO) in mind.

Content Is King

We’ve all heard the saying before – but how many of us actually believe it? 9/10 times, the reason visitors come back is good content. It could mean the difference between a one-time viewer and a subscriber to your blog. Make sure your content is clear, and well written. More importantly, find out which writing style you want to tackle and stick with it – whether it be informative, educative, personal, or friendly – you will find your writing style can and does bring visitors back time after time. Well written content adds credibility to your list of ‘reasons to come back to this blog/site’. The most important thing that I find most people forget is the whole notion of target audience. In most circumstances, you should try to make sure your content is accessible to search engines – i.e. internal linking, well-structured blog posts (header, section, content, etc) and sure, sometimes you may change your writing style to ‘help push’ the search engine result up; but the main thing to remember is to write your content for people first, search engines second! Continue reading »