Comments on: Great Blog Content vs. Search Engine Optimization

By: ojfusqcpvw

ojfusqcpvw — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 00:26:00 +0000

I am hvaingg a hard time seieng your page in Opear 2.5, I juuts figured I woulds tell you about it!

By: Srilanka Forum

Srilanka Forum — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 15:03:42 +0000

Hi,

I found your blog on google and read a few of your other posts. I just added you to my Google News Reader. Keep up the great work Look forward to reading more from you in the future.

Jenni.

By: Search Marketing Expert David

Search Marketing Expert David — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 06:57:59 +0000

With SEO, “practice makes perfect” is never more true. I’m sure good content should embrace that. True SEO should satisfy the visitor looking for good info, so that should be the goal.

By: Why Add A Blog to My Business Website? | The Media Flow | theMediaFlow.com

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 10:17:20 +0000

[...] Adding relevant and original content to your website is a very good thing to do. As a general rule, the more content you have, the more chance you have of someone finding your online business. As an example, let’s imagine your online business offers a specific product, e.g. vacuum cleaner bags. Many people in the UK may habitually and colloquially search using “hoover bags” to see if they can find an online ordering service. You might not want to reference a specific brand in your formal messaging; however such variations can easily be referenced in a blog post about “the strength of brand in the vacuum cleaner industry”. Of course other factors affect how and when your website pages may show up in search engines, but certainly the more relevant and original content you can add to your site the better. [...]

By: robseo

robseo — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:03:44 +0000

yes Write good content that people will want to link to and discuss. it is very vita for any blog .If you are rehashing the same stories as every other blogger, people are much less likely to read and respond to your content.

By: Sam

Sam — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 18:57:00 +0000

If anyone is going to use content properly, compelling titles are a must in order to draw new readers in to read your fresh new article or blog post.

Thanks for bringing this important topic to my attention.

By: Gute Blog-Inhalte vs. Suchmaschinenoptimierung - (un)zeitgemäße betrachtungen

Gute Blog-Inhalte vs. Suchmaschinenoptimierung - (un)zeitgemäße betrachtungen — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 19:01:06 +0000

[...] wahr: Vergesst den ganzen SEO-Hype, es sind mehr denn je die guten Inhalte, auf die es ankommt, schreibt Dawn Foster im Web Worker Daily (via notizen aus der provinz): If you don’t have great content, SEO is not going to be very [...]

By: Eric Melchor

Eric Melchor — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 13:29:58 +0000

Great titles are a must, I agree. It could be the most entertaining article ever written, but if the title sucks, no one is going to read it.

By: wildpark 0.1

wildpark 0.1 — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 12:27:01 +0000

[...] netter Blogpost unter die Füße gekommen. Dawn Foster schreibt im Web Worker Daily über “Great Blog Content vs. Search Engine Optimization“. Tenor ist, daß man auch immer noch interessanten Content haben muss, um das Interesse der [...]

By: SwBratcher

SwBratcher — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 21:41:04 +0000

I think this is a great reminder to anyone responsible for the content of the site. However SEO, Search Engine Optimization, is exactly that at its root: optimization.

Start with quality, relevant, intreguing, rewarding content. Then, optimize the page’s meta keywords and description, the image alternate tags, link titles, and html code structure (if you haven’t already. Then, lastly, very minor tweaking could be done to the content and paragraph-nested linking to enhance the usefulness to users and to help google properly categorize it to meet your placement needs. But! During this process don’t mess up your writing quality or your authentic voice to your user.

The this article leads to the basic notion that there is a difference between Search Engine Optimized quality content and Search Engine Oriented poor-to-the-user content.

By: Lakkineni

Lakkineni — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 21:17:01 +0000

I have to say that blog title could be better. It should have been something like “Great content – How it helps for Search engine Optimization”.

I agree that great content helps for SEO, however there are many other factors like “back links” play very important role.

By: Great Blog Content –vs- SEO : Cotton Rohrscheib

Great Blog Content –vs- SEO : Cotton Rohrscheib — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 21:01:20 +0000

[...] important it is to get your content onto the social networks. I was reading a post today by Dawn Foster at Web Worker Daily and she brought up some points that I also agree with and I wanted to share it w/ [...]

By: Phil Dunn

Phil Dunn — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 17:07:53 +0000

So true, Erik. And excellent use of keyword stuffing “make money”!!!

By: Phil Dunn

Phil Dunn — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 17:05:39 +0000

Concur – Nice post Dawn. Here’s my deep dive (with personal stories) about Social Media and communication: Beyond the Smoke, Hype and Fanfare – What is Social Media?..really http://bit.ly/A1cqg

I think a lot of people get lost in the tools and forget that they’re in actual conversations with people, sharing ideas and trying to help out.

By: Steve Reeves

Steve Reeves — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 17:00:22 +0000

Couldn’t agree with you more.

I like to use Google’s business model to explain why SEO (in the traditional understanding) is passed its sell by date.

Google is a broker, helping people who want to know things get together with people who want to share those things. In the process it charges others (who can’t, don’t, wont publish) to sit on the sidelines and be present during the conversation – the advertisers.

If Google can’t attract “searchers” with the best content, it also can’t charge advertisers for the privilege of sitting in.

Simply pointing “searchers” to keyword optimized marketing pages won’t keep them coming back.

Without our experience, knowledge and ideas Google ultimately won’t have a business

By: Gaurav

Gaurav — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 16:17:29 +0000

Although a good article, I don’t agree with the title. As others mentioned, good content is good SEO. I don’t see why they should be compared with each other. A lot of people have misconception (rightly, because of some people in the industry) that SEO is simply stuffing keywords in an article, writing meaningless articles repeating the keywords to make nonsense sentences, etc.

Writing good content is the first thing to do for SEO, search engine accessibility and subtle sprinkling of keywords are the secondary things.

Here is a simple experiment anyone can conduct to see if search engine accessibility helps. Write a great piece of content about widgets, take a screenshot of it and put it on example.com/article.html Vs. add the same article in the text format with the url example.com/about-widgets.html